This book presents and engages the world building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions....Daugiau...
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only investigating the so-called Theatre of the Absurd, but wading deeply into absurdist fiction, absurdist poetry, and black, Latin/...Daugiau...
A novel that describes the adventures of two young writers, set in the midst of political repression, anti-Semitism and violence during the Latin American dictatorships of Brazil and Argentina in the 60s....Daugiau...
On September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike...Daugiau...
All for Naught tells the story of Richard Melmont, a billionaire many times over. His wife Maria, daughter Barbara, and son Daniel are appalled by his cutthroat methods and even more appalled by the weapons system he is developing....Daugiau...
Black Bag Moon: Doctors Tales from Dusk to Dawn is filled with inspiring, educational, entertaining and often quirky tales. Based on a series of interviews conducted with general practitioners across the globe, the book creatively presents myriad a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2011, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199582969)
Women writers are turning to Virgil and alluding to his poetry in a bid to explore modern preoccupations and concerns. Through an analysis of Virgils presence in the work of contemporary women writers, this book identifies a new Virgil: one who spe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Aug-2011, Leidėjas: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118785065)
The focus of this book is on speech production and speech processing associated with cleft palate, covering phonetic (perceptual and instrumental), phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives, and including coverage of implications for literacy a...Daugiau...
A collection of three South Sea tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, this book will be of interest to anyone with a penchant for travel and adventure....Daugiau...
To some gay men, a shapely, youthful body is the ultimate turn-on. Others find the eroticism they crave in the experienced hands of an older, more mature man. In Dirty Young Men, the author lays it all on the line, candidly revealing the intimate de...Daugiau...
An anthology of ten short stories by one of Koreas foremost living writers. The literary world of Pak explores the moral ambiguities inherent in Koreas society today and encourages the reader to question the injustices that prevail in the more imp...Daugiau...
A collection of short stories by scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer Taeko Tomioka. Taeko deconstructs the discourse of the nuclear family and heterosexuality in gendered Japanese culture. Her stories focus on ordinary people unfettered by intro...Daugiau...
This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transf...Daugiau...
Hwang Sun-won based this novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two liberators - the United States and the...Daugiau...
This is an English-language anthology of Kurahashi Yumikos short stories, whose subversive fiction defies established definitions of literature, Japan, modernity and femininity, and represents an important intellectual aspect of modern Japa...Daugiau...
This anthology of short stories reflects the writers shared core experience of Koreas trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been a...Daugiau...
The Spies of the Kaiser was not just another tale of scheming foreigners and plucky British heroes, for this paranoid tale of German secret agents plotting the invasion of Britain played a major part in the formation of MI5,...Daugiau...
Acclaimed as an important piece of modern Korean writing, this book is set against the background of the struggle between conservative and modernizing forces at the turn of the century. It follows the fortunes of several generations of Korean villag...Daugiau...
This novel relates the experiences of four young men arriving in Cairo as students in the late 1950s. Freed from the restraints of strict religious conservatism, they plunge into the easy-going ways of Cairo, before being forced to react in various...Daugiau...
A collection of industry novels by Ikko Shimizu: Keiretsu is about an automobile parts manufacturer; The Ibis Cage is about geishas; and Silver Sanctuary is about bank employees. Each story addresses issues unique to its venue yet universal...Daugiau...
Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these three stories by Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life. Both delicate and violent, Devis stories map the experiences of the tribals and trib...Daugiau...
An anthology of 20th-century South Asian and Middle Eastern womens writings which illustrates how they have become active participants in conflicts, speaking about war not only as an extraordinary experience, but also as an ordinary experience of c...Daugiau...
This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son....Daugiau...
An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including: The Wife and Children; The Post Horse Curse; Mountains; Kapitan Ri; The Winter; and A Dream of Good Fortune....Daugiau...
In this satirical novel, set in Japanese-occupied Korea, Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of C...Daugiau...
This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought....Daugiau...
The term business novel is a translation of the Japanese word kezai shosetsu, which may be translated literally as * economy novel. The seven short works in this collection represent prototypes of the business novel....Daugiau...
This new edition of Kafkas famous story contains a critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the author achieves his particular effects....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation...Daugiau...
