Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from Luke Cutforth'I loved it .

Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her.

'I am making up "e;To the Lighthouse"e; - the sea is to be heard all through it'Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse.

Kompakt, übersichtlich, vollständig – so präsentiert dieser Band das prüfungsrelevante Wissen zu den Umbrüchen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur um 1900.

Esclarecedora aproximacion a la poesia de Gomez Jattin, desvelamiento de una pugna existencial que senala su vision de mundo.

Drawn by family.

El estudio de la mujer es fundamental para entender los mitos y las realidades de la cultura del Sur de los Estados Unidos.

La postmodernidad debe entenderse como parte de un historico-cultural en el que se entrecruzan caminos diferentes.

Este libro inicialmente es un tributo merecido no solo a un excelente colega, sino también a un gran amigo.

Emmanuel Bove ist ein unerklärlicher Mythos: Zu Lebzeiten ein anerkannter, gefeierter Literat, wurde er nach seinem Tod 1945 schnell vergessen.

A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.

Four of Brian's acclaimed essay collections in one ebook.

An oddity among Aldiss works - verse translations.

A new novel from one of Britain's best-loved writer, Brian Aldiss OBE, set in and around his home-town of Oxford.

'So wise and so well done.

Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time but have long been unavailable or extremely hard to find.

A novel of urban deceit and rural passion, of doctors, witches, birth and death.

A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.

Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history.

'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents.

This is the story of women when they were wimmin: of that blossoming in seventies England of hope, freedom, equality and sisterhood; and of what happened next.

This book examines the ideological affinity that can be established between the classical 'Bildungsroman' and colonialist ideology on the basis of a literary analysis of 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre'-considered by most critics to be the origin of the genre-and 'Great Expectations'-one of the paradigmatic examples of the development of the Bildungsroman in English literature.

En su obra literaria, Abel Posse (1934-2023) ambicionaba forjar un lenguaje narrativo propio que conjugase lo cultural, lo filosófico, lo político y lo poético.

"Esta obra es una intensa y problematizadora reflexión sobre la literatura paraguaya a partir de los textos ensayísticos que desde diferentes posturas políticas consideran la cuestión de las lenguas y su relación con la identidad nacional, el papel del escritor en sociedades autoritarias y en democracias incompletas, la paradójica función del exilio en la generación de literaturas nacionales, las dinámicas del campo intelectual y literario y los modos de configurar y reconfigurar los grupos antagónicos.

El género novela histórica vivió a finales del siglo XX una singular renovación en América Latina.

Este libro examina la problemática combinación de autorreferencialidad literaria, revisionismo histórico y pensamiento utópico en varias novelas producidas en Hispanoamérica y los Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad de los años setenta.

This book examines the ideological affinity that can be established between the classical 'Bildungsroman' and colonialist ideology on the basis of a literary analysis of 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre'-considered by most critics to be the origin of the genre-and 'Great Expectations'-one of the paradigmatic examples of the development of the Bildungsroman in English literature.

La memòria involuntària, que Marcel Proust va fer famosa gràcies al conegut episodi de la magdalena, és un fenomen psicològic que ha tingut una repercussió especial en la cultura del segle XX.

Los once trabajos que componen este volumen nacen del interés suscitado por la reescritura, especialmente de la reescritura del Quijote en América Latina, y están inspirados en las ponencias presentadas en las Jornadas Internacionales "Reescrituras latinoamericanas del Quijote" (Jerusalén, 1 y 2 de diciembre, 2021), llevadas a cabo por los docentes y estudiantes de los seminarios de los Departamentos de Letras de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina, y la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Israel.

En 1919 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez viajó a Estados Unidos, laureado por un éxito espectacular.

Txirrita dugu -gutxik ukatuko du- bertsogintzaren eredu gailenetakoa.

Este libro analiza algunas obras de Gordon Henry, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Carter Revard, Leonard Peltier y Greg Sarris, autores pertenecientes a distintos pueblos amerindios de los Estados Unidos.

"Agnosticismo y fe poética en Jorge Luis Borges es un valioso e iluminador estudio abocado a la poesía del escritor argentino.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.

A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.

The reform and open-door policy of China began with the adoption of a new economic development strategy at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCPCC) in late 1978.

Alles über den großen Literaten und sein einzigartiges Werk»Wenn wir wissen wollen, was Literatur wirklich ist und was sie wirklich kann, so gibt es kaum einen Autor wie Kafka, dessen Texte uns das so grandios vorführen: das Spiel, Sinnangebote zu machen und sie zugleich zu verweigern, und uns dabei beizubringen, dass dies eine Struktur der Welt ist, in der wir leben.

'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third son of four brothers is himself the father of three sons in a family also dispersed, and our author 'looking for the quietness that Julian Sorel found in prison.

Young nations do the bidding of empire and send their youth to a faraway war.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

'Was her life to be always like this?

Siguiendo el trayecto trazado en el libro Robert Lowell: la mirada de Aquiles, este volumen muestra que la obra poetica del norteamericano es un viaje fascinante del puerto de Aquiles hacia la soledad del Minotauro.