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Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction

Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction

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Taking my lead from two previous articles to which I am deeply indebted, written by Georges Letissier and Susana Onega, who herself replies to Georges Letissier, I would like to pursue and develop Onega's interpretation of “the little stranger,” ...
Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

Susana Onega Jaén

First book-length study of the complex and engaging award winning English novelist( for Hawkesmoor) , biographer, poet and reviewer.
Telling Histories: Narrativizing History, Historicizing ...

Telling Histories: Narrativizing History, Historicizing ...

Susana Onega

Team research project (undertaken at Zaragoza University ), designed to explore the origins and development of contemporary, historiographic metafiction in Britain.
Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

Susana Onega Jaén

This is a study of Jeanette Winterson's work, containing analyses of her nine novels and cross-references to her minor fictional and non-fictional works.
Narratology: An Introduction

Narratology: An Introduction

Susana Onega

In line with Wolfgang Iser, Umberto Eco and Horst Ruthrof, Meir Sternberg offers a readerresponse approach to narrative. He defines narrative as a system of'gap filling'and hypothesis testing and contends that the textual structure must be ...
Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film

Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film

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Susana Onega Jaén, Christian Gutleben. and "a most proud and loving and handy woman" (174); she further asks Ash: Think you not — she was not only Ghoul — but a kind of Goddess of Poison— a French Ceres, it might be, or turning to ...
Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd

Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd

Susana Onega Jaén

Providing detailed analysis of the recurrent structural and thematic traits in Peter Ackroyd's first nine novels, this work sets out to show how they grow out of the tension created by two apparently contradictory tendencies.
Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

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Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega Jaén. Acknowledgements. The idea for this book originated in two academic events: the “Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature” seminar that was convened by the editors of the present ...
Susana Banana the Fantastic Figure Skater

Susana Banana the Fantastic Figure Skater

Sophia Barragan

Sophia Barragan, Ivy Barragan. eicom^ -to ike, ftancLKa 6pU* Swizzle, Flip That weekend, everyone lined up to buy the banana cream pies that Susana Bananas mother was selling. They made just enough money to send Susana Banana to.
Santa Susana

Santa Susana

Bill Appleton

Two plane crashes and an emergency landing contributed to the early start of the Santa Susana Airport. In 1937, Simi resident Glenn Fitzgerald flew his plane from Oxnard and landed in a vacant field north of the railroad depot. His Arrow ...
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village ...

Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village ...

Susana Herrera

“Californian Susana Herrera spent two years in northern Cameroon in what might be described as the classic Peace Corps assignment: teaching school in a remote African village. 'Jam bah doo nah?' ('Are you in your skin?') her neighbors  ...
Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate ...

Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate ...

Jack Canfield

2000 Cathryn Pearse Snyders. The Yellow Birds. Reprinted by permission Karen Garrison.© 2001 Karen Garrison. Keep Your Head Up. Reprinted by permission of Susana Herrera. © 2000 Susana Herrera. How Many Grapes Does It Take?
Lágrimas de vida

Lágrimas de vida

Susana Herrera

He tenido una honda necesidad de poner por escrito esta experiencia.
The American Chronicles of José Marti: Journalism and ...

The American Chronicles of José Marti: Journalism and ...

Susana Rotker

A study of a key Latin American writer and thinker.
Mango elephants in the sun: how life in an African village ...

Mango elephants in the sun: how life in an African village ...

Susana Herrera

The Peace Corps volunteer shares her life and experiences in northern Cameroon
Lengua Espanola I

Lengua Espanola I

Susana Espinosa Peña

This is a work that claims that students establish a significant contact with language, by understanding and practicing in their element in a manner that internalizes its correct use, with each exercise it motivates reflection and self ...
Essentials of Psychological Testing

Essentials of Psychological Testing

Susana Urbina

This guide was written specifically for active professionals and students in fields ranging from clinical mental health and social work to education and human resources.
Santa Susana

Santa Susana

Bill Appleton

The author wishes to express thanks and appreciation to Patricia Havens, museum director for the Strathearn Historical Park, for her many years of support, encouragement, and access to her files and archives. Additionally, I extend thanks to ...
Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in ...

Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in ...

Susana Draper

The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a now-hidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much ...
Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics

Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics

Susana Nuccetelli

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses.
Degradation Rituals: Our Sadomasochistic Society

Degradation Rituals: Our Sadomasochistic Society

L. Romanienko

America in Change: Reflections on the 60's and 70's.” Review of Politics 34(4): 187–93. Crane,Jeff,and MichaelEgan(eds.).2009. Natural Protest: Essaysonthe History of American Environmentalism.NewYork: Routledge. Crane, SusanA. 1997.
Journal of the Senate and Assembly During the ... Session of ...

Journal of the Senate and Assembly During the ... Session of ...

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... Doty, Field, Hamilton, Head, Hunter, Johnston, Kerrick, McClaskey, Rhiel, Sinon, Stephens, Wheat, Wheelan, Yell, and Mr. Speaker—19. ... Susana: Your Committee on Roads and Highways, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No.
Cluster policies in Europe

Cluster policies in Europe

Susana Borrás

This book provides a systematic, comprehensive, and independent comparative study of cluster policies in Europe.
LOVE, PLEASE: A MEMOIR OF DESTINY, LOSS AND HEALING.

LOVE, PLEASE: A MEMOIR OF DESTINY, LOSS AND HEALING.

SUSANA HAYMAN-CHAFFEY

The Cunningham Company administrator, Alice Helpern, had always stressed the fact that I came from a very famous company and should never sell myself short. With this in mind, I asked Satoru what he thought, and he, despite the fact that ...
Governing Agricultural Sustainability: Global lessons from ...

Governing Agricultural Sustainability: Global lessons from ...

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Figures and tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations and acronyms Contributors PART I The GMFuturos research 1 Researching GM crops in a global context Phil Macnaghten, Susana Carro-Ripalda and Joanildo Burity 2 An analysis of the ...

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