The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493730
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by : Edward James

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016575
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139827553
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen by : Deborah Cartmell

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rhetorics of Fantasy

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573914
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Book Synopsis Rhetorics of Fantasy by : Farah Mendlesohn

Download or read book Rhetorics of Fantasy written by Farah Mendlesohn and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn identifies four categories—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to some of the best works in the contemporary field. Mendlesohn discusses works by more than one hundred authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams, and many others.

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110889609X
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body by : Travis M. Foster

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body written by Travis M. Foster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828339
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel by : Robert L. Caserio

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel written by Robert L. Caserio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048761
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature by : Ezra Tawil

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature written by Ezra Tawil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521768497
Total Pages : 245 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing by : David Morley

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing written by David Morley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, practical guide to creative writing as discipline and craft, ideal for students and teachers.

The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513375
Total Pages : 245 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction by : David Glover

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction written by David Glover and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023734
Total Pages : 301 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book by : Leslie Howsam

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book written by Leslie Howsam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826735
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley by : Esther Schor

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley written by Esther Schor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.

Terry Pratchett

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ISBN 13 : 9781882968312
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Book Synopsis Terry Pratchett by : Andrew M. Butler

Download or read book Terry Pratchett written by Andrew M. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Pratchett has long been on Britain's most popular and successful authors, and has already won many fans in North America as well. He is best known for the bestselling Discworld series. This is a new edition of of the first full-length study of Pratchett. The first edition was shortlisted for the Hugo Award in 2001 and the 2001 Locus Award for Non-fiction.

Children's Fantasy Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316483134
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Children's Fantasy Literature by : Michael Levy

Download or read book Children's Fantasy Literature written by Michael Levy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827804
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric by : Erik Gunderson

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric written by Erik Gunderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that include disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend to take it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly from other social and cultural concerns. This volume provides an overview of the shape and scope of the problems while also identifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion, virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix and mingle differently, and the contents designated by each of these terms can also shift.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108179444
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction by : Paula Geyh

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction written by Paula Geyh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it.

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052467
Total Pages : 291 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction by : Eric Carl Link

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction written by Eric Carl Link and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108799
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel by : Stephen E. Tabachnick

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel written by Stephen E. Tabachnick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.