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One of the basic insights of the book is that there is a notion of non-relational linguistic representation which can fruitfully be employed in a systematic approach to literary fiction. This notion allows us to develop an improved understanding of the ontological nature of fictional entities. A related insight is that the customary distinction between extra-fictional and intra-fictional contexts has only a secondary theoretical importance. This distinction plays a central role in nearly all contemporary theories of literary fiction. There is a tendency among researchers to take it as obvious that the contrast between these two types of contexts is crucial for understanding the boundary that divides fiction from non-fiction. Seen from the perspective of non-relational representation, the key question is rather how representational networks come into being and how consumers of literary texts can, and do, engage with these networks. As a whole, the book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive artefactualist account of the nature of fictional entities.

American fiction --- History and criticism.

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Blonde und blauäugige Afroamerikaner, die aus-sehen wie typische Nordeuropäer? Die amerikanische Rassendefinition hat dazu geführt, dass es in keiner anderen Bevölkerungsgruppe eine solche Spanne von Hautfarben, Haarstrukturen und Gesichtszügen gibt wie bei den Afroamerikanern. Und das individuelle Aussehen hat Auswirkungen auf alle Lebensbereiche – von sozialen Beziehungen bis hin zur Gehaltshöhe. Kein Wunder also, dass dieses Phänomen auch in der Literatur zu einem wichtigen Thema wurde. Harriet Beecher Stowe teilte ihre schwarzen Protagonisten in Uncle Tom’s Cabin in zwei distinkte Gruppen – die Hellen und die Dunklen mit spezifischen Charakterzügen. Afroamerikanische Autoren hingegen entwickelten unterschiedliche Strategien, um gegen die hautfarbenbasierte Diskriminierung von Schwarzen innerhalb der eigenen Gruppe anzuschreiben: von leichtherziger Ironie bis zu bitterem Realismus, von der Lobpreisung des Reichtums an physischen Unterschieden bis hin zur Beschwörung der Einheit aller Schwarzen. Die Vielfalt der Strategien zeigt nicht zuletzt, dass die Thematik bis heute nichts von ihrer Brisanz verloren hat.

American fiction --- Black people in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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"Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west, until an unexpected shift of allegiance separates the sisters forever. Elsewhere in the book, a young boy's kidnapping ignites tensions in a sorority house; frontier figure Cynthia Ann Parker struggles upon her return to her birth community from the Comanche people with whom she's lived a full life; and in a metafictional twist, a gothic tale resonates in the present. In the novella, "A Thousand Stings," three sisters come of age in the 1960s over a long summer of small-town scandal and universal stakes. These are just some of the lives, shaped by migrations, yearning, and the long shadows of myth, that Holladay creates. She crafts them with subtle humor, a stunning sense of place, and an unerring eye for character"--

Short stories, American --- American short stories --- American fiction

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Utopian writing offers a fascinating panorama of social visions; and the related forms of dystopia and anti-utopian satire extend this into the range of social nightmares. Originally published in 1988, this comparative study of utopian fiction by British and American women writers demonstrates the continuity of a well-established, but little-known, tradition, emphasising its range and diversity, and providing ample evidence of women’s aspirations and documenting the restrictions and exclusions in private and public life that their novels challenge. Historically, the growth of each national tradition is traced in relation to social and political movements, particularly the suffrage movement and contemporary feminism. Comparatively, the quite different responses of British and American women to what are in many instances the same social problems are examine in the light of changing expectations. Definitions of human nature and gender relationships are assessed on a nature/culture continuum as a means of understanding this change. Women’s attitudes to their social and political roles, their working lives, to sexuality, marriage and the family are reflected in their visions of fruitful change; and so also is the impact of two world wars, socialism and fascism, the debate on peaceful uses of nuclear energy and fears of a nuclear holocaust.

English fiction --- American fiction --- Women and literature --- Feminism and literature

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Can rubber trees, silicone dolls, corpses, soil, subatomic particles, designer shoes, and discarded computers become the protagonists of contemporary literature-and what does this tell us about the relationship between humans and objects? In Things with a History, Héctor Hoyos argues that the roles of objects in recent Latin American fiction offer a way to integrate materialisms old and new, transforming our understanding of how things shape social and political relations.Discussing contemporary authors including Roberto Bolaño, Ariel Magnus, César Aira, and Blanca Wiethüchter as well as classic writers such as Fernando Ortiz and José Eustasio Rivera, Hoyos considers how Latin American literature has cast things as repositories of history, with an emphasis on the radically transformed circulation of artifacts under globalization. He traces a tradition of thought, transcultural materialism, that draws from the capacity of literary language to defamiliarize our place within the tangible world. Hoyos contrasts new materialisms with historical-materialist approaches, exposing how recent tendencies sometimes sidestep concepts such as primitive accumulation, commodity fetishism, and conspicuous consumption, which have been central to Latin American history and literature. He contends that an integrative approach informed by both historical and new materialisms can balance seeing things as a means to reveal the true nature of social relations with appraisals of things in their autonomy. Things with a History simultaneously offers a sweeping account of the material turn in recent Latin American culture and reinvigorates social theory and cultural critique.

Latin American fiction --- Materialism in literature. --- History and criticism.