Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: dennis walder

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  • PRINT CULTURE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
    DAVIS, CAROLINE DICK, ARCHIE L., ROUX, ELIZABETH LE & WALDER, DENNIS
    Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes. Firstly, it presents original research into the formation of reading publics and the imp...

    $1,160.00

  • THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL: IDENTITIES
    DENNIS WALDER
    The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracul...

    $1,160.00

  • DICKENS AND RELIGION
    DENNIS WALDER
    The importance of understanding Dickens's religion to obtain a full appreciation of his achievement has long been admitted; but this is the first critical study of the interaction between Dickens's religious beliefs and his creative imagination throughout his career. The novelist's religious beliefs are a pervasive and deeply felt presence in his works even if they are not alwa...

    $1,160.00

  • POSTCOLONIAL NOSTALGIAS
    DENNIS WALDER
    This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well as personal boundaries. Often seen as merely escapist, nostalgia also offers solace and self-understanding for those displaced by the larger movements of our time. Walder analyses the...

    $1,460.00

  • THE REALIST NOVEL
    DENNIS WALDER
    This book guides the student through the fundamentals of this enduring literary form. By using carefully selected novels and discussing a wide range of authors including Emily Dickinson and John Kincaid, the authors provide a lively examination of the particular themes and modes of realist novels of the period. This is the only book currently available to provide such a wide ra...

    $1,160.00