Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children's classic "e;The Secret Garden,"e; but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist, and writer of children's stories.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society.
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.
Das Buch problematisiert die traditionelle Verknüpfung von Literatur, Sprache und Nation und stellt die deutschsprachige Literatur der letzten hundert Jahre in ihrer Heterogenität in einen europäischen Kontext.
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?
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.
Das Buch problematisiert die traditionelle Verknüpfung von Literatur, Sprache und Nation und stellt die deutschsprachige Literatur der letzten hundert Jahre in ihrer Heterogenität in einen europäischen Kontext.
Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narratives through which humanity represents its own material heritage in relation to notions of enchantment, exhibition, estrangement, adventure, tourism and waste.
James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel that follows the young protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, as he navigates his way through the complexities of religion, family, and nationalism.
Thomas Wolfes Buch 'Vom Tod zum Morgen' ist ein beeindruckender literarischer Text, der tief in die menschliche Seele eindringt und existenzielle Fragen aufwirft.
The Essential Writings of Theodore Dreiser brings together a collection of the most impactful works by the renowned American author, exploring themes of social class, morality, and human nature.
In Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, 'Jacob's Room,' the author explores themes of loss, memory, and the nature of reality through her innovative stream-of-consciousness narrative style.
Virginia Woolf's collection of essays, titled 'The Greatest Essays of Virginia Woolf', offers readers a unique insight into the mind of one of the most prominent modernist writers of the 20th century.
This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.
This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.
James Joyce, a highly acclaimed Irish author, delves into the complexities of human nature and experiences in his groundbreaking works 'Finnegans Wake' and 'Exiles'.
This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.
The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers' writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience.
This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's radical approach to meaning and knowledge.
Juli Zeh verbindet zwei öffentliche Rollen: Sie ist Schriftstellerin und Juristin; sie trägt maßgeblich zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur bei, nimmt aber auch aktiv als ‚public intellectual‘ an öffentlichen Debatten teil.
Juli Zeh verbindet zwei öffentliche Rollen: Sie ist Schriftstellerin und Juristin; sie trägt maßgeblich zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur bei, nimmt aber auch aktiv als ‚public intellectual‘ an öffentlichen Debatten teil.
