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This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of
literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better
understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an
interdisciplinary approach to the trilogy, drawing from literary
studies, psychology, gender studies, media studies, philosophy, and
cultural studies. An analytical rather than evaluative work, it
dispenses with extended theoretical discussions, academic jargon,
and even footnotes. Assuming that readers are familiar with all
three volumes of The Hunger Games, the book also avoids plot
summary and character analysis, instead focusing on the
significance of the story and its characters. It includes a
biographical essay, glossaries, questions for further study, and an
extensive bibliography.
William Gibson, a founding father of cyberpunk, is one today's most
popular science fiction writers. This companion is meant both for
general readers and for scholars interested in Gibson's oeuvre. It
provides literary and cultural context for works ranging from
Gibson's first short story, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (1977),
to his seminal cyberpunk classic Neuromancer (1984), to his
best-selling novel Zero History (2010), and includes commentary on
Gibson's subjects, themes, and approaches. Existing scholarship on
Gibson is surveyed, and is accessible to and useful for fans and
scholars alike. An extensive bibliography is included to facilitate
further study of William Gibson's writing, influence, and place in
the history of science fiction and in literature as a whole.
With references to his work appearing everywhere from the ""New
Yorker"" to The Simpsons, Joseph Conrad remains one of the
twentieth century's most widely discussed literary figures. And yet
it may be that an abundant scholarship has pigeonholed Conrad as an
early modernist. Tom Henthorne counters that Conrads work can be
best understood in relation to that of such early twentieth-century
writers as S. K. Ghosh and Solomon Plaatje postcolonialists who
developed innovative ways of cloaking their anti-imperialism when
working with British publishers. In ""Almayer's Folly"", ""An
Outcast of the Islands"", and his first short stories, Conrad
attacks imperialism overtly. Yet as he began to work with more
conservative publishers to acquire a larger, imperial audience, he
developed a Trojan Horse strategy, deliberately obfuscating his
radical politics through his use of multiple narrators, irony, free
indirect discourse, and other devices that are now associated with
modernism. Sensitive to the breadth of his prospective audience,
Henthorne offers an engaging and accessible analysis of Conrads
canon, from the early novels and short stories to the major works,
including ""The Nigger of the Narcissus"", ""Heart of Darkness"",
""Lord Jim"", and ""Nostromo"". He also considers critical
responses to Conrad and the influence Conrad has had upon modernist
and postcolonial writers.
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