Literary studies: general Books

This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of...

This book considers how Samuel Beckett's critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his...

1. Introduction: Pilar Villar-Argáiz.- 2. Dragging up the Past: Subversive Performance of Gender and Sexual Identities in Traditional and Contemporary Irish Culture: Jeannine Woods.- 3. The Wasted Island: Epistemic Friction...

This work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the...

This unusual book is a fascinating work of personal criticism or "biblio-memoir" which will appeal to all interested in James Joyce's work, and, more widely, to those interested in responses to great art. It focusses on the life-long appeal of a...

This is the long-wanted essential modern edition of William Beckford's Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek. The text of this edition is a new translation by the leading Beckford specialist. It corrects many earlier errors and presentations of Beckford's...

This brilliant, classic and scholarly study provides the fullest treatment of a key subject. It is one of the essential works on Dickens's work and life. A substantial new introduction deals with more recent commentary.

This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. This new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter - '"Bright Faces of the New: " Bodies, Children and Futures in...

This landmark book - entirely unobtainable for several years - is the single essential study of how the best-known Bront� novels - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - achieved their world-wide fame. It offers a fascinating account of how the novels have...

Between 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and religion. Renaissance and Reformation, the Union of the Crowns, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms all shaped the nation, shifting and recasting Scotland’s...

Dickens on England and the English explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships to his country, drawing on a very wide range of his fiction. It offers an account of his often complex and contradictory views of the people and the country that...

Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays? This important literary and cultural controversy is livelier and more widely discussed than ever before. Here, nine leading experts offer their version of who wrote the plays. In new essays especially written for...

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Ancestry and Family Chronology A Wharton Who's Who Bibliography Index

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes Acknowledgements Feminist Narratology in Context The Question of Gender and Form The Question of Gender and Context The Importance of Similarities Questioning Intra-category Variation Media Narratives and Success and...

This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer's literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations-material (including privies,...

The State Economic Handbook is a new annual reference book profiling the economy, demography, political environment, and business climates for each of the 50 states. This information, gathered from a variety of sources and clearly presented in one...

This is a fascinating literary-critical study of the ways the Virgin Mary has been presented in English poetry, from the later Middle Ages to today. Ranging across a vast variety of approaches to this timeless topic, Spurr shows how poets have spoken of...

Rhetoric and Sexuality explores the poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill. Nickowitz combines a rhetorical and thematic interpretation, employing close readings and the critical lens of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis, to...

Forging Chivalric Communities examines how Malory presents chivalry as a dynamic code shaped by communities large and small for their own purposes, from the national effort of England to free itself of the Roman legacy to Trystram's energy as a champion...

Winner of the University of Central Florida College of Arts and Humanities Distinguished Researcher Award!!! Queering Medieval Genres proposes that, within the historical trajectory of many genres, certain agents are privileged while others are...

This collection focuses on a woman's point of view in love poetry, and juxtaposes poems by women and poems about women to raise questions about how femininity is constructed. Although most medieval "woman's songs" are either anonymous or male-authored...

This collection focuses on a woman's point of view in love poetry, and juxtaposes poems by women and poems about women to raise questions about how femininity is constructed. Although most medieval "woman's songs" are either anonymous or male-authored...

Le livre ""Histoire De Libanius, Partie 1: Examen Critique De Ses Memoires Depuis L'Epoque De Sa Naissance Jusqu'a L'Annee 355 Apres J. C."" a �����t����� �����crit par Emile Monnier en 1866. Il s'agit d'une �����tude critique de la vie et des...

This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and 'auto-exoticist' literature of the late nineteenth century.

Delving into the landscapes and politics of 20th and 21st century Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry asks: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by Larkin, Hughes, Armitage and Mort, whilst setting them...

Wilhelm Hauffs Kunstmärchen "Das kalte Herz" hat bis auf den heutigen Tag nichts von seinem Zauber eingebüßt. An Aktualität mag es sogar noch gewonnen haben. Die bekannte Geschichte von Peter Munk, dem Köhlerjungen aus dem Schwarzwald, der sich nach Geld...

Jens Korbus weist mit Hilfe der Kommunikationswissenschaften, der Semiotik, der Textphilosophie und der Psychoanalyse nach, dass die großartigen Axiome Paul Watzlawicks Grundlage für wissenschaftliche Interpretationen bilden können. Er stellt besonders...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Philosophische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Kleist, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Hier...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Deutsches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit folgt der These, dass in Formen der...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, , Veranstaltung: Leistungskurs Deutsch (Oberstufe), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die erzählte Wirklichkeit von Kafkas "Das Urteil" sieht vordergründig so...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 1,0, Internationale Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Amazonen, die weiblichen Kriegerinnen der antiken Mythologie, werden durch das...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,3, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Slavisches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Thema der Magisterarbeit zu diesem Werk ist die Beschäftigung mit...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Postcolonial literature is often used to describe the problems and consequences of the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität Siegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Peter Handke verwendet in seiner Nachschrift „Die Kuckucke von Velika Hoca" ungewöhnliche Zeitbegriffe und spricht von...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 1,7, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: „Hartmanns Ereck - Ein Ritter in der Ausbildung?", Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: „Kafkas mediale Verwandlungen",...