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The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver In Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, Ian Tan situates Kingsolver's oeuvre in an ecocritical a……続きを見る

Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to th……続きを見る

«Bold and engaging, a well-researched look at how clothes can simultaneously reveal and conceal.» (Victoria Bateman, author of Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty) Do you sometimes l……続きを見る

In this volume, Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Jo……続きを見る

A revelatory look at the life of the great American authorーand how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boun……続きを見る

A revised edition of Linda Wagner-Martin's comprehensive study of the novels, stories, essays and poetry of American author Barbara Kingsolver. Now updated so that coverage runs from Kingsolver's fi……続きを見る

The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She h……続きを見る

„Eine Frau muß Geld und ein eigenes Zimmer haben, um schreiben zu können“, lautete die Forderung Virginia Woolfs aus dem Jahr 1929. Der Band setzt sich mit den verschiedenen Formen auseinander, die ……続きを見る

L’autrice interpreta il racconto di Balzac “Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu” come equivalente narrativo di una identità di artista in trasformazione negli anni Trenta dell’Ottocento. Attraverso l’analisi d……続きを見る

Lucía Melgar y Gabriela Mora han construido en este libro mucho más que un conjunto de voces en torno a Elena Garro. Las 14 experiencias, sean éstas de lectura, revisión histórica o narración de uno……続きを見る

Contributions by Yoshiko Akamatsu, Carol L. Beran, Rita Bode, Lesley D. Clement, Allison McBain Hudson, Kate Lawson, Jessica Wen Hui Lim, Lindsey McMaster, E. Holly Pike, Katharine Slater, Margaret ……続きを見る

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the hi……続きを見る

Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf’s life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists a……続きを見る

“Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” ーMichael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the Birkin Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of the New York Times bestseller The Widow Clicquot (an Amazo……続きを見る

Este libro parte del principio que la especulación consiste en una cuestión de inteligibilidad, lo cual se acentúa en los ámbitos periféricos del planeta y, más aún, bajo las condiciones actuales de……続きを見る

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

Este libro reúne una veintena de contribuciones de autores que trabajan desde disciplinas diferentes sobre los géneros epistolares. A través de ellas, se exploran las técnicas, los medios y las herr……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

Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? A ……続きを見る

D. H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love' is a seminal work of modernist literature that delves into the complexities of human relationships, particularly focusing on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gud……続きを見る

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding v……続きを見る

«A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro’s Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.» (Jaso……続きを見る

«This relevant, clearly defined study isn’t constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronolo……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