From Isabel Allende to Emile Zola and from Shakespeare to Sartre, literary works have often engaged political issues, and many political writings give close attention to literary concerns. The first work of its kind, this three-volume encyclopedia explores the complex relationship between literature and politics. Included are more than 500 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 200 expert contributors. These entries cover authors, critics, theorists, and historical figures; major literary works; national literatures and important literary movements; broad critical categories; and specific themes, concepts, and genres. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with an extensive bibliography.

Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing, Volume I: A-G

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M. Keith Booker

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Greenwood

Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing, Volume III: S-Z

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A uniquely accessible guide to a difficult subject, A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism introduces students to the major trends in contemporary literary theory. Offering the breadth of information of a handbook and the examples of an anthology, it provides an invaluable alternative to the standard collections and shows students how literary theory really unfolds.

A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

Longman Publishers

Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque

University Press of Florida

The rise to global prominence of African literature, and particularly of the African novel, has been seen by many as a vital development in contemporary world culture. Keith Booker examines are: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood ; Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born; Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter; Alex la Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End; Ngugi wa Thiongo's Devil on the Cross and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Booker uses these works to illustrate the scope and variety of the African novel and the aesthetic, cultural and political concerns that have motivated African authors. The text concludes that Americans and Europeans have every reason to study the African novel, and in so doing they will become familiar with one of the most powerful cultural forces in the late-20th-century world. North America: Heinemann

African Novel in English

World Literature

James Currey Ltd.

The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. <ul>
<li>Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction</li> <li>Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre</li> <li>Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences</li> <li>Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more</li> <li>A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook</li> </ul>

The Science Fiction Handbook (Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Anne-Marie Thomas

Science Fiction

Wiley/Blackwell

The Science Fiction Handbook

This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, a classic in the science fiction and dystopian genres. These essays delve into the cultural, historical, comparative and critical contexts for understanding Brav

Brave New World (Critical Insights)

Salem Pr Inc

The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Heinemann Educational Books

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