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Reading Science Fiction is a collection of 22 short essays edited by James Gunn, Marleen S. Barr & Matthew Candelaria. The collection explores a wide range of theoretical approaches to studying science fiction, such as gender studies, post colonialism and structuralism. The authors reference the various mediums through which science fiction has ...
The essay was not written by Kundera as one text, but rather as various individual texts written in specific circumstances, designed to be published in a single work. [ 1 ] In 1983, Kundera wrote "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes," which later became the first part of The Art of the Novel.
It is now considered important in the field of fiction theory. In a 1967 review of the book, The New York Times described it as "impressively learned, eloquent and brilliant". [4] More recently The Daily Telegraph called it "magnificent", [5] and Adam Phillips, in the London Review of Books, "one of the best books I had ever read". [6]
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The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers is a book about fiction writing by the philosopher Ayn Rand, published posthumously. Edited by Tore Boeckmann, it was published by Plume in 2000. The book is based on a 1958 series of lectures about fiction writing which Rand gave to a group of student readers and writers in her living room.
[1] [2] First published in the April 1996 issue of Harper's magazine, the essay concerns the persistence of reading within the context of technological growth and distraction. Franzen recounts his meditations on the state and possibility of the novel form, often against the backdrop of his personal experience, eventually concluding that the ...
The essay examines whether women were capable of producing, and in fact free to produce, work of the quality of William Shakespeare, addressing the limitations that past and present women writers face. [11] Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, in line with the thinking of the era, believed that only the boys of the family should be sent to ...
The first edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, printed in 1962, comprised two volumes.Also printed in 1962 was a single-volume derivative edition, called The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors Edition, which contained reprintings with some additions and changes including 28 of the major authors appearing in the original edition.