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Towards a poetics of literary biography
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
This volume develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding...
How fiction works
eBook. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2009
In the tradition of E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the Novel' and Milan Kundera's 'The Art of the Novel', 'How Fiction Works' is a scintillating and searching...
Feminist science fiction and feminist epistemology: four modes
eBook. English.
Published
Cham: Springer, 2016
This title argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology-challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of...
Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture
eBook. English.
Published
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2016
New edition
Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary exploration into how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define...
The novel cure: an A-Z of literary remedies
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017
Reissued as an exquisite gift edition, this is a warm and wise guide that will prescribe you a literary remedy for any of life's ailments. When read at...
Imagination and the contemporary novel
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
John Su explores literary responses from across the Anglophone world to the profound economic, social and political shifts that have occurred since the...
Beckett's art of salvage: writing and material imagination, 1932-1987
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Offering an innovative new reading of this major modern author, and examining the material imagination at play in Beckett's fiction, poetry, film and...
Children's fantasy literature: an introduction
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016
A comprehensive study of children's fantasy literature across the English-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present. Fantasy has been...
Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice
eBook. English.
Published
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France...
Fierce bad rabbits: the tales behind children's picture books
eBook. English.
Published
Penguin Books, 2020
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten...
