Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917 By John Peck
2001 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0333793579 | PDF | 2 MB
In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. The first comprehensive discussion of its subject, Maritime Fiction is an original exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction, and the sea.

Contemporary Fiction By Jago Morrison
2003 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 0415194555 | PDF | 2 MB
This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its enormous diversity, however, the field of contemporary fiction studies can appear complex and confusing. Jago Morrison's Contemporary Fiction provides a much-needed accessible introduction to the field. He enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing the key areas of debate and offers in-depth discussions of many of the most significant texts. Writers examined include: Ian McEwan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeanette Winterson, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. Tackling issues such as history, time and narrative, the body, race and ethnicity, this represents an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary fiction.

Danielle Gurevitch Shawn Edrei, "Science Fiction beyond Borders"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1443899550 | PDF | pages: 193 | 2.5 mb
Since the turn of the previous century, science fiction and its native tropes have been used by authors, artists, filmmakers and critics in order to challenge boundarieswhether these be conceptual, literary or metaphorical. Uniquely inherent to the genre is its ability to explore, as a form of thought experiment, different ways of crossing and subverting borders previously thought to be inviolable; these transgressions and their effects on popular culture have in turn led to an increased presence of science fiction studies in academia. This volume features papers presented at the 2014 and 2015 Science Fiction Symposia, held at Tel-Aviv University. These essays, submitted by an eclectic mix of scholars from different disciplines, institutes and walks of life, demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for askingand answeringimpossible questions.

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction By James F. English
2006 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 1405120002 | PDF | 2 MB
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. The book focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era, and the resulting transformation of such key areas of literary practice as publishing, bookselling, book reviewing, and higher education. Although the volume’s original contributions range across a variety of topics вЂ" from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel, and controversies over the celebrity author, to the changing relationship between literature and the cinema вЂ" each of the contributors attends carefully to the institutional and economic contexts of literary production, and to the contending forces that have shaped the emergent canon of contemporary British fiction. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction will enable students to read any work from the last quarter century of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where it fits within British cultural life.

Antoine Dechêne, "Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale"
English | 2018 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 3319944681 | PDF | 3,4 mb
This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction thatAntoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs - the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text - that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, includingEdgar Allan Poe,Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.

Timothy Caulfield, Jeremy Arthur (Narrator), "Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions"
English | ASIN: B08LMMJNGV | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:33:00 | 214 MB
Part pop-science, part self-help, Your Day. Your Way. is a friendly, funny, fact-based guide to changing how you make decisions in order to live a better - maybe even your best - life.

Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions by Timothy Caulfield
English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 0762472499 | 320 pages | EPUB | 0.84 MB
Part pop-science, part self-help, Relax Dammit! is a friendly, funny, fact-based guide to changing how you make decisions in order to live a better - maybe even your best - life.

Trine Stauning Willert, "The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction"
English | 2018 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 3319938487 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book explores the increasing interest in the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and its cultural sphere. It considers how the changing geo-political balances in South-East Europe since 1989 have offered Greek society an occasion to re-examine the transition from cultural diversity in the imperial context, to efforts to homogenize culture in the subsequent national contexts. This study shows how contemporary immigration and better relations with Turkey led to new directions in historiography, fiction and popular culture in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on how narratives about cultural co-existence under Ottoman rule are used as a prism of national self-awareness and argues that the interpretations of Greece's Ottoman legacy are part of the cultural battles over national identity and belonging. The book examines these narratives within the context of tension between East and West and, not least, Greece's place in Europe.

Mark J. Boone, Kevin C. Neece, Brian Godawa, "Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man: Finding C. S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1498232345 | PDF | pages: 381 | 2.6 mb
- The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis's masterpiece in ethics and the philosophy of science,warns of the danger of combining modern moral skepticism with the technological pursuit of human desires. The end result is the final destruction of human nature.FromBrave New Worldto Star Trek, from Steampunk to starships, science fiction film has considered from nearly every conceivable angle the same nexus of morality, technology, and humanity of which C. S. Lewis wrote. As a result,science fiction film has unintentionally given us stunning depictions of Lewis's terrifying vision of the future.InScience Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C. S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television, scholars of religion, philosophy, literature, and film explore the connections between sci-fi film and the three parts of Lewis's book:how sci-fi portrays "Men Without Chests" incapable of responding properly to moral good, how it teaches theTaoor "The Way," and how it portrays "The Abolition of Man."

Dr Christine Cornea, "Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 074861642X | PDF | pages: 321 | 1.2 mb
Offering a broad historical and theoretical reassessment of the science fiction film genre, this title explores the development of science fiction in cinema from its beginnings in early film through to recent examples of the genre.