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This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.

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This is the fourth volume in a series offering comprehensive critical overviews of the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror for a calendar year, here 1990.

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Science Fiction and Anticipation focuses on American and European influential works of science fiction published between the 18th and 20th century. The book explores how writers presented in this book envisioned the future of their country, and it discusses issues such as ethics, censorship, racism, sexism, and slavery.

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Essays discuss the literary and thematic elements of science fiction and shed light on the evolution of science fiction as a genre for young readers.

The volume begins with a section of essays on the origins of science fiction as a genre for young readers.

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Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel Delany, Jennifer Kelso Farrell explores the relationship between language and reality and the role language can play in reprogramming individuals.

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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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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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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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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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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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This text analyzes the seductive and destructive power of certain signs and structures in Muriel Spark's fiction. Works discussed include "The Comforters", "Memento Mori", "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", and "Reality and Dreams".

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In this comprehensive study of baseball in American literature, Candelaria looks primarily at novels to explore how writers have used this quintessential American symbol and to examine what the metaphors and images of the fictional universe of baseball have to tell us about ourselves.

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This comprehensive edition in English begins with a volume on the theme of Don Quixote, the greater part of which is devoted to The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, followed by sixteen essays on diverse aspects of the Quixote motif. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make

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This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks explores the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer. His notes chart the creative process of some of his most recent work, his involvment in theatre-in-education and his increasing popularity in Europe.

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One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.

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Most critics of novelist Eudora Welty have concentrated on her Southern background. In this work the author uses a gender-specific approach to analyzing Welty's novels, illustrating how her narrative techniques establish female authority and frequently undermine patriarchal values.

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An unusual grouping of mainly British writers, this insightful study includes some, like Henry James, who are indisputably leaders of the canon regardless of genre, and others, like Algernon Blackwood, who wrote almost exclusively in the supernatural;

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Presents a critique of views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when he does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement, it results in bad writing. This book argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality.

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This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas.