Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey.
This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of pre-cinematic spectacle.
Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World.
This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature.
This book proposes the concept of "e;fictional contamination"e; to capture the fact that fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative.
The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together.
Third Space, Hetero-Chronotopoi, Materialität – zwischenräumliche Strukturen als Analyseelemente machen raumzeitliche Merkmale vergangener und gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften und Untersuchungsgegenstände sichtbar.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City.
First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidas provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandidas to the Indian peasant masses.
The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is an exploration of psychoanalysis' often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage.
Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary writers.
Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics ,celebrates the work of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of Kenya,s most well-known poets and a committed political activist.
On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon,s foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus.
This prolific collection of essays, with contributions from scholars from across several disciplines, on the practice and implications of naming,Nomenclatural Poetization and Globalization,explores diverse concerns in onomastics, such as cultural and ethnic implications as well as individual identity formation processes in the age of Globalization and extends these to a variety of contemporary theories of appreciation and internationalization.
This project come out from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being and on thinking for the benefit of all.
Through multiple points of resistance, The Repressed Expressed underscores how hard it is to build a community in any nation with no beneficial qualities of hope and transparency.
This project come out from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being and on thinking for the benefit of all.
Education of the Deprived is a perceptive socio-artistic examination of the key works of some major writers of Anglophone Cameroon literary drama today.
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula.
The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic representation of frontiers in its shifting and fixing categories.
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula.
The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers and those learning to be creative writers, providing a method for developing and advancing knowledge of creative writing.
El Curso de Linguistica General, publicado originalmente en 1916 a partir de los tres cursos impartidos por Ferdinand de Saussure entre 1907 y 1911 en la Universidad de Ginebra, se puede considerar como el texto fundacional de los estudios linguisticos modernos.
La presentación del delito en los medios de comunicación es parte de un circuito productivo integral que incluye las condiciones de estructuración del sector de las comunicaciones, las rutinas de trabajo, los criterios, operaciones y encuadres editoriales, su puesta en el aire y su recepción por parte del público.
El diagnóstico de época que se desprende de los testimonios de jóvenes populares en los que se basa este libro refiere al sentimiento de inexistencia de claras trayectorias institucionales que aseguren el tránsito entre los diferentes períodos etarios; en la imagen de una trama institucional globalmente abusiva y que sólo algunos individuos logran matizar; en la fuerza de las aspiraciones y de los sueños personales que no se abdican.
La cultura de masas es una expresión que, incluso con sus especificidades contingentes, se desarrolló en el mundo occidental a la salida de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
