A small press specializing in world literature and poetry in English and translation from Russian, East/Central European languages, Korean, and Chinese.
Since 2009, the organization VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts has sought to bring balance to the representation of female authors in the literary world. As revealed by the 2010 controversy begun by author Jodi Picoult over the gushing treatment Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom received in the New York
Article about the Russian women and family values.
Profiles of foreign women from Russia, Asia & Latin America, and other mail order brides. Single men and women interested in romance & marriage.
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981), Senegalese novelist; So Long a Letter; Alaviyya Babayeva (1921–2014), prose-writer, translator of contemporary Russian literature, and publicist
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus’, the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
T LIT 101 Understanding Literature (5) VLPA Develops essential tools for close and informed reading of fiction, drama, and poetry. Considers how a text generates aesthetic pleasure, how it achieves moral or social impact. Develops skills in literary analysis through reading literary texts, through
In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a novel so gripping it would continue to scare readers and shape genre literature for the next 200 years. But if Shelley is the godmother of modern horror, who are her godteens? Women have written some of the most blood-curdlingly scary stories of
From the Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt:. Women Writers Start Worrying About What, Exactly, Constitutes #MeToo. Perhaps it was inevitable that someone would claim the mantle of #MeToo in circumstances that were far murkier than the early scandals.
Russian literature: Russian literature, the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in …