Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives for the analysis of Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's oeuvre through a focus on the genre of science fiction, particularly the novel Never Let Me Go (2005).
L’écrivain Mbarek Ould Beyrouk, homme du désert mauritanien et journaliste au regard aiguisé, puise dans les traditions bédouines et observe la société contemporaine qui, lentement, efface les valeurs ancestrales.
This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century.
This volume presents information regarding the mechanisms of protein absorption under normal and pathologic conditions, in addition to reviewing changes that occur at various stages of life.
This timely book critically evaluates the life, work and milieu of the Tunisian poet, Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi (1909-1934), providing translations and detailed commentaries around his seminal work "e;al-Khayal al-Shi?
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems.
Presenting recent advancements in research findings and the resulting new schools of thought on the physiology of human bone, this comprehensive reference examines information on dietary pattern and specific nutrients in bone health.
Volume II begins with their arrival in England in April 1920 and Malinowski's lectures on Trobriand Economics at the London School of Economics and goes on to detail their lives together, and apart, until Elsie's death in 1935.
Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the past.
A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban migr lifeA rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time.
In the last three decades, revolutionary achievements have taken place in nutraceutical and functional food research including the introduction of a number of cutting-edge dietary supplements supported by human clinical trials and strong patents.
¿Has vivido la magia de sentarte junto a tu abuela y escuchar sus historias llenas de sabiduría, de amor, de picardía, que dejan tu corazón vibrando y con deseos siempre de escuchar más y más?
Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales and narrate their experience of cultural accommodation in serial autobiographical accounts.
A granular history (Wall Street Journal) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, which Publishers Weekly calls a rollicking portrait of a director on the cusp of greatness and Booklist, in a starred review, says, Hazelgrove’s feverishly focused retelling of the broadcast as well as the fallout makes for a propulsive read as a study of both a cultural moment of mass hysteria and the singular voice at its root.
La obra poetica de Jaime Gil de Biedma, el descubrimiento personal de la poesia colombiana, la literatura de cordel, la metrica en la versificacion de las representaciones teatrales del , las descripciones de Diego Torres Villarroel en , los retazos de psicoanalisis en , la novela de Elsa Morante y la poesia en La Rioja (Espana) durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, son los autores y temas que se encuentran entre estos gratificantes apuntes o ejercicios que hacen descubrir parcelas de la literatura espanola hasta ahora desconocidas.
Thirteen selected papers from an international conference on contemporary Chinese literature held near Gunzburg, Bavaria, in June-July 1986 constitute both a record of literary writings from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as an overview of the broader international role of Chinese writing in translation.
