Literary studies: general

With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary.

Gunter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism.

The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.

This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Slawistik in der DDR 1977" verfügbar.

Kaum ein Name ist so eng mit dem literarischen Unheimlichen verknüpft wie der von Edgar Allan Poe.

This book offers a new approach to the work of the great classical author.

Illustrierte Bucher sind fur viele Kinder der Einstieg ins eigene Lesen, nachdem Oma oder Papa ihnen vorgelesen und ihren 'Leseappetit' geweckt haben.

Gérard de Nerval – ein Name, der für die Essenz der französischen Romantik steht und zugleich die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele offenbart.

Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century.

The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front.

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture.

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare.

In der römischen Komödie gestaltet der Figurentypus des intriganten Sklaven sein Intrigenspiel aus einer gesellschaftlich untergeordneten Position heraus mit einer dichterischen Schaffenskraft und setzt sich sowohl mit seinem poetischen als auch gesellschaftlichen Handlungsrahmen auseinander.

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.

Erasmus von Rotterdam zählt zu den bedeutendsten Denkern seiner Zeit und prägte wie kaum ein anderer das geistige Klima der Renaissance.

This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands.

Psoriasis is a chronic condition that can be uncomfortable and affect your quality of life.

Die Arbeit macht zum ersten Mal die ganze Breite der frühen Sophoklesrezeption fassbar: Ein großes Spektrum an Gattungen und Autoren bezieht sich bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten, aber auch im weiteren Verlauf der Antike auf diesen athenischen Tragödiendichter.

There is increasing evidence that even minute amounts of trace elements can have profound effects on the human body.

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.

Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly.

Poetry is endowed with dreams.

The role of antioxidants and other nutritional agents in disease prevention is a widely discussed subject, attracting attention from professionals in all areas of medicine.