Originally published in 1956, this scholarly study of Spenser's poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in complaints, visions and pastorals were of continuing importance to the development of The Faerie Queene.
The infrastructure and marketing policy of the "spiritual" market is complex and thoughtful, the figurative systems are carefully selected and verified.
Marco BANGULI est un kinois pur-sang, issu du peuple Téké-Humbu, propriétaire coutumier du territoire sur lequel est bâtie la Ville-Province de Kinshasa.
Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of his published work to cultivate a unique understanding of his ideas in relation to reading.
Écrivain et penseur, figure éminente des luttes pour les droits civiques aux États-Unis, James Baldwin (1924-1987) a laissé d’innombrables écrits, d’où se détachent de grands essais polémiques ou autobiographiques et des romans audacieux.
Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.
Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and literature, etc.
Distilling the available knowledge on ethanol-induced liver damage and directly complementing the available bio-medical literature, Ethanol and the Liver covers pathogenic and clinical aspects of alcoholic liver disease.
El Jardín de nobles doncellas, compuesto por el agustino fray Martín de Córdoba a mediados del siglo XV, solo se ha conservado en dos testimonios impresos datados ya en el siglo XVI.
Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender – seit über 130 Jahren die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene – umfasst in seiner 71.
The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts-in high literature, in medical literature, in art-from the last fin-de-siecle to our own.
This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.
In the eighties of the last century, there was a "cultural-critical openness" to the approaches of European critical thought, and we fell captive to the "illusion of truth" after we became convinced of Western centralism, and that the pinnacle of theories, science, and thought were all products of the West, so all our efforts became represented in "citing" Western statements.
Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult texts and their influence on young people.
This book encompasses the complete life and works of Siegfried Sassoon, from his patriotic youth that led him to the frontline, to the formation of his anti-war convictions, great literary friendships and flamboyant love affairs.
Mit der Frage nach literarischen Darstellungen des Heidnischen konzentrierte sich die Germanistik lange Zeit vor allem auf zwei favorisierte Themen- bzw.
Bereits kurz nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten Anfang des Jahres 1933 verließen viele Deutsche ihr Land und wurden zu Emigrant*innen.
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian.
