Fiction & related items (500)

publisher: RIBEIRO CARLA MARINA BERNARDO
year: 2019
description:Krista é uma jovem adulta que sente um certo desconforto social, aparentemente sofre de um desequilíbrio emocional e uma ligeira dose de esquizofrenia paranóica... Não tem interesses, planos, objectivos, ambições, confiança no mundo tecnológico, e ou...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to schol...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual, political ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the co...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:This new volume in the Author Chronology series offers an intense articulation of Henry James's biographical experiences, which are presented amid the detailed unfolding of his imaginative writing, and set in the larger context of historical developm...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:This new addition to the Author Chronologies series details the tumultuous and tragic life of Katherine Mansfield (she died from tuberculosis aged only thirty-four) and sheds new light on her approach and attitudes to writing.

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to upd...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:This book builds on a critical and scholarly revival of interest in Collins. Baker draws upon biographical revelations and the recent publication of Collins's letters to provide a unique insight into both the man and the writer. The volume will appea...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Was macht uns eigentlich zum Menschen? Wer darüber nachdenkt, landet heute unweigerlich bei den Menschenaffen. Alexandra Tischel sucht die Antwort auf die Grundfrage des Menschseins nicht allein in der Wissenschaft. Sie geht neue Wege und entdeckt, w...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers ...