Fiction & related items (500)

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...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algerno...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison.

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:Grundlagenwerk zur beliebtesten Literaturgattung. Der Autor führt übersichtlich in Geschichte, Strukturen und sozialpsychologische Erklärungen der Wirkung des Kriminalromans ein und behandelt auch die technik- und mediengeschichtlichen Einflüsse. Die...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Chr...

publisher: VENDEIRINHO LUIS MIGUEL BRANDAO
year: 2020
description:O corpo do romance Diagnóstico é constituído por setenta quadros, muitos dos quais poderão considerar-se autónomos em relação ao todo da trama, que se vão completando no relato da relação do personagem nuclear, anónimo como os demais, com um seu psic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relati...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical 'cures,' technology, and the body in s...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller, it extends the argument for serious, academ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This book sets the writings of Merimee, Le Fanu, Stoker and Verne in the context in which they were written - namely the response to Balkan, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian politics. Gibson analyzes their works to reveal that the vampire acts as an alle...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. Batchelor's study brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and women's magazines...