Fiction Core Collection, 2018, HW Wilson

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: Thorne Russ
Название: Dystopia: Post-Apocalyptic Art, Fiction, Movies & More (Gothic Dreams)
ISBN: 1783613211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783613212
Издательство: Flame Tree
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Описание: We have an obsession with broken societies set in futuristic worlds, curious but terrifying new technologies and post-apocalyptic dusty wastelands where survivors grow more desperate every day. Dystopian themes are becoming ever more popular and this is the book to show the art, fiction and movies.

Автор: Emenyonu Ernest N.
Название: Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 1847011624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847011626
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.

Автор: Burns Tony
Название: Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Dispossessed
ISBN: 0739122835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739122839
Издательство: NBN International
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Цена: 66170.00 T
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Описание: This work challenges both the widely accepted view thatThe Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia and the place of Ursula K. Le Guin`s novel in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction.

Автор: Bradford, Richard
Название: Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199658781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199658787
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Since the mid-19th century crime fiction has been one of the most popular sub-genres of the novel. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Bradford explores its origins and the features that define its varied style. He considers its role in popular culture around the world and considers why its classification as `literature` is still ambiguous.

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: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
ISBN: 1472527747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472527745
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 28500.00 T
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Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Автор: Andrew May
Название: Pseudoscience and Science Fiction
ISBN: 3319426044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319426044
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 18630.00 T
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Описание: Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond the superficial trappings of jargon and subject matter. The most obvious difference between the two is that pseudoscience is presented as fact, not fiction. Yet like SF, and unlike real science, pseudoscience is driven by a desire to please an audience – in this case, people who “want to believe”. This has led to significant cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. SF authors often draw on “real” pseudoscientific theories to add verisimilitude to their stories, while on other occasions pseudoscience takes its cue from SF – the symbiotic relationship between ufology and Hollywood being a prime example of this. This engagingly written, well researched and richly illustrated text explores a wide range of intriguing similarities and differences between pseudoscience and the fictional science found in SF. Andrew May has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Manchester University. After many years in academia and the private sector, he now works as a freelance writer and scientific consultant. He has written pocket biographies of Newton and Einstein, as well as contributing to a number of popular science books. He has a lifelong interest in science fiction, and has had several articles published in Fortean Times magazine

Автор: Jos Smith
Название: The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place
ISBN: 147427501X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474275019
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as ‘The New Nature Writing’. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of “clone town Britain.”

Автор: HW Wilson
Название: Young Adult Fiction Core Collection
ISBN: 1682172392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682172391
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For over 50 years, H.W. Wilson`s Core Collections have been librarians` must-have guide to the best fiction and non-fiction works for all types of collections. Due to the growing popularity of the genre of Young Adult Fiction and the ever increasing availability of new titles, librarians need more guidance than ever to select the best that Young Adult Fiction has to offer.

Автор: Peter Boxall
Название: The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018
ISBN: 1108483410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108483414
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is aimed at undergraduate students, and taught postgraduate students. It gives students a clear, comprehensive and accessible guide to the key concepts shaping the British novel from 1980 to 2018, which is also driven by original research.

Автор: Peter Boxall
Название: The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018
ISBN: 1108704921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108704922
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is aimed at undergraduate students, and taught postgraduate students. It gives students a clear, comprehensive and accessible guide to the key concepts shaping the British novel from 1980 to 2018, which is also driven by original research.