Fiction & related items (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio  it breaks new ground by reading these...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:With well over one-hundred episodes, the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has spawned several international live tours, two novels set in the Night Vale universe, and an extensive volume of fan fiction and commentary. However, despite its immense popula...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Král takes issue with this view of the migrant exper...

publisher: BARBOSA PEDRO FERNANDO PINHEIRO
year: 2019
description:Este é o segundo de uma série de 3 volumes que relatam uma árdua experiência de contacto alienígena vivenciada pelo autor ao longo de quinze anos, entre 2002 e 2017. O ano de 2005, por onde se inicia esta crónica, constitui o período mais paradoxal, ...

publisher: BARBOSA PEDRO FERNANDO PINHEIRO
year: 2019
description:Este é o último de uma série de 3 volumes que relatam uma árdua experiência de contacto alienígena vivenciada pelo autor ao longo de 15 anos, entre 2002 e 2017. O ano de 2005, por onde se inicia esta crónica, constitui o período mais paradoxal, mas t...

publisher: BARBOSA PEDRO FERNANDO PINHEIRO
year: 2019
description:Este é o primeiro de uma série de 3 volumes que relatam uma árdua experiência de contacto alienígena vivenciada pelo autor ao longo de 15 anos, entre 2002 e 2017. O ano de 2005, por onde se inicia esta crónica, constitui o período mais paradoxal, mas...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found bet...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:This book demonstrates how D.H. Lawrence's prophetic ambitions impelled him to create novels that would radically transform the consciousness of his readers. Charles Burack argues that Lawrence's major novels, beginning with The Rainbow , are structu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:Why was D.H. Lawrence preoccupied with the enigma of the human as thinking matter? This first sustained study of Lawrence and science shows how 'posthuman' conceptions of a material kinship between humans, animals and machines can transform our under...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siècle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of d...