This book investigates the literary portrayal of African and Afrodescendant identities in early fictional works by Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano and Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women's history and creativity.
Aquel saber que Emile Zola buscaba sobre la posicion social del escritor y su dia a dia en la llana esfera de lo economico sigue siendo un asunto des atendido.
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Islendingasogur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact.
The Gothic, proliferating across different literary, socio-cultural, and scientific spaces, permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history.
This book is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field of literary neurodiversity studies, a growing approach to literary criticism that has emerged in the past decade.
The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations.
This book is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field of literary neurodiversity studies, a growing approach to literary criticism that has emerged in the past decade.
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogeneous genre.
Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous writers.
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisS'il fallait trouver un denominateur commun a une majorite de prosateurs argentins contemporains, on pourrait dire que nouvelles et romans nationaux combinent a la fois l'usage de l'humour et l'interrogation sur ce que Borges appelle les grandes conjectures existentielles et Cortazar la gifle metaphysique .
Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics.
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial studies and illustrates how to apply the analytical and theoretical tools of stylistics to a selection of literary and non-literary texts from a range of English-speaking postcolonial contexts.
L’auteur de Baudelaire et Orhan Veli, Essai empathique, Tuğrul İNAL nous propose cette fois-ci la relecture de douze auteurs turcs majeurs du xxe siècle : Cevat Şakir, Sait Faik, Sabahattin Ali, Cahit Sıtkı, Ziya Osman, Orhan Veli, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Cemal Süreya, Nedim Gürsel, Hale Seval, Metin Turan, Dervişe Güneyyeli.
Well-illustrated throughout and with in-depth analyses, Nutrition, Diet Therapy, and the Liver provides a holistic understanding of the causative elements that precipitate liver disease and the nutritional factors and regimens that reverse deteriorating hepatic function.
While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut.
This volume discusses gendered transformative initiatives in South Asian feminism, discussing gender norms, labour and market participation by women, along with family planning, reproductive rights and initiatives for the social and financial empowerment of women in South Asia.
Meeting industry demand for an authoritative, dependable resource, Vitamin E: Food Chemistry, Composition, and Analysis provides insight into the vast body of scientific knowledge available on vitamin E related to food science and technology.
A compilation of management, medical, nutrition, psychological, and physical activity facts, models, theories, interventions, and evaluation techniques, the Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Clinical Management is the most clinically appropriate and scientifically supported source of information available for pediatric health care and research profess
This book is intended as a source of information for the many scientists who now enter the growing research field of vitamin A in health and disease, reviewing the epidemiological aspects related to vitamin A.
This is the first study on the development of Italian ethnic identity in North America (United States and Canada) from a gender perspective and based on memoir.
This unique textbook takes a holistic approach to food poisoning and food hygiene, explaining in clear and non-technical language the causes of food poisoning with practical examples from 'real-life' outbreaks.
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogeneous genre.
The introduction of parenteral nutrition support has given patients with short bowel syndrome the time they need to achieve maximal intestinal rehabilitation and has allowed these patients to survive.
Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities.
