Small magic : short fiction 1977-2020

Short stories. Selections

The fey of Cloudmoor -- Aftermath -- Imaginary friends -- The weapons master's choice -- An unfortunate influx of Fillipians -- Allanon's quest -- Indomitable -- Don't tell dad -- The black irix -- Last ride -- Warrior.

Narrative magic in the fiction of Isabel Allende

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

The Magic Curtain : the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

The background -- The end of an era -- Gateway of the underdog -- Romanticism and reality -- The poetry -- Rhymes for rampant change -- The arbiter of moral codes -- Mecca for the landless : life in the fields -- The periphery of law and order -- Subculture of salvation -- The prose -- Southern rim of the Western novel -- Through the looking glass of the hybrid culture -- Wading into the American dream -- Before the gringos came, and after : the romantic heritage -- The quest for psychological reality -- The individual as outcast in the new millennium.

Lies that tell the truth : magic realism seen through contemporary fiction from Britain

Costerus ;

Multiculturalism and magic realism in Zadie Smith's novel White teeth : between fiction and reality

White teeth.

The Importance of Language

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Words and Their Meanings / Thought and Language / Bluspels and Flalansferes / Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction / The Language of Magic / U and Non-U: An Essay in Sociological Linguistics / The Resources of Language / Essentially Contested Concepts / The Theory of Meaning / ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling

The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm -- Spider Rose -- Cicada queen -- Sunken gardens -- Twenty evocations -- Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei -- Dinner in Audoghast -- The compassionate, the digital -- Flowers of Edo -- The little magic shop -- Our neural Chernobyl -- We see things differently -- Dori Bangs -- The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin -- Are you for 86? -- The littlest jackal -- The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy -- Bicycle repairman -- Taklamakan -- Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles -- Maneki Neko -- In paradise -- The blemmye's strategem -- Kiosk.

Rewriting Moses : the narrative eclipse of the text

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;

Gender, culture, theory ;

Bible. Old Testament

Contemporary images of Moses -- Subverting the great man: violence and magic in Moses fiction -- Double-Moses: gender and the sacred in Moses films -- Legend and history in modern scholarly portraits of Moses -- Biblical text, biblical tradition -- Concealment, revelation, and gender: the veil of Moses in the Bible and in Christian art -- Uncanny biblical texts -- Moses' heavy mouth: discourse and revelation in Exodus 4.10-17 -- Torah of Moses: Deuteronomy 31-32 as a textual memorial -- Song and the blessing: poetic discourse in Deuteronomy 32-33 -- Birth, death and writing of Moses.

The best American spiritual writing 2006

Best American series,

fitting desire / Renewing husbandry / big tent / On making the Martyrdom of Saint Polycarp: writing the true icon / After strange gods / Pipistrelle / Eddy / manna for all seasons / cellular church / Moral fiction / tragic fate of John Ruskin / Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius / This soul has six wings / glue is gone / Music's missing magic / Waking / Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles / Into the wonder / kosher conversion / Our near-death experience / After 9/11 / secret of the self / Our American Babylon / Are you there, God? / Seven penitential psalms / lost Buddhas of Bamiyan / Ishi / Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of thought / Just power / Angel bones / church's way of speaking / Marina / East Boston, 1996 / 20, 40, 60, 80,

Julian Barnes : contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives series.

Flaneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes's Metroland / Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot / À preference for things Gallic': Julian Barnes and the French Connection / Àn Ordinary Piece of Magic': Religion in the Work of Julian Barnes / Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France in Julian Barnes's Talking It Over / Story of Julian Barnes's The Porcupine: an Epistolary 1/2 Chapter / Julian Barnes's England, England and Englishness / Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian Barnes / Àll Letters Quoted Are Authentic': The Past After Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barnes's Arthur & George