A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society.
A fine anthology, well selected, well ordered, and altogether a pleasure to read. The editors have chosen twenty stories by twenty different writers from all over Africa, grouping them geographically into four different sections: West, East, North and Southern Africa.... They ha…
African short stories
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Innes, Catherine Lynette, Achebe, Chinua, Sembène, Ousmane, Aidoo, Ama Ata, Balogun, Fidelis Odun, Owoyele, David, Kenyatta, Jomo, Ogot, Grace, Gurnah, Abdulrazak, Kibera, Leonard, Rifʻat, Alīfah, Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib, Bisāṭī, Muḥammad, Honwana, Luís Bernardo, Gordimer, Nadine, Essop, Ahmed, Marechera, Dambudzo, Mphahlele, Es'kia, Head, Bessie, Gwala, Mafika Pascal
A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society.
Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquin…
Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts…
Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts…
English existentials in functional grammar
English existentials in functional grammar
English existentials in functional grammar
Studie over enkele Victoriaanse vertalers en navolgers van Sappho, zoals de twee vrouwen die samen schreven over het pseudoniem Michael Field (Katherine Bradley en haar nicht Edith Cooper).
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergen…
"What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emerge…
Cross-language relations in composition
by Horner, Bruce, Matsuda, Paul Kei, Lu, Min-Zhan
Williams explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots, and analysing its symbolic function in medieval literature and art.