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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream-vision poem. Though a work of prophecy, it proceeds with a light touch. The sequence of eleven dreams, loosely interlinked, leaves us to wrestle with our doubts; it takes up thorny questions that challenge a culture right where it may tend to be its proudest. The landscape of the work shifts as it moves among the African savannah, congested late-industrial London, and the olive tree-studded hillsides of Italy. The intersectionality of Schreiner's writing-its concern with gender, sexual orientation, class, nation, and race-makes her a particularly salient voice for today's students. The appendices to this edition provide an accessible representation of Schreiner's key contexts, South African and British as well as American. The introduction features a biographical overview of a writer wrestling with questions of social justice pertinent to her own era yet relevant to our contemporary moment.…

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Zustand: New. A work that defies conventional categorization however, one might best capture Dreams unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dre.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Dreams | Olive Schreiner | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2020 | Broadview Press Ltd | EAN 9781554815647 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.