Sari: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365770)
New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author. Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Her work blurs the boun...Loe edasi...
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on th...Loe edasi...
A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present “( A) fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book Review Poetry is...Loe edasi...
This book examines Nordic civil societies from 1800 until today, by studying the roles of voluntary action and associations in the Nordic region and beyond.Through its diverse and historically informed analyses of civil society, traditional...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804295892)
Fredric Jameson introduces the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, he places this effervescent period of thought in th...Loe edasi...
A book that calls us to witness our place in history Sally Rooney An urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Womens Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost. Award-winning author Is...Loe edasi...
“This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.” - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own.How of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674982970)
An edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over 60 years. Illustrations. The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet’s extant letters, including...Loe edasi...
Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butlers complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to h...Loe edasi...
Her fragrant body and burning red lipsA married couple reveal their darkest sexual fantasies to each other, in this erotic psychodrama of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twentieth-century Vienna.Ten new titles in t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478014621)
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867&;1916), widely celebrated as Japans greate...Loe edasi...
This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete...Loe edasi...
Sari: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781580469265)
Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer. Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European t...Loe edasi...
The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in...Loe edasi...
A classic of world literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles dram...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2012, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Ottawa Press, ISBN-13: 9780776607283)
The Makura no S(shi, or The Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes on life in the Japanese royal court composed around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman known as Sei Sh(nagon....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781578065592)
American Literature -- Literary Criticism--> There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a...Loe edasi...
