Comparative literature Books

Moby-Dick as Philosophy is at base a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Herman Melville’s masterwork, Moby-Dick. The commentary form of the book subserves a higher end, the presentation of an ideal of the type philosopher. Superimposing portraits of...

When used in India, the term Kala pani refers to the cellular jail in Port Blair, where the British colonisers sent a select category of freedom fighters. In the diaspora it refers to the transoceanic migration of indentured labour from India...

Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and...

In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the...

This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of the Edwardian and inter-war period. An amalgam of single-author study and...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 15, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit befasst sich hauptsächlich mit der Untersuchung der Traumainszenierung in der Literatur der...

In the age of the refugee, this volume sheds new light on the work of canonical and less-studied figures of the Spanish exile of 1939, which ranges from first to second generation exiles, from Galicia to Andalusia, from philosophers to poets,...

Mfalme Ana Pembe (The King Has Horns) is a Swahili poetry book by Mohammed Khelef Ghassani, a poet from the Indian Ocean Islands of Zanzibar, in East Africa.

Consuming Utopia builds on critical insights into consumption and utopianism developed in two previous books by the author to elaborate what it means to read utopian fiction (including dystopian and anti-utopian) from the critical perspective of cultural...

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of 'the literary' in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of reception of works which have a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across these...

San Guo Yan Yi is one of the best-known classic Chinese novels in the English-speaking world. The earliest English translation came out in 1820, while a range of further translations have been produced over the past two hundred years. How do the...

Through close readings of individual serials and books Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes by some sections of the press, they...

George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The contributors place Gissing alongside authors as diverse as Paul Bourget, Ella...

For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together leading Ford scholars, the volume places Ford's work in the...

By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln (Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur 1), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt Robert Musils...

Ding und Bild sind Schlüsselbegriffe der romantischen Poetik und Philosophie. Das hat auch die jüngste kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Romantikforschung erkannt. Allerdings untersucht sie Dinglichkeit und Bildlichkeit bislang als getrennte...

A Shower of Warm Light is a review and essay book on the topic of contemporary CanLit. It follows in the footsteps of In a Fragile Moment as a profoundly insightful collection of reviews and essays by Professor M.Sc. Miguel Ángel Olivé Iglesias a world...

This book, "On the Breeze of Canadian Literature" is a collection of essays and reviews on Canadian literature written by international scholars, Edited by Master Scholar and Poet, M.Sc. Miguel Ángel Olivé Iglesias. "On the Breeze of Canadian Literature"...

Atwood is, needless to say, one of the most acclaimed authorial voices of our time: Atwoodian critics unite in saying that Margaret Atwood offers an intriguing and compelling body of writing as well as a rich epitext. This study which explores her voice...

By addressing the Western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a discourse on animality through an interdisciplinary investigation into various areas of humanities.The...

This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India's Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language, ethnicity...

The goal of this book is to ascertain Lessing's views on argumentation and rhetoric. I intend to establish that these views constitute a systematic and coherent theory and to argue that for Lessing rhetoric in argument can...

Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate...

Sarah ANYANG AGBOR'S text is a conceptual, historical and functionalexamination of Commonwealth Literature. The text comes acrossas a nice way to review some of the essential conceptual andhistorical development of Commonwealth literature. This text will...

Deutsche Literatur wird nicht ausschließlich in deutscher Sprache geschrieben und gelesen. Literatur macht nicht an Grenzen Halt, und das Deutsche ist in sich von zahlreichen regionalen Binnenunterscheidungen durchzogen. Die Darstellung solcher...

Es gibt eine Vorgeschichte des Ehebruchromans, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem gesamteuropäischen literarischen Paradigma wurde. Im Zuge der Französischen Revolution entsteht eine säkulare Ehegesetzgebung, die einen metaphorischen...

In diesem Buch analysiert Edvin Cami Polaritäten wie Ost und West, Islam und Christentum, Religion und Säkularität, Eigenheit und Fremdheit, Konflikt und Begegnung im literarischen Schaffen Goethes. Über die Gedichtsammlung West-östlicher Divan hinaus...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,0, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Schriftlichkeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", language: English, abstract: This thesis aims to examine the interrogation and performance of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität des Saarlandes, Veranstaltung: Gegenwart in Gegenwartserzählungen. Von Judith Hermann bis Saša Stanišić, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Autor und Schöpfer des...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1.0, Universität Bielefeld, Veranstaltung: Kinder- und Jugendliteratur ab 1945, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll die filmische...

Having been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the twentieth century in Korea. Selected novels in transformation that Jooyeon Rhee investigates in this book...

Րաֆֆի (Մելիք-Հակոբյան Հակոբ Մելիք-Միրզայի) - նշանավոր հայ գրող, հրապարակախոս, հասարակական գործիչ։ Ծնվել է Պարսկաստանի Սալմաստ գավառի Փայաջուկ գյուղում։ Նախնական կրթությունն ստացել է տեղի ծխական ուսումնարանում։  Հետագային, 1847-ին մեկնած է Թիֆլիս,...

This is volume eleven of Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series, being a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell,...

First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, having been built on the foundations laid by writers such as Thomas Hughes and F.W. Farrar. Stories for...

This groundbreaking anthology showcases the rich and varied contributions of Indian writers to the English language tradition. Edited by E. E. Speight, the volume includes selections from such notable figures as Rabindranath Tagore, R. K. Narayan, and...

"A valuable and comprehensive survey of an enormous subject."--Paul Goldman, author of Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875: Spoils of the Lumber Room"A marvelous overview of how and why illustrations became an integral part of Victorian fiction...

In a work of critical reflection and innovation, William Boelhower examines the cultural shift represented by the new paradigm of Atlantic studies, a discipline forged from older models of Atlantic history, with their grounding in imperial traditions,...

Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the...

Cây đại thụ che rậm mát và trổ nhiềuhoa tươi đẹp cho Văn Học Việt Nam ...Tuy tôi không là học trò của thầy Sâm, nhưng tôi thường theo bước chân ông về khía cạnh sáng tác, cũng đọc nhiều tác phẩm của ông.Thói quen đặc biệt của tôi là luôn chú ý đến những...