Tag: Fiction

Free Download Dora Shu-Fang Dien, "Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China"
English | ISBN: 1590338049 | 2003 | 109 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Gender distinction in China, as one observes it through the study of the culture, society, and individual psychology, reveals both major transitions in the role of women but remarkable continuity in the appreciation of their capabilities. This book explores such changes and continuity as evidenced in Chinese mythologies, fictional writings and historical biographies set against the backdrop of Confucianism, evolving Daoism (Taoism), and Buddhist influences, and concludes with what implications this has for gender equality in modern China. The life of Empress Wu Zetian and her accomplishments serve to illustrate how a woman was able to negotiate the realities of societal constraints and came to manage a complex empire in Tang China. The reader will also enjoy tales of adventure and romance in legend and in fiction as women found ways to participate in public life in the dynastic past. Mirror; Tang’s Commentary on Chinese Society; The Rise and Fall of the Historical Empress Wu; Empress Wu’s Achievements; Gender Distinctions in Traditional China; Women in Legend and Fiction; Overcoming the Legacy of Urban Educated Women; References; Index.

Free Download Dr. James Reichert, "Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941"
English | ISBN: 082489801X | 2025 | 354 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work performed by this ubiquitous, yet overlooked, literary form. Focused on the years 1913 to 1941, which coincide exactly with the rise of industrial capitalism and mass culture in Japan, the book challenges the conventional wisdom that period-themed entertainment was an anachronistic holdover from the past. Through a close analysis of well-known examples of the genre, such as Nakazato Kaizan’s The Great Buddha Pass (1913-1921), Yoshikawa Eiji’s Miyamoto Musashi (1935-1939), and Mikami Otokichi’s The Transformation of Yukinojō (1934-1935), Reichert shows how these materials were thoroughly integrated into both the modern media ecosystem and the creative sphere of the written arts.

Free Download Mary A. Favret, "Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters "
English | ISBN: 0521604281 | 2005 | 284 pages | PDF | 16 MB
The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a vehicle for political rather than sentimental expression. Against a background of severe political censorship, seditious Corresponding Societies, and the rise of the modern Post Office, letters as they are used by Romantic writers, especially women, become the vehicle for a distinctly political, often disruptive force. Mary Favret’s study of Romantic correspondence reexamines traditional accounts of epistolary writing, and redefines the letter as a ‘feminine’ genre. The book deals not only with letters which circulated in the novels of Austen or Mary Shelley, but also with political pamphlets, incendiary letters and spy letters available for public consumption.

Free Download Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit
by Dominic Dean
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1438499558 | 306 Pages | PDF | 4.87 MB

Free Download Haley Dziuk, "Tarot for Fiction Writers"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1947094130 | EPUB | pages: 152 | 4.7 mb
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Helen Mitsios, "Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland"

Free Download On Theory-Fiction and Other Genres
by Simon O’Sullivan
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031650719 | 164 Pages | True PDF | 6.5 MB

Free Download Fantasies of Virtual Reality: Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat (Strong Ideas) by Marcus Carter, Ben Egliston
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0262549166 | 184 pages | MOBI | 1.28 Mb
The fantasies that underpin common perceptions of Virtual Reality-and what we need to know about VR’s potential risks as well as its opportunities.

Free Download David McKinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study "
English | ISBN: 1032468904 | 2024 | 202 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009-2015. Through cross-comparisons between the aesthetics and form of Beckett’s Trilogy, Mercier and Camier, Footfalls and Not I, and those of a range of post-crash Irish novels including Beatlebone, Hawthorn and Child, Room, and A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, this book establishes Beckett’s continuing influence on Irish fiction. With particular reference to these newer authors’ treatment of scarcity, trauma, indeterminism, gender and sexuality, and confinement in the context of major societal changes and traumas in Irish society since 2009, topics include the imposition of austerity, collapse of faith in institutions, and the increasing recognition of LGBTQIA+ and reproductive rights.

Free Download Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders edited by Bogi Takács
English | September 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1961654024 | True EPUB | 312 pages | 0.9 MB
Physical chemist Rosalind Franklin was one of the discoverers of DNA and an innovator of virology – yet despite her groundbreaking research, her contributions were often erased. In her memory, Rosalind’s Siblings collects over twenty original speculative fiction stories and poems, all focusing on scientists marginalized due to their gender. Edited by Hugo and Lambda award winner Bogi Takács, and featuring both established and newer authors from all around the world, the pieces in this anthology take you across time and space while exploring the role of scientists in society.