Includes index. An account of the span of American literature from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to the writings of the 1980s.

Reviews the literary history of the Hispanic world, from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries, concentrating upon the literature of the Castilian dialect.

"Avrom Fleishman's "The English Historical Novel" provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel".--Harriet Gilliam, "Clio".

Publisher description: It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media--whether in video games, action movies, or political comedy skits on Saturday Night Live--are just entertaining fantasies that have no tangible impact on our everyday lives, attitudes, and choices. Not so, says Karen Dill in this lively and provocative book. As much as we may want to deny it, the images, sounds, and narratives that bombard us daily have ample...

Chaos Bound will contribute to and enliven current debates among chaos theorists, cultural critics and cultural historians, critical theorists, literary critics interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, researchers in nonlinear dynamics, and others concerned with the relation between science and culture. -- back cover.