Neil ten Kortenaar 
Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy [PDF ebook] 
Reading and Writing in African and Caribbean Fiction

Captain George Mortland turned into a courageous British officer, and "The Sapphire Cross" by means of George Manville Fenn is an interesting adventure story approximately his lifestyles. I …

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention — in history, political science and literat …

First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the s …

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe»s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne»s Essays, Rabelais» comic fictions, Rons …

This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business pract …

This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier. …

Henry James»s ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for undergraduate study. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting …

The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They repre …

Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden …

Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In doing so it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by …