Lecture d'un classique du théâtre de l'âge classique, faisant connaître la vision sociale et morale d'une société d'autrefois: aspirations, ambitions, rivalités, intrigues personnelles et publiques autour d'un sujet qui demeure d'actualité: la fureur du jeu, ses séductions et ses désordres.
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics.
English language education that wants to be relevant for today's learners in a media-influenced social environment needs to include series and serials.
On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China.
"Armado de la teoría literaria queer, formalista y poscolonial, Juan Pablo Rivera escudriña la obra narrativa de cinco autores puertorriqueños contemporáneos.
Literatur, nicht nur die klassische, sondern sehr augenscheinlich auch die der Gegenwart, zeichnet ein buntes Bild von Geschlecht, das mit den herkömmlichen, patriarchalisch geprägten ,Lektürebrillen' nicht richtig erfasst werden kann.
English language education that wants to be relevant for today's learners in a media-influenced social environment needs to include series and serials.
In den Lektüren Barbara Vinkens wird Literaturwissenschaft zu einer ebenso existenziellen wie verheißungsvollen Praxis: zu einer prekären Hingabe an Texte und Artefakte im Zeichen der Verbindung, vor allem aber der Differenz zwischen den Geschlechtern, Sprachen und Kulturen.
Pour la première fois en Belgique, un auteur investit le milieu de la critique gastronomique et lève un coin du voile sur cette profession aujourd’hui en voie de disparition, désormais remplacée par les influenceurs de tout poil et les émissions de télé-réalité.
This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the specifically Russian poetic paradigm, i.
Fruto de la investigación de un grupo de veinte profesores de nueve países europeos que estudian la formación de diferentes miradas hacia la literatura escrita en español en diferentes épocas.
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers.
Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion.
Literatur, nicht nur die klassische, sondern sehr augenscheinlich auch die der Gegenwart, zeichnet ein buntes Bild von Geschlecht, das mit den herkömmlichen, patriarchalisch geprägten ,Lektürebrillen' nicht richtig erfasst werden kann.
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeare's plays and poems.
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects―pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils―tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here ascultural texts.
A wide-ranging study of empire, religious prophecy, and nationalism in literature, Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940 provides the first examination of Russia’s self-identification with Rome during a period that encompassed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the rise of the Soviet state.
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies "e;cultural engagements"e; that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by tradition, and the immediate digital, unreal future.
This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork – the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair – in Victorian Britain.
Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world's most beloved writers.
Contenu:Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volée, Le Scarabée d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Vérité sur le cas de M.
His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection.
Contents:Pyramus And ThisbeStill WatersA Change of HeartDaisy MillerTenantsDisengagedThe AlbumThe ReprobateGuy DomvilleSummersoftThe High BidThe Outcry
