Author: Kirk H. Beetz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction
Author: Kirk H. Beetz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780787649913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780787649913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Settlements in the Americas
Author: Ralph Francis Bennett
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134117
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134117
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
From Lowbrow to Nobrow
Author: Peter Swirski
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773529926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
'From Lowbrow to Nobrow' vindicates popular fiction as an art form that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773529926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
'From Lowbrow to Nobrow' vindicates popular fiction as an art form that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers.
The Critical Waltz
Author: Rhonda S. Pettit
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This is the first collection of critical essays devoted to the writing of Dorothy Parker. Its four part organisation reflects a necessary shift away from her identity as primarily a humorist or Jazz Age literary celebrity.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This is the first collection of critical essays devoted to the writing of Dorothy Parker. Its four part organisation reflects a necessary shift away from her identity as primarily a humorist or Jazz Age literary celebrity.
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction
Author: Kirk H. Beetz
Publisher: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popu
ISBN: 9780787649975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beacham's Encyclopedia offers analysis of more than 1,600 popular works by more than 430 authors. Entries include a summary of the work; analysis of themes and characters; discussion of stylistic techniques and more. The Encyclopedia includes Biography and Resources volumes, offering biographical information on individual authors, and Analyses volumes, discussing individual works.
Publisher: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popu
ISBN: 9780787649975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beacham's Encyclopedia offers analysis of more than 1,600 popular works by more than 430 authors. Entries include a summary of the work; analysis of themes and characters; discussion of stylistic techniques and more. The Encyclopedia includes Biography and Resources volumes, offering biographical information on individual authors, and Analyses volumes, discussing individual works.
Stanislaw Lem
Author: Peter Swirski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.
Of Literature and Knowledge
Author: Peter Swirski
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134104413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." – Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University. Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful and engaging volume presents a new understanding of the mechanisms by which we transfer information from narrative make-believe to real life. Ranging across game theory and philosophy of science, as well as poetics and aesthetics, Peter Swirski explains how literary fictions perform as a systematic tool of enquiry, driven by thought experiments. Crucially, he argues for a continuum between the cognitive tools employed by scientists, philosophers and scholars or writers of fiction. The result is a provocative study of our talent and propensity for creating imaginary worlds, different from the world we know yet invaluable to our understanding of it. Of Literature and Knowledge is a noteworthy challenge to contemporary critical theory, arguing that by bridging the gap between literature and science we might not only reinvigorate literary studies but, above all, further our understanding of literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134104413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." – Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University. Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful and engaging volume presents a new understanding of the mechanisms by which we transfer information from narrative make-believe to real life. Ranging across game theory and philosophy of science, as well as poetics and aesthetics, Peter Swirski explains how literary fictions perform as a systematic tool of enquiry, driven by thought experiments. Crucially, he argues for a continuum between the cognitive tools employed by scientists, philosophers and scholars or writers of fiction. The result is a provocative study of our talent and propensity for creating imaginary worlds, different from the world we know yet invaluable to our understanding of it. Of Literature and Knowledge is a noteworthy challenge to contemporary critical theory, arguing that by bridging the gap between literature and science we might not only reinvigorate literary studies but, above all, further our understanding of literature.
My Own Country
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: BookRags
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher: BookRags
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem
Author: Peter Swirski
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773578293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship. Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy. This unique collection also includes "Smart Robots," a previously unpublished essay by Lem. Contributors include Peter Butko (Southern Mississippi), Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr (DePauw), Katherine Hayles (California at Los Angeles), Jerzy Jarzebski (Jagiellonian, University Cracow), Michael Kandel (Modern Language Association), Stanislaw Lem, Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Krzysztof Loska (Jagiellonian University), and Peter Swirski (Hong Kong).
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773578293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship. Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy. This unique collection also includes "Smart Robots," a previously unpublished essay by Lem. Contributors include Peter Butko (Southern Mississippi), Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr (DePauw), Katherine Hayles (California at Los Angeles), Jerzy Jarzebski (Jagiellonian, University Cracow), Michael Kandel (Modern Language Association), Stanislaw Lem, Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Krzysztof Loska (Jagiellonian University), and Peter Swirski (Hong Kong).