Travel Literature And The Evolution Of The Novel, Adams

Автор: James
Название: The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
ISBN: 0521728738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521728737
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Since Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.

Автор: Boyd Brian
Название: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
ISBN: 0674057112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674057111
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer`s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss`s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works.

Автор: Karem, Jeff
Название: The purloined islands: Caribbean-U.S. crosscurrents in literature and culture 1880-1959
ISBN: 0813930863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813930862
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution.

Автор: Clayton
Название: Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915
ISBN: 1137471492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137471499
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London.

Автор: Levin Stephen M.
Название: The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization
ISBN: 0415542332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415542333
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture.

Автор: Abberley
Название: English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914
ISBN: 1107101166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107101166
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical angle on current debates about language evolution and the language of science. Abberley offers fresh perspectives on authors including Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells, and genres including utopian, historical and science fiction.

Автор: Parkes
Название: Children`s Literature and Capitalism
ISBN: 0230364128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230364127
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children`s and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Автор: Janzen
Название: The National Body in Mexican Literature
ISBN: 1137546271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137546272
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Lenero, Juan Rulfo, among others.

Автор: Harol
Название: Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 1403974942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403974945
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Описание: Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.

Автор: Lauretis
Название: Freud`s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
ISBN: 0230524788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230524781
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Описание: A monograph from scholar of literature and film. It offers a comparative reading of Freud`s and Foucault`s theories of sexuality and presents arguments for Freud`s relevance in the twenty-first century. It traces the figural inscription of the death drive in Cronenberg`s film "eXistenZ" and Djuna Barnes` novel "Nightwood".

Автор: Cocks
Название: The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism
ISBN: 1137452447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137452443
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Описание: Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti.

Автор: Jones
Название: Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 1137300493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137300492
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Описание: Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar`s Opera, Gulliver`s Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.