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Once Iron GirlsAvailable in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven cri...... |
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Victorian TransformationsProposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding Victorian literature, this collection focuses on issues related to genre, nationalism, and ...... |
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The Turn Around Religion In AmericaPlaying on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers a reading...... |
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Ekam Sat 3 - K. R. ParamahamsaEkam Sat 3 eBook Category: Spiritual/Religion/Self Improvement The Gita literature in Sanskrit is the spontaneous outpouring of the sages and seers that hav...... |
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Together By Accident - Stephanie C. PalmerThis fascinating account of the regional travel accident motif within American local color literature offers a reassessment of the cultural work done by auth...... |
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Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts Of Identity And Resistance - Davinder L. BhowmikThis book traces the development of Okinawan literature over the tumultuous past century, during which the island experienced imperial subjectification, wart...... |
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Representing The Plague In Early Modern EnglandThis collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative r...... |
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Gender, Ireland And Cultural Change - Gerardine MeaneyThis study analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s to the present, exploring literature, the relationships between gender and nat...... |
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Passion, Humiliation, Revenge - Rina LapidusThis book reveals the phenomenon in Russian prose in which a male protagonist finds himself perpetuating a cycle of passion, humiliation, and revenge within ...... |
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Birthing Bodies In Early Modern France - Kirk D. ReadThe pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obta...... |
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Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, And The Rise Of Sensibility, 1670-1730 - Laura LinkerIn the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examines play...... |
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Critical Discourses Of The Fantastic, 1712-1831 - David SandnerChallenging the idea that fantastic literature emerged in the Romantic period, Sandner shows that fantastic tales were popular throughout the eighteenth cent...... |
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African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology Of Contemporary VoicesAfrican Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa toda...... |
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Divine Madness: Archetypes Of Romantic Love - John R. Haule'Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love' examines the transforming experience of romantic love in literature, myth, religion, and everyday life. A serie...... |
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The Fateful Question Of Culture - Geoffrey H. HartmanWhat defines "culture wars"? Can art and literature restore and reconnect us to the world? Or does culture, in the guise of politics, divide and separate us?...... |
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Light Verse From The Floating WorldSimilar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical and often humorous poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention becaus...... |
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Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, Aids, And The Theater In Brazil - Severino AlbuquerqueStarting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Albuquerque examines the way the Modernist movement both fueled and inhibited the use of gay imagery in B...... |
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Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction Of Yiddish Writers - Jan SchwarzIn interwar and post-Holocaust New York, Yiddish autobiographers responded to the upheaval of modern Jewish life in ways that combined artistic innovation wi...... |
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Pandora's Senses: The Feminine Character Of The Ancient Text - Vered, Lev KenaanIn this compelling study , Vered Lev Kenaan examines the truly iconic figure of Pandora and her literary heritage in Greek and Latin literature. Pandora's Se...... |
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Fifty Key Classical Authors - Alison SharrockCovering ten centuries, this fascinating introduction to the key Greek and Roman authors begins with writers like Homer and Sappho and concludes at the onset...... |
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