Literary studies: general Books

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Universität Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was macht ein Buch aus, damit es Klassiker genannt wird? Die Frage ist Grundlage für diese Arbeit, die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Salzburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit ausgewählten literarischen Werken E.T.A. Hoffmanns und deren utopischer...

Nachdem die literarische Öffentlichkeit Anfang der 1990er Jahre das Leitbild der engagierten Nachkriegsliteratur verabschiedet und literarische Zeitgenossenschaft als Gesinnungsästhetik diffamiert hatte, erlebt das literarische Feld seit der...

This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and...

This is the first full-scale critical edition of the Epigramma Paulini, with English translation and commentary. The Epigramma Paulini (110 hexameters) is a late-antique poem of unknown date and authorship (arguably written during the first decade of...

Herrschsüchtige Ehefrauen, wollüstige Jungfern, hässliche Vetteln, männerquälende Hexen und pseudogelehrte Frauen begegnen häufig in satirischen Schriften der Frühen Neuzeit. Indem sie misogyne Topoi und Traditionen aufgreifen und aktualisieren, erweisen...

This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in both ancient and modern times. It covers a wide range of...

The refreshed insights into early-imperial Roman historiography this book offers are linked to a recent discovery. In the spring of 2014, the binders of the archive of Robert Marichal were dusted off by the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014...

The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very...

Florus' dialogue, of which only a fragment survives, dealt with the literary issue of whether Virgil, who had already been a canonical author in the Roman school for decades, was an orator or a poet. The preserved section contains the setting of the...

Jakob Balde (1604-1664) ist einer der bedeutendsten neulateinischen Dichter. Während sein lyrisches Werk der früheren und mittleren Periode gut erforscht wurde, ist sein satirisches Werk der späten Periode nahezu vollständig vernachlässigt worden. Die...

Classics, Computer Science, and Linguistics are brought together in this book, in an attempt to provide an answer to the authorship question concerning Prometheus Bound, a disputed play in the Aeschylean corpus, by applying some well-established Computer...

For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a mere attempt to systematize the longstanding intellectual tradition of Augustine in the face of the rising popularity of Aristotle. This volume brings together leading...

Die Studie untersucht, ob und wie Lyrik erzählt. Dazu werden die bisherigen Versuche einer Lyriknarratologie gesammelt, strukturiert und perspektiviert. Die Metapher kristallisiert sich mithilfe ihres lyrisch zentrierten Erbes und der Arbeiten Wolf...

The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as...

Die bisherige altertumswissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung zu Euripides konzentrierte sich zumeist auf die Euripides-Rezeption in der griechischen Komödie oder in der römischen Tragödie. Eine eigene Beschäftigung mit der Euripides-Rezeption in...

In der Literatur wird die Rolle der Übersetzung als sprachpflegerische Tätigkeit in der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft oft hervorgehoben. Die konkreten Merkmale der zahlreichen im 17. Jahrhundert angefertigten „fruchtbringenden" Verdeutschungen blieben...

Hauptziel dieser interdisziplinären Analyse der Repräsentationen der Städte in griechischen und lateinischen Texten vom 7. Jh. v.Chr. bis zum 5. Jh. n.Chr. sind die Einflüsse politischer Faktoren auf die Entwicklung ihrer Darstellungsformen von der...

This volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic expression, interpret individual plays from different angles (literary, historical, performative)...

Die Entdeckung des Straßburger Empedokles-Papyrus und seine 1999 erfolgte Publikation war für die Erforschung der antiken Philosophie ein einzigartiger Glücksfall. Die neu hinzugekommenen Texte ergänzten die fragmentarische Überlieferung von Empedokles'...

Der Band enthält eine Auswahl von Aufsätzen zu Platon von seinen sokratischen Anfängen bis zu seiner Nachwirkung bei Donald Davidson und Hans Georg Gadamer. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Problematik der Idee des Guten und der Frage ihrer...

This is the first modern commentary devoted exclusively to the poems of Hedylus, one of the most important representatives of Greek epigram in a crucial phase of the development of the genre. Although only a few of Hedylus' poems survive, he helped shape...

Euripides' Electra opened up for its audience an opportunity to become self-aware as to the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it both reflected and sustained traditional, aristocratically-inflected assumptions about the continuity of appearance and...

Das Übersetzen der Komödien des Aristophanes (*um 450 v. Chr.) gilt nicht zuletzt wegen der vielen obszönen Scherze als schwierig. Vor allem die an Obszönitäten besonders reichen 'Frauenkomödien' (Lysistrate, Ekklesiazusen, Thesmophoriazusen) wurden bis...

The interaction between orator and audience, the passions and distrust held by many concerning the predominance of one individual, but also the individual's struggle as an advisor and political leader, these are the quintessential elements of 4th century...

In der Blütezeit der griechischen Tragödie musste jeder der drei Dramatiker, die an den Großen Dionysien, dem bedeutendsten Dionysosfest Athens, im Rahmen des Tragödienwettbewerbs um den Sieg kämpften, nicht nur drei Tragödien präsentieren, sondern auch...

Ein Sohn, der seinen Vater erschlägt, das Rätsel der Sphinx löst, seine Mutter heiratet, seine wahre Identität entdeckt und folglich Selbstblendung vollzieht: Das ist der Kern des Ödipus-Mythos, der schon in der Antike weitverbreitet war und bis in die...

In contrast to the other synoptic evangelists the author of Matthew proceeded differently in many respects. Why did he modify the text so much and arrange ten miracle narratives one after the other at one stretch with minor interruptions? Why did he...

Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation,...

The rise of Enlightenment philosophical and scientific thought during the long eighteenth century in Europe and North America (c. 1688-1815) sparked artistic and political revolutions, reframed social, gender, and race relations, reshaped attitudes...

ପ୍ରାକ୍‌-ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା କାଳରେ ରଚିତ ସାମାଜିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ନାଟକ ଯେଭଳି ସମାଜର ଚିତ୍ର ବହନ କରିଛି ତାହା ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥଟିରେ ସୂଚିତ ହୋଇଛି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ନାଟକ ରଚନା ହେବା ବେଳକୁ ସମାଜରେ ପୂରି ରହିଥିଲା ଅନ୍ଧବିଶ୍ୱାସ ଓ କୁସଂସ୍କାର । ତତ୍କାଳୀନ ନବ୍ୟ ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ସଂପ୍ରଦାୟ ଉକ୍ତ ପ୍ରଥାର...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Thomas Wolfe, three time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Titles in this study guide include The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Titles in this study guide include Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin,...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Willa Cather, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Titles in this study guide include My Antonia, O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, One Of Ours, and...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virginia Woolf, one of the most controversial feminist writers. Titles in this study guide include Mrs. Dalloway and The Lighthouse. As an author of...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Thornton Wilder, recognized as one of America's most respected contemporary writers. Titles in this study guide include The Cabala, The Bridge Of San...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Thor Heyerdahl, whose career as a zoologist was influenced by the interests of his parents. Titles in this study guide include Kon Tiki and Aku Aku. As...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virgil, ancient Roman poet. Titles in this study guide include The Aeneid. As a poet of the Augustan period, his poems are regarded as one of the most...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Wallace Stevens including a brief commentary on a number of Stevens' works, which explore his philosophies on reality and imagination. As an author of the early...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Keats, one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets. Titles in this study guide include Endymion, Hyperion, and The Fall of...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Dylan Thomas, popular Welsh poet in the twentieth-century. Titles in this study guide include The Map of Love, Once Below A Time, In Country Sleep, and...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sophocles, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Oedipus, Philoctetes, Trachiniae,...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Euripides, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Rhesus, Iphigenia In Aulis, Bacchae,...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Oscar Wilde, who aside from drama also published short stories, essays, and poems in various magazines. Titles in this study guide include Lady...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, whose creative endeavors earned him two Pulitzer Prizes. Titles in this study guide include The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose work has influenced many poets of the time. Titles in this study guide include Dejection an Ode, Kubla Khan, Christabel,...