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H.G. Wells is justly famous as a writer of short stories, but for too long the originality of his contribution in this field has been unacknowledge. The present study argues that in his short stories Wells was not simply emulating the styles and themes of his predecessors but ma…
By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation pathways as part of their stories' politics of meaning-making.The writers in focus are Samira Al-Mana, Daizy Al-Amir, Inaam Kachachi, Be…
This book explores the textual and visual representation of justice in a corpus of chivalric romances produced in the mid-15th century for noble patrons at the court of Burgundy. This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist k…
The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how the explosiveness of the moment captured in each short story is more immediate and more intense, and therefore recreates horrifying e…
The novel in German since 1990
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Vol. 5: Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Han's crime / Shig…
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Each volume of Short Stories for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories studentrs and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.
Critical survey of short fiction
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Writer entries are arranged alphabetically and include: dates and places of birth and death; a list of principal short fiction; an overview of other literary forms; achievements; biography; and analysis. The analysis section discusses the writer's style and themes, with subsecti…
An examination of the development and writers of short fiction from its beginning to the present.
This volume discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The essays include such writers as Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, and Anais Nin.