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This bibliography of selected writings by 184 women authors from German-speaking countries will be a boon to teachers, students, reference librarians, and library selectors interested in women's literature.

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This annotated bio-bibliographical guide provides long-overdue recognition for women writers of Spain, including special entries on those writing in Catalan and Galician.

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The countries of Spanish America have a history of women's literature that is full, varied, and, until now, undocumented in English. Included are fictional works dealing primarily with women, women's literature, feminism, and the condition of women, with a separate index of anthologies.

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Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 onwards. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership.

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From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition.

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The book offers a study of Victorian and neo-Victorian women as portrayed on the pages of the selected nineteenth-century novels and modern, revisionary works. Immersed in the wide socio-cultural context of the Victorian era, the study binds Bakhtin's dialogical approach with Genette's intertextuality.

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Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to begin. This book provides practical suggestions to help all writers give shape and substance to their ideas. There are tips on subjects to write about, ways of approaching them and how to develop writer's skills and critical powers.

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Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.

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Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

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Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on his work with the growing Oblate movement.

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This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas.

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These two complementary publications fill a gap in the bibliographic reference shelf by covering historical novels published in the U.S. for both adult and young adult readers.

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This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather.

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A study of stereotypes and the ways race has been invented and utilized by the West. Using travel literature, figures on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and material from later writers, it shows how negative elements surrounding blackness were transferred to Native Indians and others.

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If, in the broadest of strokes, fantasy concerns a past Golden Age, and science fiction a future that started out rosy and has now attained myriad hues, then the mere existence of the genres implies time travel. Literature scholars go further however, to explore the further distortions and explanati

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Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content.

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A collection of letters and recipes from more than 50 well-known and award-winning children's authors provide insights into their lives, advice to the children who wrote to them, and personal information. Each entry includes the student's letter to the author, the author's response, and a recipe from the author.