Pedagogy of Life takes its readers through the echoing stories of the half-century, historical Cultural Revolution of China to the literate lifeworld today. Rosa Hong Chen offers a gripping array of personal and kindred stories woven into the power of words and empathy of art through the volutes of writing and dancing for life, expressing genera of warm melancholy, weighty sensations, compulsive sobs, and refrained elation. It is for the existential history of individual lives and...

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. ...

Kaffee - alltäglicher Begleiter vieler Menschen. Doch was ist, wenn er nicht nur anregend, sondern auch magisch wirkt? Welche Geheimnisse verbergen sich in seinen schwarzen Tiefen? Zehn Geschichten laden ein, eine ganz andere Seite des Kaffees kennenzulernen - überraschend, tragisch, phantastisch - und zeigen, dass auch im Kaffeesatz noch immer etwas Gutes steckt.