This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today.
Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt ihren Ausgangspunkt beim Erzählwerk des israelischen Schriftstellers Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), in dessen Zentrum die Figur des flüchtenden Überlebenden steht.
Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycanthrope as an emblem for society's fear of untamed wilderness.
A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed?
Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycanthrope as an emblem for society's fear of untamed wilderness.
Placing women writers at the center of the sensory and technological experimentation that characterized the modernist movement, this book shows how women of the era challenged gendered narratives that limited their power and agency and waged dissent through their radical sensuous writing.
"In this volume, the contributorsa veritable Who's Who of Joyce specialistsprovide an excellent introduction to the central issues of contemporary Joyce criticism.
Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature.
This book focuses on previously unexplored gaps, limitations and avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical account of this conceptual field.
The Munich-based Carl Hanser Verlag was one of the most important publishers in the 1950s and 1960s when it came to promoting Polish literature in West Germany.
A Study in Wittgenstein's Tractatus, by Alexander Maslow is a rigorous, historically situated guide to one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic philosophical texts.
A Study in Wittgenstein's Tractatus, by Alexander Maslow is a rigorous, historically situated guide to one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic philosophical texts.
Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik begeisterte sich in besonderem Maße für solche religiösen Ideen, von denen man sich Hilfe beim Umgang mit den allgegenwärtigen Krisenerfahrungen erhoffte.
This book explores contemporary women's historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings.
This book explores contemporary women's historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings.
Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "e;intertextuality"e; (Kristeva) and recent scholarship on literary exoticism to explore Germany's postwar crises of psychology, masculinity, and national identity mapped onto Oceanic spaces.
Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form.
