Fiction's Present

Fiction's PresentFiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present adventurously engages the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. By juxtaposing scholarly articles with essays by practicing novelists,

he offers rich new analyses of such classic films as Bringing Up Baby

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Jesus' stilling of the storm on the Sea of Galilee in Mark (4:35–41) is one of the most vivid narratives in the Gospels

and public diplomacy fronts of the second intifada (2000–2005) and how Israel deliberated its response in an environment where the state is only one of the players in a global arena in which individuals

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Also included are stories from actual participants in the movement who benefitted from this approach and from policymakers who saw how self-direction could help address states' problems

This collection summarises the wealth of research on ways to improve models predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural systems

This book investigates the convergence of philosophy

Antonio Benítez-Rojo

alternatives are needed in order to increase the feasibility of harvesting

Gentlemen and Schoolboys: The Authority of Latin in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England