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Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 2069
ISBN-13: 1438140703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth, featuring some of the most popular writers and works.
Author: David Malcolm
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-01-30
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9781444304787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Author: David Malcolm
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13: 144435521X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D’Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War
Author: Darren Harris-Fain
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction, including dark fantasy and supernatural horror. Includes lesser-known authors who made their own small but significant contributions to this field. Discusses the impact of pulp magazines and other new magazines that focused on subgenres such as romance fiction, adventure fiction, Western fiction, and eventually fantasy and science fiction, and utopian literature, a predecessor and close cousin of science fiction.
Author: Donald Ross
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRealism replaced the romantic attitude that had previously dominated travel writing, due in part to thepractical exigencies of tourism, photography and industrialization. Discusses cultural biases in travel writing, combining accuracy with good story telling, and how hundreds of newspapers and magazines in the last third of the century made it possible to turn travel writing into a lifelong career.
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 1032
ISBN-13: 1135314101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0816074968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.
Author: George Malcolm Johnson
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here. 01
Author: Barbara Brothers
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on British travel writers explores the political and social changes that occurred after World War II. Technology such as color television, home video, the Internet and CD-ROM's brought people pictures from around the world broadened their interest in travel. Includes discussion of the various types of travel literature, including political, scientific, historical, and adventurous as well as the role of women travel writers.
Author: Darren Harris-Fain
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction discuss the changing attitudes towards this genre, including serious consideration by critics. Covers the publication of science fiction in comic books, limited productions of publications by fan presses, the difference between British and American science fiction, the birth of the New Wave, and the revival of horror fiction as a distinct genre.
