Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo By Peter Schneck (editor), Philipp Schweighauser (editor)
2010 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1441139931 | PDF | 3 MB
In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his media critique.This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.
Laura Ashe, "Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0141392878 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 0.6 mb
A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years.
Creative and Non-Fiction Writing During Isolation and Confinement: Imaginative Travel, Prison, Shipwrecks, Pandemics, and War By Ben Stubbs
2022 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 1032152508 | PDF | 7 MB
This book examines writing that has been created in isolation and confinement, and it explores the stories, characters, and situations that have arisen from these states throughout history. It offers a deeper understanding of how others have found inspiration, purpose, and clarity in these difficult and challenging conditions.By traversing the narratives of writers, wanderers, mariners, prisoners, recluses, and soldiers, this book offers writers and readers a chance to re-think the parameters of their own circumstances. Exploring a broad range of themes, from writing during a pandemic (COVID-19), travel writing, writing from incarceration, and writing within war and conflict zones, each chapter will look at historical contexts as well as contemporary examples within these themes to demonstrate the rich history and current relevance of writing during confinement and isolation. The book also contains tips and exercises to help develop writing skills during restrictive circumstances.This is a valuable resource for scholars seeking to observe how writing has developed through various themes of isolation in the past, as well as students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of creative writing, communication studies, and journalism seeking to learn through lived experiences how to hone their writing during challenging times.
Published 8/2022
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Li-Ping Geng, "New Realism in Alice Munro's Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1032289961 | 2022 | 162 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Best of Woman's Weekly Fiction - September 2022
English | 70 pages | True PDF | 17 MB
Walter Mosley | Duration: 2:18 h | Video: H264 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | 6,02 GB | Language: English
In his MasterClass, Walter Mosley teaches you how to rethink genres and the "rules" of fiction and how to approach writing your own novel.
Walter Mosley, bestselling author and recipient of the National Book Award's Lifetime Achievement Medal, has written more than 60 books over his 30-year career and is celebrated for fiction that addresses our culture's racial divides. Now he's sharing the elements of storytelling that have helped him along the way. Learn how to choose the right words, structure, genre, and characters to create the novel that's in you.
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction edited by Gerry Canavan, Eric Carl Link
English | January 24, 2019 | ISBN: 1107166098 | True EPUB/PDF | 836 pages | 3.7/4.6 MB
The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship.
The Origins of Science Fiction (Oxford World's Classics) edited by Michael Newton
English | July 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0198853610 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 0.8 MB
'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury?', The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster
The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
English | February 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1949102521, 194910253X | True EPUB | 624 pages | 1 MB
Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more-a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.