You are currently browsing 541–550 of 4,946 new and published paperbacks in the subject of Language & Literature — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
For paperbacks that are not yet published; please browse forthcoming paperbacks.
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo’s novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of simulacra and simulation,...
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also...
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually...
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or ‘voice,’ of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and film. Existing models of stylistic analysis, supported at times by computer-assisted...
Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music....
Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an...
Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...
Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
