Literary reference works

First published in 1980.

This handbook is the first work to document all the fairy tales which appeared in the Grimm Brothers' lifetime and locates them in their historico-cultural context.

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856-1935) - a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics.

Mit seinen Ballettkomödien gelingt es Molière, ein Theater der Superlative zu schaffen, das aufgrund seiner künstlerischen Vollkommenheit wie auch seiner machtpolitischen Wirksamkeit die absolutistische Kulturpolitik Ludwigs XIV.

A festive cookbook from award-winning food writer Kate Young.

Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become "e;brides"e; of Christ.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida.

Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.

Nachtdenken heißt die Welt zerdenken.

The first collection of essays charting the origins, developments, and applications of literary food studies, by leading scholars who have shaped the field.

For thousands of years, The Odyssey has resonated throughout the Western world.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "e;The Nose.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator.

Portfolios werden häufig im Fremdsprachenunterricht eingesetzt.

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film.

Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W.

The purpose of the BIAS is, year by year, to draw attention to all scholarly books and articles directly concerned with the matiere de Bretagne.

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels.

In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond.

Provides a conceptually coherent understanding of ''modernism'' to incorporate multiple genres and individuals in transatlantic and pan-European locations.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

First comprehensive critical edition of Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) analyses Hardy''s many revisions and offers essential contextual material.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

A collaborative, up-to-the-minute account of American literature written by women, from pre-colonial times to the present.

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature.

Der Vergleich mit Homer bestimmt das Bild Vergils in der Literaturgeschichte bis in die Gegenwart.

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews.

This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.

Bergsonian "e;vitalism"e; challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility.

Shows Wright''s art was intrinsic to his politics, grounding his exploration of the intersections between race, gender, and class.

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them.

Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author.

'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.

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Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP.

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals.

Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews.

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place.