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Arguing that satiric potential is latent in virtually all dispensation, succession, and inheritance narratives, Michael Seidel suggests a new and comprehensive understanding of satire's place in the more general context of narrative theory. The notion of inheritance shares with traditional narrative action the need to transmit and preserve form. O

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Re-assesses Nikos Kazantzakis' novel - "The Last Temptation of Christ". This volume contains original essays by Martin Scorsese, the film critic Peter Chattaway, and Kazantzakis' translator, Peter A. Bien.

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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Tryggve Andersen. Andersen's prose fiction, according to Schiff, contains elegant, finely crafted works of art. Throughout his commentary, Schiff makes it possible to understand Andersen's works in light of a broader cultural perspective.

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Studies the female trickster in folktales and literature from around the world.

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Challenging the view of Shelley, Arnold, and Eliot that there has been a decline in human sensibility in the later history of European culture, H. M. Richmond demonstrates that the history of the love lyric, at least, reveals a progressive enrichment of human awareness. His original combination of traditional and new critical methods is particularl

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Many prominent science fiction writers, artists, and editors began as s.f. This is the first book to survey fandom's history, manifestations, and accomplishments, including clubs, fanzines, and conventions. and long-term results in the form of beginning professional careers in writing or publishing, exercising critical attention, and so forth.

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But despite the sentiments of these traditionalists, many works of science fiction engage recognized canonical texts, such as the Odyssey, and many traditionally canonical works contain elements of science fiction.

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"This will be the basic tool for researchers studying the 100-year history of science fiction, fantasy, and weird fiction magazines." Reference Books Bulletin

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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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"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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"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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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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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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This book argues that secularism and modernity are responsible for the identity crisis that minorities experience in India and Sri Lanka. It shows that content and aesthetics of minority writing are not only shaped by the impositions of secularism and modernity but also produces innovative strategies to overcome them.

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One of the greatest texts of both German and world literature, "Faust, Parts I and II", confronts us with questions about rebellion and suffering, faith and its loss, reality and simulation, order and chaos, weakness and power, technology and human improvement. This monograph offers us a fresh interpretation of Goethe's famous play.

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Includes selections from Krauss's "The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms", Bloch's "The Anarchist," Canetti's "Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe", and Walser's "Jakob von Gunten".

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