Germán Espinosa es uno de los narradores colombianos que más recurrió a pasados distantes como materia para su escritura; no obstante, son pocos los trabajos amplios y sistemáticos sobre las novelas históricas del escritor cartagenero.
The turn of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a brand of fiction that centres the experience and perspective of the perpetrator, thereby humanizing this character and granting it the capability to evoke our empathy.
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior.
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior.
The essential work on Romanticism, revised and condensed for student convenience Standing as the essential work on Romanticism, Duncan Wu s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in 1994.
First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hare's autobiography, tries to elucidate: a man who wrote much about others, but little of consequence about himself in spite of the longest 'story of my life' in the English language.
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists.
The book offers articles by scholars from three disciplines (literary studies, TEFL methodology, history) and three universities in three European countries: Ireland, Belgium, Germany.
Die Zeit der Weimarer Republik steht heute für Kriegszerstörungen, Armut, Gewalt auf den Straßen, Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Inflation genauso wie für eine neue Unterhaltungskultur, Rausch, Dekadenz und revolutionäre Umbrüche in Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft.
Die Zeit der Weimarer Republik steht heute für Kriegszerstörungen, Armut, Gewalt auf den Straßen, Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Inflation genauso wie für eine neue Unterhaltungskultur, Rausch, Dekadenz und revolutionäre Umbrüche in Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft.
A patrician who wrote most often of the fashionable 19th-century New York society she knew so well, Edith Wharton was inspired to write the novel Ethan Frome after spending summers at her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.
This book recalls a quote by the international thinker and novelist Umberto Eco, which emphasizes the importance of reading, and that whoever does not read lives one life, even if he passes seventy, while whoever reads lives for five thousand years, as reading is eternal.
