A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural.
Muslim Eurasia (1995) looks at the Muslim states that came into being on the ruins of the Soviet Union, and their complex legacies of Russian colonialism, russification, de-islamicization, centralization and communism - on top of localism, tribalism and Islam.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
In this book, Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels-The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments-are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the Anthropocene as a cultural field of enquiry.
In this book, Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels-The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments-are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the Anthropocene as a cultural field of enquiry.
Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?
A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico.
This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics.
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman.
Las dictaduras militares de la Argentina y el Brasil, cada una con sus particularidades, impulsaron un proceso de modernización autoritaria que acarreó la pérdida de derechos inalienables sin siquiera alcanzar la utopía que dicha modernidad había imaginado.
En la década de 1990 se escribieron varias novelas con el dinero como protagonista: dinero extinto, dinero falso, dinero dilapidado, dinero quemado, dinero que deforma el cuerpo.
This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation.
This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation.
Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.
To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution.
Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.
To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution.
Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world.
Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Entwicklung der Soziologie in Argentinien von Mitte der 1950er Jahre bis zur Gegenwart und zeichnet den bewegten Werdegang der Disziplin und ihre enge Beziehung zum breiteren (und turbulenten) argentinischen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kontext nach; es liefert ein dramatisches Beispiel für die Politisierung und Polarisierung eines akademischen Feldes und deren Folgen.
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities.
Diese Studie befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Identitätskonzepten im Werk von Michael Ende, vor allem mit Patchwork- und Geschlechtsidentitäten, kulturellen und hybriden Identitäten.
Borges babilónico propone un recorrido, desde la A hasta la Z —de "1910, el año del cometa y del Centenario", pasando por los versos "A fair field full of folk", los nombres "Dabove, Santiago" o "Keaton, Buster", los términos "memoria" y "censura", los lugares "Jardín Botánico" o "Buenos Aires", hasta "Zunz, Emma"—, por más de mil entradas que permiten descifrar temas, referencias o citas que aparecen en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges.
The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures.
