Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction, Alice Bennett
Автор: Bennett Название: Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction ISBN: 0230364241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230364240 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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: T. Robbins; J. Gonz?lez Название: New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative ISBN: 1349495743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349495740 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
Описание: Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
Автор: C. Howells Название: Contemporary Canadian Women`s Fiction ISBN: 1349386758 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349386758 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman`s fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural Canada.
Автор: Simon Barton Название: Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction ISBN: 1137467355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137467355 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page `should look` can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction.
Автор: Ahlberg, Sofia Название: Atlantic afterlives in contemporary fiction ISBN: 1137479213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137479211 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, ranging from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads contemporary narratives, particularly "transatlantic literature", as it imagines and navigates today`s virtual spaces. Ultimately, Ahlberg`s argument empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age.
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: Smyth, Gerry Название: Music in contemporary british fiction ISBN: 0230573282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230573284 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O`Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century.
Автор: R. Johnsen Название: Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction ISBN: 1349533998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349533992 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of women`s crime fiction. The writers studied here bring research expertise to bear on their chosen historical settings, creating a powerful but widely accessible statement about women in history.
Автор: A. Kanwal Название: Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction ISBN: 1349502316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349502318 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
Автор: Scott, Jeremy Название: Demotic voice in contemporary british fiction ISBN: 0230217575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230217577 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin Amis, amongst many others, from a practical as well as theoretical perspective.
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