Literary studies: general Books

This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies,...

Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the...

The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages-the female body-exists in special...

This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet, Uri Zvi Grinberg, and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923-1937.

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson's dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists.

In "Antike Literatur in neuer Deutung", a book dedicated to Joachim Latacz, a group of scholars of high international standing present the most recent developments and acquirements in several important areas of ancient literature und philosophy. The...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Masterarbeit...

L'ouvrage révèle la structure laïque de la Divine Comédie. Le parcours du protagoniste est marqué par l'usage fait de l'art de la mémoire. A la Renaissance, ce texte se met au service de la liberté de pensée et ses figures sont appelées pour fonder...

If artists are no longer able to fall back on the explanatory power of familiar grand narratives, or to lift up, within a story's scope, any single perspective as the key to reality, how can literature make good sense of life? What possibilities still...

Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. Critics feared that the poem was a 'manual for vice' and would corrupt...

This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the...

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned...

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on...

The book fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed.

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence in 1893 to her dramatic works and their performance...

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text.

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries and opens alternative ways to read the chain of...

Social Movement Literature introduces readers to the study of those cultural texts that have come to define modern social movements.

This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role. Via analysis of selected works,...

Mocking Eugenics explores the opposition to eugenic discourse mounted by twentieth-century American artists seeking to challenge and destabilize what they viewed as a dangerous body of thought. Focusing on their wielding of humor to attack the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment.　 Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals,...

This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high-profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary...

How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time?...

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory.

The Call to Read is the first full-length study to situate the surviving oeuvre of Reginald Pecock in the context of current scholarship on English vernacular theology of the late medieval period. Kirsty Campbell examines the important and innovative...

Le livre ""Lettre de P�����kin : sur le g�����nie de la langue chinoise et la nature de leur �����criture symbolique"" a �����t����� �����crit par Joseph de Guignes en 1773. Ce livre traite de la langue chinoise et de son �����criture symbolique, qui est...

""Letters of Samuel Lee and Samuel Sewall Relating to New England and the Indians"" is a historical book published in 1912 that compiles letters exchanged between two prominent figures in colonial Massachusetts during the late 17th and early 18th...

Lectionum Tullianarum est liber auctore Wopkens, Thoma editus, anno MDCCXXX. In hoc libro, tres libri contineri dicuntur, quorum titulus est ""In Opera Quaedam Ciceronis Philosophica Animadversionum Criticarum"". In his libris, Wopkens varias...

Le livre ""Le V�����ritable Capitan Matamore"" (1640) d'Andr����� Mareschal est une pi�����ce de th����������tre comique qui raconte l'histoire d'un soldat vantard nomm����� Capitan Matamore. Le personnage principal est connu pour ses histoires...

Voyages Imaginaires V30: Songes, Visions, Et Romans Cabalistiques (1788) est un livre �����crit par Augustin Martin Lottin. Ce livre est le trenti�����me volume de la s�����rie ""Voyages Imaginaires"". Il contient des histoires de r������ves, de visions...

Lazarus Comoedia Sacra De Epulone Divite Et Lazaro Mendico est fabula sacra, scripta a Georgio Macropedio anno MDLVII. Haec fabula describit vitam Epulonis Divitis, qui in opulentia et luxuria vivit, et Lazari Mendici, qui in paupertate et infirmitate...

Lays and Legends of the Rhine is a collection of poems and stories by Thomas Colley Grattan, first published in 1847. The book is a tribute to the beauty and history of the Rhine River and its surrounding regions. The collection includes tales of...

Le Grand Aulmosnier de France (1607) de Roulliard, S�����bastien est un livre qui raconte l'histoire de l'Aum�����nerie de France et de son grand aum�����nier. Ce livre est une source importante d'informations sur l'histoire de l'aum�����nerie, une...

Les Commentaires d'Hierocles V2: Sur les Vers Dor�����s de Pythagore (1706) est un livre �����crit par Andr����� Dacier. Ce livre est une traduction en fran�����ais des commentaires d'Hierocles sur les Vers Dor�����s de Pythagore. Les Vers Dor�����s de...

Lexicon, Sive Idea Historicorum Latinorum Et Graecorum (1724) est opus magnum auctore Uhse, Erdmann. Hoc opus est lexicon historicorum Latinorum et Graecorum, quod continet descriptiones historicorum notabilium ex antiquitate. In hoc libro, auctor...