LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john thieme

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john thieme

  • The German Fury in Belgium
    Carel Thieme / John Buchan / L. (Lambertus) Mokveld
    'The German Fury in Belgium: Experiences of a Netherland Journalist during four months with the German Army in Belgium' offers a chilling firsthand account of the German occupation of Belgium during World War I. Written by L. Mokveld, a journalist who witnessed the conflict’s early stages, this historical document details the harsh realities faced by the Belgian people under Ge...
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    21,16 €

  • Anthropocene Realism
    John Thieme
    Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living on an endangered planet.Focusing on fiction set in the ’long present’ - a term used to cover the actual present, t...
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    51,21 €

  • R. K. Narayan
    John Thieme
    R.K. Narayan’s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of 'authentic' Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geog...
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    22,11 €

  • Post-Colonial Studies
    John Thieme
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    54,65 €

  • Postcolonial Con-Texts
    John Thieme
    In recent years works such as Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs, which ’write back’ to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colonial writing and the ’canon’. Thieme’s study provides a broad overview of such writing, focusing both on responses to texts th...
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    52,56 €

  • Derek Walcott
    John Thieme
    This book provides a unique account of Walcott’s development as a writer in addition to being the fullest study of his poetry and plays to date.Discusses all his major works and includes information on his out-of-print and unpublished plays along with . ...
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    22,24 €