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The Move Beyond Form
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond. more...
Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors. Beginning with theories of... more...
Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00The literary motif of the "allegorical knightly quest" appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' but including... more...
Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 60.00What is the significance of writing in the wake of postmodernism? The previousdecade has seen a growing interest in criticism of postmodern ethics andaesthetics from theorists and writers. This book begins to answer what art formor critical methodology might take its place.Exploringthe work of six contemporary novelists Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard,... more...
Literature and Terrorism
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 70.20The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary... more...
Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction
University of Delaware 2012; US$ 79.99As the first book to use fiction as theory, Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction reads backward to demonstrate how recent novelists redeploy foundling and lyric plots to uncover a Shakespeare who similarly challenges the mythological homogeneity that scripts us. more...
Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 112.00How does narratology relate to narrative strangeness? This question is urgent for narratologists who share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ?natural? narratives as some kind of genetic model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for whom the distinction of fiction is important. This anthology presents a collection... more...
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 45.00Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens.... more...
The Twig People of Mossdown Woods
Grosvenor House Publishing 2011; US$ 6.20Another adventure from Joe & Lucy's story box. This time they go to Mossdown Woods where they want to 'I Spy' with all the creatures that live there. But they are in for a big surprise when they meet Laura the magical nature queen and the twig people who look after the trees and flowers there. The twig people are made from every letter of the alphabet... more...
Useful Fictions
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 40.00We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling.... more...









