This collection bring readers the delicacy of youth tinged with vicissitudes, and the sorrows as youth is gone, with seven short stories on “how a person becomes himself or herself in the world”.
From Larry Kramer’s New York to Roth’s Newark and Colla’s Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of urban violence, its relationship...
After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated over the summer of 1944, Andrea Cominini found that his brother, Peter, had also been an SOE agent operating in France during WWII. Peter carried out four missions, spending 225 days in enemy territory.
This volume collects a selection of papers concerning the history of linguistics spanning the centuries from the 17th to the 20th. These contributions were presented and debated at ICHoLS XV (Milan,...
This book contains 6 works written by Xu Zechen, a leading figure of Chinese Post-1970 writers in different periods. It reflects the different creative characteristics of the author in each period, and also draws a relatively complete outline of the author's creative trajectory.
This book deals with the issue of women’s absence from the visible horizons of literature and philosophy. It seeks to understand why and how women authors and philosophers, despite their obvious and numerous existence, are not included in the literary and philosophical canon. Women authors and philosophers seem to be conveniently left out of classe
The location is Manhattan, the protagonist is Richard Schwan, journalist for the New York Times. There follows a newsroom, airplanes, two oceans, then after New York there is Los Angeles, Istanbul, Baghdad, Rome and then the return to New York via Baveria, everything to cross over, suffer, enjoy, to be lived.
"Originally written for the stage, the book illustrates from a female standpoint the origins and contradictions of the Iranian capital, and the rights of religious minorities and women. It showcases women who have played a leading role in various disciplines and sports but who all too often have simply become an element in the regime’s propaganda.
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