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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
