This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non fiction of V.S. Naipaul is aimed at students, specialists and general readers. Chronological chapters examine the structure, significance and development of Naipaul's writing, setting the texts in their autobiographical, philosophical, social and political, colonial and post-colonial contexts.
This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non fiction of V.S. Naipaul is aimed at students, specialists and general readers. Chronologic...
Wikipedia went dark on January 18, 2012. So did thousands of other websites, including search giant Google, all to protest a controversial copyright bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The protest even helped to ignite mass demonstrations on the streets of over 250 cities in all 27 countries of the European Union to stop a similar attempt to regulate the Internet under the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). This book provides a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at how people organized the largest Internet protest in history, plus the largest single-day demonstration on the...
Wikipedia went dark on January 18, 2012. So did thousands of other websites, including search giant Google, all to protest a controversial copyright b...
From the Americas to the European Union, Asia-Pacific and Africa, countries around the world are facing increased pressure to clarify the application of intellectual property exhaustion. This wide-ranging Research Handbook explores the questions that pose themselves as a result. Should exhaustion apply at the national, regional, or international level? Should parallel imports be considered lawful imports? Should copyright, patent, and trademark laws follow the same regime? Should countries attempt to harmonize their approaches? To what extent should living matters and self-replicating...
From the Americas to the European Union, Asia-Pacific and Africa, countries around the world are facing increased pressure to clarify the application ...
Představme si, že v roce 1934 obdrží spisovatel H. P. Lovecraft dráždivou výzvu k napsání povídky pro avantgardní literární časopis Erotesque. Je mu nabídnut velkorysý honorář a příslib, že jeho dílo bude vydáno pod pseudonymem. Věčně živořící Lovecraft by větší sumu peněz samozřejmě uvítal, jenže věc má háček: povídka pro toto exkluzivní periodikum musí být hlavně a především erotická. Poněkud puritánský autor se napřed zhrozí, ale okolnosti ho záhy přesvědčí, aby nabídku přijal, popustil otěže své představivosti a sexuálně...
Představme si, že v roce 1934 obdrží spisovatel H. P. Lovecraft dráždivou výzvu k napsání povídky pro avantgardní literární časopis Erot...
