Chronicles the effects of the family legacy on the third generation of Kennedys, exploring their romances, careers, scandals, and tragedies

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Product Description: The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture disrupts our critical sense of nineteenth-century American literature by examining the storytelling strategies of both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville in light of an emerging information industry...read more

Product Description: Speculation about Shakespeare's own religious beliefs and responses to the Reformation have dominated discussions of faith in the playwright's work for decades. As a result, we often lose sight of what's truly important-the plays themselves...read more

Product Description: Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work means that literature concerns itself not with the real world but with other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds...read more

Product Description: This book, working through a close reading of two well-known Indian novelists - Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan - explores the fluid and multi-layered nature of reality and its relationship to fiction. There can be no clear division between the two women's approaches, and they exist in a tenuous and magical relationship that cannot be easily dissolved by a return to the "real world...read more

Product Description: A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate...read more

Product Description: Among the most brilliant fictional works of the twentieth century, Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is at once a culmination of modernist literature and an exploration of the conscious construction of truth and reality. Structured to reflect Einstein’s relativity theory, the Alexandria Quartet is an intricate interweaving of linguistic resources...read more

Product Description: A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Rancière approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

 The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game. 

With her output of fifteen novels (including Between, 1968; Amalgamemnon, 1984; and Subscript, 1999), three major critical works (including her authoritative study A Grammar of Metaphor, 1958) and a plethora of articles and essays, as well as poetry and a few extraordinary translations, Christine Brooke-Rose has extended the scope of the novel and stretched the possibilities of language to its limit, offering an insightful representation of our society. Beginning with an analysis of her early novels, Word-Worlds provides an overview of her fictional work and consolidates her position as a major contemporary author. Showing how her wide range of interests and various narrative modalities make it difficult to place her in a specific cultural and geographical tradition, this book considers the various intellectual influences that this bilingual, cross-cultural novelist has undergone, and by approaching her fiction from a variety of critical angles, it analyses her attitude towards language and the way in which she has questioned the notions of identity and reality proposed by Western tradition over the centuries.

Product Description: For centuries, and not just in the period we refer to as "realism," writers of novels and short stories have consciously exploited our ability to believe in what is manifestly fiction. In Writing Realism, Armine Kotin Mortimer contends that we can best understand the illusion of reality by examining works in which acts of writing play an integral part within the story...read more

Product Description: Is Lily-Julie just a projection of Nicholas's own desires? Is reality just a projection of our own ideas? The former is one of the central questions in John Fowles's novel 'The Magus'; the latter is the nucleus of constructivism. This study traces constructivist ideas and their transformation into narrative in 'The Magus'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A fascinating foray into the world of the elusive and legendary Kennedy family details the lives of the younger generation, examines the effects of the public pressure and various tragedies on the surviving members of the clan, and explores their romances, careers, struggles, and achievements. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: An examination of fantastic literature positing a new literary theory in which the stories are considered not as a genre but rather as a condition of transformational modes using a possible worlds semantics. Traill (humanities, York U...read more

Product Description: This analysis examines the theater of Pedro Salinas, twentieth-century poet and critic, in relation to his lyric prose, novels, and essays. Orringer argues that his plays emerge as a panorama of quests for individual identity amid the deceptive appearances of the world...read more

Product Description: PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "Filled with quick and lively insight, W. B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality helps us to understand the structure and to appreciate the stageworthiness of Yeats's moving, eloquent dramas...read more