In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Roddy Doyle. Featuring the texts: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van and A Star Called Henry.
Offering an engaging introduction to contemporary literature, this series serves as a comprehensive guide to notable authors. Each volume explores key themes, genres, and narrative techniques, providing readers with valuable insights into the works of the featured author. This approach not only enhances understanding but also enriches the reading experience, making it an essential resource for literature enthusiasts.
'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman 'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena Kennedy Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, a realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly- she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny intense. There are questions about past lives, about capability and expectations. Asking big questions about identity and belonging, as well as about what makes a mother - and a home - this is a beautiful meditation on how the legacies of childhood might be overcome by a mother's determination to love. 'Extremely moving...an unusually thoughtful take on becoming a mother, enabled by removing babyhood and biology.' Guardian
Dieses 1928 erschienene Werk beschrieb Virginia Woolf bewußt als »eine Biographie, die im Jahr 1500 beginnt und bis zum heutigen Tag führt«. Es ist eine Huldigung an ihre Freundin, die Schriftstellerin Victoria Sackville-West, von Virginia Woolf zärtlich Vita genannt. Im September 1927 schrieb Virginia in ihr Tagebuch: »Eines Tages jedoch werde ich hier die Umrisse all meiner Freunde skizzieren wie ein großes historisches Gemälde. (...) Vita sollte Orlando sein, ein junger Adeliger.«In die Neuausgabe wurden erstmals seit der englischen Erstausgabe die acht Abbildungen aufgenommen, die Virginia Woolf zur Illustration der Reise Orlandos durch die Zeit für den Roman ausgewählt hatte. Bei der neuen Übersetzung ging es vor allem darum, die Vielzahl der versteckten Zitate, die stilistischen Parodien und den »essayartigen« Charakter des Textes im Deutschen nachzuempfinden. In einem Anhang erläutert der Herausgeber die literarischen Quellen und auch die Bezüge zu Vita Sackville-West und deren Familiensitz Knole.
In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Salman Rushdie. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Salman Rushdie, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. schovat popis
In this anthology, Margaret Reynolds brings together the work of 32 women from Britain, Europe and the Americas, including three specially commissioned pieces, covering nearly a century of lesbian writing, from Sarah Orne Jewett (1897) to Jeanette Winterson (1993).
In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Margaret Atwood.
In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Ian McEwan, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide will deal with McEwan's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Iris Murdoch. Iris Murdoch's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Amongst many other features you'll find inspirational reading plans and contextual material, suggested complementary and comparative reading and an indispensable glossary. Featured texts: The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea, The Bell'I didn't realise just how good the series was until I started working closely with it. The questions are so thoughtful and probing-the texts really do occupy their own niche between guides purely for teachers and the ubiquitous student crib, and are much better than either' Head of English, Newington College, Australia
