A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the ';Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel' (ssu ta ch'i-shu).
Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies discusses the historical development, current state, future directions, and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy.
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists.
One of the most well-known potential forgeries is SG-65 Kleines Schulerloch, which has provoked controversies and debates among scientists of various disciplines since its discovery.
"Natur" wird um 1800 zu einem zentralen Thema, auf das aus den verschiedensten Perspektiven geblickt wird: naturmagisch, religiös, dämonisch bedrohend, märchenhaft, philosophisch, medizinisch, naturwissenschaftlich etc.
This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of pre-cinematic spectacle.
This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.
First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.
First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.
Las ficciones de terror analizadas en este libro han tenido tanta repercusión en el mercado editorial y cinematográfico, que Sabine Schlickers las concibe como parte de un nuevo fenómeno comparable al boom latinoamericano.
Ce numéro s'intitule « Littératures du Maghreb » pour marquer la pluralité sous l'unité : littérature en arabe, littérature en français ; littératures nationales ; littératures orales dans les dialectes arabes et berbères sont ici présentées.
On entend souvent dire que « chaque famille est spéciale », mais la mienne serait probablement en tête s’il y avait un Top 50 de la famille la plus « spéciale » !
À travers l’histoire, et au fil des civilisations, les rapports sociaux ont été fluctuants et déterminés par la puissance exercée par les dominants sur les dominés.
Following in the tradition of its popular predecessors, the CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition, Third Edition explains hundreds of terms commonly used in medicine, food science, metabolism, physiology, and nutrition.
Maroun Abboud invites us to explore the era of the modern Arab Renaissance through the contributions of its most prominent figures, including poets, scholars, writers, and journalists, and the pioneers of the Arab Renaissance and their role in enlightenment.
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Die Studie bietet eine umfassende Analyse der lange Zeit unterschätzten und nur wenig untersuchten Darstellungsweise in den Antiquitates Romanae des Dionysios von Halikarnass.