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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and the American West Mark Twain His
Book SynopsisJoseph Coulombe maintains that for over 25 years, Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify his public image. Coulombe analyses the stereotypes Twain uses and explores his struggle to find a new model of the West.
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University of Missouri Press The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter Perspectives on
Book SynopsisAn analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles.Trade Review[Whited] has brought together an impressive array of scholarship to address the phenomenon that is Harry Potter.... From historical literary cousins to socio-political interpretations of the series' setting, from textual comparisons to fan club communities, the essays span a wide range of scholarly perspectives.... This is an exciting and substantial contribution to early scholarship about an important body of literary work.-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; ""Whited's collection of lively, well-written essays heightens appreciation of a classic in the making, addressing the international phenomenon of J. K. Rowling's books.""-Choice; ""The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter will be indispensable to those interested in the larger literary and sociological issues raised in and around these books.""-Mythprint; ""A highly scholarly and insightful text, offering new perceptions on beloved favorites, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is a welcome addition to Literary Criticism reference collections and highly recommended for scholars and non-specialist general readers who enjoy J. K. Rowling's... canon of deftly written and increasingly influential fantasy.""-Midwest Book Review
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Metaphor
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and the American West Mark Twain and His Circle
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University of Missouri Press Centenary Reflections on Mark Twains No. 44 The
Book SynopsisOne hundred years after its writing, Mark Twain’s ‘The Mysterious Stranger’ remains a literary enigma. Twain’s last significant full-length work of fiction and one of his most deeply philosophical works on the nature of truth and the human condition, it was unfinished at his death and has gained a reputation as an experimental text.
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain in Japan
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Medicine
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Human Nature
Book SynopsisMark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why.
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University of Missouri Press Constructing Mark Twain
Book SynopsisThe thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars.
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University of Missouri Press Rafts and Other Rivercraft
Book SynopsisThe raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is vital to truly understanding Mark Twain's novel.Trade ReviewDr. Beidler’s critiques of inaccurate literary analyses and book illustrations will be of real value to historians and archaeologists with an interest in the navigation and trade on the western rivers, as well as to professionals in the field of American literature, and especially to all readers who want to know about the river world of Huck Finn."" - Kevin Crisman, author of The Eagle: An American Brig on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812Table of Contents Rafts and Other Rivercraft Acknowledgments Introduction “On such a craft as that”: Some Basic Questions 1. “A little section of a lumber raft”: A Rise, a Raft, a Crib 2. “Right in the middle of the wigwam”: Shelter, Oars, Smallpox 3. “Riding high like a duck”: Canoes, Boats, Ferries 4. “In amongst some bundles of shingles”: A Baby, a Barrel, a Home 5. “Generally known as a ‘sucker’”: A Boy, a Raft, a River Works Consulted Index
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University of Missouri Press The Philosopher and the Storyteller
Book SynopsisThroughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and his private letters. The Philosopher and the Storyteller is the first book-length study of the literary dimensions of Voegelin’s philosophy—and the first to use his philosophy to read specific novels.Trade ReviewOne of the most perceptive and well-written works concerning Eric Voegelin's thought and its illuminative potential that this reader has had the pleasure to encounter. The book exploits the wide-ranging and penetrating insights of Voegelin pertinent to literary criticism and applies them in a coherent, masterly way."" - Glenn Hughes, author of Mystery and Myth in the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin
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University of New Mexico Press The Circuit Stories from the Life of a Migrant
Book SynopsisAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through. So begins life in the US for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Telling Western Stories From Buffalo Bill to
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University of New Mexico Press Steinbecks Imaginarium Essays on Writing Fishing
Book SynopsisExplores the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s writing. Robert DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck’s artistic career that deserve closer attention.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Impresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo M233xico by
Book SynopsisRepresents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish and in English, painstakingly translated and annotated by Phillip B. Gonzales.Trade ReviewThis book shifts our understanding of the vibrant world of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century nuevomexicano letters through recovering the literary contributions of Manuel Sariñana, a Mexican immigrant whose writing provides a unique perspective on the shifting political and cultural concerns of a territory in transition." - Anita Huizar-Hernández, author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West "This work recovers an important literary and social-political novella from 1908 that merits wider dissemination and analysis. It effectively unearths a critical portrait of New Mexican politics, its central ideas, the key historical characters, and the shifting allegiances found in such an environment. The pícaro protagonist here holds the key to unravelling the narration as well as the politics of its era." - Francisco A. Lomelí, coeditor of Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Crime of Jean Genet
Book SynopsisNow in paperback,The Crime of Jean Genetis a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on anotherandone of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement. Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. His presence, she writes, gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genet's movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing. This book is Eddé's account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genet's life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genet's work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genet's perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Eddé helps us more clearly understand Genet's relation
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John Wiley & Sons Showing Our Colors
Book SynopsisAn English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of Black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany.
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MP-KST Kent State Uni To Michal from Serge Letters of Charles Williams
Book SynopsisThese letters to ""Michal"", Charles Williams's endearing name for his wife, from ""Serge"", a moniker by which his close friends addressed him, are more than just a collection of love letters. They throw light on the man himself, his work, and Williams in the context of his literary contemporaries.
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Cornell University Press Delphine
Book SynopsisGermaine de Stau00ebl''s first major novel, Delphine, published in 1802, is a profound commentary on the status of women during a critical period of French political history. Delphine''s eighteenth-century conventional form as an epistolary novel masks its unconventional questioning of accepted values and norms. From the start, the Napoleonic government understood that Delphine was more than just a tale of tragic love. Though Stau00ebl disclaimed any intention of writing a political novel, the subversive aspects of a book dedicated to The France of Silence were not lost on Bonaparte, who prompty exiled the author from Paris. Perhaps most unacceptable to Napoleon was Stau00ebl''s assertion of the rights of the individual, particularly those of women. The novel is especially important for its presentation of the plight of women at the end of the eighteenth century. This translation of Delphine is based on the authoritative critical French edition prepared by Trade Review"A new and admirable translation."—New York Review of Books "This remarkable translation is highly recommended." -Choice "This excellent translation... reads elegantly." -Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Translator's Note Preface by Germaine de Sta\u00ebl Delphine Explanatory Notes Selected Bibliography
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Eudora Welty
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Reynolds Price
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Graham Greene
Book SynopsisThis collection of seventeen interviews covers fifty years. In all the interviews Graham Greene granted over the years, the reader hears very clearly the voice of a man whose conversation is as painfully honest and unpretentious as is his written prose.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Toni Morrison
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, with Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison describes herself as an African-American writer, and these essays show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with John Updike Literary Conversations S
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Comic Crime
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin John Dickson Carr A Critical Study
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East European Monographs Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisIleana Orlich captures the shifting and subtle identities and continuities of Romania's literary tradition by concentrating on unfamiliar aesthetic and cultural landscapes, mythic archetypes, and modernist techniques. Examining a distinct and unusual range of authors and texts, Orlich charts the crosscurrents of the century's representative fiction, attesting to the importance of a critical vision of Romanian literature and a commitment to its dynamic interactions with European models.Trade ReviewA meaningful contribution to the study of Romanian literature. -- Oana Popescu-Sandu Slavic and East European Journal
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East European Monographs From Szlachta Culture to the Twentyfirst Century
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnother exciting contribution to Conrad Studies, providing a powerful analysis of Polish and East Central European contexts in Conrad’s biography, together with interpretation of archival sources, studies in literary history, comparative literary criticism, and the reception of Conrad’s works in Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, by scholars from Europe and elsewhere. * Modern Language Review *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Companion to the Modern American Novel 19001950
Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii List of Figures xiii Preface xiv Acknowledgments xxiii 1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950 1 Eric Rauchway 2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950 13 Nancy Woloch 3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950 31 Matthew Pratt Guterl 4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience 56 Jeanne Follansbee Quinn 5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires 73 Michael Trask 6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 91 Jeremy Yudkin 7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style 116 Justus Nieland 8 Early Literary Modernism 141 Andrew Lawson 9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism 160 Donna Campbell 10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald 181 Richard Godden 11 Chronic Modernism 202 Leigh Anne Duck 12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development 218 Hsuan L. Hsu 13 "The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land": Midwestern Modernism and the Novel 240 Edward P. Comentale 14 Writing the Modern South 266 Susan V. Donaldson 15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity 282 John T. Matthews 16 African-American Modernisms 306 Michelle Stephens 17 Ethnic Modernism 324 Rita Keresztesi 18 The Proletarian Novel 353 Barbara Foley 19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State 367 Susan Edmunds 20 Lesbian Fiction 1900–1950 392 Heather Love 21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 414 Christopher Looby 22 The Popular Western 437 William R. Handley 23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction 454 Charles J. Rzepka 24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies 466 Mark Eaton 25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism 496 Delia Konzett 26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 518 Patrick O'Donnell 27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 535 George B. Handley 28 Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers 554 Jani Scandura Index 579
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Science Fiction and Philosophy
Book SynopsisFeaturing numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity Draws on a broad range of science fiction's more familiar novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New WorldTrade Review"Schneider's anthology, as it stands, is a great introduction to many of the fundamental theoretical issues raised by SF. Each topic is covered with a panel of accessible texts. One will also appreciate the presence of several short stories and references to related works of SF in every section of the book." (Metapsychology online reviews 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction Thought Experiments: Science Fiction as a Window into Philosophical Puzzles 1Susan Schneider Part I Could I Be in a “Matrix” or Computer Simulation? Related Works:The Matrix; Avatar; Ender’s Game; The Hunger Games; Simulacron‐3; Ubik; Tron; Permutation City; Vanilla Sky; Total Recall 17 1 Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a Hard Drive 19Eric Schwitzgebel and R. Scott Bakker 2 Are You in a Computer Simulation? 22Nick Bostrom 3 Plato’s Cave. Excerpt from The Republic 26Plato 4 Some Cartesian thought Experiments. Excerpt from The Meditations on First Philosophy 30René Descartes 5 The Matrix as Metaphysics 35David J. Chalmers Part II What Am I? Free Will and the Nature of Persons Related Works:Moon; Software; Star Trek, The Next Generation: Second Chances; Mindscan; The Matrix; Diaspora; Blindsight; Permutation City; Kiln People; The Gods Themselves; Jerry Was a Man; Nine Lives; Minority Report 55 6 Where Am I? 57Daniel C. Dennett 7 Personal Identity 69Eric Olson 8 Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons 91Derek Parfit 9 Who Am I? What Am I? 99Ray Kurzweil 10 Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report 104Michael Huemer 11 Excerpt from “The Book of Life: A Thought Experiment” 114Alvin I. Goldman Part III Mind: Natural, Artificial, Hybrid, and Superintelligent Related Works:Transcendence; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Humans; Blade Runner; AI; Frankenstein; Accelerando; Terminator; I, Robot; Neuromancer; Last and First Men; His Master’s Voice; The Fire Upon the Deep; Solaris; Stories of your Life 117 12 Robot Dreams 119Isaac Asimov 13 A Brain Speaks 125Andy Clark 14 Cyborgs Unplugged 130Andy Clark 15 Superintelligence and Singularity 146Ray Kurzweil 16 The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis 171David J. Chalmers 17 Alien Minds 225Susan Schneider Part IV Ethical and Political Issues Related Works:Brave New World; Ender’s Game; Johnny Mnemonic; Gattaca; I, Robot; Terminator; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mindscan; Autofac; Neuromancer; Planet of the Apes; Children of Men; Nineteen Eighty‐Four; Player Piano; For a Breath I Tarry; Diamond Age 243 18 The Man on the Moon 245George J. Annas 19 Mindscan: Transcending and Enhancing the Human Brain 260Susan Schneider 20 The Doomsday Argument 277John Leslie 21 The Last Question 279Isaac Asimov 22 Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” and Machine Metaethics 290Susan Leigh Anderson 23 The Control Problem. Excerpts from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 308Nick Bostrom Part V Space and Time Related Works:Interstellar; Twelve Monkeys; Slaughterhouse‐Five; All You Zombies; The Time Machine; Back to the Future; Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions; Anathem 331 24 A Sound of Thunder 333Ray Bradbury 25 Time 343Theodore Sider 26 The Paradoxes of Time Travel 357David Lewis 27 The Quantum Physics of Time Travel 370David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood 28 Miracles and Wonders: Science Fiction as Epistemology 384Richard Hanley Appendix: Philosophers Recommend Science Fiction 393Eric Schwitzgebel Index 410
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Herman Melville
Book Synopsis* * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville s works in the twenty-first century. * Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville.Trade Review“As a guide to various perspectives on American literary studies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has its value.”—(Reference Reviews, 1 December 2012)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xx Texts and Abbreviations xxi Preface xxiiiWyn Kelley Part I Travels 1 1 A Traveling Life Laurie Robertson-Lorant 3 2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture Peter Gibian 19 3 Melville’s World Readers A. Robert Lee 35 4 Global Melville Paul Lyons 52 Part II Geographies 69 5 Science and the Earth Bruce A. Harvey 71 6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 83 7 Pacific Paradises Alex Calder 98 8 Atlantic Trade Hester Blum 113 9 Ancient Lands Basem L. Ra’ad 129 Part III Nations 147 10 Democracy and its Discontents Dennis Berthold 149 11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform Carol Colatrella 165 12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion Hilton Obenzinger 181 13 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation Christopher Castiglia 197 14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma John Stauffer 214 15 Gender and Sexuality Leland S. Person 231 Part IV Libraries 247 16 The Legacy of Britain Robin Grey 249 17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature Rachela Permenter 266 18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea R. D. Madison 282 19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph Edgar A. Dryden 299 20 The Company of Women Authors Charlene Avallone 313 21 Hawthorne and Race Ellen Weinauer 327 22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”: Melville and the Visual Arts Robert K. Wallace 342 Part V Texts 363 23 The Motive for Metaphor: Typee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 365 24 Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 378 25 The Language of Moby-Dick: “Read It If You Can” Maurice S. Lee 393 26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic Christopher Sten 408 27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales Caroline Levander 423 28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno” Marvin Fisher 435 29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man Gale Temple 451 30 How Clarel Works Samuel Otter 467 31 Melville the Realist Poet Elizabeth Renker 482 32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms John Wenke 497 Part VI Meanings 513 33 The Melville Revival Sanford E. Marovitz 515 34 Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture Elizabeth Schultz 532 35 The Melville Text John Bryant 553 Index 567
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to William Faulkner
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. * Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist. * Comprises original essays written by leading scholars.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Richard C. Moreland PART I Contexts 5 1 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7 Richard Godden 2 "We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28 Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson 3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46 Anne Goodwyn Jones 4 "C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65 Catherine Gunther Kodat 5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85 Michael Zeitlin 6 Faulkner's Lives 104 Jay Parini PART II Questions 113 7 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115 Owen Robinson 8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133 Barbara Ladd 9 "Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148 John N. Duvall 10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165 Julia Leyda 11 Faulkner's Families 180 Arthur F. Kinney 12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202 Cheryl Lester 13 The State 220 Ted Atkinson 14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236 Lothar Hönnighausen 15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252 Sean Latham 16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269 Leigh Anne Duck 17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284 Peter Lurie 18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301 Vincent Allan King PART III Genres and Forms 319 19 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321 Thomas L. McHaney 20 "Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism 342 Philip Weinstein 21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359 Susan V. Donaldson 22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373 Greg Forter 23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394 Hans H. Skei 24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410 Noel Polk 25 Faulkner's Texts 420 Noel Polk PART IV Sample Readings 427 26 "By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429 Donald M. Kartiganer 27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445 John Carlos Rowe 28 "The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459 Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber PART V After Faulkner 477 29 "He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479 Timothy P. Caron 30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499 Deborah Cohn 31 Faulkner's Continuance 519 Patrick O'Donnell Index 528
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Crime Fiction
Book SynopsisA Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fictionFollows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularityFeatures full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the fieldIncludes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliographyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction: What is Crime Fiction? 1Charles J. Rzepka Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11 1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13Heather Worthington 2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28Lee Horsley 3 Criticism and Theory 43Heta Pyrhönen 4 Crime and the Mass Media 57Alain Silver and James Ursini 5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76Joel Black Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91 6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93Lauren Gillingham 7 From Sensation to the Strand 105Christopher Pittard 8 The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 117Susan Rowland 9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128Alexander Moudrov 10 The “Hard-boiled” Genre 140Andrew Pepper 11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152Carl Malmgren 12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164Sarah Dauncey 13 The Police Novel 175Peter Messent 14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187Philip Simpson 15 True Crime 198David Schmid 16 Gangs and Mobs 210Jonathan Munby 17 Historical Crime and Detection 222Ray B. Browne 18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233David Seed 19 Crime and the Gothic 245Catherine Spooner 20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258Adrienne E. Gavin 21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270Frankie Bailey 22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283Ed Christian 23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296Sue Neale 24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308Patricia Merivale 25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321Christopher Routledge 26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332Arthur Fried 27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344Philippa Gates Part III Artists at Work 357 Fiction 359 28 William Godwin (1756–1836) 361Philip Shaw 29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 369Maurice S. Lee 30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) 381Andrew Mangham 31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 390John A. Hodgson 32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) 403Leroy Lad Panek 33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 415Merja Makinen 34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) 427William Marling 35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) 438Esme Miskimmin 36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) 450Jasmine Yong Hall 37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) 462Alicia Borinsky 38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 475Stephen Soitos 39 David Goodis (1917–1967) 487David Schmid 40 P. D. James (1920–) 495Louise Harrington 41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) 503Bran Nicol 42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) 510Charles J. Rzepka 43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) 523Malcah Effron 44 Walter Mosley (1952–) 531John Gruesser Film 539 45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) 541Nick Haeffner 46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) 553Mark Desmond Nicholls 47 John Woo (1946–) 562Karen Fang Conclusion 570Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley References 574 Index 599
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Novel
Book SynopsisThe Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 19002000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, especially social, cultural and political theory. Broad in scope, including sections on formalism; the Chicago School; structuralism and narratology; deconstruction; psychoanalysis; Marxism; social discourse; gender; post-colonialism; and more. Includes whole essays or chapters wherever possible. Headnotes introduce and link each piece, enabling readers to draw connections between different schools of thought. Encourages students to approach theoretical texts with confidence, applying the same skills they bring to literary texts. Includes a volume introduction, a selected bibliography, an index of tTrade Review“Readers of Dorothy J. Hale's The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 will find the volume to be two books in one. One book is the anthology proper, which brings together essays that theorize the complex nature and history of novelistic fiction. Those essays became classroom classics in colleges and universities during the last forty years of the 20th century. The second is a virtual book of its own comprised of Hale's brilliant introductions to the theoretical essays. Elaborating each of the essays, interweaving their significance and the significance of the schools of theory from which the essays derive, Hale's meditations are a supplemental bonus to all teachers and students with a taste for ‘novel theory.’ ” Robert L. Caserio, author of Plot, Story and the Novel and The Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. General Introduction. Part I: Form and Function. 1 Victor Shklovsky, “Sterne’s Tristram Shandy”. 2 Vladimir Propp, from Morphology of the Folktale. 3 Henry James, Prefaces to the New York Edition. Preface to The Portrait of a Lady. Preface to The Ambassadors. 4 Percy Lubbock, from The Craft of Fiction. 5 Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism. “Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres”. Part II: The Chicago School. 6 R. S. Crane, from “The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones”. 7 Ralph W. Rader, “Richardson to Austen”. 8 Wayne C. Booth, from The Rhetoric of Fiction. Part III: Structuralism, Narratology, Deconstruction. 9 Tzvetan Todorov, from The Poetics of Prose. 10 Seymour Chatman, from Story and Discourse. “Discourse: Covert versus Overt Narrators”. 11 Roland Barthes, “The Reality Effect”. 12 Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text”. 13 J. Hillis Miller, from Reading Narrative. “Indirect Discourses and Irony”. 14 Barbara Johnson, from A World of Difference. “Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Part IV: Psychoanalytic Approaches. 15 René Girard, from Deceit, Desire, and the Novel. “‘Triangular’ Desire”. 16 Shoshana Felman, from “Turning the Screw of Interpretation”. “The Turns of the Story’s Frame: a Theory of Narrative”. 17 Peter Brooks, “ Freud’s Masterplot”. Part V: Marxist Approaches. 18 Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller”. 19 György Lukács, from Studies in European Realism. 20 György Lukács, “The Ideology of Modernism”. 21 Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious. Part VI: The Novel as Social Discourse. 22 Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel. 23 M. M. Bakhtin, from “Discourse in the Novel”. 24 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from The Signifying Monkey. “Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text”. 25 Jane Tompkins, from Sensational Designs. “Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Fiction”. 26 D. A. Miller, from The Novel and the Police. Part VII: Gender, Sexuality, and the Novel. 27 Virginia Woolf, “Women and Fiction”. 28 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Between Men. 29 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s. The Art of the Novel”. 30 Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction. “The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now”. 31 Catherine Gallagher, from Nobody’s Story. Part VIII: Post-Colonialism and the Novel. 32 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a. Critique of Imperialism”. 33 Edward W. Said, from Culture and Imperialism. “Consolidated Vision”. 34 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Location of Culture. “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the. Modern Nation”. 35 Franco Moretti, from Atlas of the European Novel. “The Novel, the Nation-State”. Part IX: Novel Readers. 36 Wolfgang Iser, from The Implied Reader. “The Reader as a Component Part of the Realisti. 37 Nina Baym, from Novels, Readers, and Reviewers. “The Triumph of the Novel”. 38 Garrett Stewart, from Dear Reader. “In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley”. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Science Fiction
Book SynopsisA Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from MaryTrade Review“The volume as a whole successfully acquaints diligent readers with an array of substantive avenues of critical inquiry into science fiction … Highly recommended." Choice “[This] Companion provides unusual depth and detail … The main strengths here are the distinguished roster of contributors, who have plenty of thought-provoking ideas … Anyone seeking an immersion course in the history and criticism of [science fiction] today will find that their time is well repaid.” Science Fiction Studies Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Approaching Science Fiction 1 PART I Surveying the Field 9 1 Hard Reading: The Challenges of Science Fiction 11Tom Shippey 2 The Origins of Science Fiction 27George Slusser 3 Science Fiction/Criticism 43Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. 4 Science Fiction Magazines: The Crucibles of Change 60Mike Ashley PART II Topics and Debates 77 5 Utopia 79Phillip E. Wegner 6 Science Fiction and Religion 95Stephen R.L. Clark 7 “Monsters of the Imagination”: Gothic, Science, Fiction 111Fred Botting 8 Science Fiction and Ecology 127Brian Stableford 9 Feminist Fabulation 142Marleen S. Barr 10 Time and Identity in Feminist Science Fiction 156Jenny Wolmark 11 Science Fiction and the Cold War 171M. Keith Booker PART III Genres and Movements 185 12 Hard Science Fiction 187Gary Westfahl 13 The New Wave 202Rob Latham 14 Cyberpunk 217Mark Bould 15 Science Fiction and Postmodernism 232Veronica Hollinger 16 The Renewal of “Hard” Science Fiction 248Donald M. Hassler PART IV Science Fiction Film 259 17 American Science Fiction Film: An Overview 261Vivian Sobchack 18 Figurations of the Cyborg in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels and Films 275Christine Cornea 19 British Television Science Fiction 289Peter Wright PART V The International Scene 307 20 Canadian Science Fiction 309Douglas Barbour 21 Japanese and Asian Science Fiction 323Takayuki Tatsumi 22 Australian Science Fiction 337Van Ikin and Sean McMullen PART VI Key Writers 351 23 The Grandeur of H.G. Wells 353Robert Crossley 24 Isaac Asimov 364John Clute 25 John Wyndham: The Facts of Life Sextet 375David Ketterer 26 Philip K. Dick 389Christopher Palmer 27 Samuel Delaney: A Biographical and Critical Overview 398Carl Freedman 28 Ursula K. Le Guin 408Warren G. Rochelle 29 Gwyneth Jones and the Anxieties of Science Fiction 420Andy Sawyer 30 Arthur C. Clarke 431Edward James 31 Greg Egan 441Russell Blackford PART VII Readings 453 32 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus 455Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan 33 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland 466Jill Rudd 34 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World 477David Seed 35 Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 489Brian Baker 36 Joanna Russ: The Female Man 500Jeanne Cortiel 37 J.G. Ballard: Crash 512Roger Luckhurst 38 Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale 522Faye Hammill 39 William Gibson: Neuromancer 534Andrew M. Butler 40 Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy 544Carol Franko 41 Iain M. Banks: Excession 556Farah Mendlesohn Index 567
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO THE BRITISH AND IRISH SHORT STORY A COMPANION TO THE BRITISH AND RISH SHORT STORY A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part I covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Authors covered in this period include Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and Elizabeth Bowen. Part II reflects the range of themes, and richer diversity of authorship, that developed during the postwar years, including feminist writings, gay and lesbian fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and short stories by Asian and Afro-Caribbean writers. Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, and Ben Okri, are just some of the authors discussed in these chapters. Incorporating a wide range of approaches, ATrade Review"Companion to the British and Irish Short Story is an instructive and engaging guide, covering a broad range of interest in fiction from schoolwork to academic research." (Reference Reviews, April 2009)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xv Part I: 1880–1945 1 Introduction 3 1 The British and Irish Short Story to 1945 5Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres 17 2 The Story of Colonial Adventure 19Mariadele Boccardi 3 Responses to War: 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 35Richard Greaves 4 Irish Short Fiction: 1880–1945 51Patrick Lonergan 5 The Detective and Crime Story: 1880–1945 65Jopi Nyman 6 The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880–1945 81Becky DiBiasio 7 Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945) 96Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 8 Rudyard Kipling’s Art of the Short Story 114David Malcolm Reading Individual Authors and Texts 129 9 Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Bottle Imp,” “The Beach of Falesá,” and “Markheim” 131Michael Meyer 10 Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales 140David Grylls 11 Joseph Conrad: “The Secret Sharer” and “An Outpost of Progress” 149Christopher Thomas Cairney 12 The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro (“Saki”) 157Sandie Byrne 13 Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce’s Dubliners 165Richard Greaves 14 H.G. Wells’s Short Stories: “The Country of the Blind” and “The Door in the Wall” 174Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 15 D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories: “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” 183Kathryn Miles 16 Virginia Woolf: “Kew Gardens” and “The Legacy” 193Stef Craps 17 Katherine Mansfi eld: “The Garden Party” and “Marriage à la Mode” 202Jennifer E. Dunn 18 Frank O’Connor: “Guests of the Nation” and “My Oedipus Complex” 211Greg Winston 19 The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty 221Shawn O’Hare 20 W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden Stories 227David Malcolm 21 Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” and “Mysterious Kôr” 236Sarah Dillon Part II: 1945–the Present 245 Introduction 247 22 The British and Irish Short Story: 1945–Present 249Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres 261 23 New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945 263Greg Winston 24 Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present 279James M. Lang 25 Scottish Short Stories (post 1945) 294Gavin Miller 26 Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay 308Michael Parker 27 The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust 330Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 28 Feminist Voices: Women’s Short Fiction after 1945 342Michael Meyer 29 British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories 356Brett Josef Grubisic 30 Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction 372Mitchell R. Lewis 31 Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945 384Günther Jarfe Reading Individual Authors and Texts 399 32 The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross 401David Malcolm 33 Alan Sillitoe: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” 409Michael Parker 34 The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor 416Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 35 The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett 423Andrzej Ga² siorek 36 Edna O’Brien: “A Rose in the Heart of New York” 431Sinéad Mooney 37 Doris Lessing: African Stories 440Don Adams 38 The Desire for Clarity: Seán O’Faoláin’s “Lovers of the Lake” 448Paul Delaney 39 The Short Stories of Muriel Spark 456Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 40 Jean Rhys: “Let Them Call It Jazz” 464Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 41 George Mackay Brown: “Witch,” “Master Halcrow, Priest,” “A Time to Keep,” and “The Tarn and the Rosary” 472Gavin Miller 42 William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art 480John Kenny 43 John McGahern: Nightlines 488Stanley van der Ziel 44 The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty’s “Walking the Dog” 498Jerzy Jarniewicz 45 Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire – Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism 507Madelena Gonzalez 46 J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape 516Mitchell R. Lewis 47 The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri 524Wolfgang Görtschacher 48 James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast 532Peter Clandfield 49 Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time 541Patrick Lonergan Index 550
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd C.S. Lewis
Book SynopsisIn this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author. Examines his life, work, world view, and the implications of his theology in relation to his other writings Looks at Lewis'' beliefs on the topics of redemption, humanity, spiritual growth, purgatory, and resurrection Examines the different perspectives on Lewis and his work: as prophet, evangelist, and as a spiritual mentor Explores the range and influence of Lewis'' work, from the bestselling apologetic, Mere Christianity, to the world-famous Chronicles of Narnia Features specially-commissioned artwork throughout Written in an accessible style for general readers, students, and scholars, and will introduce Lewis'' theology to a wider audience. Trade Review“C. S. Lewis once suggested that it would be a boon to be able to have a real live Epicurean at our elbow when reading Lucretius or to learn from a mouse or bee’s perspective; so Professor David Clark gives us the enlarged pleasure of reading Lewis with a sensible and good-humored theologian by our side. This is no stale and stuffy pedantic writing, but a lively, witty, and fully engaging translation of Lewis’s thoughts on Christian doctrines of faith and redemption (and a bit of Purgatory). With clarity and piercing insight, Professor Clark guides us merry fellow pilgrims along Lewis’ own spiritual and intellectual journey, pointing out hidden trails, narrow paths, and fascinating facts and myths along the way.” Terry Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College “Professor Clark writes with the confidence of one whose broad and informed acquaintance with the Lewis canon allows him to speak authoritatively about Lewis's theology and use of Scriptural tradition.” Bruce L. Edwards, Bowling Green State University “A very winsome book – nicely poised between a comprehensive introduction for the reader new to Lewis and a holistic treatment of the varied literary output in the Lewis canon for Lewis admirers … The chief contribution of this work lies in [Clark’s] steady treatment of Lewis’s use of Scripture and the Scriptural basis of his own imaginative works … This work walks the tightrope between saying too much and saying just enough from the perspective of a Biblical scholar who also well understands the nature and narrative and why Lewis wrote as he did. Very good for individual or group study.” www.pseudobook.comTable of ContentsAbbreviations. Lewis’s Works. Books of the Bible. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Lewis and Scripture. The Strengths of Lewis. Lewis the Apologist and Mentor. 1 From Atheist to Apologist. Growing Up. Lewis in School. Lewis at Oxford. The Path to Faith. The Christian Lewis. Lewis as Prophet. Lewis as Evangelist. Lewis as Believer and Mentor. 2 Lewis Looks at His World. Aesthetics and Morality in the "Green Book." Aesthetics and Morality in That Hideous Strength. Aesthetics and God in Reflections on the Psalms. Lewis at Cambridge. The Post-Christian West. The Christian Viewpoint. The Hidden Influence. Lewis and Science. 3 Lewis Reaches Out to His World. The Redemption Story: Lewis’s Subtle Approach. The Redemption Story in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Redemption Story in Perelandra. The Myth That Entered History. The Redemption Story: Lewis’s Direct Approach. God’s Life in Us. 4 Humanity in God’s Creation. The Making of Humanity. Humans and Animals. Animals in the Space Trilogy. The Biblical Mandate. Humans and Angels. Fallen Angels. Good Angels. Between Animals and Angels. 5 Walking by Faith. The Myth of Cupid and Psyche According to Apuleius. The Myth According to Lewis. The Meaning of the Myth. Natural Affection. The Importance of Faith. Reconciling Faith and Sight. 6 God’s Plan for the Soul. The Goal of Sanctification. The Concept of Purgatory. The Descent of Christ in The Great Divorce. The Theology of Purgatory. The Descent of Christ in Scripture. Applying the Seven Principles. Will All Be Saved? Is There a Second Chance? Beyond Spaceand Time. Responding to Truth. Purgatory in Scripture. Summary.. 7 God’s Plan for the Body - and the Universe. Resurrection of the Body. Resurrection and Creation. Judgment by Fire. The Face of God. Conclusion: The Legacy of Lewis. Did Lewis Pass the Test? The Impact of Lewis. A Theology of Redemption. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Science Fiction Handbook
Book SynopsisFew literary genres can expand the boundaries of our imagination as much as science fiction. The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive historical survey of literary works of science fiction and its most popular sub-genres.Trade Review"Science fiction has been an important force in English-language literature and publishing for well over one hundred years. The task of adequately summarizing it ... would seem daunting. Doing it adequately and in a manner that is both understandable to the lay reader and even at times entertaining might seem an impossibility. And doing all that in fewer than 350 pages . . . forget it. But Booker and Thomas have succeeded. Bravo. As Mr. Spock might say, with the lift of an eyebrow, 'Fascinating.' As is this handbook. Every decent library should have it, and every good science fiction fan should refer to it. I guarantee you'll learn something and have your horizons expanded." (Green Man Review, September 2009) ?Booker and Thomas have produced a valuable work that manages to find a niche in a suddenly crowded market for resources on science fiction.? (CHOICE, October 2009) "The book is ... rich, [and] diverse ... .If you are interested in science fiction ... you [should] run out and get a copy. Although the focus is on literature, movies and TV shows are also included. I highly recommend it. The book not only taught me and demonstrated its a potential as a reference work, it introduced me to works of science fiction that I had not read and left me wanting to go out and read them." (Exploring Our Matrix Blog, September 2009) "In short, The Science Fiction Handbook is a fascinating reference work that puts science fiction subgenres into historical perspective while offering more detailed analyses of representative corresponding novels." (SF Signal, July 2009) ?In The Science Fiction Handbook, authors M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas finally give the genre its due, and celebrate it, as well as help to distinguish it from other forms such as fantasy or horror.? (SFscope.com, April 2009)Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction. Science Fiction in Western Culture. Part II: Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres. The Time-Travel Invasion. The Alien Invasion Narrative. The Space Opera. Apocalyptic and Post-Disaster Narratives. Dystopian Science Fiction. Utopian Fiction. Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender. Science Fiction and Satire. Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction. Multicultural Science Fiction. Part III: Representative Science Fiction Authors. Isaac Asimov (1920–1992). Margaret Atwood (1939–). Octavia Butler (1947–2006). Samuel R. Delany (1942–). Philip K. Dick (1928–1982). William Gibson (1948–). Nicola Griffith (1960–). Joe Haldeman (1943–). Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988). Nalo Hopkinson (1960–). Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–). Ian McDonald (1960–). China Miéville (1972–). George Orwell (1903–1950). Marge Piercy (1936–). Frederik Pohl (1919–). Kim Stanley Robinson (1952–). Neal Stephenson (1959–). H. G. Wells (1866–1946). Part IV: Discussions of Individual Texts. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895). H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898). George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950). Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth, The Space Merchants (1952). Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959). Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974). Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974). Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton (1976). William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). Octavia Butler, “Xenogenesis” trilogy (1987–1989). Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992). Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1994). Kim Stanley Robinson, “Mars” trilogy (1992–1996). Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000). China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (2000). Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005). Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Romance
Book SynopsisRomance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples Trade Review“Acknowledging the difficulty of defining "romance," Saunders and the contributors collectively produce a volume that offers a more comprehensive survey of the literature--including its historical, national, and generic varieties--than have previous standard works on the subject…Some of the essays--e.g., Helen Cooper's "Malory and the Early Prose Romances" and Richard Cronin's "Victorian Romance: Medievalism"--are exemplary in the quality of their writing, scholarship, and critical perception…Highly recommended.” Choice "... It would be worth acquiring for an academic humanities collection and, from my own experience, would be particulary useful for English literature students at undergraduate and postgraduate level." Reference ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 1. Ancient Romance 10 Elizabeth Archibald 2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance 26 Judith Weiss 3. The Popular English Metrical Romances 45 Derek Brewer 4. Arthurian Romance 65 W. R. J. Barron 5. Chaucer’s Romances 85 Corinne Saunders 6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances 104 Helen Cooper 7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England 121 Lori Humphrey Newcomb 8. Sidney and Spenser 140 Andrew King 9. Shakespeare’s Romances 160 David Fuller 10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories 177 John Simons 11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-century Spenserianism 197 David Fairer 12. ‘‘Gothic’’ Romance: Its Origins and Cultural Functions 216 Jerrold E. Hogle 13. Women’s Gothic Romance: Writers, Readers, and the Pleasures of the Form 233 Lisa Vargo 14. Paradise and Cotton-mill: Rereading Eighteenth-century Romance 251 Clive Probyn 15. ‘‘Inconsistent Rhapsodies’’: Samuel Richardson and the Politics of Romance 269 Fiona Price 16. Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott 287 Fiona Robertson 17. Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats 305 Michael O’Neill 18. Victorian Romance: Tennyson 321 Leonée Ormond 19. Victorian Romance: Medievalism 341 Richard Cronin 20. Romance and Victorian Autobiography: Margaret Oliphant, Edmund Gosse, and John Ruskin’s ‘‘needle to the north’’ 360 Francis O’Gorman 21. Victorian Romance: Romance and Mystery 375 Andrew Sanders 22. Nineteenth-century Adventure and Fantasy: James Morier, George Meredith, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson 389 Robert Fraser 23. Into the Twentieth Century: Imperial Romance from Haggard to Buchan 406 Susan Jones 24. America and Romance 424 Ulrika Maude 25. Myth, Legend, and Romance in Yeats, Pound, and Eliot 438 Edward Larrissy 26. Twentieth-century Arthurian Romance 454 Raymond H. Thompson 27. Romance in Fantasy Through the Twentieth Century 472 Richard Mathews 28. Quest Romance in Science Fiction 488 Kathryn Hume 29. Between Worlds: Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, and Romance 502 Clare Morgan 30. Popular Romance and its Readers 521 Lynne Pearce Epilogue: Into the Twenty-first Century 539 Corinne Saunders Index 542
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Crime Fiction
Book SynopsisA Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. It brings together a series of forty-seven original essays from some of the world's leading authorities.Trade Review"Including a helpful introduction by Rzepka and conclusion by both editors, the volume is a welcome addition to the impressive "Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture" series and to scholarship on crime and detective literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. " (Choice, 1July 2011) "Whilst the editors admit that the collection is not entirely representative (there is no mention of Japanese manga, for instance, or any consideration of hybrids of crime and science fiction), this companion offers an encyclopaedic account of crime fiction and its generic cross-fertilisations, and is an essential guide for students and scholars alike." (Routledge ABES, 2011) "This substantial and informative book covers a wide variety of themes within the genre and also a long time span from the eighteenth century to the present . . . It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (Reference Reviews, 2011) "It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (Languages & Literature, 2011) "Several of the contributors praise books and authors long out of print. Hopefully, this companion will encourage readers and librarians to hunt them down and enjoy." (Book News, 1 March 2011) "In all, despite its shortcomings in terms of narratology and a few logical inconsistencies, Rzepka and Horsley's Companion to Crime Fiction offers a broad-ranging and well-argued introduction to this field of popular culture. Beginning students will certainly profit from its thematic diversity and wide historical reach." (Kult Online, 2011) "A Companion to Crime Fiction goes into enormous detail but is reasonably easy to read. It is not an academic-styled book but a guide to how crime fiction has developed over time to accommodate an increasingly demanding audience/reader. With essays from some of the most educated scholars in this field of research, the reader gains a greater understanding in terms of a general overview of the genre, individual authors and producers of film, the blurred lines between crime fiction and other genres and an in depth, well researched analysis of crime fiction itself." (M/C Reviews, November 2010)Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction: What Is Crime Fiction? 1 Charles J. Rzepka Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11 1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13 Heather Worthington 2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28 Lee Horsley 3 Criticism and Theory 43 Heta Pyrhönen 4 Crime and the Mass Media 57 Alain Silver and James Ursini 5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76 Joel Black Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91 6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93 Lauren Gillingham 7 From Sensation to the Strand 105 Christopher Pittard 8 The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 117 Susan Rowland 9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128 Alexander Moudrov 10 The “Hard-boiled” Genre 140 Andrew Pepper 11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152 Carl Malmgren 12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164 Sarah Dauncey 13 The Police Novel 175 Peter Messent 14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187 Philip Simpson 15 True Crime 198 David Schmid 16 Gangs and Mobs 210 Jonathan Munby 17 Historical Crime and Detection 222 Ray B. Browne 18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233 David Seed 19 Crime and the Gothic 245 Catherine Spooner 20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258 Adrienne E. Gavin 21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270 Frankie Bailey 22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283 Ed Christian 23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296 Sue Neale 24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308 Patricia Merivale 25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321 Christopher Routledge 26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332 Arthur Fried 27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344 Philippa Gates Part III Artists at Work 357 Fiction 359 28 William Godwin (1756–1836) 361 Philip Shaw 29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 369 Maurice S. Lee 30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) 381 Andrew Mangham 31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 390 John A. Hodgson 32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) 403 Leroy Lad Panek 33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 415 Merja Makinen 34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) 427 William Marling 35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) 438 Esme Miskimmin 36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) 450 Jasmine Yong Hall 37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) 462 Alicia Borinsky 38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 475 Stephen Soitos 39 David Goodis (1917–1967) 487 David Schmid 40 P. D. James (1920–) 495 Louise Harrington 41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) 503 Bran Nicol 42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) 510 Charles J. Rzepka 43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) 523 Malcah Effron 44 Walter Mosley (1952–) 531 John Gruesser Film 539 45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) 541 Nick Haeffner 46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) 553 Mark Desmond Nicholls 47 John Woo (1946–) 562 Karen Fang Conclusion 570 Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley References 574 Index 599
£35.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Romantic Sobriety
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.Trade Review"A panoramic view of the theoretical options open to the self-aware American academic critic wanting to write about Romanticism." (Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sensation of RomanticismPart I: Periodicity1. Romantic Sobriety2. Kant All Lit Up: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of GeniusPart II: Theory3. De Man, Marx, Rousseau, and the Machine4. Against Theory beside Romanticism: Mute Bodies, Fanatical Seeing5. The Sensation of the Signifier6. Ghost TheoryPart III: Texts7. Lyric Ritalin: Time and History in "Ode to the West Wind"8. No Satisfaction: High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan9. Gothic Thought and Surviving Romanticism in Zofloya and Jane Eyre10. Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic SensationCoda: The Embarrassment of RomanticismNotesIndex
£59.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the
Book SynopsisBackscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.Trade ReviewIt seems certain, given Backscheider's impressive track record as a revisionary influence upon eighteenth-century studies, that this generous book, abounding in perceptions waiting to be gleshed out, will energize a round of 'next-generation' research into Rowe and her legacy. -- Kathryn R. King Review of English Studies Both original and provocative, Paula Backscheider's new book is also deeply learned and comprehensive in its scholarship... -- John Richetti Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Paula R. Backsheider's latest book seeks to establish, with impressive detail and energy, the centrality of the fiction of Elizabeth Singer Rowe to the development of the English novel. -- Gillian Skinner Modern Literary ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Locating Elizabeth Singer Rowe1. Positioning Rowe's Fiction2. Isles of Happiness3. Toward Novelistic Discourse4. The Beautiful LifeConclusion: Lifestyle as LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex
£40.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Exquisite Masochism
Book SynopsisComplicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism.Trade ReviewJarvis opens new avenues of criticism to work that is often oversimplified. Highly recommended. Choice ... an engaging cultural study, with applications wider than nineteenth-century literature. Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Making Scenes2. The Grasp of Wuthering Heights3. Buoyed Up4. Hideously Multiplied5. Dead GemsConclusionNotesIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press American Hieroglyphics
Book SynopsisAlong the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Emerson, Thoreau, and WhitmanChapter 1. Champollion and the Historical Background; Emerson's Hieroglyphical EmblemsChapter 2. Thoreau: The Single, Basic Form — Patenting a LeafChapter 3. Whitman: Hieroglyphic Bibles and Phallic SongsPart II: PoeChapter 4. The Hieroglyphics and the Quest for Origins: The Myth of Hieroglyphic DoublingChapter 5. Ends and Origins: The Voyage to the Polar Abyss and the Journey to the Source of the Nile; The Survival of the ManuscriptChapter 6. Certainty and Credibility — Self-Evidence and Self-Reference; Nietzsche and Tragedy — Whitman and Opera; The Open RoadChapter 7. Writing Self / Written Self; The Dark Double; The Overwhelming of the Vessel Chapter 8. Cannibalism and Sacrifice; Metaphors of the Body — Transfiguration, Transubstantiation, Resurrection, and AscensionChapter 9. Narcissus and the Illusion of DepthChapter 10. Self-Recognition; Deciphering a Mnemic Inscription; Historical Amnesia and Personal AnamnesisChapter 11. Repetition; Symbolic Death and Rebirth; The Infinite and Indefinite; The Mechanism of ForeshadowingChapter 12. The Unfinished Narrative; The Cavern Inscription on Tsalal; Survival in an ImageChapter 13. The White Shadow; Imaging the Indefinite; Reading the Spirit from the Letter; The Finality of Revenge; The Alogical Status of the SelfChapter 14. The Return to Oneness; Breaking the Crypt; The Limits of Interpretation; The Ultimate CertaintyPart III: Hawthorne and MelvilleChapter 15. Hawthorne: The Ambiguity of the Hieroglyphics; The Unstable Self and Its Roles; Mirror Image and Phonetic Veil; The Feminine Role of the Artist; Veil and Phallus; The Book as Partial ObjectChapter 16. Melville: The Indeterminate Ground; A Conjunction of Fountain and Vortex; The Myth of Isis and Osiris; Master Oppositions; The Doubleness of the Self and the Illusion of Consistent Character; Dionysus and Apollo; Mask and Phallus; The Chain of Partial ObjectsEpilogueNotesIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Being Cool
Book SynopsisRzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.Trade ReviewRzepka's close reading of Leonard's fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author. Library Journal Few people are as versed in Elmore Leonard's world as Charles Rzepka. BU TodayTable of ContentsPreface1. Being Cool2. Being Other(s)3. Plays Well with Others4. ChorusesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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MP-GRY Grey House Publishing George Orwell
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Temple University Press,U.S. Pimping Fictions
Book SynopsisThe first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights eraTrade Review"Gifford's groundbreaking study of the 'art and business of black crime literature' is ingenious in its embrace of elements of street literature from historical and literary perspectives along with the culture of the writers who produce it, the commercial enterprises that publish it, and the 'white-controlled spaces' they occupy and must negotiate... In exploring how these writers, little noticed by academia or mainstream media, negotiate the connection between white-controlled spaces in urban centers, prisons, and publishing, Gifford makes a persuasive case for their importance." Publishers Weekly, December 2012 "Gifford aims to inject greater awareness of black crime fiction into the history of African American cultural production, and his analyses of Chester Himes, Robert Beck, Donald Goines, and Players magazine fulfill that ambition. His book clarifies this popular yet understudied topic... Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice, August 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “He Jerked His Pistol Free and Fired It at the Pavement”: Chester Himes and the Transformation of American Crime Literature2 Pimping Fictions: Iceberg Slim and the Invention of Pimp Literature3 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the Radicalization of Black Crime Literature4 Black in a White Paradise: Utopias and Imagined Solutions in Black Crime Literature5 “For He Who Is”: Players Magazine and the Reimagining of the American Pimp6 The Women of Street Literature: Contemporary Black Crime Fiction and the Rise of the Self-Publishing MarketplaceNotesIndex
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