Literary studies: general

This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.

Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks.

This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts.

Het Informatorium voor voeding en diëtetiek is een systematisch naslagwerk met alles wat men moet weten op het gebied van voeding en diëtetiek.

Helps readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, and how it changes when the medium changes.

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.

Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training.

This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J.

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity.

A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet.

Originally published in 1985.

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Chi conosce il mito di Fetonte, l'auriga dal breve destino, avrà letto i noti versi delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, ma cosa sa dei frammenti superstiti del Fetonte di Euripide?

This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced to this day in the Amazonian region.

First published in 1990.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

This book examines controversies in American wine culture and how those controversies intersect with and illuminate current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation.

Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O'Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, this books explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on poetic concept and its cultural relevance.

Provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre since the end of World War II.

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century.

Recently, there has been a fundamental shift in the global health and wellness industry from disease treatment to preventing chronic diseases.

In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature.

Christopher Marlowe was the most successful dramatist of his time, his untimely death cutting short a career that may well have rivalled Shakespeare's.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their ownTackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected.

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics.

This edition collects all the epigrams attributed to Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemos of Gadara (ca.

Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism.

A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama.

Das Thema der gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmittel wird vor allem in Europa zur Zeit intensiv diskutiert.

In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project.

This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry.

Annual volume presenting the best essays received by the Southeastern Renaissance Conference.

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at Browning's poetry and at some of the key themes that run through his work.

A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Briefe 1815-1831.

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages.

This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century.

This text chronicles a change in epistolary persuasion in the 1230's, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250.

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart.

Das dritte Bruno Snell-Symposion stellt die interdisziplinären Beiträge zur Aktualisierung von Antike unter den Leitbegriff der Inszenierung.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766.