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Gayle Green, Coppélia Kahn
December 19, 1985
Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences in the same contexts, the male perspective having been dominant in fields of knowledge; and that gender is not a ...
Patricia Waugh
October 18, 1984
Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to ...
Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires
October 20, 1988
Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are ...
Dr Rosemary Jackson
April 16, 1981
This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson...
February 14, 2014
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Susan Bassnett
October 17, 2013
At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation ...
Antony Easthope
October 17, 2002
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Roger Sabin
October 14, 2010
In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusment for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention. Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would ...
Peter Brooker, Peter Humm
October 17, 2002
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
E. L. Epstein
August 28, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Roger Fowler
March 28, 2013
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
A. P. Foulkes
October 17, 2002
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....