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Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the College of New Jersey for
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Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importanc...
American National Biography
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
It Looks Better on You
When editors Tessa Copland and Jane Westaway called on NZ writers to pay tribute to women's friendships, they knew from the start what they didn't want. 'Not sentiment. Not sociology. Not celebrity chat. We looked for true stories from writers willing to go public on an intimate aspect of their lives.' The result is a gritty and touching look at the durable, flexible and sustaining relationship which Fleur Adcock depicts as 'far more permanent, thank God, than marriage'. Describing the sea is probably simpler than cataloguing the breadth and depth of women's friendships. But these stories and poems splash through the shallows of primary school, navigate the shoals of adolescence and the swif...
Towards a Transcultural Future
This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents: TOPICS TREATED Preparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to 'void'; women's overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multicul...
