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A history of modern Chinese fiction, 1917-1957

Chih-tsing Hsia, C. T. Hsia

IN JANUARY 1917 a rather modestly titled article, "Suggestions for a Reform of Literature," appeared in New Youth, the leading journal of Chinese intellectuals.

The floating world in Japanese fiction

Howard Hibbett

JAPANESE fiction of the Genroku Era (that is, of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries) has an impressive ancestry which can be traced…

Feminist fiction

Anne Cranny-Francis

Lectures on Russian Literature

Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers

Socially minded Russian critics saw in Dead Souls and in The Government Inspector a condemnation of the social poshlust emanating from serf-owning bureaucratic provincial…

Novel Practices

Eugene Goodheart

The infernal desires of Angela Carter

Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton

Reality and fiction in modern Japanese literature

Noriko Mizuta Lippit

Conjuring

Marjorie Pryse, Hortense J. Spillers

Potboilers

Jerry Palmer

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?

To write like a woman

Joanna Russ

Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Marek C. Oziewicz

Ancient epistolary fictions

Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

This first chapter will touch briefly on two issues of epistolary practice in ancient Greece: first, a working definition of a "letter," including some…

Narratives of love and loss

Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin

FICTIONS OF AMERICA

Judie Newman

The literature of terror

David Punter

Folk tale, fiction and saga in the Homeric epics

Rhys Carpenter

Toni Morrison's fiction

Jan Furman