Giovanni P. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to a foreign country. One of the first and most compelling spy stories ever written, this reprint (originally published in 1970) has been...Loe edasi...
Giving Voice to Exile in Literature aims to provide undergraduate, graduate and professional readers with a nuanced understanding of how the unique status of exile, issues of displacement, complexities of cultural identity formation, the state of in...Loe edasi...
Over 300 anthologies of womens short stories appeared in the literary market between 1970 and 2000. This publishing phenomenon is considered for the first time in this book....Loe edasi...
Through an evocative blend of theoretical rigor and literary sensibility, Tingting Hui spotlights the melodrama of accented speecha performance that exposes the bodily nature of language, bridging the erotic and the vulnerable, the audible and the v...Loe edasi...
LInnocente (1892) is a psychological novel by the renowned Italian author Gabriele DAnnunzio. Lara Gochin Raffaelli has produced an expert new English translation of a DAnnunzios masterpiece, maintaining his lyrical rhythms and rich imagery, while...Loe edasi...
This is the first book-length, English-language translation of the work of this high-profile, prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2014, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003718116)
In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation and humdrum family life....Loe edasi...
Black Bag Moon: Doctors Tales from Dusk to Dawn is filled with inspiring, educational, entertaining and often quirky tales. Based on a series of interviews conducted with general practitioners across the globe, the book creatively presents myriad a...Loe edasi...
An account of rural and agricultural life in Japan in the early 1900s. It also provides information about farming, courtship, marriage, child-rearing, health care, folk religion and funeral customs in the late Meiji era, when Japans transformation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2007, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003722908)
The nine stories, and the essay, featured here were written during the World War One, or in the first years of Estonian independence in the early 1920s. They reflect the troubled spirit of the times, but exhibit the influence of a wide selection of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2002, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003722335)
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewiczs work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside world. The stories in this selection were all written in the 1930s, and provide an extraordinary evocation of Polands first brief era of independenc...Loe edasi...
In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for mak-ing high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people...Loe edasi...
An anthology of ten short stories by one of Koreas foremost living writers. The literary world of Pak explores the moral ambiguities inherent in Koreas society today and encourages the reader to question the injustices that prevail in the more imp...Loe edasi...
A collection of short stories by scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer Taeko Tomioka. Taeko deconstructs the discourse of the nuclear family and heterosexuality in gendered Japanese culture. Her stories focus on ordinary people unfettered by intro...Loe edasi...
This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transf...Loe edasi...
Brings together 28 lively and readable stories, many of which are re-published here for the first time since their original appearance. Includes fiction by Maria Edgeworth, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-1998, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110808063)
Walapai, a language of the Yuman group, is spoken in Northern Arizona. This book contains texts of various genres - myths, stories from everyday life - which were collected by the author in the late 50s and 60s. The texts are presented in morpholo...Loe edasi...
This is an English-language anthology of Kurahashi Yumikos short stories, whose subversive fiction defies established definitions of literature, Japan, modernity and femininity, and represents an important intellectual aspect of modern Japa...Loe edasi...
This anthology of short stories reflects the writers shared core experience of Koreas trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been a...Loe edasi...
Considered one of the first prose works in Italian and a precursor of the Decameron, this is the first complete translation of the Novellino into English, based on the 1525 editio princeps....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-1996, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003721451)
This is a collection of Jan Nerudas intimate, wry, bittersweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague....Loe edasi...
The 18th-century Chinese poet, Yuan Mei, also wrote some short fiction - Censored by Confucius - which is reproduced here. The stories offer insights into the Meis views on crime, sex, the status of women, homosexuality, miscarriage of justice, g...Loe edasi...
Consists of eight short stories, all of which concern the human condition. The stories are based around two characteristics of the Korean people - powerful family bonds and nostalgia for the past. Sadness and triumph are the unifying themes in the w...Loe edasi...
A collection of industry novels by Ikko Shimizu: Keiretsu is about an automobile parts manufacturer; The Ibis Cage is about geishas; and Silver Sanctuary is about bank employees. Each story addresses issues unique to its venue yet universal...Loe edasi...
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the third volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works....Loe edasi...
Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these three stories by Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life. Both delicate and violent, Devis stories map the experiences of the tribals and trib...Loe edasi...
New Blazing World (1666), is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction, telling the story of a voyage to a Utopian World. The Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) was fascinated by contemporary science, and wove it into her writings. She was a colou...Loe edasi...
This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought....Loe edasi...
