Paul Alkon analyzes several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He places the work in context and discusses the genre and its relation to other kinds of literature.
Covering such topics as astrology, alternative health, tarot, dreams, psychic phenomena and mind, body, spirit, Prediction has become widely acknowledged as the most authoritative and well respected magazine of its genre. Each month Prediction provides stimulating and thought provoking information for experts and beginners alike.
Covering such topics as astrology, alternative health, tarot, dreams, psychic phenomena and mind, body, spirit, Prediction has become widely acknowledged as the most authoritative and well respected magazine of its genre. Each month Prediction provides stimulating and thought provoking information for experts and beginners alike.
Table of contents : Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Merja Kyto -- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Matti Kilpio -- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Paivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna -- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Irma Taavitsainen -- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Anneli Meurman-Solin.
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides.
