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  • A Room of One's Own - Unabridged

    "A Room of One's Own" began life as a pair of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge and was published as a stand-alone book in 1929. In this brilliant examination of literature, history and gender discrimination, Woolf posits that the dearth of female writers in literature did not result from a ... Read more

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  • Feminist Literary Classics - Volume IV - A Room of One's Own - Jane Eyre - The Song of the Lark

    Presented here is Volume IV of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist works ever written: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather. The first book in this collection is A Room of One's Own, a groundbreaking examination of women's roles in literary history by English author Virginia ... Read more

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  • A Tale of Two Titties

    A Writer's Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History

    by Meg Vondriska ...
    From the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter accountLet's face it, women's representation in literature really sucks. And that's mostly because of the male authors who write female characters like they're nothing more than playthings in their stories. Whether they have breasts like ripe peaches or curves like a racetrack, the literary ladies ... Read more

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  • Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

    A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne—a superfan and scholar—radically reimagines the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • My Belly

    Exploring Why It’s So Hard for Women to Love Their Bodies

    by Hilde Østby ...
    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    Why are women so ashamed of certain parts of their bodies? And why are our feelings about our midsections so hard to navigate? These are the questions that animate My Belly, an unflinching and funny portrait of one woman’s obsession with a seemingly innocent body part.Hilde Otsby is a critic, a thinker, and an acclaimed author. At the start of My Belly, she is on tour promoting her latest work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare's Goddess

    The Divine Feminine on the English Stage

    Series series Supernatural Shakespeare: Magic and Ritu
    In our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be the great myths and classics? And who were the empowering role models for his bold and unforgettable heroines? In plays and poems throughout his career, Shakespeare explored many facets of the divine feminine, including Greek and Roman goddesses— he ... Read more

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  • Maverick Feminist

    To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability

    Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating qualities have been repeatedly disparaged by the masses in favor of an elitist politics of respectability. In Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability, scholar Kemeshia Randle Swanson ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bra Wars

    The Struggle Against Decency

    «Bold and engaging, a well-researched look at how clothes can simultaneously reveal and conceal.»(Victoria Bateman, author of Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty)Do you sometimes look at yourself and think, «I can’t wear this without a bra – my nipples are showing»? Have you ever heard someone tell you that «you can’t go out like that», after looking you up and down?This book is a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës

    by Hilary Newman ...
    In her feminist polemic, ‘A Room of One’s Own’, Virginia Woolf famously wrote of the (comparatively recent) literary tradition of female writers: ‘we think back through our mothers if we are women.’ Woolf’s major literary mothers were those women novelists writing during the Victorian period and earlier. Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës examines all of Woolf’s ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Idealist Epistemology and the Baudelairean Experience of Modernity

    Fragments in the Dark

    Series Book 54 - Romania Viva
    This study proposes an epistemological model on the basis of a streamlined and heavily modified German Idealism. With an analytical focus on the French Second Empire, the underlying research question is rather straightforward: how is knowledge created in material modernity? Using my epistemological model as a methodology for cultural criticism, a second research question emerges: how does the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Zur Korrelation von Werbung und Literatur

    Eine soziokulturelle Studie zu einem literaraesthetischen Werbeformat der 1950er-Jahre und deren Relevanz fuer einen kompetenzorientierten Deutschunterricht

    Das Buch erfasst textuelle, visuelle und poetische Strukturen von Werbeanzeigen in literarischen Texten analytisch, und es stellt ein auf andere Werbeformate übertragbares Analyseraster vor. Ausgangspunkt der interdisziplinär angelegten Untersuchung ist die Frage, wie der Wechsel von fiktionaler Lektüre (literarischer Text) zu faktualer Lektüre (Werbeanzeige) gestalterisch erfolgt und wie dieses ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Telling Narratives

    Secrets in African American Literature

    Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Frauen, Gender und Translation

    Eine annotierte Bibliografie

    Series Book 77 - FTSK. Publikationen des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz in Germersheim
    Die Bibliografie vermittelt einen Überblick über die Etablierung von Gender in der Translationswissenschaft. Die acht Kapitel, in denen die Entwicklungen eingeordnet und einschlägige Studien annotiert werden, behandeln Themenbereiche wie die sprachliche Verankerung von Genderkonzepten, die Sichtbarkeit von Übersetzerinnen in der Geschichte, inkludierende Bibelübersetzungen, feministische und ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Desobediências da crítica nas encruzilhadas literárias

    Series Book 1 - Coleção intersecções (raça, classe e gênero)
    Este livro é um convite à desobediência. Ele surge das encruzilhadas do pensamento e da vida. Parece até redundância falar em desobediência e encruzilhada, pois pensar na e a partir da encruzilhada já é em si um ato de rebeldia, de desobediência. Portanto, esse é um ato revolucionário e de [r]existência. Sim, ser rebelde e desobedecer são atos revolucionários, isto é, potencialmente e ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dissecting The Swiss Life

    by Sarah Pauson ...
    Switzerland remained a myth.A critical view about life in Switzerland.Reliving a bloody past and exploring an uncertain future, Dissecting the Swiss Life proves that there's more to Switzerland than banks, skis, francs and cheese.The behaviour of people, opinions and much more shows how it really is to live in Switzerland. ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Krisen und Resilienz aus germanistischen und interdisziplinaeren Perspektiven

    Gedenkschrift fuer Prof. Dr. Serge A. Glitho

    Series Book 149 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    Die jüngste Vermehrung von Krisenherden und ihren weltweiten Auswirkungen lässt Resilienz als Modewort auftreten. Damit ist keineswegs ein resignativer fatalistischer Umgang mit Krisen gemeint, sondern vielmehr Fähigkeiten und Haltungen, die aktiviert bzw. eingenommen werden sollen, um diesen Krisen angemessen entgegenzuwirken und über sie stärker hinwegzukommen. Die in diesem Band gesammelten ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Controlling Animals: Vain Attempts at Immortality in Three Works of Fiction

    Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality through the interpretation of three works of fiction. In this work, the author demonstrates to readers the flawed pursuit of attempting to avert death through the subjugation of animals. This pursuit is ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Gulf War Captivity Narratives

    Identity and Ideology

    Series Book 8 - Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media
    The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and ideology, as well as concepts of heroism and anti-heroism. Moreover, it probes the texts’ complex authorship, uncovers their role in promoting cultural stereotypes and in propagating violence. Hence, this study is deeply involved with uncovering narrative ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • El mundo según Jorge Semprún

    Introducción al universo literario sempruniano

    Acercarse a la obra de Jorge Semprún supone profundizar en los principales sucesos históricos que marcaron el siglo XX, pues en cada uno de sus escritos los lectores ven reflejado a un autor cuya vida está en absoluta consonancia con su época.Su universo literario está compuesto por una gran red de recuerdos y referencias artísticas, históricas y personales, que van hilvanando las diferentes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Das gymnasiale Lesebuch und seine Abbildungen der bildenden Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 bis 1989

    Series Book 78 - Beitraege zur Geschichte des Deutschunterrichts
    Zwischen 1949 und 1989 nahmen Kunstabbildungen in Lesebüchern einen gewichtigen Raum ein. Die Studie untersucht erstmals umfassend, welche Intentionen die Verantwortlichen mit den Abbildungen verfolgten, ob diese ausschließlich zur optischen Aufwertung der Bände dienten oder auch didaktische Zwecke hatten. Es wird u.a. der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich die Abbildungen im Laufe von vierzig Jahren ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barres «Panikherz»

    Text – Poetik – Inszenierung

    Series Book 10 - Literarisches Leben heute
    Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barres Panikherz und seine Selbst- und Werkinszenierung. Es wird die facettenreiche ,eigene Geschichte‘ erfasst, die der autobiographische Roman erzählt und die der empirische Autor durch seine Inszenierung auf verschiedenen Bühnen sowie in den sozialen Medien fortschreibt. Im Zentrum stehen sowohl die Untersuchung der textuellen und ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Theodor Fontane y la paradoja de la inocencia en la culpa: el caso de Effi Briest

    Este volumen explora el tema de la culpa en Effi Briest (1894). Pese a ser una cuestión central en la novela y la obra literaria de Theodor Fontane, esta no ha sido hasta la fecha objeto de sistematización. La primera parte del trabajo ofrece un acercamiento teórico a este fenómeno. A partir de aspectos sociohistóricos, filosóficos y religiosos se intenta reconstruir un posible sentido de culpa ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Literature: Textual, Contextual, Conceptual Concerns in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Productions

    Series Book 5 - Synergy
    This volume of the Synergy Literature series focuses mainly on contemporary literary and cultural works in English. Authors of this book bring new perspectives on a wide range of literary works, as well as significant social movements and works of popular culture, with a focus mostly but not solely on novels, plays, and poetry. The book consists of 10 chapters, each covering various historical ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Foodscapes of the Anthropocene

    Literary Perspectives from Asia

    Series Book 13 - Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt
    One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing food, and the globalization of culinary habits not only upended traditional lifeways around the world but also continue to play a key role in climate change, biodiversity loss, and various other ... Read more

    $51.99 USD