Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.61 | Fiction literature | 17 November 2008
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When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean he confronts an unconscious memory of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet are plagued with their own memories and scientists think the ocean may be a brain that creates these memories...
Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.
A set of books by Stanisław Lem added Thanks to biGBrother!
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set.
Includes: - Creative Destruction by Roger D. Hodge - How to Save Capitalism: Fundamental fixes for a collapsing system - Dreaming XXL: For the African-American market, bootleg shirts stretch Obama's image by Jake Austen - Photo Essay: Life and Death by Lynsey Addario - The Botch, new fiction by David Means - ... and more (Harper's Index, New Books, Findings, etc.)
asks what makes literature? How does it work? How do we read it?
explores varying literary styles and authorship.
deals with openings, point of view, speech, gender and pop fiction
includes a wide-range of literary extracts, from the classics of Hardy and Austen, to the contemporary works of Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Nick Hornby, Irvine Welsh
The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction.
* Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy, Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt * Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit, lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel * Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity and tribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and how post-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the 'British' novel * Situates contemporary fiction within its socio-cultural and literary contexts.
