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1852 hat G.H.F. Scholl die bisher einzige Gesamtausgabe des mittelhochdeutschen Artusromans Die Krone (Diu crône) von ca. 30.000 Versen in Lachmannscher Manier veranstaltet (Nachdruck 1966, vergriffen). Hier wird erstmals eine kritische Edition nach dem...

Die Studie untersucht die von Hartmanns Gregorius abhängigen Texte die Gesta Gregorii Peccatoris Arnolds von Lübeck, die Hexameterversion Gregorius Peccator, die Der-Heiligen-Leben-Legende Gregorius auf dem Stein, das lateinische Exempel De Gregorio und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Biographien, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inwiefern lässt sich Stachs Kafka-Biographie als Literatur begreifen? Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, wird zunächst untersucht, was die gattungsspezifischen Merkmale...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Moderne Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll sich mit der Identität und vor allem der Identitätsproblematik des Protagonisten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 2,0, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Intention der Hausarbeit ist es, die Funktion und Bedeutung des Tintoretto-Gemäldes für Theodor...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Arbeit werden die Rolle der Frau im Zweiten Weltkrieg und ihre...

In der 1968 gegrüuuml;ndeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bäauml;nde weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen,...

In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder...

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the...

Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the...

Be as smart as Sherlock Holmes! Arthur Conan Doyle's original tales include many references to everyday Victorian life that are no longer part of current readers' world. What Holmes would have eaten from a can while searching for the hound of the...

'Absolutely the most important book of our era.' Virginia WoolTextual Non Sense is mischievous, minimalist, and revolutionary: a short fuse intended to spark a fundamental re-thinking of how we engage with notions of canon. Classic texts are mangled,...

'The Sick List operates on the far side of literature.' John SchadIn this novel, an unnamed academic in an unnamed contemporary university, relates his obsession with his tutor, Gordon. He pores over the increasingly bizarre mis-readings in Gordon's...

From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid's Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition...

Publicada en Argentina en 1878, esta obra de Ernesto Quesada (1858-1934) analiza la sociedad romana del siglo I d.C. a través de una lente crítica. Quesada examina los escritos de los satíricos Persio y Juvenal para comprender las virtudes y vicios de la...

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and "A Gentle Creature." Despite his clever attempts to call his readers'...

A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.

Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become...

In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith's life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith's...

Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne's fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century,...

Drawing on approaches from literary studies, history, linguistics, and art history, and ranging from Late Antiquity to the sixteenth century, this collection views 'translation' broadly as the adaptation and transmission of cultural inheritance. The...

Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic form, printed letter collections make private matters...

The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married...

The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - each composed in heroic verse and responding to the...

The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and feminized kings. This study examines the diverse ways in which seventeenth-century comedias engage with the discourse of power and rulership and how it relates to gender. A privileged...

Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. The...

Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for transcending political and economic realities, love,...

At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that...

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic...

Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its...

Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.

Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.

Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a...

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient,...