Comparative literature Books

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 2,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die hier folgende Analyse und Interpretation Eilharts "Tristrant und Isalde"...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Untersuchung befasst sich mit der weiblichen Sexualität in einem der einflussreichsten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Deutsches Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Max Frischs 1957 veröffentlichter Roman...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,5, Universität Stuttgart (Institut für Literaturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Martin Opitz gilt als DER Dichter des...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der transnationalen Dimension der Kanonisierung von Literatur im Rahmen der griechisch-sowjetischen Literaturbeziehungen. Teil der sowjetischen ideologischen Expansion war auch ein Konzept von Weltliteratur,...

The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of "narrativity" rather than clarifying it.The first part of this study remedies this...

Understanding Adaptation: Drama, Fiction, Film is an adaptation-studies textbook that contains 70 essays on 80 geographically diverse, historically significant novels, short stories, and plays that have been adapted to film. A comprehensive critical...

The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. This book considers the migrant's story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and festivals in Italy and France,...

This is the first major work to present a political, legal, theological, philosophical, and missiological view - validated by ancient Jewish Rabbinical hermeneutical strategies - of the current maelstrom affecting Western society. The author employs a...

After his mother goes deaf, a young boy must navigate through the many difficulties of his childhood. The boy witnesses his Mom deal with loss, his father becoming distant, his older brother living a life of his own. The protagonist feels alone,...

Philosophy’s Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation gathers contributions from an international group of scholars at different stages of their careers, bringing together diverse perspectives on translation and philosophy. The volume’s...

What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. With...

Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of...

This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.The volume brings...

In today's classrooms, educators specializing in literature and the arts have found themselves facing an escalating crisis. Most obviously, they encounter serious budget cuts, largely because students tend in increasing numbers to prefer majoring in...

Xie analyses three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature "mythorealist" form produces textual meanings that subvert the totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism. A groundbreaking...

Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the "negation of the diaspora" as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known...

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin's first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of...

Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said's Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange and challenge elements of his thesis, looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by globalization.

This book articulates a new theory of translation based on the estuary as metaphor for what translation can do at cultural and linguistic borders. It then uses the concept of "estuarine translation" as a critical lens for the study of works that either...

This book analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past...

As a result of Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling...

"In Search of Wisdom" is a series of dialogues between Dr. Khalid Sohail and Dr. Baland Iqbal on Canada One TV, based on social, political, psychological, philosophical, religious, ideologies and personalities that have played a profound role in the...

This interdisciplinary collection explores the forms and aesthetics of rhyme in a variety of languages and from a variety of perspectives. A wide-ranging introduction that ends with a list and associated bibliography of rhyming traditions of the world is...

"రచయిత-నిబద్ధత"అనే వ్యాసం రాయడానికి ప్రేరకులు కడప ఆకాశవాణి బాధ్యులు డా. తక్కోలు మాంచి రెడ్డిగారు. ఆ వ్యాసాన్ని ఆంధ్రజ్యోతిలో ప్రచురించి అలాంటివ్యాసాలు మరికొన్ని రాయమని ప్రోత్సహించిన మిత్రుడు పొనుగోటి కృష్ణారెడ్డి గారు. అప్పటినుండి గత ముప్ఫై ఏళ్ళలో...

Das Goethejahr 1999 fiel in eine Zeit aufgeregtester Diskussion über ‚Globalisierung'. Goethes Begriff der >Weltliteratur< gewann in diesem Zusammenhang neue Aktualität. Nach wie vor besteht jedoch Uneinigkeit darüber, was der alte Goethe mit...

Heimat hat Konjunktur. Dabei wird erst ein interdisziplinärer und transkultureller Blickwinkel diesem vielschichtigen Konzept gerecht. Der Band beleuchtet verschiedene Facetten des umstrittenen Begriffs aus kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht...

The most comprehensive guide to Norse literature, historical folk lore and more. Kvilhaug peels back the layers of the Eddas, Poems and Sagas to reveal hidden truths within Maria's background in research and archaeology is visible throughout with full...

This is the first full-length study in English of the oeuvre of Elin Wägner - feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist - and also the first to include texts representing a wide range of genres. The focus on gender and community, studied in...

Confrontational Readings explores the manifold relationships between neo-avant-garde literatures. In the areas represented in the study (Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria), there is a surge of literary experiments with similar...

Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the...

This book will focus on analyzing the different aspects of Japan's representation in the novels of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell. It is proven that Murakami creates and recreates Japan without implementing any orientalist features or exotic imagery...

Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new...

Reading canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte BrontÃ, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology, Emily Walker Heady suggests that Victorian authors discuss conversion...

Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1851 and 1915. Moruzi's analyses of competing discourses within girls' periodicals demonstrate how these publications...

Ann C. Colley examines archival accounts of tourists and female climbers, technological advances, and theatrical spectacle to trace the evolution of the sublime over the course of the nineteenth century. Chapters on John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins,...

With the twentieth century came a new awareness of just how much an individual was obliged to accept on trust, and this heightened awareness of social trust in turn prompted new kinds of anxiety about fraudulence and deception. Beginning with the premise...