Comparative literature Books

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin color in the...

In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member...

Act I - The Market Place of Padua, Act II - Room in the Duke's Palace, Act III - Corridor in the Duke's Palace, Act IV - The Hall of Justice, Act V - The Dungeon.

Lewis Carroll discovered a new country, simply by rowing up and down the river, and telling a story to the accompaniment of dipping oars and rippling waters, as the boat glided through. It is not everyone who can discover a country, people it with...

Etymology, Extracts, Chapter 1 - Loomings, Chapter 2 - The Carpet-Bag, Chapter 3 - The Spouter-Inn, Chapter 4 - The Counterpane, Chapter 5 - Breakfast, Chapter 6 - The Street, Chapter 7 - The Chapel, Chapter 8 - The Pulpit, Chapter 9 - The Sermon,...

Introduction , BOOK I - SHAKESPEARE PAINTED BY HIMSELF: Chapter I - Hamlet: Romeo-Jaques, Chapter II - Hamlet-Macbeth, Chapter III - Duke Vincentio-Posthumus, Chapter IV - Shakespeare's Men of Action: The Bastard, Arthur, and King Richard II, Chapter V -...

1. The Son's Veto, 2. For Conscience' Sake, 3. A Tragedy of Two Ambitions, 4. On the Western Circuit, 5. To Please his Wife, 6. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion, 7. The Fiddler of the Reels, 8. A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, 9. A Few...

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY: Act I. Morning-room in Lord Windermere's house.Act II. Drawing-room in Lord Windermere's house.Act III. Lord Darlington's rooms.Act IV. Same as Act I.Time: The Present.Place: London.The action of the play takes place within...

A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.My thanks are due in three quarters.To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined...

There is one characteristic which may be safely said to belong to nearly all happily-married couples-that of desiring to see equally happy marriages among their young friends; and in some cases, where their wishes are strong and circumstances seem...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, then in book form in three volumes in...

Economy, Where I Lived, and What I Lived for, Reading, Sounds, Solitude, Visitors, The Bean-Field, The Village, The Ponds, Baker Farm, Higher Laws, Brute Neighbors, House-Warming, Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors, Winter Animals, The Pond in...

I - Shakespeare and the Modern Stage, II - Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Playgoer, III - Shakespeare in Oral Tradition, IV - Pepys and Shakespeare, V - Mr Benson and Shakespearean Drama, VI - The Municipal Theatre, VII - Aspects of Shakespeare's...

It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes. Still there is so much obscurity in the...

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast...

I. Chirp the First, II. Chirp the Second, III. Chirp the Third.

Love and Freindship, An Unfinished Novel in Letters, The History of England, A Collection of Letters, The Female Philosopher, The First Act of a Comedy, A Tale.

(1). A Christmas Tree [1850], (2). What Christmas is as We Grow Older [1851], (3). The Poor Relation's Story [1852], (4). The Child's Story [1852], (5). The Schoolboy's Story [1853], (6). Nobody's Story.

BOOK I - Containing as Much of the Birth of the Foundling as is Necessary or Proper to Acquaint the Reader With in the Beginning if this History, BOOK II - Containing Scenes of Matrimonial Felicity in Different Degrees of Life; and Various Other...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 2,0, Universität des Saarlandes, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Fastnachtsspiel ist eine der meistgenutzten Gattungen der frühneuzeitlichen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2.0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit zeigt die durch den Prozess des Sterbens dynamische Entwicklung der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität des Saarlandes, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit hat sich als Ziel gesetzt, drei exemplarisch...

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 1994 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: cum laude, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Fakultaet fuer Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bei Shakespeares Narren und die Tradition des Hofnarrentums handelt es...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germanistisches Insitut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Brechts Interesse für die Massenmedien, besonders den Film, ist...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Phantom und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Rasse-Konstruktionen und die Möglichkeiten ihrer literarischen Kritik...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Lateinamerika, Note: 2,0, Universität des Saarlandes (Romanistik), Veranstaltung: Traum und Reise in der Erzählliteratur Argentiniens des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,7, Universität Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit soll die Wirkungsweise des Fantastischen nach der Definition...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,1, University of Bonn (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), language: English, abstract: This paper foremost deals with the...

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 10, , course: Literature, language: English, abstract: This study focuses on the style of the author Nicholas Sparks in his two novels: "The Notebook" and "The best...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,1, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Kulturkritische Positionen 1890−1945: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rudolf Borchardt, Rudolf Alexander Schröder,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,3, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Novelle „ Leutnant Gustl" wurde von dem österreichischen Schriftsteller, Mediziner und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit wird der Medienverbund im Lese- und Literaturunterricht im Mittelpunkt...

Case Study from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, , language: English, abstract: This study specifically focuses on the impact of social interaction among learners on academic performance in literacy centres in Kumbotso local...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,7, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Medien spielen im alltäglichen Leben von Kindern und Jugendlichen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld, Veranstaltung: Literaturdidaktik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach einer kurzen Zusammenfassung des Inhalts und der Darstellung der...

Forerunner mystic poet Sant Kabir Ji and his poetic successor Lalon Sayeen are two great thought ancestries in this subcontinent. They are not only poets or saints of the stream they have also great impact in building our main thought stream. Here we had...

Stephen Romer's essays range from the key figures of French and English Modernism to the contemporary practice of poetry, and its translation. At the heart of Chaos and the Clean Line is an enquiry into the talismanic power that a source of order can...

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but what is it that makes the poem so particularly involving? And why might videogames help us understand this better? Drawing on new theories...

Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of multiple signifying possibilities, an opening of the source text to Language in all its plurality. The...

The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another language and country. By exploring Italian poetry's potential for mobility and transformation, it traces its reception in the U.S. and...

This book aims at analysing the fiction produced by the expatriate Parsee writers of the Indian subcontinent: Bapsi Sidhwa, Rohinton Mistry and Boman Desai. These Parsee writers of the South Asian origin have emigrated to Canada and USA in the latter...

Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson, Jodi A. Byrd, Gina Caison, Robbie Ethridge, Patricia Galloway, LeAnne Howe, John Wharton Lowe, Katherine M. B. Osburn, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Jay WatsonFrom new insights into...

In a reevaluation of that period in Victorian illustration known as 'The Sixties,' a distinguished group of international scholars consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading; its capacity to reflect, construct, critique and challenge its...

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter...

Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Betsy Tontiplaphol draws on established narratives of the nineteenth century's social and literary developments to describe the relationship...