50 results for 'altern moment novel'

This book examines the question of aesthetic experience in the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk in order to propose a reconsideration of aesthetic experience...

The Subaltern Ulysses was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the...

It's Gwar v.s Gwar in this multiverse spanning graphic novel from Z2 Comics!What can be more horrifying and terror-inducing than GWAR? The moment they must face the vomitous incarnations of...

At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. An Age of Melodrama examines...

Novels are often said to help us understand how others think-especially when those others are profoundly different from us. When interpreting a character's behavior, readers are believed to make use...

What if Kennedy survived Dallas?President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight...

Not a Big Deal asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or rebutted with alternative facts. When readers already recognize...

In an earlier book Professor Krieger discussed the tragic vision as the confrontation with extremity -- the writer's commitment to a master metaphor even as he acknowledges the incompleteness of that...

In FAST FICTION, you'll enter a cafe where the menu is loaded with nothing but literary appetizers, designed to be quickly consumed and easily digested. You'll meet people with secrets and others who...

THIS SPECIAL HARDCOVER EDITION INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE DELETED SCENES AND INSIGHTFUL AUTHOR'S NOTES ON THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT BEHIND THE STORY.AFTER DALLAS is a riveting historical thriller that delves...

How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their books as reaching audiences...

Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the...

From "the standard-bearer of alternate history" (USA Today) comes the fourth installment in Harry Turtledove's landmark World War II series, The War That Came Early--the work of a master operating at...

In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges...

Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after the 1707 Act of Union. It examines Britain, one of the...

A loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast that centers queer and trans charactersTrans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people wholove and accept him. Ten years...

The Ruins of Experience Scotland's ""Romantick"" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman""A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish...

An intimate and moving graphic memoir by cartoonist Nate Fakes, dedicated to his stepdad Ron, a larger-than-life personality who gradually becomes affected by a rare form of dementia.Editor's Picks,...

Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book AwardThe first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from...

Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes...