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This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of D……続きを見る

Literary License and the West's Romance with Afghanistan analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth throu……続きを見る

What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portraye……続きを見る

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Geo……続きを見る

To survive Totalitarianism and retain their humanity, Czech women writers went underground to write, paint, sculpt, and create supportive communities. This book explores fiction, poetry, and life-su……続きを見る

This is the SECOND BOOKLET in the MARGARET OGOLA'S THE RIVER AND THE SOURCE series. It examines the nature of the themes against world themes in literature, and the Elements of Style used in this no……続きを見る

Tandis que l’on pense – libération de la parole aidant –, que les droits des femmes effectuaient des avancées décisives, il nous faut bien constater que partout dans le monde, les idées conservatric……続きを見る

Ever since Godwin announced to the world in Memoirs that Wollstonecraft had had little use for religion, most biographers, scholars, historians and readers have regarded her as an apostate. Further,……続きを見る

Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTH……続きを見る

While Jane Austen is often regarded as an author who embodies Georgian refinement and restraint, this book argues that her work was deeply engaged with the medieval tradition of courtly love and its……続きを見る

The book is a detailed introduction to Post-Blackness as a literary aesthetic, tracing its emergence to the philosophical movement that defined itself in the visual arts towards the end of the twent……続きを見る

This book is a collection of excellent essays about heroic, intelligent, perceptive, and resourceful private citizens with exceptional investigative capacities and their important contributions to n……続きを見る

In "Über Deutschland" (De l'Allemagne) präsentiert die renommierte Schriftstellerin und Denkerin Madame de Staël eine tiefgreifende Analyse der deutschen Kultur, Philosophie und Literatur zu Beginn ……続きを見る

In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf presents a profound exploration of the relationship between women and fiction, articulated through a rich tapestry of narrative style that blends essay and f……続きを見る

In "The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf," the notable modernist author presents a rich tapestry of her thoughts on various subjects, ranging from literature and art to feminism and politics. Wool……続きを見る

In "The Collected Works of Mary Shelley (Illustrated Edition)," readers are invited into the rich tapestry of Shelley's literary genius, showcasing her most significant works alongside striking illu……続きを見る

Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals a……続きを見る

In "Ausgewählte Werke von Bettina von Arnim" präsentiert die Autorin eine erlesene Sammlung ihrer literarischen Schätze, die sowohl emotionale Tiefe als auch gesellschaftskritische Schärfe ausstrahl……続きを見る

In "The Greatest Novels by O. Douglas," Anna Buchan offers a meticulously crafted exploration of the literary contributions of her pseudonymous brother, O. Douglas (a pen name for the Scottish autho……続きを見る

This book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition. This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied li……続きを見る

Empathie ist eine wichtige Fähigkeit zur Übernahme fremder Sichtweisen. Sie spielt nicht nur im alltäglichen Umgang mit Mitmenschen, sondern auch bei der Filmrezeption eine große Rolle. Basierend au……続きを見る

Playing Shakespeare’s Beautiful People is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of "beauty" found in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critica……続きを見る

The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the imp……続きを見る

Wie prägen stereotypes Denken und Handeln eine Gesellschaft? Verstärken neue Technologien die gängigen Diskriminierungen und erzeugen neue? Ist eine vorurteilsfreie Gesellschaft überhaupt möglich? Z……続きを見る

Außenseiterfiguren sind in der Filmgeschichte omnipräsent, das gilt besonders für die Geschichte des Jugendfilms. Die Forschung hat sich mit diesem Phänomen bislang allerdings nur am Rande beschäfti……続きを見る

Desde hace unos años hemos visto cómo la figura del vampiro ha pasado de ser una que infunde terror, a una que desata pasiones, un don Juan. El vampirismo es el nuevo donjuanismo, por lo que hablare……続きを見る

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active corresponde……続きを見る

Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal co……続きを見る

In der Post-Wahrheit-Ära verschwimmen Wahrheit und Fiktion in bisher ungekanntem Ausmaß. Die Verlässlichkeit unabhängiger Medien wird seit den 1960er/70er Jahren angezweifelt. Dies führt zu Schwieri……続きを見る

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a……続きを見る