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Author : David Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521513375
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521016575
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Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838278
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
Author : Richard Maxwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827911
While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521196310
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author : Timothy Unwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521499149
This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493730
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : David Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494370
Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analysing exemplary models of writing and providing related writing exercises. Written by professional writers and teachers of writing, the chapters deal with specific genres or forms - ranging from the novel to new media - or with significant topics that explore the cutting edge state of creative writing internationally (including creative writing and science, contemporary publishing and new workshop approaches).
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494508
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827553
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.