Literary studies: general Books

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was the first full-length study of Farrell's fiction. Ronald Binns provides a comprehensive account of the development of this idiosyncratic Anglo-Irish novelist's career. Farrell's Empire trilogy was...

This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien's unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, combiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the...

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates an underlying continuity within the period of Stuart rule. It presents thinkers and writers before and after 1660 responding to...

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences in the power and effect of their work. This book shows how differing philosophical commitments help explain differences in the...

Originally published in 1956, this study of Spenser's poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in visions and pastorals were of continuing importance to the development of The Faerie Queene. Following on from Bishop Hurd's Letters on Chivalry...

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy. They undertake a...

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America's greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright's deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions.

This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writer's lyrical genius.

This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also explores how literary practices and imagination are...

This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the...

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students...

The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. It allows understanding how human beings interact in a...

IntroductionChapter 1: Lineages of LearningChapter 2: Ramus and the History of MathematicsChapter 3: From Plato to Pythagoras: The Scholae mathematicaeChapter 4: ''To Bring Alexandria to Oxford''- Henry Savile's1570 Lectures on PtolemyChapter 5: The...

Goethe's great love for the ancient classics once prompted him to write ("Gespriiche mit Eckerman," April 1, 1827), "Man studiere nicht die Mitgeborenen und Mitstrebenden, sondern grosse Menschen der Vorzeit, deren Werke seit...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Universität Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Interpretation in möglichst einfacher Sprache soll besonders SchülerInnen, StudentInnen und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Lateinamerikanische Philologie, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der vorliegende cuento mit dem Titel ,,Luvina" handelt von einem Professor, der einem fremden Mann in...

Scientific Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: The incorporation of war into English speaking literature has a long tradition since wars as...

Die Bibliographie präsentiert erstmals in systematischer Weise Leben und Werk der bekannten jüdischen Jugendbuchautorin Else Ury (1877-1943), die vor allem durch ihre Nesthäkchen-Reihe große Popularität erlangte. Jedes Werk wird in seiner historischen...

Drawing on a selection of carefully curated autobiographical and fictional portrayals of the dementia experience, this book gives voice to some of the most pressing ethical issues that commonly arise in the context of a dementing disorder, and calls...

In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the...

In diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen" und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität gegründeten „Dritten Kultur"...

1966 bezeichnete Roland Barthes den Satz „Ich bin tot" als unmögliche Aussage, denn sie behaupte das radikal Widersprüchliche: Leben und Tod. Der tote Ich-Erzähler in Prosa, der seit den 1950er Jahren Konjunktur hat, macht dieses Paradoxon zum...

Florian Nieser zeigt in diesem Buch den interpretatorischen Mehrwert von uneindeutigen Zeichen auf, die Irritationen und Ambivalenzen produzieren. Ausgehend vom Blickwinkel eines ‚informierten' zeitgenössischen Rezipienten des Willehalm und der Bataille...

Mit seinen Texten geht Rainer Maria Rilke der Spur einer ‚Essenz' des Lebens nach. In seinen Werken ist die Überzeugung eingeschrieben, dass das Kunstwerk eine metaphysische Wahrheit transportiert, die sich jedoch ihrerseits schwer fassen lässt und...

In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, wie geografische Räume in den primär mündlich geprägten Lebenswelten des Mittelalters wahrgenommen und das Wissen darüber kommuniziert werden konnten. Am Beispiel eines überschaubaren Raumausschnitts werden die...

Die Studie setzt an der Schnittstelle von wissenschaftlicher Sprachkritik und naturwüchsiger Sprachbewertung an und versucht das historisch schwierige Verhältnis zwischen Laienlinguistik und Linguistik zu regulieren. Die zentrale These, dass viele der...

1. Gegenwärtigkeit und Gegenwartsliteratur.- 2. Literaturdebatten 1990-2015.- 3. Wende und Einheit.- 4. Poproman und Fräuleinwunder.- 5. Geschichte im Gedächtnis.- 6. Krieg und Terror.- 7. Nach dem Menschen.- 8. Globalisierung.- 9. Fantastik und...

"Vierzig Jahre, und mein Werk ist der Abgesang des Jahrtausends", schrieb Bertolt Brecht 1920. Seit Jahrzehnten ist die Bedeutung Brechts für die deutsche und die Weltliteratur erwiesen. Das "Brecht-Handbuch" wird nun in vollständig neu bearbeiteter und...

With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the recording of all data in an online portal for research and visual analysis, an innovative contribution to the...

"A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country." Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. "Hölderlin and the Consequences" wants to...

Christian Volkmann präsentiert den im 19. Jahrhundert überaus erfolgreichen und prominenten Schriftsteller Emanuel Geibel als einen modernen, marktorientierten Autor, der zielorientiert an seiner Karriere und seinem Image arbeitete. Die Studie bricht das...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,7, Universität Konstanz, Veranstaltung: Das Nibelungenlied, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit wird sich allgemein dem Ambivalenzverhältnis von...

The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes's proposition that 'every child is nature's chance to correct culture's error.' Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the...

Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on "Eroticism and Form" and "Temporality and Affect," essays in this volume read Milton's works...

This book explores the insights that Cultural Astronomy provides into the classical Roman world by unveiling the ways in which the Romans made use of their knowledge concerning the heavens, and by shedding new light on the interactions between astronomy...

This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of "place" in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that "place" is an important critical category through which to understand...

This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like...

This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose...

This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland,...

This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft's most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft's criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources,...