A table for one

A table for oneAuthor: Kinneret Lahad ISBN: 9781526117274 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 13 Sep 2019 Pages: 168 Format: Paperback softback Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. Drawing on a wide range of cultural resources including web columns, blogs, advice columns, popular cliches, advertisements and references from

Kikuko wants nothing more than to fit in as she navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school

offering the spectator a privileged insight into an artist's developing response to subjective and historical dislocation

Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty

but also in terms of common preoccupations and continuities of thought

They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social

breaking the process down into key factors such as the Hero

"It was considerably past midnight one morning in the sultry month of April

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and how it helped foster the articulation of a broader British world

including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome

An eccentric teacher joins the staff

the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era