CURSUS: GENDER & DIVERSITY IN US CULTURE; Boek: A Mercy - Toni Morrison
Powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize winning author of BELOVED and, like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for...
CURSUS: GENDER & DIVERSITY IN US CULTURE; Boek: The Bingo Palace - Louise Erdrich
Back on his reservation, Lipsha Morrissey, the illegitimate son of June Kashpaw and Gerry Nanapush, falls in love with Shawnee Ray and is torn between success and meaning, love and money, and the future and the past.
CURSUS: GENDER, TRAUMA & MEMORY Boek: A mercy - Toni Morrison
Powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize winning author of BELOVED and, like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for...
Vintage paperback edition of Coetzee's Booker-winning novel, which revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, and which evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Sales will be given a massive boost by the aforementioned...
Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating...
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses key approaches to narrative fiction, from New Criticism to Phenomenology, but also offers views on and modifications to these theories.
CURSUS: VERHAALANALYSE Boek: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ' So begins one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of...
CURSUS: LITERATUUR EN CHRISTENDOM Boek: Moeder En Zoon - Gerard Reve
In “Moeder en zoon” beschrijft Reve zijn – voor vele mensen niet begrepen – ontwikkelingsgang naar het rooms-katholicisme. Een hoogtepunt in zijn veelomvattende en indrukwekkende oeuvre, dat zindert van symboliek en virtuositeit.
“Hoe ben jij, Gerard Reve, een man met toch...
CURSUS: LITERATUUR EN CHRISTENDOM Boek: The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
This novel is highstrung and incredibly funny. It is tinged with psychedelia and creates a web of allusions to popular music, contemporary writers and artists that is amusing to navigate through. All characters, who sport wild and symbolic names such as Gengis Cohen and Mr....
CURSUS: LITERATUUR EN CHRISTENDOM Boek: Hajar en Daan - Robert Anker
Aan het begin van het schooljaar verschijnt in het leven van Daan Hollander, leraar geschiedenis, de Marokkaanse Hajar Nait Sibaha. Algauw ontdekt Daan dat Hajar niet een scholiere is zoals alle andere. Het is het begin van een zinderende en onmogelijke liefde tussen twee...
