Literary Genres
Wild Animals I Have Known
Retail: $7.95 (5% off!)
(Overstock Books)
An immediate success upon its first publication in 1898, Wild Animals I Have Known gave the animal story a new credibility and power as a literary genre. It remains Seton's best-known work Seton's portrayal of nature is a fascinating reflection of...
Crime Fiction
Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.
Interpreting the Self
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography.
Revolution and the Word
(eBooks)
Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel.
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings.
Visions of an Unseen World
This book describes the haunting of eighteenth-century England. It is the first in-depth study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This period saw the establishment of the ghost story as a literary genre.