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"Drawing on examples from literature, film and TV, this book helps students grapple with and master the often perplexing question, 'what is science fiction'"--

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In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fictions history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.

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"Science Meets Literature" analyzes and discusses Elias Canetti's 1935 novel "Auto-da-F" (original German title, "Die Blendung") as an example of the way in which literature can contribute to the scientific understanding of the human mind and human behavior.

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This book examines the growing respect given to American fiction that was scorned by cultural gatekeepers such as librarians and educators, though these works were widely read by the American public.

The volume looks at such scorned literature as dime novels, comic books, juvenile fiction, romances novels, and pulp magazines.

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Presents the glories of 15 centuries of Scottish literature. This book traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writings discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and full quotations in their own language.

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Andrew Turnbull follows the life of one of America's most enduring authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald lived on Turnbull's family estate in the early 1930s and he befriended young Andrew. Their personal relationship and the hundreds of interviews with those who knew him capture the dramatic st

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Scott Turow is a novelist, lawyer, and humanist who has fused his two passions, writing and the law, to create challenging novels that raise significant legal issues and test the justice of present laws.

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A study of how Hamlet has been adapted for film and TV, with a focus on the classic film by Olivier and Branagh

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A study of how Hamlet has been adapted for film and TV, with a focus on the classic film by Olivier and Branagh

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This book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their source texts. Examining the negotiations between early modern and contemporary gender politics, Cieslak identifies the main strategies of accommodating early modern gender constructs for todays audiences.

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A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.

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Written by reformers, union officials, and popular fiction writers, the stories present an uneasy synthesis of labor movement virtues with domestic ideals of femininity, females assertiveness with female subordination, and moralizing with romantic fantasy.

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Though The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock helped save the Abbey Theatre from near bankruptcy, The Plough and the Stars drew open criticism in 1926, when nationalists rioted over O'Casey's treatment of the Easter Rebellion.

This reference work is a comprehensive guide to O'Casey's plays.

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The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.

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An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature and its relation to visionary Romanticism through its examination of six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy. -- .

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"Collects a range of theoretical approaches and close readings in order to analyze the relationship between secrecy and community in contemporary fiction"--

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