Literary theory

Society, Women and Literature in Africa explores the ideological, literary, political, cultural and ethical issues related to feminist writing.

This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel.

Crossing Borders showcases intellectual attempts to commit the process of African interrogation of postcoloniality and postmodernity to the exploration of perspectives on black identities and interactions of contemporary cultural expressions beyond the borders of Africa and across the Atlantic.

This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts.

In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa.

Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health.

This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora.

Post Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings.

With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on the influence of tradition in African writing.

Africa in Narratives illuminates or proves, against the backdrop of attitudes toward nations deemed ,ethnic, or ,minorities,, that literature in Africa can live up to the challenge of aesthetic imagination to form an active, refreshing part of world cultural discourse.

El hecho de que las ideas actuales sobre crítica y arte tienen su origen en el Romanticismo, luego reorientado hacia un más allá de la unidad metafísica de la naturaleza por Nietzsche, podría alcanzar para justificar su enfoque privilegiado en las lecciones que incluye este libro.

Este es un ejercicio poco común en la historiografía colombiana; es una lectura comparada de periódicos de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX con el fin de establecer el proceso de la opinión pública moderna en varios países de la América española.

Esta obra expone los fundamentos de la crítica genética para proponer un abordaje particular de los manuscritos y demás materiales pre-redaccionales y redaccionales que comportan un proceso de creación, y plantea una hipótesis de lectura del libro ¡Que viva la música!

El 1 de noviembre de 1998, las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo (FARC-EP) tomaron por asalto la poblacion de Mitu.

Corridos del destierro nace a cinco horas de San José del Guaviare, en el pueblo Jaime Pardo Leal, que en ese tiempo era zona veredal.

Hay un ideal de justicia en el Quijote que excede por mucho nuestras representaciones ordinarias, pues está hecho de todo lo que falta a nuestras tradicionales ideas de la justicia: generosidad para emprender día a día nuevas aventuras, magnanimidad para mantenerse rme ante las afrentas y conservar la sencillez en el éxito, apertura para el reconocimiento de los otros en sus virtudes y en sus derechos, delicadeza en el trato de las personas, fortaleza para enfrentar los miedos y las derrotas, serenidad para contener los impulsos más elementales y transformarlos en reconocimiento de la propia vulnerabilidad, disposición para la escucha y la buena deliberación.

A Evelio Rosero se lo lee por gusto, se lo sigue por deseo y se lo estudia por responsabilidad.

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

Los proyectos editoriales de Germán Arciniegas y de Arturo Zapata contribuyeron a la modernización de la industria editorial colombiana, al proponer nuevos autores y temas, así como nuevas formas de acercamiento a los ya conocidos, legitimando la figura del editor al mismo tiempo como hombre de letras y de negocios.

Doce ensayos que desde la filosofía, la comunicación y el arte indagan en las transformaciones que la narrativa audiovisual ha tenido en el contexto digital y de Internet Paula Sibilia, Mauricio Durán y Sergio Roncallo, entre otros investigadores, analizan casos como la exhibición de la intimidad, la noción del autor o el uso del video como resistencia social

El problema del modernismo es la traducción del original en alemán Das Problem des Modernismus, lección magistral en ocho sesiones dictada por Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot en la Universidad de Bonn en 1978.

Estamos ante un estudio riguroso y creativo de una obra mayor del siglo XX.

La novela de tema indigena es uno de los filones mas visibles de la literatura latinoamericana, su estudio critico se ha consolidado en la obra de grandes referentes del pensamiento social, tales como J.

Los textos aqui compilados se fraguaron en torno a la creacion de la Catedra Gabriel Garcia Marquez, del Departamento de Creacion Literaria de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Humanidades y Arte de la Universidad Central; con el fin de exaltar la obra literaria el nobel colombiano y de estimular su lectura y su estudio a la luz de nuevas interpretaciones.

En esta obra se reconocen los aspectos que vinculan la historia y la ficcion en terminos de la tension que ya se encuentra en la creacion literaria de Walter Scott.

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically contentious content.

Gunter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism.

This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand children's literature, based on the published research of Nicola Daly, an associate professor in the Division of Education of the University of Waikato, and her colleagues.

Seit der Aufklärung entwirft sich der Mensch als ein durch Technik, Wissenschaft und Kunst erst noch zu vollendendes Wesen.

This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer's or producer's medium by suggesting that television directors are a vital component of TV artistry.

What is at stake in Freud's enduring preoccupation with a process supposedly diverting sexuality into cultural activity?

The Mahabharata, one of the most popular epics, has had a remarkable impact on literary and cultural thought in India through the centuries.

Asia, the cradle of civilization and culture have had a unique yet important position in the human history on the earth.

Asia, the cradle of civilization and culture have had a unique yet important position in the human history on the earth.

The plethora of commentary from highly respected voices in a broad cross-section of academic disciplines, which V.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Indian culture is rich and diverse and as a result unique in its very own way.

Dancing Divinities in Indian Art is an admirable attempt by a young dancer-scholar to enter those alleys of the study of art history where very few- have so far trodden.

Doris Lessing (1919 2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her life work.

Doris Lessing (1919 2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her life work.