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Author: Coral Ann Howells
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317637984
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Pages : 230
Category : Literary Criticism
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Private And Fictional Words Routledge Revivals

by Coral Ann Howells, Private And Fictional Words Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Private And Fictional Words Routledge Revivals books, First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical limits, and those traditional structures of patriarchal authority need revision if women’s alternative views are to be taken into account. Including short biographical sketches and a complete list of the books published by the authors under discussion, writers examined include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence.

Author: Magdalene Redekop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317695860
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Pages : 252
Category : Literary Criticism
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Mothers And Other Clowns Routledge Revivals

by Magdalene Redekop, Mothers And Other Clowns Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Mothers And Other Clowns Routledge Revivals books, First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro’s fiction, playing practical jokes, performing stunts, and dressing in disguises that recycle vintage literary images. Magdalene Redekop studies this with the aim of gaining increased understanding of Munro’s evolving comic vision.

Author: Ioan Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136823425
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Pages : 514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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Sir Walter Scott On Novelists And Fiction Routledge Revivals

by Ioan Williams, Sir Walter Scott On Novelists And Fiction Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Sir Walter Scott On Novelists And Fiction Routledge Revivals books, First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.

Author: John Rignall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131762629X
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Pages : 192
Category : Literary Criticism
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Realist Fiction And The Strolling Spectator Routledge Revivals

by John Rignall, Realist Fiction And The Strolling Spectator Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Realist Fiction And The Strolling Spectator Routledge Revivals books, The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flâneur. The flâneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.

Author: Ioan Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136823492
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Pages : 498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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Novel And Romance 1700 1800 Routledge Revivals

by Ioan Williams, Novel And Romance 1700 1800 Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Novel And Romance 1700 1800 Routledge Revivals books, The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800.

Author: Graham Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317747321
Format: PDF
Pages : 248
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
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Ancient Fiction Routledge Revivals

by Graham Anderson, Ancient Fiction Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Ancient Fiction Routledge Revivals books, A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage. Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde’s celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a possible Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. This new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.

Author: Colin Greenland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135699070
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Pages : 260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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Entropy Exhibition Routledge Revivals

by Colin Greenland, Entropy Exhibition Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Entropy Exhibition Routledge Revivals books, When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses developments in stylistic theory and practice.

Author: Joseph Grixti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317638077
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Pages : 214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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Terrors Of Uncertainty Routledge Revivals

by Joseph Grixti, Terrors Of Uncertainty Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Terrors Of Uncertainty Routledge Revivals books, From Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre, horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes and narratives. Considering horror fiction both as a genre and as a social phenomenon, Joseph Grixti provides a theoretical and historical framework for reconsidering horror and the cultural apparatus that surrounds it. First published in 1989, this book looks at shifts in the genre’s meaning – its fascination with excess, its commentaries on the categories and boundaries of culture – and at interpretations of horror from psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, cultural and media studies. Terrors of Uncertainty brings together a provocative range of perspectives from across the disciplines, which combine to raise important questions about the relationship between fiction and society, and the way in which we use fiction to resolve or evade our fears of uncertainty.

Author: Norman Page
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136663886
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Pages : 212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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Thomas Hardy Routledge Revivals

by Norman Page, Thomas Hardy Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Thomas Hardy Routledge Revivals books, First published in 1977, this concise and insightful study of the life and works of Thomas Hardy provides a thorough examination of Hardy's literary output. Alongside a brief biography of Hardy's life, Professor Page's study also spotlights his major and minor novels, his short stories, his non-fiction prose and his verse.

Author: Keith Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317815505
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Pages : 128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
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The Sociology Of Belief Routledge Revivals

by Keith Dixon, The Sociology Of Belief Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Sociology Of Belief Routledge Revivals books, First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues the role of reasoned inquiry. Chapters discuss such areas as the theories of Marx and Mannheim, the sociology of science and of religious belief. With a detailed conclusion analysing the foundations and limits of the sociology of knowledge, this reissue will provide an interesting and useful analysis for students of Sociology.