Taking account of recent biographies and posthumously-published works, this study sets de Beauvoir's fiction withing the context of her life and works as a whole, before examining each of her stories in detail: her earliest collection of takes; her first published novel; the novels of her "moral period;" the prize-winning Les Mandarins; and her final stories, written in the 1960s, including one not published until 1992. The continuities and the developments in de Beauvoir's major themes are analyzed, and the distinctive features of her artistic acheivements are assessed. (No knowledge of French on the part of the reader is presupposed.)

Simone De Beauvoir (Modern Novelists)

Literature & Fiction

Keefe, Terry

History & Criticism

Palgrave Publishers, Limited

This systematic study sets Beauvoir's fiction within the context of her life and works as a whole before examining each of her stories in detail: her earliest collection of tales; her first published novel; the novels of her 'moral period'; the prize-winning Les Mandarins; and her final stories, including one not published until six years after her death. The continuities and developments in her major themes are analysed, and the distinctive features of her artistic achievements assessed.

Simone De Beauvoir: A Study of Her Writings

Barnes & Noble Imports

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French Existentialist Fiction: Changing Moral Perspectives

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Passengers cancelling their tickets for Titanic's maiden voyage out of apprehension; a famous social reformer who died on Titanic, warned in 1911 that he would be in danger from water in April 1912; inhabitants of the remote islands of Fiji aware of the sinking before reports of the collision reached the Pacific; a dying girl who, on 14 April 1912, 'sees' a big ship sinking in the water and mysteriously knows the name of the violinist in Titanic's orchestra. These are just a few of the numerous claims to psychic foreknowledge of the ship's sinking. 
Within days of the widely-publicised disaster of 1912, stories began circulating of extraordinary omens and individuals who supposedly had supernatural premonitions of the disaster. Furthermore, four fictional works - one dating as far back as twenty-six years - came to be seen as anticipating the disaster. 
Between 1960 and 2006, five major commentators published extended analyses of the alleged premonitions, none of which is now easily accessible to an English readership. This book examines them all in detail. The whole treatment of the matter opens up fascinating questions concerning the paranormal, but also raises and leaves unresolved crucial issues specific to premonitions and how they can be legitimately examined. 
Readers are left to make their own judgement on Titanic premonitions.

Premonitions of the Titanic Disaster

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Troubador Publishing

This is the first full-length stufy of Zola's practice as a novelist. Although Zola's literary achievement has been revalued in the last 25 years, critical attention has been concentrated on the contrast between his work's realistic dimension and its poetic power. Now the balance is redressed by this study of Zola as a crafstman. Most of the ten specially commissioned chapters in this book are concerned with its great saga of Les Rougon-Macquart. In each, Zola's techniques are related to problems on genre and representation and several relate his techniques to those used in contemporary melodrama, journalism and impressionist painting. One chapter is a deep, computer-assisted study of the ways in which Zola's novels are organized, and the study of conscious organization, both of the novel-cycle and individual texts, is the major theme of the entire book.

Zola and the Craft of Fiction

Lethbridge, Robert

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