Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New literatures in the 1990s
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to and analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the center of the current trends and issues concerning French literary production today, while 15 original essays focus on individual writers.
This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. With nearly 500 contributors and over 1 million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.
The study of literature and culture has a need for theories to explain cultural objects and events. Literature is about life, and in human life, forces similar to gravity are at work, making some bodies fall and others rise, making some beams of human light straight and true while bending and warping others. Those events would be inexplicable without a theory to account for them.
Reflections on Ethical Values in Post(?) Modern American Literature
A university booklet for the students of contemporary American literature. The present collection of essays contains papers examining, or reflecting on, some literary works by American authors, and on some extraliterary phenomena in terms of values: ethical, cultural and aesthetic.
The Reader Over Your Shoulder - A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
It's too bad that this very funny book is no longer widely distributed. I suppose publishers fear Robert Graves' irony, sarcasm, and scorn does not send a peppy message to aspiring writers. No matter. In this "take no prisoners" handbook, passages written by Churchill, John Maynard Keynes, and even religious leaders are dissected and openly mocked. It's a wonderful sight to behold.
