Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users-from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators-and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity.

"e;A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.

She tipped her head sideways, her lips offering themselves to his.

Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations.

Grit, Not Glamour celebrates the contributions of our foremothers who devoted their lives to farming and ranching related pursuits.

It's a bird!

Jesus' arrival on earth changed the course of history forever.

Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.

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Discover the secret to loving and honoring your lifeeven when it has become rough and messy.

This book helps readers understand the extent to which shell shock continues to shape modern memories of the First World War.

In a concise and devastating style, Craig Parton, an experienced trial lawyer versed in the laws of legal evidence, argues that religions uniformly fail the simplest tests of admissibility for their respective claims.

The Bookmarked series focuses on a famous work of literature that left a powerful impression on an author (hence the name, Bookmarkeda book that left its mark).

The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes.

This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov's life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day.

How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk.

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture.

Trolling began long before the internet.

Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults who should know better , in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the Ninth Art and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema.

A National BestsellerThe broken rung is more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success.

"e;A rich exploration of sci-fi universes we know and love, merged flawlessly with discussions on leadership, national security .

By expanding the definition of "e;epistle"e; to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?

Providing key data, insights, and ways of thinking about women and sports, this book is an excellent resource for high school and undergraduate students as well as for sport organizations serving girls and women.

This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "e;mail-order"e; brides or overseas workers.

This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind.

These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media.

Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death.

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing.

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia.

Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to suppress abortion dissent and to translate Catholic doctrine on sexuality into law.

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons is the biography of a writer who vividly depicted alien creatures and new worlds.

India as colourful and vibrant, a land as diverse as its people.

The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "Crunch Lit".

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens was the greatest writer of his age; a one-man fiction industry who produced fourteen massive novels, and numerous sketches, essays and stories, many of which appeared in the two magazines which he founded and edited.

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni.

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic.

Fictional depictions of Native American concepts of justice, crime, and the investigation of crime are explored in this original work.

A master of short story, novel, and nonfiction prose, Ernest Hemingway has been the subject of countless books, articles, and biographies.

Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.

Information literacy is a complex subject that finally arrived at the doorstep of school libraries.

Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all.

The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time.

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The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century.

This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives.

Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation.