Author : Paul Coates
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 1983-12-15
ISBN 10 : 9781349173198
Pages : 241 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (731 downloads)
Download Realist Fantasy PDF Full Free by Paul Coates and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Ruth Noriega Sánchez
Publisher : Universitat de València
Release Date : 2011-11-28
ISBN 10 : 9788437085364
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (853 downloads)
Download Challenging Realities: Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women's Fiction PDF Full Free by M. Ruth Noriega Sánchez and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les arrels del realisme màgic en els escrits de Borges i altres autors d'Amèrica Llatina han estat àmpliament reconeguts i ben documentades produint una sèrie d'estudis crítics, molts dels quals figuren en la bibliografia d'aquest treball. Dins d'aquest marc, aquest llibre presenta als lectors una varietat d'escriptores de grups ètnics, conegudes i menys conegudes, i les col·loca en un context literari en el que es tracten tant a nivell individual com a escriptores així com a nivell col·lectiu com a part d'un moviment artístic més ampli. Aquest llibre és el resultat del treball realitzat a les universitats de Sheffield i la de València i representa una valuosa investigació i una important contribució als estudis literaris.
Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-02-24
ISBN 10 : 9781317298809
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (988 downloads)
Download Surveillance in Asian Cinema PDF Full Free by Karen Fang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and—more specifically—probes these films’ treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies made in post-social and anti-Communist societies such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea, the book picks up on the political and economic concerns implicitly underlying Sinophobic and anti-Communist Asian images in Hollywood films while also considering how these societies and states depict the issues of centralization, militarization and technological innovation so often figured as distinctive of the difference between eastern despotism and western liberalism.
Author : D. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2004-11-19
ISBN 10 : 9780230505940
Pages : 269 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (59 downloads)
Download The Woman's Historical Novel PDF Full Free by D. Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.
Author : Nikki Gamble
Publisher : SAGE
Release Date : 2008-02-20
ISBN 10 : 9781446242759
Pages : 226 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (427 downloads)
Download Exploring Children's Literature PDF Full Free by Nikki Gamble and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the belief that deep subject knowledge of language and literature provides a foundation for effective teaching and learning. It provides a comprehensive guide to the range of genres and characteristic features of English language fiction written for children. It will help readers to: o develop their understanding of literature within social, cultural and political reading practices o extend their knowledge of language features and conventions of different genres o develop skills in analytical and critical reading. The scope of the first edition has been expanded from solely fiction to cover a range of contemporary literature, including poetry, plays and picture books. The case study material, investigative activities and practical exercises promote an active approach to learning. The second edition focuses on a range of fiction relevant to the National Curriculum for England and the National Literacy Strategy. It provides examples from a range of world literature written in English. Examples from work in translation are also included. It also addresses the requirements of the primary curriculum for ITT English. This book is essential reading for student teachers on PGCE, and undergraduate teacher education courses, and for teachers undertaking CPD in English, literacy or children's literature. It provides useful support material for language coordinators, SCITT coordinators and literacy consultants.
Author : Rachael Langford
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2009-01
ISBN 10 : 9789042027312
Pages : 231 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (273 downloads)
Download Textual Intersections PDF Full Free by Rachael Langford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the multifaceted ways in which textual material in nineteenth-century European cultures intersected with non-literary cultural artefacts and concepts. The essays consider the presence of such diverse phenomena as the dandy, nationhood, diasporic identity, operatic and dramatic personae and effects, trapeze artists, paintings, and the grotesque and fantastic in the work of a variety of writers from France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Russia, Greece and Italy. The volume argues for a view of the long nineteenth century as a century of lively cultural dialogue and exchange between national and sub-national cultures, between 'high' and popular art forms, and between different genres and different media, and it will be of interest to general readers and scholars alike.
Author : Jennifer C. Garlen
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2012-11-26
ISBN 10 : 9780786469864
Pages : 275 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (698 downloads)
Download The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson PDF Full Free by Jennifer C. Garlen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of television series, films, specials, and other productions, even excepting the Muppets. This collection of essays delves into the rest of Henson's body of work, including projects developed during his lifetime and those that represent his legacy. Covered here are Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Jim Henson Hour, Dinosaurs, Farscape, and more. Henson's influence on both audiences and later productions remains palpable on screens large and small, as this collection attests.
Author : Mark Jancovich
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-10
ISBN 10 : 9781134563753
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (637 downloads)
Download Horror, The Film Reader PDF Full Free by Mark Jancovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.
Author : Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-03-31
ISBN 10 : 9789027265746
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (657 downloads)
Download From Superman to Social Realism PDF Full Free by Helle Strandgaard Jensen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can children’s media be a source of education and empowerment? Or is the commercial media market a threat to their sense of social and democratic values? Such questions about the appropriateness of children’s media consumption have recurred in public debates throughout the twentieth century. From Superman to Social Realism provides an exciting new approach to the study of children’s media and childhood history, drawing on theories of cross-media consumption and transnational history. Based on extensive Scandinavian source material, it explores public debates about children’s media between 1945 and 1985. Readers are taken on a fascinating journey through debates about superheroes in the 1950s, politicization of children’s media in the 1960s, and about television and social realism in the 1980s. Arguments are firmly contextualized in Scandinavian childhood and welfare state history, an approach that demonstrates why professional and political groups have perceived children’s media as the key to the enculturation of future generations.
Author : Martin Conboy
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9781317629467
Pages : 628 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (294 downloads)
Download The Routledge Companion to British Media History PDF Full Free by Martin Conboy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories. The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field. Chapter 40 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315756202.ch40
Author : Michael Davitt Bell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0226042022
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (26 downloads)
Download The Problem of American Realism PDF Full Free by Michael Davitt Bell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of "realism" and "naturalism" as the great development in American post-Civil War fiction. Yet there are many problems with this generalization. It is virtually impossible, for example, to extract from the novels and manifestoes of American writers of this period any consistent definitions of realism or naturalism as modes of literary representation. Rather than seek common traits in widely divergent "realist" and "naturalist" literary works, Michael Davitt Bell focuses here on the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. Bell argues that in America, "realism" and "naturalism" never achieved the sort of theoretical rigor that they did in European literary debate. Instead, the function of these ideas in America was less aesthetic than ideological, promoting as "reality" a version of social normalcy based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions. What effects, Bell asks, did ideas about realism and naturalism have on writers who embraced and resisted them? To answer this question, he devotes separate chapters to the work of Howells and Frank Norris (the principal American advocates of realism and naturalism in the 1880s and 1890s), Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Bell reveals that a chief function of claiming to be a realist or a naturalist was to provide assurance that one was a "real" man rather than an "effeminate" artist. Since the 1880s, Bell asserts, all serious American fiction writers have had to contend with this problematic conception of literary realism. The true story of the transformation of American fiction after the Civil War is the history of this contention - a history of individual accommodations, evasions, holding actions, and occasional triumphs.
Author : K. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2007-04-12
ISBN 10 : 9780230206205
Pages : 215 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (62 downloads)
Download Radical Children's Literature PDF Full Free by K. Reynolds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories about the world and young people; the interaction with changing childhoods and new technologies.
Author : Donna M. Binkiewicz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005-12-15
ISBN 10 : 9780807863268
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (632 downloads)
Download Federalizing the Muse PDF Full Free by Donna M. Binkiewicz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna Binkiewicz assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on the Arts, drawing a picture of the major players who created national arts policy. Using presidential papers, NEA and National Archives materials, and numerous interviews with policy makers, Binkiewicz refutes persisting beliefs in arts funding as part of a liberal agenda by arguing that the NEA's origins in the Cold War era colored arts policy with a distinctly moderate undertone. Binkiewicz's study of visual arts grants reveals that NEA officials promoted a modernist, abstract aesthetic specifically because they believed such a style would best showcase American achievement and freedom. This initially led them to neglect many contemporary art forms they feared could be perceived as politically problematic, such as pop, feminist, and ethnic arts. The agency was not able to balance its funding across a variety of art forms before facing serious budget cutbacks. Binkiewicz's analysis brings important historical perspective to the perennial debates about American art policy and sheds light on provocative political and cultural issues in postwar America.
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Release Date : 1986-06
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Pages : 32 pages
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Download ThirdWay PDF Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Author : James E. Gunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 9781578860111
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (61 downloads)
Download The Science of Science-fiction Writing PDF Full Free by James E. Gunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiction-writing text by a well-known sci-fi author, editor and professor.
Author : Robyn McCallum
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-16
ISBN 10 : 9781137395412
Pages : 280 pages
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Download Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood PDF Full Free by Robyn McCallum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of ‘classic’ literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood. The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility. The book focuses on a range of literary and film genres, from ‘classic’ texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts.
Author : Ben Moore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-04-21
ISBN 10 : 9783031266409
Pages : 107 pages
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Download Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 PDF Full Free by Ben Moore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through three case studies, it argues for ‘human tissue’ as a conceptual tool for reading that brings together biology, literature and questions of layering. This new approach is shown to be especially salient to the Victorian period, when the application of ‘tissue’ to biology first emerges. The book is distinctive in bringing together theoretical concerns around realism and the Anthropocene – two major topics in literary criticism – and presenting a new methodology to approach this conjunction, demonstrated through original readings of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, and Emile Zola and two English-language writers he influenced (George Moore and Vernon Lee).
