Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction, R. Johnsen

Автор: Lee Horsley
Название: Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination
ISBN: 1349110574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349110575
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Описание: This study gives insights into the process of "imagining history" and argues the case for a humanistic approach. It shows how writers have brought alive in their work an individual struggle to comprehend some of the most important political phenomena to the 2Oth century.

Автор: Ian Dennis
Название: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction
ISBN: 1349255599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349255597
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Описание: Jane Porter`s The Scottish Chiefs , Sydney Owenson`s The Wild Irish Girl , Sir Walter Scott`s Waverley , Old Mortality , Rob Roy , The Pirate and Redgauntlet , and Fenimore Cooper`s The Last of the Mohicans and Lionel Lincoln are given detailed new readings.

Автор: A. Stevens
Название: British Historical Fiction before Scott
ISBN: 1349319457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349319459
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Описание: In the half century before Walter Scott`s Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

Автор: B. Price
Название: Cult of Defeat in Mexico`s Historical Fiction
ISBN: 134943566X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349435661
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Описание: Cult of Defeat in Mexico`s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.

Автор: F. McCulloch
Название: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary British Fiction
ISBN: 1349313556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349313556
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Описание: This book is a concise and engaging analysis of contemporary literature viewed through the critical lens of cosmopolitan theory. It covers a wide spectrum of issues including globalisation, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, identity, philosophical nomadism, posthumanism, climate change, devolution and love.

Автор: Alice Bennett
Название: Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 1349349356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349349357
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Описание: Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis`s Time`s Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold`s The Lovely Bones .

Автор: K. Cooper; E. Short
Название: The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
ISBN: 134933782X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349337828
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Описание: From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women`s history.

Автор: Close
Название: Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction
ISBN: 0230607977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230607972
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Описание: This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades.

Автор: J. Dean
Название: Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics
ISBN: 134931594X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349315949
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Описание: Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of feminist decline and re-emergence, it draws on poststructuralist political theory to assess current forms of activism in the UK and present a provocative account of recent developments in feminist politics.

Автор: David Coughlan
Название: Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
ISBN: 113741023X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137410238
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Описание: David Coughlan`s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx.

Автор: M. Tanaka
Название: Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction
ISBN: 1349476668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349476664
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Описание: Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.

Автор: A. Kanwal
Название: Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
ISBN: 1349502316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349502318
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Описание: This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international `war on terror` rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the resurgence of ethnocentrism within the subcontinent and beyond.