From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England.
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.
British modernist writer Mary Butts (1890–1937), now recognized as one of the most important and original authors of the interwar years, lived an unconventional life.
A follow up from the bestselling Self-Compassion, this book shows why it is more urgent than ever that women acknowledge their areas of suffering, celebrate their inner voice and challenge the male-orientated status quo.
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people.
This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.
Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City.
Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures.
Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).
"e;This girl is a real novelist,"e; wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate educational facilities, and other "e;social evils.
With the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure.
Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "e;Jezebels,"e; Cotton's Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation.
"e;This girl is a real novelist,"e; wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood.
Paradoja del siglo XX, Silvina Ocampo es a la vez una de las escritoras centrales del canon literario latinoamericano y una de sus figuras extranamente mas marginales.
Les commemoracions del centenari de Joan Fuster (1922-2022) han reactivat els estudis sobre l'intel·lectual de Sueca i han propiciat l'organització de trobades, reunions acadèmiques i publicacions per a aprofundir en la seua obra.
This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusing on the Hispanic literary archive and its evolving strategies for representing her and her cultural doubles, here defined as Helen-like bodies.
Los cuatro tomos que conforman esta coleccion ponen a disposicion del publico las traducciones literarias de poesia, teatro, narrativa y ensayo realizadas por el escritor costarricense Jose Basileo Acuna Zeledon.
Los cuatro tomos que conforman esta colección ponen a disposición del público las traducciones literarias de poesía, teatro, narrativa y ensayo realizadas por el escritor costarricense José Basileo Acuña Zeledón.
Los cuatro tomos que conforman esta coleccion ponen a disposicion del publico las traducciones literarias de poesia, teatro, narrativa y ensayo realizadas por el escritor costarricense Jose Basileo Acuna Zeledon.
Los cuatro tomos que conforman esta coleccion ponen a disposicion del publico las traducciones literarias de poesia, teatro, narrativa y ensayo realizadas por el escritor costarricense Jose Basileo Acuna Zeledon.
A través de las contribuciones de especialistas en narrativa española contemporánea, este libro ofrece un estudio global de la obra de la novelista Belén Gopegui que se suma a los esfuerzos que se están desarrollando desde la crítica académica para comprender, conceptualizar y categorizar las problemáticas, los conflictos y las preocupaciones abordadas en la narrativa actual.
Este volumen analiza la creacion literaria de las mujeres durante el largo siglo XIX y su legado contemporaneo, que evidencia las solidas redes de conocimiento y creacion que se establecen entre las escritoras, incluso rompiendo la barrera temporal con los siglos XX y XXI, con la finalidad de establecer dialogos a traves del tiempo que sigan haciendo avanzar la agenda feminista.
Mi mente ha lavado a esos antepasados, les ha secado la cara, los ha peinado, los ha vestido con ropas limpias, los ha alejado de las bodegas de los barcos y de la perspectiva del trabajo diario en los cañaverales.
