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Change and Renewal in Children's Literature
Inbunden, 2004
1227 kr
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In the growing field of children's literature theory in criticism, this volume presents critical international perspectives on changes and innovation in this discipline. The recent new status of children's literature, and the growth in children's literature research internationally have led to …
Novels of Samuel Selvon
A Critical Study
E-bok, 2001
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The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. Nonetheless, criticism of his works has largely been imbalanced, with most scholarship focusing …
Colonial Conan Doyle
British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic
E-bok, 2002
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Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist. But such a relegation is both limiting and simplistic. Born in Scotland to Irish Catholic parents, Doyle's heritage is complex. His paternal …
In My Own Shire
Region and Belonging in British Writing, 1840-1970
Av Stephen Wade
E-bok, 2002
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An overview of 19th- and 20th-century writing from the British Isles shows a constant interplay between metropolitan centers and regional peripheries—an interplay that points to the basic importance of place and belonging in literary creation and evaluation. This volume examines the relationship …
Other Mirror
Women'S Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995
E-bok, 1997
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During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate , …
Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature
Viewing the Male
E-bok, 1999
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The numerous and multifaceted ways in which masculinities emerge and are expressed within cultures prompt a broad ranging examination and reconsideration of what it means to be a man. Within the study of masculinity, the early modern period stands between the Renaissance, when conceptions of …
Camelot in the Nineteenth Century
Arthurian Characters in the Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, and Swinburne
Av Robert Thomas Lambdin, Laura Lambdin
E-bok, 2000
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For centuries, accounts of King Arthur and his court have fascinated historians, scholars, poets, and readers. Each age has added material to reflect its own cultural attitudes, but no era has supplemented the earlier versions more than the poets of the Medieval Revival of nineteenth-century …
Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism
Reading Joyce After the Cold War
E-bok, 2000
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The work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, can be fully understood only when the colonial and postcolonial context of Joyce's Ireland is taken into account. Reading Joyce as a postcolonial writer produces valuable new insights into his work, though comparisons of Joyce's work with that of African …
Reading Buchi Emecheta
Cross-Cultural Conversations
E-bok, 1995
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In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical …
Postmodern Short Story
Forms and Issues
Av Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
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Short stories are usually defined in terms of characteristics of modernism, in which the story begins in the middle, develops according to a truncated plot, and ends with an epiphany. This approach tends to ignore postmodernism, a movement often characterized by a negation of objective reality …
Presence of the Past in Children's Literature
Av Ann Lucas
E-bok, 2003
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Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the past. This book explores how children's writers have treated the theme and concept of time. The volume starts with the application of literary theory …
Children's Literature and the Fin de Siècle
E-bok, 2003
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The close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a sense of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. These feelings stem from various events, such as political turmoil, scientific advancements, and social change. As might be …
Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story
Av Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
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Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many …
Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France
Av Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx
E-bok, 2001
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The first comprehensive survey of its kind in English, this book examines the experience of immigration as represented by authors who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia after World War II. Essays by expert contributors address the literary productions of …
Imagining Africa
Landscape in H. Rider Haggard's African Romances
E-bok, 2001
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Best known as the author of such works as King Solomon's Mines and She, H. Rider Haggard was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era, and his works continue to be influential today. To a large degree, his novels are captivating because of his image of Africa, and an understanding …
Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
Reflections on Critical Issues
Av Mingshui Cai
E-bok, 2002
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There is much discussion of multiculturalism in education. This is especially true of multicultural literature for children and young adults. The rise of multicultural literature is a political rather than a literary movement; it is a movement to claim space in literature and in education for …
Hispanic Connection
Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World
E-bok, 2004
1254 kr
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DaSilva draws together key essays dealing with the span of Spanish and Latin American arts, ranging from literature, music, film, and ballet to painting. Scholars and researchers involved with the scope of Spanish and Spanish American arts will find this collection of particular value. The …
Interactive Fictions
Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel
E-bok, 2003
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Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this tour of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations. Through intense readings of interactive …
Life and Works of Ruskin Bond
E-bok, 2003
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Ruskin Bond is known internationally as one of India's most prolific writers in English for children, young adults, and adults. This literary biography analyzes the impact of personal, social, geographical, political, and literary influences on Bond's worldview, aesthetic principles, and writings. …
Images in Transition
The English Jew in English Literature, 1660-1830
Av Abba Rubin
Inbunden, 1984
983 kr
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Abba Rubin explores the relationship between the history of a minority--the English Jew--and its depiction in literature. He begins with an historical investigation of the composition of the Jewish community at the time of the Jews' return to England in 1660 and the differing conditions in London …
Per Olov Enquist
A Critical Study
Inbunden, 1984
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Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the works of Per Olov Enquist and discusses the writer's central themes and the imagery and motifs he uses to develop them. This in-depth study begins with a brief introduction to the social and literary backgrounds that are the foundations for …
Literary Heritage of Childhood
An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition
Av Charles Frey, John Griffith
Inbunden, 1987
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In twenty-eight essays, Frey and Griffith, members of the English faculty at the University of Washington, examine many of the traditional and new children's classics. The authors explore the relationship between the writer's lives and the stories they tell. Purposes and literary techniques are …
Cast of Consciousness
Concepts of the Mind in British and American Romanticism
Av Michael A. Bain, Robin B. Brigman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
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The contributors to this volume represent acknowledged experts in the field as well as a number of promising young scholars. They provide a thorough examination of how Romantic authors grappled with the problem of describing the connections between consciousness, unconsciousness, and language in …
Jules Verne Rediscovered
Didacticism and the Scientific Novel
Inbunden, 1988
1227 kr
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This brilliant study of Verne's three cycles (1850-62, 1862-86, 1886-1916) analyzes the works from a biographical, sociohistorical, ideological, and narratological point of view. With a deep focus on Verne's pedagogical slant, Evans demonstrates convincingly the parallels between the French …
Friedrich von Schiller and the Drama of Human Existence
Inbunden, 1988
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This volume demonstrates that many scholars and stage directors firmly believe Schiller is very much a writer for the twentieth century. The essays provide a scholarly perspective on Schiller's relevance as a role model for twentieth-century writers and offer in-depth discussions of his idealism, …
Art of Fact
Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction
Inbunden, 1990
1227 kr
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The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and The New York Times Book Review publishes almost three times as many reviews of nonfiction as fiction, critical appreciation of this work has lagged …
Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates
Copyright and Conan Doyle in America 1890-1930
Inbunden, 1990
1227 kr
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This volume presents a new aspect in the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: a case study of the publishing history of his works. Since Doyle's works before 1890 could not be copyrighted in the United States, various unauthorized versions of Holmes stories appeared in print in America from 1890 …
Anna Book
Searching for Anna in Literary History
Av Mickey Pearlman, Mickey Pearlman
Inbunden, 1992
1227 kr
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Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature (Old Testament Hannah and New Testament St. Anne) to classics (Anna Karenina and Anne Elliot) to popular fiction (Anna Dunlop in …
