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Noted critics and authors write on various aspects of science fiction
as a genre. Kingslay Amis identifies the roots of modern sci-fi in
Shakespeare; Stanislaw Lem discusses some of the logical implications
of time travel stories as employed by Bradbury, Heinlein, Frederic
Brown and others; while CS Lewis considers the various categories of
science fiction & Darko Suvin presents a comprehensive discussion
of how sci-fi works.
A Companion to American Fiction 1865 - 1914 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century, contains 29 essays written by top scholars in the field. Each essay presents a synthesis of the best scholarly perspectives and offers an original perspective of its own.
A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction, relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity and covers different forms of fiction.
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Kafka on the Shore(海辺のカフカ,Umibe no Kafuka) was described by John Updike as a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender."Since its 2005 English language release , the novel has received mostly positive reviews and critical acclaim, including a spot on the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2005 and the World Fantasy Award.
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. This book follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters.
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The novel is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel attempts to ask and answer the question: what is man's role in a rapidly changing environment? The novel was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for the same year.
