Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts
Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts
Fin-de-siecle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creati
Interpreting recent American fiction in terms linked to the growing appreciation of culture's place in the globalization debate, this book offers an innovative, critical approach to the study of conte
The fundamental principle upon which contemporary narratology is constructed is that narrative is an essentially divided endeavour, involving the story (`what really happened') and the discourse (`how
An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and sc
"But in a fiction, in a dream of passion..." In an extended commentary on this passage this book offers a rationale for the excellence and primacy of this play among the tragedies. Throughout, emphasi
Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by
William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA"Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary: Unreading History in Dalit Literature"May 2011 issue of PMLAUntouchable Fiction
Part political history, part rhetorical criticism, "Founding Fictions" is an extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845. It critically re-interrogates our
Covering the period from the 1910s up to the Second World War, this title offers new insights into classics like "The Great Gatsby" and "The Grapes of Wrath" discussing major writers' critical writing
With the aim of encouraging a critical rereading of Mirbeau’s most durable works, this study examines his problematic status as a producer of fictions, his use of humor and cruelty, and his treatment
At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of “white collar” Americans—the “middle” social strata H. L. Mencken ridiculed as boobus Americanus—took on an ever-greater prominence within Amer
The phrase “cinematic fiction” has been generally accepted in critical discourse, but usually only in the context of postwar novels. This volume examines the influence of film on the novel in early tw
World Wide Web inventor Timothy Berners-Lee envisioned a place where we could communicate by sharing information, globally and universally. After roughly 15 years of Internet-based fiction, the author
Back in 1966, each of a group of Guyanese sixth-formers is 'sentenced' to write a short story that reflects their newly independent country. Years later, Mark McWatt, one of the group, is handed the p
The short fictions collected in Public Works explore the extremes of human nature and literary technique. From the manic, single-sentence fiction "Public Sentence" to the carefully structured and plot
Dekker (emeritus humanities, Stanford U.) continues his stream of books on British and American Romanticism by focusing on the relationship between Romantic tourism and fiction as found in the three B
Pulp fictions of medieval England comprises ten essays on individual popular romances; with a focus on romances that, while enormously popular in the Middle Ages, have been neglected by modern scholar
