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1. The Holocaust Novel

   By Efraim Sicher

   Series: Genres in Context

   The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a...

   Published June 5th 2005 by Routledge
2. Science Fiction After 1900

   From the Steam Man to the Stars

   By Brooks Landon

   Series: Genres in Context

   Published October 10th 2002 by Routledge
3. Nature Writing

   By Don Scheese

   Series: Genres in Context

   Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge
4. The Fairy Tale

   By Steven Swann Jones

   Series: Genres in Context

   One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to provide the...

   Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge
5. Travel Writing

   By Casey Blanton

   Series: Genres in Context

   Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge
6. Science Fiction Before 1900

   Imagination Discovers Technology

   By Paul K. Alkon

   Series: Genres in Context

   Paul Alkon analyzes several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He places the work in context and discusses the...

   Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge
7. Fantasy

   The Liberation of Imagination

   By Richard Mathews

   Series: Genres in Context

   Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard...

   Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge
8. Biography

   Writing Lives

   By Catherine N. Parke

   Series: Genres in Context

   Catherine Parke explores biography through detailed examinations of Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein and other masters of the genre....

   Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge
9. The Short Story

   The Reality of Artifice

   By Charles May

   Series: Genres in Context

   The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with...

   Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge
10. The Sea Voyage Narrative

    By Robert Foulke

    Series: Genres in Context

    From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts....

    Published December 20th 2001 by Routledge