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Author : Katherine Bode
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780472130856
Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history
Author : Sybil Marcus
Publisher : Pearson PTR Interactive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000061166158
The stories in A World of Fiction , Second Edition, by Sybil Marcus, embrace a variety of themes, literary and linguistic styles, and time frames. Advanced students will sharpen their reading, speaking, vocabulary, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction. This anthology provides complete and unabridged selections by: Woody Allen � Kate Chopin � Nadine Gordimer � James Joyce � D.H. Lawrence � Bernard Malamud � Katherine Mansfield � William Maxwell � Frank O'Connor � Grace Paley � Anne Petry � Budd Schulberg � James Thurber � Anne Tyler � Arturo Vivante � Kurt Vonnegut � Alice Walker � Tobias Wolf � Monica Wood � Virginia Woolf Features Five new stories Updated author biographies "Focus on Language" sections that highlight grammatical structures and vocabulary Exploration of literary elements such as time, setting, action, and motive A wide variety of stimulating discussion and writing topics
Author : Bernard DeVoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : OCLC:186649948
Author : Sybil Marcus,Daniel Berman
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0133046176
Newly expanded for high-intermediate readers, A World of Fiction now features 32 unabridged stories ideal for literary analysis, language practice, and lively cross-cultural discussion. Each chapter in this two-volume anthology is based on a complete short story. The approach to literary exploration calls upon students' diverse language and critical thinking skills. A World of Fiction guides students through understanding the plot, exploring themes, analyzing style, making judgments and cross-cultural connections, and debating the issues that are explored. Students also examine grammar in context, expand their vocabulary skills, and practice writing. A World of Fiction 1 includes 16 shorter stories, explanations and exercises designed for high-intermediate and low-advanced readers. Selections include noteworthy authors such as Raymond Carver, Dorothy Parker, Tim O'Brien, and William Saroyan. For more advanced readers, A World of Fiction 2 features an additional 16 selections by renowned writers including James Joyce, Louise Erdrich, Woody Allen, and Alan Paton. Both books in the series help students sharpen their reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction. Features: Reading selections represent a variety of themes, literary styles, and cultural settings to stimulate student conversation and debate. Extended Vocabulary in Context sections cover idioms, phrasal verbs, and many other areas of vocabulary enrichment. Writing activities include both expository and creative assignments in which students are led to incorporate the language skills featured in the chapter. Expanded Critical Thinking sections encourage students to analyze stories and connect them to their own experience.
Author : Douglas Bauer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0472031538
A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft
Author : Martin Seymour-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0711200157
Short history of the novel - crime fiction - science fiction - illustration - ; The novel and cinema - the novel and the book trade - Biographical detail on popular novelists with many portraits.
Author : John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer,Luca Pocci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135197032
A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate. The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore: literature’s contribution to ethical life literature’s ability to engage in social and political critique the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.
Author : David Brin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504086349
In this classic hard science fiction-thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Startide Rising, a man-made black hole threatens the future of Earth. Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem—a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth’s core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even stranger is going on. Something linked to civilization’s expanding information web. And with the planet overpopulated and neglect taking its toll on the environment, there are those who demand a harsh solution: that Mother Earth would be better off without humanity at all . . . A Finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel “The Moby-Dick of the whole Earth movement.” —Locus “A powerful, cautionary tale.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brin has conceived his story on a supremely ambitious scale, and executed it with all of the skills at his command.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It is indeed a book that anyone interested in the survival of our terrifying species should read.” —Interzone
Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802147646
The renowned novelist and author of This Year You Write a Novel shares a “compact but insight-rich” guide to fiction writing (Publishers Weekly). In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. For writers who want to approach the genius of Melville, Dickens, or Twain, The Elements of Fiction is a must-read. Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction’s most essential elements: character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, The Elements of Fiction is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time.
Author : Gregory Currie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521381274
This important book provides a theory about the nature of fiction, and about the relation between the author, the reader and the fictional text. The approach is philosophical: that is to say, the author offers an account of key concepts such as fictional truth, fictional characters, and fiction itself. The book argues that the concept of fiction can be explained partly in terms of communicative intentions, partly in terms of a condition which excludes relations of counterfactual dependence between the world and the text. This communicative model is then applied to the following problems: how can something be 'true in the story' without being explicitly stated in the text? In what ways does interpreting a fictional story depend upon grasping its author's intentions? Is there always a unique best interpretation of a fictional text? What is the correct semantics for fictional names? What is the nature of our emotional response to a fictional work? In answering these questions the author explores the complex interaction between author, reader, and text. This interaction requires the reader to construct a 'fictional author' - a character in the story whose personality, beliefs and emotional states must be interpreted if the reader is to grasp the meaning of the work.
Author : Beth Driscoll,Lisa Fletcher,Kim Wilkins
Publisher : Page and Screen
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1625346611
Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside three popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field?the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates?and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers? groups. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction?s most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.
Author : Joshua Gaylord
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316297929
In this chilling Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novel, a small, quiet Midwestern town is unremarkable save for one fact: when the teenagers reach a certain age, they run wild. When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning at puberty, every resident "breaches" during the full moon. On these nights, adolescents run wild, destroying everything in their path. Lumen resists. Promising her father she will never breach, she investigates the mystery of her community's traditions and the stories erased from the town record. But the more we learn about the town's past, the more we realize that Lumen's memories are harboring secrets of their own. A gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times, When We Were Animals is a dark, provocative journey into the American heartland. Nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
Author : Philip Reeve
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545207195
Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serve in the order.
Author : Amy E. Earhart
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472052783
Mapping the history of digital literary scholarship, Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific histories of digital study
Author : Joel Schwartzberg
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523094127
Whether you want to improve your impact in speeches, staff meetings, pitches, emails, PowerPoint presentations, or any other communication setting, this book provides a novel approach that teaches you how to go from simply sharing a thought to making a difference. --