Ungvári Tamás újabb esszégyűjteménye szerves folytatása A feledés enciklopédiája és Az emlékezés enciklopédiája című könyveinek. A halhatatlanságból olyan alakokat emel ki, akikre a hamis mítosz vagy épp a feledés homálya vetül, holott érdemes jobban ismerni életüket. A közvélem…
Introduction: Reading for the moral -- Filial quests -- Filial transactions -- The spectrum of loyalty -- Female exemplarity and the violence of virtue -- Interchangeable brothers -- Friends in need and friends in deed
The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), b…
Thirty-eight post-Vietnam War stories by American and Vietnamese writers, interspersed between stanzas of the poem "A walk in the garden of heaven" by George Evans. In Nguyen Quang Lap's The Sound of Harness Bells, a couple reunited at war's end try to have a child and the resul…
With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferg…
With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferg…
by Hrbek, Greg
fromPrairie Schooner book prize in fiction
Contains ten short fiction stories in which Greg Hrbek explores what it means to be human and inhuman.
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time
"A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural. Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living" or compel Fritz Liebe…
"A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural. Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H.P. Lovecraft into calling him "unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living" or compel Fritz Lieber…
by Hubbard, Dolan, Rampersad, Arnold, De Santis, Christopher C., Sanders, Leslie Catherine, Johnson, Dianne, Tracy, Steven C., (Steven Carl), McLaren, Joseph, Martin-Ogunsola, Dellita, Miller, R. Baxter, Hughes, Langston, Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan
