Comparative literature

Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture.

Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture.

We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives.

This book examines disease in the context of gender discrimination.

From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time.

Dieses eBook: "Der Streit über die Tragödie (Theorien & Psychologische Modelle)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Chao explores Sinophone literature as a complex field that navigates the intersections of Sinitic languages, global literary systems, and China-centered perspectives.

French novelist, literary critic, and essayist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was one of the most prominent authors of the twentieth century.

Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887-1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.

This volume investigates the relationship between the conventions of noir fiction and film and its sub-types in relation to environmental crises.

All Our Todays is the first book about the BBC's most influential news and current affairs programme, published to celebrate Today's 40th anniversary in October 1997.

'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world?

"e;All Things Are Possible"e; is a 1920 English translation of the 1905 work by the Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher Shestov.

This is Part I of a fascinating insight into the history of psychological theory by American psychologist William James.

George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell's Polish reception during the Second World War and the Cold War era.

Li and his contributors explore how Taiwanese poets conceptualize their identities, employing multiple voices to challenge political hegemony and re-evaluate Taiwan's colonial legacy and nationalism.

Since 2010 "e;curation"e; has become a marketing buzzword.

Since 2010 "e;curation"e; has become a marketing buzzword.

This volume explores our cultural celebration of food, blending lobster festivals, politicians' roadside eats, reality show "e;chef showdowns,"e; and gravity-defying cakes into a deeper exploration of why people find so much joy in eating.

From the Japanese tsunami and the Egyptian revolution to the Haitian earthquake and the Australian floods, social media has proven its power to unite, coalesce, support, champion, and save lives.

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.

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Due to the advancement of the Internet, online communities are gaining increasing importance in the research community.

This book explores formations of oceanic kinship in transnational American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within childrens literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Childrens Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations.

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty.

Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts.

Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge.

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.

The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to poetry throughout the worldThe Princeton Handbook of World Poetries-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe.

The classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literatureMore than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism.

Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design, painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts.

Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design, painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts.

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume is part of a new series of collections of essays publishing current research on all aspects of polity, society, economy, religion and culture.

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume is part of a new series of collections of essays publishing current research on all aspects of polity, society, economy, religion and culture.

This book demonstrates the importance of understanding how political rhetoric, financial reporting and media coverage of austerity in transnational contexts is significant to the communicative, social and economic environments in which we live.

This book demonstrates the importance of understanding how political rhetoric, financial reporting and media coverage of austerity in transnational contexts is significant to the communicative, social and economic environments in which we live.

First published in 1970, this book examines the use of allegory in religious, philosophical and literary texts.

First published in 1970, this book examines the use of allegory in religious, philosophical and literary texts.

First published in 1971, this work provides a helpful introduction to the French Symbolism movement.

First published in 1971, this work provides a helpful introduction to the French Symbolism movement.

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue tradition in Greek from imperial Rome to the end of the Byzantine empire and beyond.

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue tradition in Greek from imperial Rome to the end of the Byzantine empire and beyond.

Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J.