Philippe de Vigneulles (1471-1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux.
The profound impact of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Western thought has been frequently examined, yet the extent of Goethe's relationship to Rousseau has never before received thorough study.
A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830.
Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker.
The first general survey of relations between Protestants and Catholics in America during the past half century will be welcomed not only by social historians but by clergymen and laymen interested in the development of constructive interfaith relations.
Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today-writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle.
Dem klassischen Detektivroman als Genre der Unterhaltungsliteratur und rationalistischem Kind moderner Fortschrittsgläubigkeit steht seit einigen Jahrzehnten mit dem Anti-Detektivroman ein radikaler Gegenentwurf gegenüber, der sich Konventionen und Erzählschemata der Prätexte zu Nutze macht, um diese zu unterminieren und den naiven Erkenntnisoptimismus, die unbedingte Aufklärungsforderung und das teleologische Handlungsmodell ad absurdum zu führen oder zu parodieren.
Despite its well-earned reputation as the richest world in fantasy, there exists a notable, troubling problem in Tolkien's legendarium: the existence of a sentient, rational being for whom no sympathy or moral feeling is ever shown.
Despite its well-earned reputation as the richest world in fantasy, there exists a notable, troubling problem in Tolkien's legendarium: the existence of a sentient, rational being for whom no sympathy or moral feeling is ever shown.
Wenn es ums Schaffen geht oder gar ums Schöpferische, liegt nichts so nahe wie das scheinbar unerschöpfliche Feld der Geburtsmetaphern, das Reden vom Zeugen und Empfangen, vom Austragen und Gebären eines Werkes, das für das Kind steht – ja dieses gar ersetzen soll.
Goetz' wildes Denken zwischen Friedrich Nietzsche und Niklas Luhmann setzt sich mit der Kommunikation der Gesellschaft auseinander – bruchstückhaft, radikal subjektiv, fast schon universalpoetisch.
Comme souvent, Céline est quelque peu excessif quand il se lamente en 1944 : « Pauvre banlieue parisienne, paillasson devant la ville où chacun s’essuie les pieds, crache un bon coup, passe, qui songe à elle ?
During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) has been described variously as the successor to Edgar Allan Poe, a master of the Gothic horror tale, and one of the father of modern supernatural fantasy fiction.
This book examines the critical reception of Dewey’s pragmatic philosophy by six prominent analytic philosophers and relates it to the contested history of analytic philosophy and Deweyan pragmatism.
This book examines the critical reception of Dewey’s pragmatic philosophy by six prominent analytic philosophers and relates it to the contested history of analytic philosophy and Deweyan pragmatism.
