Humanities Ebooks: 6 books
by John Lennard
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
A historically informed and informing study guide to of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On. The book covers Paul Scott's Life and works, the British Raj, imperial...
by John Lennard
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal...
by John Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of...
Modern Feminist Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century, covering Initial Articulations of the 'Woman' Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker;...
by John Lennard
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Octavia Butler's premature and sudden death in 2006 has been very widely lamented, unhappily confirming her influence as a vital African-American and female pioneer in SF. Xenogenesis (retitled Lilith's Brood in 2000) is one of Butler's most important works, and comprises the novels Dawn (1987), Adulthood...
by Michael Cotsell
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County',...