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  • - The Reality of Artifice
    von Charles May
    65,00 €

    This title reaches back to Boccaccio and Cervantes to find the short story's roots, then focuses on the 19th century, when the short story began in what we recognize as its modern form. It then moves on to the 20th century discussing important writers identifying important trends an movements.

  • - Writing Lives
    von Catherine N. Parke
    67,00 €

    Parke surveys biography from classical times to the present, focusing her analysis on Western culture, and providing detailed readings of works by James Boswell, Richard Ellman, and Gertrude Stein (who together represent the variety of modern literary biography).

  • von Casey Blanton
    67,00 €

    Traces travel writing's evolution from classical times to the present, focusing on Anglo-American work since the eighteenth century. Examines texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, Naipaul and Chatwin.

  • - The Liberation of Imagination
    von Richard Mathews
    67,00 €

    Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey should interest and inform students interested in the mysterious or magical. Favourite authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.

  • von Steven Swann Jones
    65,00 €

    One of the best known, most enduring, and popular genres in all of literature is the fairy tale. Its origins stretch back to preliterate oral societies. This book surveys the origins and evolution into the modern versions we recognize today.

  • von Don Scheese
    66,00 €

    This comprehensive study traces the evolution of nature writing from the pastoralism of Aristotle and Virgil to current American writers. It is illustrated by close readings of writers such as Thoreau, John Muir and Mary Austin.

  • - Imagination Discovers Technology
    von Paul K. Alkon
    65,00 €

    Paul Alkon concentrates on several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, setting them in the context of their time and place of origin. He goes on to discuss the genre in general and its relation to other kinds of literature.

  • - From the Steam Man to the Stars
    von Brooks Landon
    65,00 €

    A broad overview of the evolution of science fiction, from the early twentieth century dime store novel to the soft agenda SF of the '90s. Authors examined include E. M. Forster, John W. Campbell, Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin.

  • von Robert Foulke
    67,00 €

    From "The Odyssey" to "The Old Man and the Sea", the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here, including a full historical perspective supported by discussions of key texts.

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