Product Description: In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices...read more

Product Description: All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars...read more

Product Description: Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature.

A collection of twenty-one essays which cover such topics as the new genres of literature including horror and multicultural works, and the effects of postmodernism on the content and form of literature (view table of contents)

Product Description: This study pursues the exploration of Henri Bosco's dream world by analyzing the role of the mysterious "other" which haunts his work. It examines in particular three novels: "Un Rameau de la Nuit" (1950), "Le Recif" (1971), and "Une Ombre" (1978).