This is the only book about Pride and Prejudice to combine both analysis of the novel and excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen's own time.
Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term.
The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, responses and reflections on the course of dying, death and grief.
African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: the folk, which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters from lower socioeconomic levels; the bourgeois, which privileges characters from middle class backgrounds; and the proletarian, which favors overt critiques of oppression by contending that art should be an instrument of propaganda.
Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels.
Realistic writers seek to render accurate representations of the world, and their novels contain authentic details and descriptions of their characters and settings.
This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature.
This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature.
Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986).
Sagittae Angelorum, "e;arrows of angels,"e; offers a collection of literary works in poetry, short stories, and drama by four innovative authors--Jeremy Joosten, Joelle Joosten, Dominic Nootebos, and Lucas Smith.
This two-volume set offers comprehensive coverage of horror literature that spans its deep history, dominant themes, significant works, and major authors, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Anne Rice, as well as lesser-known horror writers.
The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, responses and reflections on the course of dying, death and grief.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Though Orton's roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of 'anarchic farce' which was very much his own - hence the word 'Ortonesque'.
For fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, polemically, and militarily (such as the Crusades).
This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar.
This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease-even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics.
Die »Drei Briefe an einen Knaben« sind ein spannendes Dokument ihrer Zeit – einer Zeit, in der Selbstreflexion und der Bruch sexueller Tabus im Diskurs der kulturellen Elite eine große Rolle spielte.
In ihren Novellen »Fenitschka« und »Eine Ausschweifung« fokussiert Lou Andreas-Salomé aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln die Positionierung zweier emanzipierter Frauen zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende.
La relación entre imagen y memoria con base en la novela Terra nostra (1975) de Carlos Fuentes abre distintas posibilidades de reflexión y debate que contribuyen a pensar América Latina desde nuevas lecturas.
