Added by: sohel07 | Karma: 85.43 | Non-Fiction, Literature Studies | 14 February 2011
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Canadian Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides)
An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.
While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central themes in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and approaches.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
Added by: littlecrabpig | Karma: 227.82 | Kids, Only for teachers, Literature Studies | 13 February 2011
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Ten Short Stories (Penguin Student Editions)
This title contains: "The Umbrella Man"; "Dip in the Pool"; "The Butler"; "The Hitchhiker"; "Mr Botibol"; "My Lady Love", "My Dove"; "The Way Up to Heaven"; "Parson's Pleasure"; "The Sound Machine"; and "The Wish".
Roald Dah,l who died in 1990, continues to be the most popular author for today's children. Quentin Blake is one of the UK's most celebrated artists, renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl. He lives in London.
The Great Writers series explores the lives of some of the most talked about literary figures of the past half-century. One of the twentieth century's most preeminent novelists, Vonnegut satirically explores the wrongs of humanity, most notably in Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. Ages 14+
The satirical novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, is the author of such popular works as Cat's Cradle, SlaughterhouseFive, and Timequake.
Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states.
