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“prof peter sloane”

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  • Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics

    by Prof Peter Sloane ...
    Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    by Mark Fisher ...
    Explore the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century literature, film, and music—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan.What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

    Edited by David Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

    by Giorgia Grilli ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins,Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Postmodernist Fiction

    by Brian McHale ...
    In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

    by Marina MacKay ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

    by Bran Nicol ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on ... Read more

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  • Kazuo Ishiguro

    by Wai-chew Sim ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short storiesan accessible overview ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye

    Apocalypse and Alchemy

    by B.W. Powe ...
    Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Jung and Film II: The Return

    Further Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image

    Edited by Christopher Hauke, Luke Hockley ...
    Since Jung and Film was first published in 2001, Jungian writing on the moving image in film and television has accelerated. Jung and Film II: The Return provides new contributions from authors across the globe willing to tackle the broader issues of film production and consumption, the audience and the place of film culture in our lives.As well as chapters dealing with particular film makers such ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals)

    Responses to Reality in Western Literature

    by Kathryn Hume ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First published in 1984, this book rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or ... Read more

    $65.99 USD