Sweeney examines how incarcerated women read three popular genres of books-- narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books--to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. She outlines the histor…
by Yu, Pauline
fromStudies on China
by Yu, Pauline
fromStudies on China
"Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen's masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise…
Differing from previous studies by changing the focus from writing to reading, this examination of the institutions and practices of the liturgy places them as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word.
Friedrich der Große erweist sich in seinem schriftstellerischen Werk sowie in seinen literarisch-philosophischen Briefwechseln, vor allem mit Voltaire, als ein unermüdlicher und höchst eigenwilliger Leser der einschlägigen französischsprachigen Debattenbeiträge der westeuropäisc…