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A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." ー New York Times Book Review A r……続きを見る

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Perfect for linguaphiles and lovers of quotes, Ifferisms is a lively compendium of wit, wisdom, and wordplay from Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like, Viva La Repartee, and Ox……続きを見る

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“A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America’s premier authors.” ーKirkus Reviews In Rough Country is a sterling collection of literary essays, reviews, and criticism fr……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, a……続きを見る

The Pulitzer Prize winning author -- “an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) -- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical……続きを見る

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays of……続きを見る

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Les Pensées d’une reine, une oeuvre de la femme de lettres et Reine de Roumanie Élisabeth de Wied, pseudonyme Carmen Sylva (1843 – 1916). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte ……続きを見る

Women's Experimental Writingconsiders six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kat……続きを見る

There are many different ways to say "I." This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gisèle Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their aut……続きを見る

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship……続きを見る

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. Accordin……続きを見る

Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograp……続きを見る

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the p……続きを見る

Poetry. Beautiful words, long used to speak what we keep hidden at heart and let's be frank, woo the opposite sex,. Poetry comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to heart wrenchingly eloquent……続きを見る

Poetry. Beautiful words, song lyrics, humorous limericks, it all counts. Long used to speak ones heart and let’s be frank, woo the opposite sex, it comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to h……続きを見る

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his be……続きを見る

The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range……続きを見る

This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts……続きを見る

A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her ……続きを見る

The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that wer……続きを見る

Olivia in India by Anna Masterton Buchan the Scottish novelist who wrote under the pen name O. Douglas.This book was a historical duplication that wrote in 1912.Most of her novels were written and s……続きを見る

One hundred and ninety nine years ago, in an English country churchyard, a lady was laid to rest who enraptures the hearts of millions around the world today. She was only forty one years old, and h……続きを見る

At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women……続きを見る

Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical edu……続きを見る

Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin written by Mary Hazelton Wade. Published in 1903. Fifth Impression, June, 1908 Sixth Impression, March, 1910続きを見る