Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Na
A narrative analysis of memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single family, this book examines strategies of self-preservation and resilience in young people exposed to persecution at different ages and life stages. It argues that holocaust-era stories can enhance understanding of today's child refugees.
Before publishing Dreiser's European travel book in 1913, the Century Company editors had heavily excised autobiographical reminiscences, philosophical speculations, revealing portraits of prominent figures, Dreiser's relationships with women, and his carefully observed renditions of lower-class urban life. This newly edited text is based on the ......
This edition takes readers on a trip around the world with Australia's top and emerging writers. Poetry and fiction take them to China, the Americas, Malaysia and Paris. Critical articles visit Brian Castro's Toyko and Peter Carey's 19th century London.
With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism.
The first book in the new series, `Writers and their Contexts', to be published by EER. Who is more open with posterity than Anthony Trollope? What other Victorian novelist of eminence exposed himself more frankly than the Chronicler of Barsetshire? Or did he...
Diese Studie untersucht die inter-, hyper- und architextuelle („transtextuelle„) Poetik im Korpus der assyrischen herrschaftlich-narrativen Texte. Der erste Teil stellt eine auf assyrische Königstexte zurechtgeschneiderte Methode transtextueller Analyse vor, die auf strukturell orientierten Modellen moderner Literaturtheorien ......
"I wish to cause no pain, except where it is deserved." -- Peter Ustinov The legendary Peter Ustinov was one of the world's most versatile and talented contributors to the arts. Ustinov's talents were widely demonstrated both in print and on television. It has been said that reading Ustinov is like listening to a good story told by an old ......
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture ......
