Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction, Chaleila, Wisam Abughosh
Автор: Chaleila, Wisam Abughosh Название: Racism and xenophobia in early twentieth-century american fiction ISBN: 0367508672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367508678 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book aims to display the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded deep into literary works and personas both fictional and real. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm.
Описание: Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.
Описание: Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
Описание: Focusing on eight writers and artists, this book examines the centrality of the countryside to women`s work, creativity, and aspirations. The authors tell these women`s stories through their art and literature and in the context of the history and culture of gardens, constructed landscapes, and the countryside.
Описание: Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.
Автор: Michael Black Название: D.H. Lawrence: The Early Philosophical Works ISBN: 0333461444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333461440 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 24456.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This second volume of the author`s commentary on Lawrence`s prose-works concentrates on the sequence of non-fictional texts written between 1913 and 1917, namely, the "Foreword" to "Sons and Lovers", "Study of Thomas Hardy", "Twilight in Italy", "The Crown" and "The Reality of Peace".
Описание: Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley, Nietzsche, and Husserl, among others--he establishes a matrix that brings together not only the pr
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.
Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."
Описание: The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans.
Автор: Michael Black Название: D.H.Lawrence: The Early Fiction ISBN: 0333293770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333293775 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on the Cambridge Edition of Lawrence`s letters and works, this is a systematic study of his neglected early novels and short stories. Michael Black considers that these should be taken seriously as a representative part of Lawrence`s entire output and demonstrates how they show originality.
Автор: Radeva-Costello Название: Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century Literature ISBN: 1138066494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138066496 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century Literature explores the relationship between British literature and philanthropy at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Radeva-Costello argues that philanthropic engagements are at the heart of early twentieth-century literature.
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