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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017Asia in Western fiction
by Robin Winks
Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2023
The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction
by Rob Breton
Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest and most significant people's movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2025Through the fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90)
Women, alienation, and prodigality in the long eighteenth century
by Kathryn Freeman
Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes places this prolific, newly recovered English writer at the centre of the revolutionary period. Gibbes's novels mark the struggles of women for agency in an expanding British empire, from the Seven Years' War to revolutions in American, Haiti and France. With Gibbes as a nexus in a lineage of women writers from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, Kathryn S. Freeman offers a valuable perspective on the 'long eighteenth century', with Gibbes' own evolution mirroring that of the larger period. The study traces the development of Gibbes' authorial voice from satire to irony through a range of female characters subverting patriarchal oppression. Freeman guides the reader through patterns of narrative voice, concerns with gender and sexuality, and elements of wordplay through detailed discussion of five novels representing Gibbes' evolving representation of a subversive female subjectivity.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2012Narration in nineteenth-century French short fiction
Prosper Mérimée to Marcel Schwob
by Peter Cogman
The short fiction that flourished in nineteenth-century France has attracted relatively little critical attention compared with the novel. This study focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s, taking as a starting-point, aspects of narrative technique as a way of exploring not just characteristic strategies of short fiction, but also the ends to which they were put: recurrent themes, and the vision of mankind. Each chapter looks in some detail at three or four stories, referring briefly to other tales for illustration. The underlying point that emerges from this study is that the interest of a tale lies in the telling, not the events. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2012French crime fiction and the Second World War
by Claire Gorrara, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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July 1995Der Glasmensch und andere Science-fiction-Geschichten
by Marcus Hammerschmitt, Franz Rottensteiner, Marcus Hammerschmitt
Marcus Hammerschmitt schreibt Science-fiction-Erzählungen, die technologische Phantasie, psychologische Einsicht, Lust am gedanklichen Experiment und poetische Erfindungskraft vereinen. Wie Herbert W. Franke oder Peter Schattschneider basiert er seine Geschichten auf einer soliden Grundlage, entwickelt seine Szenarios und Fabeln spielerisch, verknüpft sie aber dramatisch mit den größeren Problemen von Ökologie einerseits und den Zweifeln und inneren Konflikten des einzelnen andererseits.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2025
Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction
by Maryam Mirza
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2023
The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
by Michael Kalisch
How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.
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June 2024Dark Scar
A psychological Thriller. Dr. Evelin Wolf and Alex Gutenberg 2
by Roxann Hill, Paul Wagle, Rebecca Steinberg, John Julian, Nicholas Mockridge, Alexios Saskalidis
Death lurks in the shadows Who are you? Hamburg Criminal Psychologist Dr. Evelin Wolf wonders as she examines the severely disturbed homeless man with the conspicuous scar across his face. The extremely aggressive man with no memory or identity is alleged to have committed a brutal murder. But Evelin and Assistant District Attorney Alex Gutenberg doubt his guilt and suspect there is something more behind the supposedly crystal-clear case. Shortly thereafter, Hamburg is shaken by a series of murders unparalleled in cruelty and sadism. The perverted killer draws a bloody trail across the Hanseatic city and links it with a clear message to Alex and Evelin: Revenge. Alex and Evelin work feverishly to solve both cases. In the process, they make a fatal mistake. And the killer exploits it mercilessly…
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The ArtsMarch 2025We all die at the end
Storytelling in the climate apocalypse
by Sam Haddow
We all die at the end offers a survey of contemporary end-of-the-world fiction, spanning literature, children's fiction, video games, theatre and film. It draws on eco-critical philosophy and narrative theory to show ways in which the climate crisis is reorienting storytelling in the face of foreseeable human extinction. In the process, it argues that such stories have a role to play in helping us come to terms with the severity and scale of the crisis that we face.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2025Invasions
Fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918
by Christian K. Melby
Invasions is an ambitious, new and authoritative study of one of the defining cultural products of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. By the outbreak of war in 1914 invasion-scare fiction had profoundly changed British society, becoming not just a vibrant part of popular culture, but a reference point among military planners, advertisers, and politicians. This intersection between politics and culture, between entertainment and war planning, sets invasion-scare stories apart as one of the most versatile and interesting fictional products in modern British history. Building on recent work in both history and literature studies, Invasions is the first study of invasion-scare fiction to examine both the form (that is, fiction) and the function (the political argument) of the genre.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Sara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
by Cynthia Hamilton
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, allowing Paretsky to address the politics of agency in ways that go beyond the personal, for trauma always has a social and a political dimension. Paretsky's work also exploits the way detective fiction mirrors the writing of history. Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts - whether they be personal, institutional, or national - that authorise 'forgetting' of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard-boiled detective novel. As a result, Paretsky's achievement forces us to acknowledge the deeply subversive potential of detective fiction.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)February 1905Little Women
by Louise May Alcott
Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well".[6]:34 According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.
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June 2021Seawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser
Ein neues Abenteuer der Bestseller-Reihe über Hai-Wandler Tiago und die Schüler der Gestaltwandlerschule
by Katja Brandis, Claudia Carls
Band 5 der großen Gestaltwandler-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Katja Brandis: voller neuer Abenteuer für Tigerhaijungen Tiago und seine Freunde Seit Kurzem sind Tiago und Shari zusammen und schon wartet die nächste Herausforderung auf die beiden. Ihre Mitschüler an der Blue Reef High drehen einen Film - und Tiago soll die Hauptrolle spielen! Seine Filmpartnerin wird ausgerechnet Python-Wandlerin Ella, die Tochter der kriminellen Anwältin Lydia Lennox. Während Tiago mit Ella vor der Kamera steht, bekommt Shari unversehens die Chance, an einem echten Filmset zu drehen! Kann das gutgehen? Zur gleichen Zeit wird in der Lagune ein seltsames Päckchen angeschwemmt. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass eine kriminelle Bande unter Wasser Drogen und Waffen ins Land schmuggelt. Sind etwa auch Seawalker in die Machenschaften verstrickt? Als Tiago und seine Freunde die Spur verfolgen, wird ihnen klar, dass der Einfluss der Verbrecher bis in die Blue Reef High reicht. Hier kommt die zweite Staffel der großen Gestaltwandler-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Katja Brandis. In der atemberaubenden Unter- und Überwasserwelt der Everglades erleben Tigerhaijunge Tiago und seine Gestaltwandler-Freunde (Delfinwandlerin Shari, Gürteltierwandler Jasper, Rochenwandlerin Finny, Papageifisch Nox u.a.) einzigartig spannende Abenteuer. Packender Lesestoff für alle Tierfantasy-begeisterten Jungen und Mädchen ab 10 Jahren. Mit wunderschönen Illustrationen von Claudia Carls und tollen Gestaltwandler-Portraits. Alle Seawalkers-Bände sind einzeln und unabhängig von den Woodwalkers lesbar. Die Seawalkers-Bände erscheinen halbjährlich. Gedruckt auf Umweltpapier und zertifiziert mit dem „Blauen Engel“. Bisher erschienen:Seawalkers (1). Gefährliche GestaltenSeawalkers (2). Rettung für ShariSeawalkers (3). Wilde WellenSeawalkers (4). Ein Riese des MeeresSeawalkers (5). Filmstars unter Wasser Band 6 der „Seawalkers“ erscheint im Januar 2022
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Passing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
by Sinead Moynihan
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2024
Bestsellers and masterpieces
by Heather Blurton, Dwight F. Reynolds
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August 1987Science-fiction: ein hoffnungsloser Fall mit Ausnahmen
Essays. Band 3
by Stanisław Lem, Erik Simon
Dieser Abschlussband von Lems Essays enthält nur Arbeiten, die in der Insel-Ausgabe der Essays (1981) nicht enthalten waren. Stärker als die früheren Bände ist dieser persönlich bestimmt. Einmal handelt es sich um Essays, die autobiografisch sind oder sich auf das eigene Werk beziehen. Zum anderen gibt es Vorworte zu Rezensionen von Büchern und Autoren, die Lem menschlich besonders nahestehen: Szymon Kobyliński, Władysław Bartoszewski und Jan Józef Szczepański. Neben Rezensionen, die Lem deutsche RIAS Berlin schrieb, vornehmlich über populärwissenschaftliche und pseudowissenschaftliche Bücher, aus denen Lems rationalistische Denkhaltung offenbar wird, und spekulativen Aufsätzen enthält dieser Band auch einige von Lems scharfsinnigsten Kritiken zu Autoren, denen er sich geistesverwandt fühlt oder die ihm widerstreben: Dick, Borges, die Strugatzkis und eine scharfe Abrechnung mit der Gattung, der der Großteil von Lems eigenem Werk zugezählt wird: der Science-Fiction. Eine beachtliche Anzahl der Essays schrieb Lem gleich in deutscher Sprache. Weitere Essays von Stanisław Lem liegen in den Bänden Sade und die Spieltheorie und Über außersinnliche Wahrnehmungen vor.
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March 2021Mein Lotta-Leben (17). Je Otter, desto flotter
by Alice Pantermüller, Daniela Kohl
Sehnsüchtig erwartet von allen „Mein Lotta-Leben“-Fans: Der neuste Band der Bestseller-Kultreihe für alle Mädchen von 9-12 Jahren Lotta und ihre beste Freundin Cheyenne sind in letzter Zeit total vergnügt: Denn Cheyennes Mami Sandra hat über ein Online-Datingportal einen netten Mann kennengelernt (Otmar, 40, Möbelfachverkäufer) - seitdem liegt sie gar nicht mehr so häufig müde auf dem Sofa rum, sondern renoviert die Wohnung (in rosa) und plant Möbelkäufe. Das findet Cheyenne richtig gut und überhaupt gefällt ihr die Idee von Dating-Plattformen - nur schade, dass es so etwas nicht für Zwölfjährige gibt. Vielleicht sollte sie selbst so etwas entwickeln? Kurzentschlossen eröffnet sie an der Schule die Partnervermittlung FLÖRT. Vielleicht kann sie sogar Casimir dazu bringen, endlich mit ihr ins Kino zu gehen?! Lotta ist nicht richtig begeistert von der Idee, aber für ihre beste Freundin würde sie ja (fast) alles tun - sogar den Kampf mit Otmar, äh, den Ottern aufnehmen! Von allen Fans ersehnt: Der neue Band der internationalen Kult-Bestsellerreihe von Alice Pantermüller und Daniela Kohl für Mädchen ab 9. In gewohnter Gestaltung der „Mein Lotta-Leben“-Reihe: Mit hohem Illustrationsanteil zum Selbstlesen auch für weniger geübte Leser geeignet - garantiert ein Erfolgserlebnis. Weitere Infos unter www.mein-lotta-leben.de In der Reihe „Mein Lotta-Leben“ sind bisher erschienen: Mein Lotta-Leben. Alles voller Kaninchen (1) Mein Lotta-Leben. Wie belämmert ist das denn? (2) Mein Lotta-Leben. Hier steckt der Wurm drin! (3) Mein Lotta-Leben. Daher weht der Hase! (4) Mein Lotta-Leben. Ich glaub, meine Kröte pfeift! (5) Mein Lotta-Leben. Den Letzten knutschen die Elche! (6) Mein Lotta-Leben. Und täglich grüßt der Camembär (7) Mein Lotta-Leben. Kein Drama ohne Lama (8) Mein Lotta-Leben. Das reinste Katzentheater (9) Mein Lotta-Leben. Der Schuh des Känguru (10) Mein Lotta-Leben. Volle Kanne Koala (11) Mein Lotta-Leben. Eine Natter macht die Flatter (12) Mein Lotta-Leben. Wenn die Frösche zweimal quaken (13) Mein Lotta-Leben. Da lachen ja die Hunde! (14) Mein Lotta-Leben. Wer den Wal hat (15) Mein Lotta-Leben. Das letzte Eichhorn (16) Mein Lotta-Leben. Je Otter, desto flotter (17) Mein Lotta-Leben. Im Zeichen des Tapir (18)Mein Lotta-Leben. Alles Bingo mit Flamingo (Das Buch zum Film)
