Описание: Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities.
Автор: Lodge, David Название: Language of fiction ISBN: 0415290031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415290036 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 2448.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from one of England`s finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature.
Автор: Abberley Название: English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850–1914 ISBN: 1107101166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107101166 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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: LaGuardia Community College Название: Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction ISBN: 134948413X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349484133 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9362.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Despite pioneering studies, the term `romance novel` itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines mass-market romance fiction in the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. through four categories: capitalism, war, heterosexuality, and white Protestantism and casts a fresh light on the genre.
Автор: Salvan Paula Martнn Название: Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction ISBN: 1137282835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137282835 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.
Описание: A study of the narrative and stylistic characteristics of all the major works by Marguerite Duras. Through close textual readings with a particular focus on women`s access to language, this book shows how Duras critiques and subverts dominant discourse.
Описание: "Prophets of the Posthuman" provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement technologies. Christina Bieber Lake argues that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walker Percy, Flannery O`Connor, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson, Raymond Carver, James Tiptree, Jr., and Margaret Atwood must be reevaluated in light of their contributions to larger ethical questions. Drawing on a wide range of sources in philosophical and theological ethics, Lake argues that these writers share a commitment to maintaining a category of personhood more meaningful than that allowed by utilitarian ethics. "Prophets of the Posthuman "insists that because technology can never ask whether we should do something that we have the power to do, literature must step into that role.Each of the chapters of this interdisciplinary study sets up a typical ethical scenario regarding human enhancement technology and then illustrates how a work of fiction uniquely speaks to that scenario, exposing a realm of human motivations that might otherwise be overlooked or simplified. Through the vision of the writers she discusses, Lake uncovers a deep critique of the ascendancy of personal autonomy as America s most cherished value. This ascendancy, coupled with technology s glamorous promises of happiness, helps to shape a utilitarian view of persons that makes responsible ethical behavior toward one another almost impossible. "Prophets of the Posthuman" charts the essential role that literature must play in the continuing conversation of what it means to be human in a posthuman world."As we attempt to make sense of the technologically accelerated and `enhanced` world in which we find ourselves, Christina Bieber Lake provides incisive analysis of contemporary encroachments upon our common humanity. She demonstrates how centrally significant the inexorable march of science to know and do whatever it can will be to our individual and collective sense of self." Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University"
Автор: Jones Название: Medicine and Ethics in Black Women`s Speculative Fiction ISBN: 1137520604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137520609 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender.
Автор: Elsa Nettels Название: Language and Gender in American Fiction ISBN: 1349114081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349114085 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9362.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elsa Nettels`s analysis of American fiction and criticism of the post-Civil War era unearths the prevailing assumptions about language and gender as revealed in definitions of masculine and feminine, and in comparisons of men`s and women`s speech and writing.
Описание: Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.
Автор: J. Karnicky Название: Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture ISBN: 1349537659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349537655 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.
Автор: A. Graham-Bertolini Название: Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction ISBN: 1349293474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349293476 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts, including those by Flagg, Glaspell, Hong-Kington, Hurston, Rawlings, Walker, and more. This analysis broadens our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women`s rights"--
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