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Subjects / keywords: MILLER, J. HILLIS; HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS; GB823 M647f

This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman ani...

Art as opposed to Reality, Beauty as opposed to Ugliness, Construction as opposed to Deconstruction, War as opposed to Peace, Men as opposed to Women, Progress as opposed to Regression, Imagination as opposed to Common S...

This book analyses the representation of new models of masculinity in US recent science fiction cinema. By examining the figure of the “new hero”, a male protagonist with visible unconventional features, it explores ne...

Las raíces del realismo mágico en los escritos de Borges y otros autores de América Latina han sido ampliamente reconocidos y bien documentadas produciendo una serie de estudios críticos, muchos de los cuales figuran...

Subjects / keywords: Crítica Literaria /Estadounidense; Afroamericana y Negra

Subjects / keywords: Crítica Literaria /Estadounidense; Hispanoparlante y Latinoamericana

Subjects / keywords: Ciencias Sociales; Sociología; General

This book presents the way in which African American women writers (Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison) have followed the spiritual endeavor of black Christianity as created by early nineteenth-century s...

Is male 'supremachism' really over? The pages you are holding in your hands sow doubts on the common belief that the governance of 'the macho' came to its end. As the proverb confirms, 'the old dies hard', despite the ye...

Con la intención de reconsiderar la construcción sureña del género que se muestra en la ficción y en las películas del siglo XX nace este volumen. Tres aspectos conceptuales guían la investigación. En primer luga...

Subjects / keywords: Ficción; Ciencia Ficción; General

Este libro analiza la manera con la que Lee Smith ha dado voz a todos los aspectos de su experiencia tanto como mujer-artista que vive en la América contemporánea como nativa de la Appalachia, una región sureña que t...

Research has examined the psychological benefits of fiction, particularly for socio-cognitive and interpersonal processes, but has yet to examine whether it can have an impact on individuals personal well-being in a natu...

The article discusses issues associated with identifying the authorial style of modern Ukrainian writers with an emphasis on trends in the development of a renewed writing manner. The author analyzes changes in fictional...

Abstract Imperialism and colonial practices have been addressed by the scholars throughout the years due to the transcendence of the imperial experience as a phenomenon that articulates and shapes the modern structure of...

While many may be familiar with Henry Hazlitt through his non-fiction writing on Austrian economics, he also published a lesser-known and extremely underappreciated fictional story, Time Will Run Back. Despite the fact t...

Abstract This essay explores the literary genre of science fiction as a tool for historical and political analysis, focusing specifically on the development and transformation of the genre in China and Cuba. Through an e...

Abstract There has been a growing interest within the field of International Relations inusing popular culture, especially Sci-Fi, to think about and teach International Relations. However, what the Sci-Fi IR authors hav...

Subjects / keywords: Spanish fiction; 20th century; History and criticism; Women in literature; Women authors; Electronic books

Subjects / keywords: Pulp fiction (Motion picture)

Subjects / keywords: American fiction; Hispanic American authors; Hispanic Americans; Short stories, American; Short stories; Electronic books

This essay investigates how utopian thinking met with dystopian variations in contemporary Chinese science fiction. The dystopian gaze into the utopian dreams, the alternative histories contending with the utopian narrat...

In classical vernacular Chinese fiction, inferring affective stance in the presence of rhetorical devices often depends on implicit semantics and contextual cues, which poses substantial challenges for joint pragmatic mo...