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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...
Comedy
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2014
Second edition
2nd edition. This new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic '...
Stalin's ghosts: Gothic themes in early Soviet literature
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Peter Lang, [2012]
Examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. This title shows how early Soviet-era authors exploited traditional...
A companion to literary biography
eBook. English.
Published
Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2019
An authoritative review of literary biography covering the 17th century to the 20th century. 'A Companion to Literary Biography' offers a comprehensive...
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...
The value of ecocriticism
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
This volume offers a brief, incisive accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in an age of global environmental...
Reception
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2017
Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually...
Teaching crime fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original...
The historical novel
eBook. English.
Published
Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2009
The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading...
