Cargando…

The otherworlds of Liz Jensen : a critical reading /

"Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which ca...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mundler, Helen E. (Helen Esther) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2016.
Colección:Studies in English and American literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on abbreviations and gender-neutral language
  • Introduction
  • Egg dancing: paving the way for otherworlds in time and space
  • Ark baby and the return to the nineteenth century
  • Island life: the pure "ustopia" of the paper eater
  • Liz Jensen's murder mysteries
  • From family romance to the detective novel
  • New rules, new otherworlds: Jensen's "third wave"
  • Ecofiction, rapture fiction
  • The uninvited: the most radically "other" world to date
  • Conclusion.