"In this biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher and qin master, Bell Yung tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. Set in the two cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, this book recounts the exp…
"In this biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher and qin master, Bell Yung tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. Set in the two cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, this book recounts the exp…
"From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her"--
A memoir of the author's deep friendship at Smith and Harvard with the late Sylvia Plath, whose legend and following since her suicide have taken on increasing dimensions. Outwardly an All-American girl, inheritor of a century of"middle-class proprieties," Sylvia Plath lived a d…
"This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking w…
"This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking w…
This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking wh…
"This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking w…
"From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet, FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music presents a powerful discourse that developed in the poetry of writers like Phillis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson and in Americana song lyrics of writers like Bran…
"From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet, FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music presents a powerful discourse that developed in the poetry of writers like Phillis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson and in Americana song lyrics of writers like Bran…
"From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet, FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music presents a powerful discourse that developed in the poetry of writers like Phillis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson and in Americana song lyrics of writers like Bran…
Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyond."" The cont…
This volume includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of "Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets" and "Epic Women of India and Beyond." The contributors explore the tendency of patriarchal societies to la…
Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyond."" The cont…
