Das Buch beschreibt in textnahen Lektüren das Problem der Freiheit in Kafkas drei Romanfragmenten Der Verschollene, Der Proceß und Das Schloß als ästhetisch-epistemologischen Gesamtzusammenhang.
Il libro è incentrato sul lungo rapporto di amicizia che legò Hermann Hesse e Theodor Heuss, dai primi contatti professionali, avviati nel 1905 quando entrambi erano due giovani cultori della letteratura, agli ultimi anni della loro carriera sul finire degli anni Cinquanta, che videro il primo insignito del Premio Nobel e l'altro eletto alla carica di Presidente della Repubblica Federale Tedesca.
Das Buch thematisiert die langjährige Verbindung zweier Männer – Hermann Hesse und Theodor Heuss –, die von den frühen beruflichen Kontakten junger Literaten im Jahre 1905 bis zu den späten Begegnungen zwischen einem Nobelpreisträger und dem ersten deutschen Bundespräsidenten Ende der 1950er-Jahre reichte.
Pese a haber caído en el olvido durante décadas, las prosas de la vanguardia histórica fueron precursoras de géneros hoy tan en boga como el microrrelato, el poema en prosa o la autoficción.
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization.
Fieles a los objetivos y proyectos expuestos por el GEXEL desde su fundacion, la revista Sansuena pretende contribuir a la reconstruccion de la memoria historica, cultural y literaria del exilio republicano espanol de 1939, tarea de evidentes implicaciones eticas y politicas.
Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature.
"Esta obra es una intensa y problematizadora reflexión sobre la literatura paraguaya a partir de los textos ensayísticos que desde diferentes posturas políticas consideran la cuestión de las lenguas y su relación con la identidad nacional, el papel del escritor en sociedades autoritarias y en democracias incompletas, la paradójica función del exilio en la generación de literaturas nacionales, las dinámicas del campo intelectual y literario y los modos de configurar y reconfigurar los grupos antagónicos.
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective.
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective.
An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong, Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a globalised world.
An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong, Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a globalised world.
This account of a bestselling author's suicide is ';part biography, part detective story, part memoir of a thorny but enduring friendship' (Molly Worthen, author of Apostles of Reason).
The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time.
This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century.
This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications.
The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible addresses the contemporary literary small press in the US and UK from the perspective of a range of disciplines.
Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry offers a new theoretical approach and historical perspective on the remarkable upsurge in creative poetic practices in France that have challenged traditional definitions of poetry and of the lyric.
Poetry has long dominated the cultural landscape of modern Iraq, simultaneously representing the literary pinnacle of high culture and giving voice to the popular discourses of mass culture.
One of the most popular contemporary authors, Kazuo Ishiguro has so far produced six highly regarded novels which have won him international acclaim and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Award and an OBE for Services to Literature.
This book understands digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic and digital works that produce subjective positionality, clouded knowledges of quantum theories, and metaphysical patterns grounded in a cultural ideology.
This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century.
