This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis.
This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.
You Never Can Tell is an interweaving of timeless plots that merit a fresh retelling - and the reader is the benefector of Mike Sharpe's spirited reinventions.
Die Legende des Golems, eines aus Lehm geschaffenen Wesens, das durch mystische Rituale zum Leben erweckt wird, ist tief in der jüdischen Tradition verwurzelt.
To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?
Der "Deutsch-türkische Divan" bildet mit dem "Mädchen aus der Fremde" (2008) und "Goethe" (2014) eine interkulturelle literaturwissenschaftliche Trilogie.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not satisfied with creating characters and events within the world that we know; instead he created whole new worlds for histories, and he filled them with peoples, languages, cities, wars, plants, machines, and monsters that were believable to the reader, yet still alien and fantastic enough to thrill and delight.
This book investigates the literary portrayal of African and Afrodescendant identities in early fictional works by Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano and Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome.
Die bedeutende Gegenwartsautorin und Büchner-Preisträgerin Brigitte Kronauer (1940-2019) ist immer noch ein Stiefkind der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung und auch der literaturinteressierten Öffentlichkeit nur wenig bekannt.
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie.
As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions.
