The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (14041472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissancea fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's mythologizing of Alberti as a Renaissance or Universal Man.
Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess is a graceful historical-literary fantasia that imagines the festive circumstances behind a royal entertainment for Elizabeth I.
La Crónica del moro Rasis (siglo XV) es el último eslabón de una cadena de versiones que se inicia a partir de la obra del cronista cordobés Ajbār mulūk al-Andalus o Historia de los soberanos de al-Ándalus (siglo X).
In der Persönlichkeit von Otokar Fischer (1838-1938) scheint die faszinierende Vielfalt der Identitäten und Kulturen in Mitteleuropa zwischen 1900 und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg auf.
Der vorliegende Band widmet sich in drei Sektionen den Fragen nach Sinn und Zweck der Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft und bietet Einblicke in die Praxis literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens.
Unter Aufgabe der strikten Entgegensetzung von 'Personalität' und 'Transpersonalität' von Herrschaft und des Postulats einer vorwiegend personal geprägten vormodernen Herrschaft zeigen die hier vereinten Beiträge an zahlreichen Fallbeispielen aus Asien, Ägypten und Europa das Neben- und Miteinander personaler und transpersonaler Aspekte auf.
Thomas More Premium Edition presents the enduring intellectual force of More's writings, most notably the political and philosophical imagination associated with Utopia.
A fascinating playbill of stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre through the centuries, including distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole.
En la actualidad, el gesto nostálgico de rescatar antiguas fotografías analógicas reivindica simbólicamente la perdurabilidad de lo tangible frente a la inconsistencia de las imágenes digitales.
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.
James Joyce's ULYSSES is a landmark of modernist fiction, tracing a single day-16 June 1904-in Dublin through the intertwined movements of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom.
Die Epistolarkultur um 1900 ist bislang kaum erforscht worden - obwohl Autoren wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Rainer Maria Rilke immens viele Briefe verfasst haben, deren Poetizität an Prosagedichte heranreicht.
Wenn Erich Auerbach im Auszug des höfischen Ritters die Funktionskrise des feudalen Standes sieht, so benennt er damit einen politischen Strukturwandel, von dem der Ritterroman entstehungsgeschichtlich bedingt wird.
Napoleon und Nelson, Wellington und Blücher, Trafalgar und Austerlitz - Personen und Orte, die im europäischen Gedächtnis für die napoleonische Epoche stehen.
Riccardo Nicolosis Studie fördert ein neues, überraschendes Bild des russischen fin de siècle in seinen vielfältigen Beziehungen zum gesamteuropäischen Degenerationsdiskurs zutage.
Dieses eBook: "Dickens Klassiker für die Weihnachtszeit: Der Weihnachtsabend, Doktor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Klein-Dorrit, David Copperfield, Der Kampf des Lebens und viel mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Stellt das Scheitern in Form von Bankrott und Börsencrash häufig den dramatischen Endpunkt einer ökonomischen Unternehmung dar, so gilt für die Literatur nachgerade das Gegenteil.
In the world of the novel, there is an affective tendency that derives its intrinsic components from several aspects, the most prominent of which are the aspects of form and content, the nature of reception, intertextuality, interpretation, and other units that influence in one way or another the format and formulation of the artistic and literary work of the novel.
The critical vocabulary that is used in criticizing a dramatic text is undoubtedly different from that used in more traditional linguistic and literary trends, and in this book "The Language of Drama" by David Burch, the writer attempts through it to present a set of important ideas and principles of contemporary critical theory and language analysis to students of drama, especially since drama has not received sufficient attention from linguistic theorists and linguistic analysts compared to other types of discourse.
The experience of writing about novels from the other side of the world carries within it the experience of travel and travel, the discovery of new geographies, histories, and strange customs, where the joy of real and imaginary tales about souls living beside a river that makes its way through vast fields, and an old fortune teller who sings to passers-by and reads fortunes to them; With every novel there is a different experience, and a long life that reveals its secrets behind the lines.
Wilhelm Heinse gilt noch immer als philosophischer Außenseiter, als ästhetischer Opponent, als Vertreter eines "anderen Klassizismus" oder als dionysisch bewegter Antimoralist.
Lebanon's Scheherazade is the subject of this book, the short story in the creations of Lebanese women storytellers, what the writer narrates in Lebanon and what she embodies through her narrative imagination from the first indications until the last findings of the story among the writers of this scene now, are the selections that were chosen from a number of short story collections in addition to some Arab periodicals that publish the Lebanese short story creations, and we believe that these selected short story texts only express and embody the imagination of the Lebanese writer in this field.
Perhaps the relationship between the novel and the novelist is the core of what is expressed, and criticism of this art addresses it, starting from the emergence of the idea as an initial stage in which reality dialogues with the imagined, to the embodiment of this reality and the imagined and its emergence into the space of novelistic action that speaks of the images of life and its various variations in a human context, which carries the answer to many of the questions that are on the mind.
An inventory of most of the phrases and words with common errors in writing, as the author - who is a capable writer and linguist - was able to benefit from his scientific expertise, and collect for us these words that may have appeared in the writings of some writers, poets, and orators, and the reader accepts them without examining or researching them, because they came within the folds of a poetic text or a literary article by a famous writer of literature and prose.
The book presents an original study of the #MeToo movement in Taiwan, focusing on how the movement was instigated by and communicated in the wake of the Taiwanese Netflix series Wave Makers.
The book presents an original study of the #MeToo movement in Taiwan, focusing on how the movement was instigated by and communicated in the wake of the Taiwanese Netflix series Wave Makers.
'A groundbreaking shift in how we talk about women, love and relationships' - Marian KeyesAt 38, Louise O'Neill had the life she thought she wanted-until her long-term relationship ended, taking with it the home, future, and sense of certainty she'd built.
How direct speech in the novel shapes our understanding of literary characters and their social worldsFor many readers, to think of nineteenth-century fiction is to recall characters speaking: Elizabeth refusing Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; Jane excoriating Rochester in Jane Eyre; Dorothea and Celia discussing Mr.
How direct speech in the novel shapes our understanding of literary characters and their social worldsFor many readers, to think of nineteenth-century fiction is to recall characters speaking: Elizabeth refusing Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; Jane excoriating Rochester in Jane Eyre; Dorothea and Celia discussing Mr.
A richly textured portrait of an American man of letters who came to exemplify the writer's life with all its setbacks and triumphsWashington Irving (17831859) is often considered America's first professional writer, supporting himself and his family amid the ups and downs of literary fortune.
A richly textured portrait of an American man of letters who came to exemplify the writer's life with all its setbacks and triumphsWashington Irving (17831859) is often considered America's first professional writer, supporting himself and his family amid the ups and downs of literary fortune.
