
By Mohan Rakesh,Aparna Dharwadker,Vinay Dharwadker
ISBN-10: 0670088021
ISBN-13: 9780670088027

By Lucy Fraser
ISBN-10: 0814342442
ISBN-13: 9780814342442
The publication starts off with some of the techniques to interpreting and writing fairy stories, with a heritage of "The Little Mermaid" in jap and English tradition. Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo at the Cliff through the ocean are mentioned as examples that simulate gratifying actual reports via animation’s instruments of tune and voice, and visible results of move and metamorphosis. Fraser then explores the literary results of the fairy story by way of male authors, similar to Oscar Wilde, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, and Abe Kobo, who invoke widely used fairy-tale conventions and delineate a few of the pleasures of what might be painful attraction with a mermaid or with the fairy story itself. the writer examines the portrayals of the mermaid in 3 brief tales by way of Matsumoto Yuko, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Ogawa Yoko, attractive with time-honored fairy stories, connection with fairy-tale study, and reflections at the immersive adventure of examining. ladies characters and authors also are hyperaware of the prospective meanings of Andersen’s "The Little Mermaid" and of the fairy story itself, furthering the dialogue with Nonaka Hiiragi’s novel Ningyo-hime no kutsu, and D[di?]’s novel Sento no ningyo-hime to majo no mori, in addition to an episode of the technological know-how fiction tv sequence darkish Angel. Fraser concludes that the "pleasure" framework comes in handy for a cross-cultural learn of inventive engagements with and variations of a selected fairy story.
Few experiences have tested eastern fairy-tale differences to the level that Fraser has, providing interesting info that might intrigue fairy-tale students and people eager to examine extra in regards to the illustration of enjoyment in the back of the resourceful and fantastical.

By Mary Kudenov
ISBN-10: 1602233403
ISBN-13: 9781602233409
Journalist Mary Kudenov got down to locate the real tales at the back of this “end-of-the-road” tradition. via her essays, we meet Alaskans who reside outdoor the typical adventurer narrative: a up to date graduate of a court-sponsored sobriety software, a long-timer within the Hiland Mountain Correctional heart for ladies, a slum-landlord’s emancipated teenage daughter, or even a post-rampage spree killer. Her topics fight with poverty and middle-class aspirations, schooling and minimal salary paintings, God and psychology. the result's a uncooked and startling selection of direct, ground-level reporting that may go away you deeply moved.

By Jennifer Larson
ISBN-10: 1611177014
ISBN-13: 9781611177015
All Mosley’s texts characteristic his trademark accessibility in addition to his penchant for developing narratives that either entertain and train. Larson examines how Mosley’s writing interrogates, complicates, and contextualizes habitual ethical, social, or even own questions. She additionally considers the prospective roots of Mosley’s enduring recognition with a various crew of readers. Larson then lines key topics and claims in the course of the effortless Rawlins sequence to teach how Mosley’s liked hero bargains targeted views on race, type, and masculinity within the mid– to past due 20th century; explores the ways that Fearless Jones, Mosley’s moment detective, either builds on and diverges from his predecessor’s personality; and appears at how the works that includes Leonid McGill, Mosley’s junior detective, heart on figuring out the advanced courting among present-day social dilemmas and the private in addition to the communal past.
Regarding Mosley’s different genres, Larson argues that the technological know-how fiction works jointly painting a destiny during which race, type, and gender are thoroughly reimagined, but nonetheless topic to an oppressive strength dynamic, whereas his erotica asks readers to reassess the dynamics of energy and keep watch over yet in a extra own, even intimate, context. equally, in Mosley’s nongenre fiction, tales are revived via a reconnection with the previous, a reclaiming of cultural history and lineage, and a rejection of classist visions of energy. eventually, Mosley’s nonfiction, which persuades his viewers to behave via writing, humanitarian efforts, or social rebellion, deals a mixture of classes aimed toward guiding readers during the similar questions that tell his fiction writing.

By Pamela Gossin
ISBN-10: 0754603369
ISBN-13: 9780754603368

By Hanadi Al-Samman
ISBN-10: 0815634021
ISBN-13: 9780815634027
Far from delivering one other research that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure seems to be at Arab ladies writers dwelling within the diaspora who've translated their studies right into a effective and inventive strength. during this ebook, Al-Samman articulates the healing results of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating cultural tropes: that of the maw’udah (buried lady baby) and that of Shahrazad within the technique of progressive swap. She asks what it capability to strengthen a countrywide, gendered cognizance from diasporic locals whereas staying dedicated to the homeland.
Al-Samman offers shut readings of the fiction of six popular authors whose works span over part a century and outline the present prestige of Arab diaspora studies—Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na‘na‘, Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the trips in time and house undertaken through those ladies, anxiousness of Erasure shines a mild at the ways that writers stay members of their homelands’ highbrow lives, saying either the worrying and the positive facets of diaspora. the result's a nuanced Arab women’s poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.

By Bram & Valdimir Stoker & Asmundsson
ISBN-10: 0715651277
ISBN-13: 9780715651278
ISBN-10: 1538433095
ISBN-13: 9781538433096

By Raymond Williams
ISBN-10: 1107081351
ISBN-13: 9781107081352

By Kurt Hahn
ISBN-10: 3823380524
ISBN-13: 9783823380528

By Eric Miles Williamson
ISBN-10: 1680030027
ISBN-13: 9781680030020
From the publication: “Literary authors nowadays now not make livings off their paintings. Their books will not be to be present in bookstores, and the books are not often revealed by way of significant big apple publishing homes. not anyone reads their works apart from different literary authors and the professors who're comparing their tenure and promoting folders on the faculties and universities at which they're hired, and it’s a minor miracle if a literary ebook from a small press sells 1000 copies. Fiction writers from wealth write approximately writing or they write in regards to the ridiculous “sufferings” of the wealthy. Fiction writers from the reduce sessions write concerning the primordial dust from which they’ve bodily escaped yet from which they’ll by no means mentally be capable to go away at the back of. Like struggle veterans, humans who’ve fought it out within the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can by no means get the stink out in their skins, test as they might. similar to those that haven’t been to struggle can spot vets who've, middle-class humans and the wealthy can spot humans who’ve grown up terrible, it doesn't matter what their place in existence or the standard in their fashion designer matches. these fits simply don’t healthy correct, and the neckties lead them to fidget and sweat. What the well-heeled authors and the working-class writers have in universal is that they’ve been educated to not pronounce ethical judgment.”