Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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Der Schriftsteller Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), bereits Gegenstand zahlreicher Werke und kontrovers diskutiert, wird in dem vorliegenden Band durch die Linse seiner Erstveröffentlichungen betrachtet.

Das Alte Testament erzählt von Gründungsmythen, die das anfängliche Chaos bändigen, Recht und Ordnung schaffen und somit den Menschen und die ihn umgebende Welt verändern.

A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical foundation of Southern culture.

Duree as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Mary Butts (1890-1937).

Bürgerkriege sind extrem gewalttätige Ereignisse, mit denen sich eine Gesellschaft im Nachhinein – oft über Generationen – in einem Erinnerungsdiskurs auseinanderzusetzen hat.

Duree as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Mary Butts (1890-1937).

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism.

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism.

Um die Rolle der Literatur in der »Konservativen Revolution« möglichst vielseitig zu beleuchten, gliedert sich der Band in vier Teile: Im ersten Teil werden die literarischen Muster und Vordenker der »Konservativen Revolution« untersucht.

Renommierte Literaturwissenschaftler*innen und Historiker*innen aus verschiedenen europäischen Forschungszentren gehen der Frage nach, welche Vorstellungen des Politischen und des Gemeinwohls, welche des Bürgers und der staatlichen und gesellschaftlichen Ordnung in der Gegenwartsliteratur verhandelt werden.

Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean explores multiple aesthetic relations constantly in flux, which construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the Indian Ocean.

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction.

Exploring expressions of 'Indianness' buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to 'belong' to an India of 'now' and what it might mean to belong to multiple Indias of the (near) future.

James Joyce's book 'IBSEN'S NEW DRAMA' explores the groundbreaking work of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies.

From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts.

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Literature and Illness considers the key literary and historical frameworks for reading stories about sickness.

This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries.

From cinema and radio broadcasting to the growth of new communication technologies, Modernism and Its Media is the first critical guide to key issues and debates on the changing media contexts of modernist writing.

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be 'Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'.

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure.

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors' life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century.

Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T.

Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature.

Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction-specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures.

Wie kaum eine andere Dramatikerin schafft es Elfriede Jelinek, mit ihren Texten seit Jahrzehnten für Aufruhr auf der Bühne und in den medialen und wissenschaftlichen Anschlussdiskursen zu sorgen.

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.

Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction-specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures.

When yoga studios are ubiquitous and meditation apps are on millions of smart phones, once exotic terms like karma, zen, and nirvana have entered into everyday English, business consultants have appropriated the meditation terms "e;mindfulness"e; and "e;equanimity,"e; and Buddha statues and Shinto shrines are common in American yards, we forget that things weren't always this way, and that what is now considered cliche was once unknown.

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare's canon.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south.

This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.

The Misfortunes of Arthur, written by Thomas Hughes is one of the earliest printed plays from the English Renaissance and, as such, deserves its place of interest in dramaturgical studies for its historical significance.

The poetics of epiphany have long been recognised as a broad aesthetic trend of modernism, related to the power of art to reveal the hidden essence of reality.

The poetics of epiphany have long been recognised as a broad aesthetic trend of modernism, related to the power of art to reveal the hidden essence of reality.

Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed.

Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century.