Helmut Bachmaier wirft einen Blick auf die Denkfiguren und philosophischen Themen, die hinter den scheinbar nur unterhaltenden Geschichten vom »Lügenbaron« Münchhausen stehen.
Este estudio pretende releer "El Quijote" a la luz de los torneos y las justas caballerescas y literarias que aparecen en la obra, situándolas en el contexto histórico en el que transcurren.
Der Band gibt eine übersichtliche Darstellung von Goethes Naturforschung, zeichnet sie in allen von ihm betriebenen Wissenschaften nach ‒ mit Schwerpunkt auf der Morphologie und Metamorphosenlehre.
A bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novelIn The Barbarous Feast, Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
A bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novelIn The Barbarous Feast, Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
How the seventeenth-century translations of notoriously obscene tales by Rabelais shaped some of the great works of eighteenth-century English fictionFrancois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruelloosely related tales of gluttonous, drunken giants and their fantastic adventureswas one of the most notorious works of Renaissance Europe, condemned by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant reformer John Calvin as obscene and irreligious.
Collins Classics brings you a haunting selection of the finest horror stories from classic literature - featuring works by Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley - with additional content.
From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England.
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.
Die komplexen und meist konfliktreichen Relationen von Zirkulation und Kontrolle sind uns heute allgegenwärtig: Menschen, Daten, Ideen, Geld, Viren oder Güter zirkulieren und produzieren prekäre Situationen wie Migration, WikiLeaks, Bankenkrisen, Waffenhandel, alternative Währungen oder Krankheiten.
Das Sonett konstituiert in seiner langen Geschichte immer wieder soziale Räume für spezifische Gemeinschaften – zwischen Lebenden, aber auch über die Jahrhunderte hinweg mit historischen Personen.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Georgien – ein Land, dessen einzigartige Schrift, tief verwurzelte religiöse Traditionen und reiches kulturelles Erbe eine literarische Geschichte von unvergleichlicher Tiefe und Schönheit hervorgebracht haben.
El caballero de Olmedo es una obra de teatro de Lope de Vega basada en una leyenda y cancion popular que narra un crimen que ocurrio entre Medina y Olmedo.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
