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Children'S Literature And The Fin De Siecle

de Roderick Mcgillis

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 But perhaps more surprisingly, children's literature is especially sensitive to such matters, and fiction for children often struggles with dark and unpleasant issues.
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Presence Of The Past In Children'S Literature

de Ann Lucas

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 Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the past.
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Postmodern Short Story - Forms And Issues

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 Although postmodern theorists have paid little attention to the short story per se, much of what they say can be applied to the genre. And many short-story writers have created postmodern modes for their stories to provide structure and meaning. Through a variety of fictional forms and themes, postm
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In My Own Shire - Region And Belonging In British Writing, 1840-1970

de Stephen Wade

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 Highlights the importance of regional consciousness in British literature in the Victorian and modern periods.
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Colonial Conan Doyle - British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, And The Gothic

de Catherine Wynne

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 Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist. The volume repositions Doyle and redresses current critical approaches that have seen him solely as the advocate of empire and have ignored his colonial background.
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Fighting Evil - Unsung Heroes In The Novels Of Graham Greene

de Haim Gordon

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 This book argues that Greene's writings have much to teach us about fighting evil here and now, and about endeavoring to live a worthy life. In novels that span half of the twentieth century, Greene related stories of evil persons who destroyed the freedom of others and of a few simple people who fought them.
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African-British Writings In The Eighteenth Century - The Politics Of Race And Reason

de Helena Woodard

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 At the same time, intellectuals of the period tried to place these slaves within the hierarchical frame provided by the Great Chain of Being. The presence of slavery in Britain aroused much debate among blacks and whites alike, and the literature of the eighteenth century reflects that debate.
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True Relations - Essays On Autobiography And The Postmodern

de G. Thomas Couser e Joseph Fichtelberg

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 Examining the state of autobiography in the postmodern world, this volume demonstrates how writers use the experience of fragmentation to forge new kinds of collaborative identities. The essays examine a wide range of texts from narratives of suicide survivors to those of cross-dressers.
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Aspects And Issues In The History Of Children'S Literature

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 The contributors to this collection of essays address children's literature as an art form, rather than an educational instrument, as has been the traditional approach. This strong presentation of international perspectives on children's literature will be a valuable resource for scholars of children's and comparative literature.
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Life And Works Of Ruskin Bond

de Meena Khorana

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 Ruskin Bond is known internationally as one of India's most prolific writers in English for children, young adults, and adults.
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Interactive Fictions - Scenes Of Storytelling In The Novel

de Yael Halevi-Wise

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 Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this tour of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations.
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Hispanic Connection - Spanish And Spanish-American Literature In The Arts Of The World

de Zenia S. Dasilva

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 Examines the span of Spanish and Latin American arts.
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Multicultural Literature For Children And Young Adults - Reflections On Critical Issues

de Mingshui Cai

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 This book discusses many of the controversial issues surrounding multicultural literature for children and young adults. The volume begins with a look at some of the foundational and theoretical issues related to multicultural literature.
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Imagining Africa - Landscape In H. Rider Haggard''S African Romances

de Lindy Stiebel

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 A study of land and landscape in the African romances of H. Rider Haggard. It argues that Haggard created a formulaic, ideological geography which provided a canvas onto which he projected his desires and fears, both personal and political, as well as those of his age.
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Immigrant Narratives In Contemporary France

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 An examination of the experience of immigration as represented by authors who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia after World War II. Essays by expert contributors address the literary productions of different ethnic groups.
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Postmodern Approaches To The Short Story

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 Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists.
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Reading Buchi Emecheta - Cross-Cultural Conversations

de Katherine Fishburn

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 Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest.
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Ulysses, Capitalism, And Colonialism - Reading Joyce After The Cold War

de M. Keith Booker

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 A reassessment of the work of James Joyce, especially "Ulysses", in the light of postcolonial and Marxist literary theory. It explores the influence of Cold War anticommunism on previous readings of Joyce in the West and discusses the rejection of Joyce's writings by many leftist critics.
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Camelot In The Nineteenth Century - Arthurian Characters In The Poems Of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, And Swinburne

de Laura Lambdin e Robert Thomas Lambdin

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 While other works have looked at Arthurian legend in light of nineteenth-century social conditions, this volume focuses on how these poets approached love and death in their works, and how the legend of Arthur shaped their vision. An introductory chapter traces Arthurian legend from its inception.
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Image Of Manhood In Early Modern Literature - Viewing The Male

de Andrew P. Williams

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 At the same time, the emergence of print culture provided a means of transmitting the new masculine ideal, and literature of the period reflected the changing notions of masculinity. The chapters in this volume explore the various strategies used by early modern writers to represent masculinity.
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Other Mirror - Women''S Narrative In Mexico, 1980-1995

de Kristine Ibsen

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 The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing.
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Novels Of Samuel Selvon - A Critical Study

de Roydon Salick

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 The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.
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Practice Teaching - A Reflective Approach

de Jack C. Richards e Thomas S.C. Farrell

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 Written for language teachers in training, this book surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching.
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Imperial Knowledge - Russian Literature And Colonialism

de Ewa M. Thompson

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 An examination of how Russian literature reflects Russia's history of territorial expansion. It argues that expansion is a form of colonialization, and places Russian literature within the context of postcolonial theory and discourse.
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