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This book explores the influence and reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s works in Argentina, where he spent over two decades and wrote much of his oeuvre. It examines the "Gombrowicz effect" in Argenti……続きを見る

The foundation of her success was the homely relationship she had with her readers. Women and men bought or borrowed her books for 40+ years, participating vicariously in her life story like today's……続きを見る

'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.' Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every d……続きを見る

Das Internet hat sich von einem Medium der Kommunikation, Wissensvermittlung und Informationssuche zu einem Instrument entwickelt, das die Öffentlichkeit sowohl positiv als auch negativ beeinflussen……続きを見る

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtleーand not so subtleーstrategies tha……続きを見る

The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predeces……続きを見る

Este libro contribuye a la descolonización de los estudios de memoria hispánicos. Aplica la perspectiva poscolonial y decolonial a los estudios de memoria. Aborda las memorias del pasado colonial es……続きを見る

Erinnern und Erzählen sind biologisch wie psychologisch unverzichtbar für den Menschen. Zwangsläufig wird dabei Faktisches mit Fiktivem vermischt. In der Literatur bieten mit fiktiven Mitteln gestal……続きを見る

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the eraーincluding Charles Manson, th……続きを見る

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collect……続きを見る

This book questions Italian “white innocence” and examines the specificity of Italian racial discourse through the analysis of different kinds of texts and representations. Intersectionality – a the……続きを見る

Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrateーor undermineーromance and happy endings? How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, iron……続きを見る

Monarch Butterflies Over My Head" Selah's second book. It a captivating collection of poems that delves into the experience of growing pains as a young adult. Each poem is a vivid exploration of the……続きを見る

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents t……続きを見る

In dieser Studie wird erstmals die kulturelle Prägung von Metaphern in religiösen Texten einer mehrsprachigen und multikulturellen Region analysiert. Der Autor vergleicht hierzu deutsche und polnisc……続きを見る

En esta monografía se analizan los textos de contenido fantástico de la plataforma virtual descubreleyendas.es, repertorio de leyendas literarias del siglo XIX integrado por más de seiscientas leyen……続きを見る

Las incursoras. Mujeres, libros, infancia es un recorrido personal por la vida y obra de algunas de las pioneras de la literatura infantil y juvenil, escrita por una de las mayores y más entretenida……続きを見る

In "Mrs. Harter" by E. M. Delafield, readers are drawn into the intricate world of a woman who navigates the complexities of societal expectations and personal desires. Set against the backdrop of e……続きを見る

Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of ……続きを見る

Poetry has been around for nearly five millennia, yet never has it been more puzzling. Technology, social media, and the blinding pace of contemporary life leave many students and readers in the dar……続きを見る

This book contains an original collection of contributions that deal with the use of a methodology based on, driven, or assisted by corpora to analyse language from a gender perspective. Specialist ……続きを見る

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to w……続きを見る

The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century lit……続きを見る

El presente volumen colectivo en homenaje a Carmen de Mora Valcárcel, Catedrática de Literatura Hispanoamericana de la Universidad de Sevilla entre 1978 y 2021, se centra en dos de sus campos fundam……続きを見る

Este libro es una invitación al encuentro con la sociocrítica y el giro decolonial, dos corrientes de pensamiento distintas pero complementarias. ¿En qué medida sus campos, sus objetos de estudio, s……続きを見る

A biography of Thomas Mann's two eldest children that provides intriguing insight into both their lives and the political and cultural shifts at the same time. Thomas Mann's two eldest children, Eri……続きを見る

Although denied the right to vote, late nineteenth-century women writers engaged in debates over land settlement and expansion through literary texts in regional periodicals. In “Land of Sunshine”: ……続きを見る

This is a study of Black women’s anger, its attempted silencing, and its cultural effects. It grounds the discussion of the political and cultural function of Black feminist anger in several points ……続きを見る

Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Bernard T. Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie……続きを見る

A devout Catholic, a visionaryーand some say propheticーwriter, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did not……続きを見る