Two works in one, this volume contains the full text of With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as an illuminating sociological analysis by Mary Jo Deegan with the assistance of Michael R.
National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans.
This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding.
The third volume in the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe focuses on the making and remaking of those institutional structures that engender and regulate the creation, distribution, and reception of literature.
This study examines Marcel Proust's works and his readers, starting of with the reading encounter one needs in order not to miss out on things, and ending by exploring the nature of Proust's vision.
In this study the works of Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) are being discussed, taking into account the emerge of the perspectival narration, culminating in the Braunschweig period (1870-1920).
Translating Poetic Discourse argues in favor of a critical model that bridges between translation and women's studies on theoretical and practical levels.
Une analyse systematique et detaillee des fines strategies du secret et du desir de savoir a l'A vre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite a la lumiere de la theorie semiotique, et qui devoile, a travers le texte de Proust, la presence implicite d'une theorie et d'une esthetique de la connaissance.
A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts.
In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction.
This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works.
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988.
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children's literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present.
The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next.
Decio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity, and partly through issues of reality and representation.
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors.
An analysis of the aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of alternative poetic movements and individual poets in three periods: the Constitutional Revolution (1900-1920), the post-constitutional era (1920-1940), and the ascendency of modernism (1940-1960).
Cristina Campo es el principal y definitivo pseudónimo de la escritora italiana Vittoria Guerrini, nacida en 1923 en Bolonia y fallecida en Roma en 1977.
Caterina Riba presenta aquest estudi sobre l'obra de Maria-Mercè Marçal des de la "permeabilitat", des de la intertextualitat i el procés obert de significació que permet la seva poesia.
La trayectoria profesional de Alfonso Martínez Berganza abarcó tres décadas de la historia del periodismo español del siglo pasado en las que desarrolló su actividad en los puestos y medios más diversos, desde editorialista de la "Tercera Página" del diario 'Pueblo' hasta su labor en RNE, donde, como señaló su obituario, "supo ser jefe en momentos difíciles de la vida política española".
La trayectoria profesional de Alfonso Martínez Berganza abarcó tres décadas de la historia del periodismo español del siglo pasado en las que desarrolló su actividad en los puestos y medios más diversos, desde editorialista de la "Tercera Página" del diario 'Pueblo' hasta su labor en RNE, donde, como señaló su obituario, "supo ser jefe en momentos difíciles de la vida política española".
Francisco Collado se ocupa en este libro de la difícil tarea de encontrar un orden subyacente detrás del aparente caos y la paranoia del universo literario de Pynchon.
"e;Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries"e; adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths.
Este estudio constituye el primer acercamiento crítico, en el mundo académico hispano, a las poetas y artistas de la generación Beat que, junto con los componentes masculinos bien conocidos del grupo (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs) revolucionaron la escena literaria urbana en la década de los cincuenta en los Estados Unidos, adelantándose así al cambio de mentalidad que colonizó el mundo en los sesenta y los setenta.
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.
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.
