Best of Womans Weekly Fiction Issue 27-February 2023
English | 70 Pages | PDF | 32.56 MB

(Im)politeness in McEwan's Fiction: Literary Pragma-Stylistics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031186893 | 310 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book is a pragma-stylistic study of Ian McEwan's fiction, providing a qualitative analysis of his selected novels using (im)politeness theory. (Im)politeness is investigated on two levels of analysis: the level of the Description and the story world (intradiegetic level) and the level of the communication between the implied author and implied reader in fiction (extradiegetic level). The pragmatic theory of (im)politeness serves the aim of internal characterisation and helps readers to better understand and explain the characters' motivations and actions, based on the stylistic analysis of their speech and thoughts and point of view. More importantly, the book introduces the notion of "the impoliteness of the literary fiction" - a state of affairs where the implied author (or narrator) expresses their impolite beliefs to the reader through the text, which has face-threatening consequences for the audience, e.g. moral shock or disgust, dissociation from the protagonist, feeling hurt or 'put out'. Extradiegetic impoliteness, one of the key characteristics of McEwan's fiction, offers an alternative to the literary concept of "a secret communion of the author and reader" (Booth 1961), describing an ideal connection, or good rapport, between these two participants of fictional communication. This book aims to unite literary scholars and linguists in the debate on the benefits of combining pragmatics and stylistics in literary analysis, and it will be of interest to a wide audience in both fields.

Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show (Audiobook)
English | April 10, 2017 | ASIN: B06Y4F2VPX | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 52m | 210.91 MB
Author: Glenn Yeffeth - editor, Drew Goddard, David Brin, Jennifer Crusie, Scott Westerfeld, Charlaine Harris, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Narrator: Colby Elliott
This collection of irreverent and surprising essays about the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer includes pieces by leading science fiction and fantasy authors. Contributors include best-selling legend David Brin, critically acclaimed novelist Scott Westerfeld, cult-favorite vampire author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and award-winner Sarah Zettel. The show and its cast are the topics of such critical pieces as Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Matchmaking in Hellmouth" and Sherrilyn Kenyon's "The Search for Spike's Balls". An informed introduction for those not well acquainted with the show and a source of further research for Buffy buffs, this book raises interesting questions concerning a much-loved program and future cult classic.

Charne Lavery, "Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English "
English | ISBN: 3030871150 | 2021 | 193 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world―Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen―alongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories, this book presents an account of a different and significant strand of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its centre in the ocean and the south.

Dan McIntyre, Louise Nuttall, "Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction"
English | 2019 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 1350062960, 1350267422 | PDF | 2,3 mb
This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis of diverse genres, including crime fiction, short stories, poetry and novels, the book deciphers various linguistic, pragmatic and multimodal techniques. These are skilfully used by authors to achieve specific effects through a subtle manipulation of deixis, metalepsis, dialogue, metaphors, endings, inferences or rhetorical, narratorial and typographical control.

Narrative Humanism : Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film
by Wyatt Moss-Wellington
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1474454313 | 257 Pages | True PDF | 1.68 MB

, "The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction "
English | ISBN: 036753701X | 2023 | 440 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially―but not exclusively―as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world.

The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present by Sarah Lonsdale
English | July 14, 2016 | ISBN: 1474220533, 1474220541 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 0.4 MB
Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet age, how do cultural producers view journalists and their role in society today?

Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction By Stephen Benson
2006 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0754635538 | PDF | 2 MB
Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task. Rather than view verbal representations of music as somehow secondary to the music itself, Literary Music argues that it is in such representations that our understanding of music and its meanings is constituted and explored. Focusing on recent fictional and theoretical texts, Stephen Benson proposes literature, narrative fiction in particular, as a singular form of musical performance. Literary Music concentrates not only on song and opera, those forms in which words and music overtly confront one another, but also on a small number of recurring ideas around which the literary and the musical interact, including voice, narrative, performance, and silence. The book considers a wide range of literary and theoretical texts, including those of Blanchot and Bakhtin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vikram Seth, David Malouf and J.M. Coetzee. The musical forms discussed range from opera to the string quartet, together with individual works by Elgar, Strauss and Michael Berkeley. As such, Literary Music offers an informed interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature and music that participates in the lively theoretical debate on the status of meaning in music.

Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032409460 | 233 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and examines the inherent role of the law in the construction of the narrative in the literature of the nineteenth century. From the approach to the operation of jurisprudence and legal application, to the prosecution of the poor, the criminological approach to moral panics and the use of the affirmative defence to mitigate women within society, this book explores the ways in which the authors of the period used the novel form as a way of challenging and critiquing the legal operating model of the world in which their characters found themselves; examining the way in which the authors of the period used the novel as a means of critiquing the nature of the role of the law within society, its impact upon the general public, and the reciprocity which exists between legal ideals and the society which manifests those ideals through thought and action. This is a useful text for students of nineteenth-century literature or the law.