Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel.
Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to be: 'a proper girl' - a precious definition in a segregate and racist America where black life was deemed only three-fifths of white life .
Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel.
Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und Schreibverfahren.
Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies.
The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa.
This book explores Yeats's later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of 'building' - architectural, textual, political and symbolic - were closely interrelated.
Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.
Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyces timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind.
Mario Vargas Llosa's intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical fiction.
In 'Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache' von Fritz Mauthner wird eine radikale Reflexion über die Natur und die Grenzen menschlicher Sprache präsentiert.
The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, digital, and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art.
Wird über die Reaktion auf die ,Wende‘ diskutiert, werden oft die ehemaligen DDR-BürgerInnen als ein Kollektiv betrachtet, dem eine gemeinsame Art des Denkens, Fühlens und Handelns zugeschrieben wird.
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht erstmals systematisch das Gesamtwerk Roberto Bolaños mit Blick auf die vielfältigen intertextuellen Bezüge des chilenischen Autors.
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht erstmals systematisch das Gesamtwerk Roberto Bolaños mit Blick auf die vielfältigen intertextuellen Bezüge des chilenischen Autors.
Included in "e;The Best Scholarly Books of 2024"e; - The Chronicle of Higher Education Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice?
Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry.
Included in "e;The Best Scholarly Books of 2024"e; - The Chronicle of Higher Education Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice?
Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry.
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic?
"Die Welt steht auf kein‘ Fall mehr lang", singt der Schuster Knieriem in Nestroys Stück Lumpazivagabundus (1833) und Karl Kraus bezeichnete Österreich einmal als "Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs".
Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare.
