Science Fiction Literary Criticism

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    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • By: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
    • By: Harriet Baker
    • Narrated by: Harriet Baker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....

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    • By: René Girard
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis.

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    • By: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • By: Deborah Chester
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. Fantasy author Deborah Chester guides novices and intermediate writers through a step-by-step process of story construction....

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    • By: Om Books International
    • Narrated by: Vivek Madan
    • Series: 365
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • One treat a day! A 23-volume series of 365 treats: stories, facts, questions and answers, and science experiments for young listeners....

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    • Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future.

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    • Eine deutsche Affäre
    • By: Rüdiger Safranski
    • Narrated by: Rüdiger Safranski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-09
    • Language: German
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    • Rüdiger Safranski beschreibt die Epoche der Romantik und ihre Zeitgenossen, die für die Entfesselung des Genies stehen, für den Aufbruch und die Lust am Experiment...

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    • Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    • By: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Nicole Poole
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is a must-listen, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.

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    • Writing as an Other
    • By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 08-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

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    • By: Luna Miguel
    • Narrated by: Marta Martin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-24
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Recuperando el título de un pequeño cuento con el que la puertorriqueña Rosario Ferré analizó la misoginia literaria en los años noventa, "El coloquio de las perras" pretende ser un homenaje a las escritoras hispanohablantes que sortearon todo tipo de obstáculos para hacer su literatura.

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    • Plato - Melville - Nietzsche
    • By: Mark Anderson
    • Narrated by: Randal Schaffer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Moby-Dick as Philosophy is at base a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Herman Melville’s masterwork, Moby-Dick. Superimposing portraits of Plato, Melville, and Nietzsche, it generates a composite image from the overlaying and interblending of figures....

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    • My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
    • By: David Denby
    • Narrated by: Edward Asner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • At the age of 48, film critic David Denby returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, to re-experience the core humanities courses...

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    • A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God
    • By: Robert Charles Wilson
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. In Owning the Unknown, Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism....

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    • Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
    • By: Andrew Klavan
    • Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • In The Kingdom of Cain, crime novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the evil of murder in film and literature can point us to ways of living honestly, beautifully, and even joyfully in a dark world.

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    • A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • By: James Marcus
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary audiences.

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    • Was schon Agatha Christie über Rechtsmedizin wusste [The Forensics of Agatha Christie]
    • By: Carla Valentine
    • Narrated by: Sanja Nowara
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-23
    • Language: German
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    • Für alle Fans von Agatha Christie und für alle True Crime-Leser*innen: Carla Valentine, die englische Forensik-Expertin klärt in dieser kompetenten Enzyklopädie der forensischen Methoden auf über Blutspuren und Fingerabdruck, über Giftmord und Obduktion....

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    • By: David Sterling Brown
    • Narrated by: David Sterling Brown
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet, and Tamora—figures who are never quite 'white enough'—this bold and compelling work emphasizes how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and reaffirms white supremacy....

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    • An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games
    • By: Valerie Estelle Frankel
    • Narrated by: ShaeLynn Watt
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Valerie Estelle Frankel sheds light on the deeper meanings behind Panem's heroes and villains in this hottest of YA trilogies....

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