Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit
1st Edition
By Caroline J. Smith
April 29, 2009
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which ...
Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray
1st Edition
By Nalin Jayasena
December 11, 2008
Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous ...
Literatura Hispanoamericana: Una Antologia - An Anthology
1st Edition
Edited
By David W. Foster
January 01, 1994
This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural ...