Rio - Women Authors 1

This volume was originally published in German in 2015, commemorating the end of World War II seventy years earlier and acknowledging the contribution of African American soldiers to Germany’s liber……続きを見る

Comics have great potential to depict an almost infinite range of themes, questions and lives. But what about their ability to express and interpret philosophical concepts? How can we differentiate ……続きを見る

Reading is a peculiar kind of experience. Although its practice and theory have a very long tradition, the question of aesthetic pleasure is as perplexing as ever. Why do we read? What exactly thril……続きを見る

This case study deals with late Chosŏn dynasty works of narrative fiction modelled after Kuunmong (A Dream of Nine Clouds) by Kim Manjung (1637–1692). The focus lies on a novel extant in two manuscr……続きを見る

La politización de nuestros cuerpos como feministas nos abre un campo amplio de posibilidades de deconstrucción de sexualidades, géneros, razas. Este libro nace de la necesidad de compartir diferent……続きを見る

Das Unheimliche (oder auch das Verdrängte, nach Freud) fördert eine tiefere Einsicht in die uns umgebende Realität und somit eine Reflexion, die der herrschenden Akzeleration des Alltags, der Oberfl……続きを見る

Este libro contiene una serie de trabajos investigativos del Grupo Estudios Literarios cuyo eje temático versa sobre los conceptos de glocalización, hibridez e identidad. Asumimos que estos fenómeno……続きを見る

„Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet ……続きを見る

Die Leitfrage des Bandes bezieht sich auf das interpretatorische Potenzial des Begriffs agency, verstanden als individuelle und kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit, wie sie in der politischen Theorie zent……続きを見る

Kate Chopin around the World: Global Perspectives offers a fresh, international lens on Chopin’s impact on readers around the world. Contributors from multiple continents situate Chopin’s fiction wi……続きを見る

El espacio constituye una línea esencial de investigación en los estudios literarios y artísticos, por cuanto supone una categoría de gran complejidad semántica y simbólica. Este volumen ofrece una ……続きを見る

Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the da……続きを見る

Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major p……続きを見る

Contradicting common perception of them as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet and reveals that the women in……続きを見る

Affective Landscapes: Representation of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors draws from contemporary social and cultural theory of affect to analyze the Basque Country’s political violenc……続きを見る

The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of th……続きを見る

This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf's novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and iden……続きを見る

In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910–2……続きを見る

Um livro há muito aguardado pelo público, mostrando uma Clarice Lispector fora do pedestal acadêmico de escritora intocável. Aqui, Clarice interage com seus correspondentes, sejam familiares ou não,……続きを見る

Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became famous for her books, plays and travel writing. It was her book, Sketches of Irish C……続きを見る

Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred……続きを見る

Transformational Images is replete with messages of hope and the possibilities for life’s marvelous changes. Dr. Adeleri Onisegun was inspired by observations of dynamic personal growth, community c……続きを見る

Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte Temple. Yet ……続きを見る

Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on ……続きを見る

In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--wh……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