This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions to the Swahili literary tradition. Grounded throughout in the historical and socio-political contexts of the authors it discusse...Loe edasi...
This book explores the conceptualizations of female power through the notion of matriarchy in a variety of historical, cultural and epistemological contexts....Loe edasi...
Victorian Womens Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultura...Loe edasi...
Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on the lead writer for the Age of the Image....Loe edasi...
This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and the current state of the industry, while also providing critical discussions of videogame theory....Loe edasi...
Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker Records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorkers fat payments, and Irish writers relationships with...Loe edasi...
Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding situations in different geographical regions....Loe edasi...
This book investigates the nature of home and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss of Empire and its uncanny presence at home....Loe edasi...
This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevskys humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature....Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltits recent novels, highlighting how her experimental narratives engage with Chiles evolving social and political landscape....Loe edasi...
This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Loe edasi...
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries....Loe edasi...
This monograph explores selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth, and Kate Chopin. While they critique organized religion and challenge the premise of doctrine and the restrictiveness of relig...Loe edasi...
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire....Loe edasi...
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies cultural engagements that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity, and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by traditio...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795-1821). Polidoris diary was first published in 1911 by his nephew William Michael Rossetti, based on the expurgated version of the diary created by Polido...Loe edasi...
Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of eleven essays that examine the Nobel prize winning poets translations, and that situates the works within a transnational perspective....Loe edasi...
This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments in which ideas about Irishness have been constructed, exploited, and racialized....Loe edasi...
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these hi...Loe edasi...
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics....Loe edasi...
