In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest known system of writing...(展开全部)

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news communi...(展开全部)

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. T...(展开全部)

In this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,” she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave―anonymously―for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life. She returns time and again to the mundane business of w...(展开全部)

In this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,” she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave―anonymously―for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life. She returns time and again to the mundane business of w...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔安娜·拉斯（1937—2011） 美国著名女性主义科幻作家、学者。 20世纪60年代，拉斯凭借其小说《在天堂野餐》在科幻小说界崭露头角；彼时科幻小说界几乎由男性作家占据，也只为男性读者服务，拉斯是最早对此形成挑战的女作者之一，之后她亦被认为是最重要的女性 主义科幻作家之一。她的主要科幻作品另有《雌性男人》《他们两个》等；非虚构作品另有《像女人那样写作》等。 【译者简介】 章艳，上海外国语大学教授，翻译学博士，硕士生导师，理论研究方向为文化翻译和翻译美学。译作另有《娱乐至死》《三十而栗》《通往明天的唯一道路：安·兰德专栏集粹》《论小丑：独裁者和艺术家》《青春无羁：狂飙时代的社会运动（1875—1945）》《朋友之间：汉娜·阿伦特、玛丽·麦卡锡书信集（1949—1975）》《重访美丽新世界》等。

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle―and not so subtle―strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers wi...(展开全部)

By the author of The Female Man--a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle―and not so subtle―strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers wi...(展开全部)

By the author of The Female Man--a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.