Women Authors 31

Il buio oltre la siepe e il film che ne è derivato sono entrati nell'immaginario di adulti e ragazzi, contribuendo alla conquista dei diritti civili della popolazione nera. Harper Lee – la cui vita ……続きを見る

Je suis Murakami Haruki, écrivain japonais. J’ai été élevé au Japon, j’écris des romans en japonais; et [...] je m’interroge sérieusement sur mon identité; celle-ci renfermant [...] mon identité en ……続きを見る

Per celebrare il bicentenario della prima pubblicazione postuma dell'ultimo capolavoro di Jane Austen, "Persuasione" (1818), Alessandra Quattrocchi ci invita a mettere per un attimo da parte la bril……続きを見る

Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collabo……続きを見る

This essay collection rediscovers and reassesses a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers. In the last few decades considerable advances have been made towards rediscovering, cont……続きを見る

Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González, and Anissa Wardi In her eleventh novel, God He……続きを見る

The essays included in Mary Hays’s ‘Female Biography’: Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the authors’ collaboration in producing the first modern edition of Hays’s work in t……続きを見る

Black Beauty is a magnificent creature, the pride of Squire Gordon's country estate. But when the squire has to move abroad, Beauty's fortunes change, and at the hands of other masters he suffers th……続きを見る

This is a book on the life and times of Robert Chambers, founder of W. & R. Chambers publishers. Although there are now books based on some of his letters and on the impact of one of his books, The ……続きを見る

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first publish……続きを見る

These essays will provide you with the wisdom of the ages - the insights of Wilde, Austen, Milton, Shakespeare, Cavavfy, both Brontës and all the ancient Greeks. You will know how to dress, talk, or……続きを見る

Invitée au Louvre en 2006, Toni Morrison, avait choisi « l'étranger chez soi » comme thème d'exploration du musée pour lier les notions d'origine, d'appartenance et d'exil. Elle tomba en arrêt devan……続きを見る

Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful……続きを見る

Dans "Nos femmes de lettres", Paul Flat explore la place des écrivaines dans le paysage littéraire français, oscillant entre analyse critique et jubilation esthétique. À la croisée des chemins entre……続きを見る

Dans "Mademoiselle de Scudéry, sa vie et sa correspondance, avec un choix de ses poésies", Madeleine de Scudéry se livre à une exploration introspective à travers ses écrits, dévoilant ainsi sa pers……続きを見る

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on ……続きを見る

Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories o……続きを見る

In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find ……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars ……続きを見る

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist lit……続きを見る

Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western liter……続きを見る

American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing……続きを見る

Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on……続きを見る

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virg……続きを見る

Rosario Castellanos logró el ideal del crítico: no dejarse llevar por simpatías o por antipatías, no involucrar su pensamiento político con el del autor del libro comentado, leer sin prejuicios, ent……続きを見る

Lugar de Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega se ha ganado duro, y ella todavía no ha recibido el reconocimiento que se merece. En Género, nación y literatura: Emilia Pardo Bazán e……続きを見る

In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing It……続きを見る

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1……続きを見る

In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written i……続きを見る

Artesana de sí misma reevalua el lugar de Gabriela Mistral, premio Nobel de literatura, en la historia literaria e intelectual de America Latina. Cabello Hutt acerca a los lectores a la amplia, pero……続きを見る