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By:Debra Spark
Published on 2005 by University of Michigan Press
ISBN 9780472068975
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Nine essays discuss topics of fiction writing that include finding inspiration, devleoping a personal style, and creating a resonating closing line.
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By:Amie L. Thomasson
Published on 1999 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521640800
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Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics.
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ISBN 9780791481486
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By:Anne Whitehead
Published on 2004 by Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 9780748618576
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For the first time, the literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together. |Trauma Fiction| focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate it into their writing. It provides innovative readings of texts by Pat Barker, Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W. G. Sebald and Binjamin Wilkomirski. By identifying the key stylistic features associated with the genre this book considers the ways in which trauma has affected fictional form and explores how novelists respond to the challenge of writing traumatic narratives. |Trauma Fiction| introduces the reader to key critics in the field of trauma theory such as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey Hartman. Linking trauma theory and literary texts points to previously overlooked connections and sheds light on works of contemporary fiction. The distinction between literary theme and style opens up inquiries into the nature of trauma itself. Trauma, like the novels discussed, is shown to take an uncertain but productive place between content and form.Key Features* Idenitifies and explores a new and evolving genre in contemporary fiction* Thinks through the relation between trauma and literature* Produces innovative readings of key works of contemporary fiction * Provides an introduction to central ideas in trauma theory
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By:Brian Baker
Published on 2014-11-20 by Macmillan International Higher Education
ISBN 9781137474452
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This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.
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By:Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Published on 1991-04-01 by Harpercollins
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A forty-year veteran of the writing profession offers his view of the fundamentals of good fiction writing in thirty-six short, practical chapters illustrated with examples
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By:John Aquino
Published on 1976 by Natl Education Assn
ISBN 9780810618046
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By:Geoff Reilly,Wendy Wren
Published on 2002 by Nelson Thornes
ISBN 9780748765423
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The aim of Nelson Thornes Framework English is to develop students' confidence and achievement in writing. With its unique range of rich fiction and non-fiction texts, and comprehensive coverage of the core skills, Nelson Thornes Framework English Skills in Fiction and Non-Fiction targets students doing well in years 7-10.
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By:Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie,Manfred Engel,Bernard Dieterle
Published on 2008 by John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 9789027234568
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In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding \u0093truths\u0094 by which to define the permanent \u0093meaning\u0094 of Romanticism, but as data of cultural history that shed important light on an evolving civilization.SPECIAL OFFER: 30% discount for a complete set order (5 vols.).The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet interrelated volumes that show not only how Romanticism developed and spread in its principal European homelands and throughout the New World, but also the ways in which the affected literatures in reaction to Romanticism have redefined themselves on into Modernism. A glance at the index of each volume quickly reveals the extraordinary richness of the series' total contents. Romantic Irony sets the broader experimental parameters of comparison by concentrating on the myriad expressions of \u0093irony\u0094 as one of the major impulses in the Romantic philosophical and artistic revolution, and by combining cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies with special attention also to literatures in less widely diffused language streams. Romantic Drama traces creative innovations that deeply altered the understanding of genre at large, fed popular imagination through vehicles like the opera, and laid the foundations for a modernist theater of the absurd. Romantic Poetry demonstrates deep patterns and a sharing of crucial themes of the revolutionary age which underlie the lyrical expression that flourished in so many languages and environments. Nonfictional Romantic Prose assists us in coping with the vast array of writings from the personal and intimate sphere to modes of public discourse, including Romanticism's own self-commentary in theoretical statements on the arts, society, life, the sciences, and more. Nor are the discursive dimensions of imaginative literature neglected in the closing volume, Romantic Prose Fiction, where the basic Romantic themes and story types (the romance, novel, novella, short story, and other narrative forms) are considered throughout Europe and the New World. This enormous realm is seen not just in terms of Romantic theorizing, but in the light of the impact of Romantic ideas and narration on later generations. As an aid to readers, the introduction to Romantic Prose Fiction explains the relationships among the volumes in the series and carries a listing of their tables of contents in an appendix. No other series exists comparable to these volumes which treat the entirety of Romanticism as a cultural happening across the whole breadth of the \u0093Old\u0094 and \u0093New\u0094 Worlds and thus render a complex picture of European spiritual strivings in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a heritage still very close to our age.
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By:Phil Hardy
Published on 1995 by
ISBN 9781854103826
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By:Thomas A. Maik
Published on 1999 by Psychology Press
ISBN 9780815331896
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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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By:Seymour Benjamin Chatman
Published on 1990 by Cornell University Press
ISBN 9780801497360
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By:McGraw-Hill
Published on 2001-06-15 by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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The Hudson Series is dedicated to providing the best literature - without commentary or interpretation - at a student-friendly price.
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By:M. Elizabeth Ginway
Published on 2004 by Bucknell University Press
ISBN 9780838755648
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|Science fiction, because of its links to science and technology, is the consummate literary vehicle for examining the perception and cultural impact of the modernization process in Brazil. Because of the centrality of the role played by the military dictatorship (1964-85) in imposing industrialization and economic development policies on Brazil, this book examines the genre in the periods before, during, and after the dictatorship, encompassing the years 1960-2000. The analysis shows that a reading of Brazilian science fiction based on its use of paradigms of Anglo-American science fiction and myths of Brazilian nationhood provides a unique look into Brazil's modern metamorphosis as it finds itself on the periphery of the globalized world.| |The three periods studied here correspond roughly to the 1960s, the '70s, and he '80s to the present. The earliest group of authors produces mostly antitechnological, apolitical science fiction, as a way of affirming myths of Brazilian identity. Here, the deconstruction of myths of the feminine and of racial democracy provides the basis for the analysis of Brazil's notion of national identity. In the seventies, a second group of authors uses science fiction to protest the military regime, creating dystopian worlds in which the myths of Brazilian culture serve as touchstones to criticize various ills associated with urbanization, industrialization, and repression. In the analysis of these texts, the insights of ecofeminism are employed to demystify the conflation of the land with women found in the nostalgic construction of Brazilian identity characteristic of this period. The third group, emerging in the mideighties after the dictatorship, offers a more complex, postmodern view of Brazilian society, its continuing social problems, and the phenomenon of globalization. Reading these texts as allegories of modernization enriches the understanding of both the genre of science fiction and the experience of modernity itself.|--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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By:William Patrick Kenney
Published on 1988 by ARCO
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Covers the narrative structure, the character, setting, point of view, style, tone and meaning, and describes different types of fiction
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By:John A. Weaver,Karen Anijar,Toby Daspit
Published on 2004 by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 9780820450445
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Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Culture(s) is a collection of essays sutured together by their use of science fiction as a departure from contemporary educational « realities. The authors, inspired by the visions, styles, and insights of various science fiction texts, films, and rap music, seek to transform the future of educational possibilities. Science Fiction Curriculum offers alternative paths to current regressive educational practices, policies, and reforms, and invites readers to venture into uncharted dimensions.
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By:David Glover,Scott McCracken
Published on 2012-04-05 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521513371
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An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
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By:Kathleen Mary Glenn,Janet Pérez
Published on 2005 by University of Delaware Press
ISBN 9780874139051
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Cristina Fernandez Cubas is, without question, one of the most important of the Spanish writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Credited with playing a major role in the renaissance of the short story in Spain, she has won national and international acclaim for her fiction. Works by her have been translated into eight languages and have become a staple of university courses on contemporary Peninsular literature. Fernandez Cubas has created a remarkably coherent narrative world, nourished by a core of fundamental concerns. The eleven essays of Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernandez Cubas examine the intellectual preoccupations, narrative strategies, and rhetorical devices that distinguish the four volumes of short stories, two novels, the play, and the book of memoirs that she has published to date.
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By:Ericka Hoagland,Reema Sarwal
Published on 2010-07-29 by McFarland
ISBN 9780786457823
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Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in science fiction. Topics covered include science fiction in Bengal, the genre’s portrayal of Native Americans, Mexican cyberpunk fiction, and the undercurrents of colonialism and Empire in traditional science fiction. The intersections of science fiction theory and postcolonial theory are explored, as well as science fiction’s contesting of imperialism and how the third world uses the genre to recreate itself. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
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By:Bruce Cassiday
Published on 1993 by Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Perfect for reference or browsing, this volume includes some 80 authors and explores in excerpts of criticism (from books, essays, and reviews) their work and influence. Throughout, the coverage is international and the emphasis is on the many rare and insightful comments that are made on these authors who are increasingly accorded literary status and regarded in the critical mainstream.
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By:Rubin Rabinovitz
Published on 1992 by
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Readers often find Beckett's fiction forbidding because he abandons conventional methods and introduces new formal devices. In Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction Rubin Rabinovitz, a pre-eminent Beckett scholar, provides comprehensive descriptions of those devices, explains how they are used, and clarifies how they contribute to Beckett's underlying ideas. As an example, Rabinovitz points out that more than 1,000 significant elements recur in Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. These emphasize elusive ideas, such as the mysterious affinities of thought linking the protagonists in these works or suggestions that different characters represent aspects of a single embryonic persona who is never explicitly described. Rabinovitz also discusses Beckett's use of narrative, chronology, setting, characterization, allusions, mythic parallels, and figurative language.
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By:Dick Allen,Lori Allen
Published on 1975-06 by Harcourt College Pub
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By:Brian M. Stableford
Published on 1987 by Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 9780893702656
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Well-known critic Brian Stableford, a former professor at the University of Reading, contributes |a fascinating and valuable attempt to grapple with the questions of why SF authors write what they write, and why SF readers like what they like|-Interzone. Contents: Introduction; Approaches to the Sociology of Literature; The Analysis of Communicative Functions; The Evolution of Science Fiction as a Publishing Category; The Expectations of the Science Fiction Reader; Themes and Trends in Science Fiction; and Conclusion: The Communicative Functions of Science Fiction. Complete with Notes and References, Bibliography, and Index.
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By:Amy J. Ransom
Published on 2009-05-06 by McFarland
ISBN 9780786438242
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This study of French-language science fiction from Canada provides an introduction to the subgenre known as |SFQ| (science fiction from Quebec), demonstrating how these multivolume narratives of colonization and postcolonial societies exploit themes incl
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By:Heinz Dietrich Fischer,Erika J. Fischer
Published on 2007-01-01 by Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 9783598301919
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