Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828-1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works.
This volume breaks new ground in the exploration of Anglo-Italian cultural relations: it presents analyses of a wide range of early modern Italian texts adapted into contemporary English culture, often through intermediary French translations.
In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality.
The book offers articles by scholars from three disciplines (literary studies, TEFL methodology, history) and three universities in three European countries: Ireland, Belgium, Germany.
A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life.
This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain.
This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work.
This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work.
Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity.
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.
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.
Se trata de la primera edición crítica y anotada de Las cadenas del Demonio, la cual ofrece el texto más cercano al original perdido de Calderón a partir de una suelta conservada en la Biblioteca Universitaria de Göttingen (Alemania), que es también el testimonio más extenso.
The essays in this second volume from Helmut Gneuss are devoted to the study of books, their readers, and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Band 8 enthält neben Nachträgen zu den vorangegangenen Bänden eine Chronologie der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters, eine Auswertung derselben in Zahlen, ein Verzeichnis der mittelalterlichen Autorinnen und Schreiberinnen des deutschen Sprachraums sowie ein umfangreiches Register der Personennamen und Werktitel.
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers D.
This book presents a set of approaches that work with a systematic critical focus on a number of Arab novels, with the aim of highlighting their qualitative characteristics, within the framework of variations of form and discourse, and the resulting work of many Arab novels on textual productions that produce new narrative forms that would establish a shift in The aesthetic sensitivity of the Arab novel, and in the Arab novelists' understanding of the meaning of the Arabic novel preserving its local specificity in terms of facts, expectations, details and spaces, but at the same time it celebrates its being a work of fiction that falls within the contexts of writing and its bets on modernizing forms and renewing contents.
Sa position de Consul général de France à Washington entre 1989 et 1994, a permis à l’auteur une observation privilégiée du fonctionnement des institutions américaines en même temps que la possibilité de rencontrer nombre d’acteurs des différentes sphères de la vie américaine, politique (présidents Bush père, puis Clinton), militaire (première guerre du Golfe), scientifique (cosmonautes Buzz Aldrin – compagnon d’Armstrong sur la lune –, John Glenn), médiatique (naissance du site français Frognet d’un Internet balbutiant et encore sans nom), intellectuelle, culturelle, éducative (lycée français Rochambeau aux élèves venant de 56 pays), artistique, économique (partenariat Airbus-General Motors), sociale, religieuse, sportive.
Seize récits, imaginaires et réels à la fois, qui se passent sur quatre continents, dans seize pays différents, entre le seizième siècle et le présent.
« Les houris ou futures houris de l’Inde et des environs étaient occupées par les réceptions, les danses, les lectures, l’écriture, la peinture, la politique… Elles devaient aussi et surtout parer à des dangers qu’elles n’avaient pas voulu dévoiler : là, plus qu’ailleurs, le bonheur était particulièrement précaire, et Céline s’était rendu compte qu’il fallait trouver un ailleurs pour s’installer et éviter des typhons redoutables qui menaçaient en permanence cette partie du firdaws où tout n’était qu’illusion.
In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Translation Studies has been an extraordinary success story which grew out of the work of a small group of international scholars in the 1970s and has become a global phenomenon.
This volume brings together scholarly theories and practices on speculative fiction from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, that are all rooted in similar values, culture, and history yet are independent and unique societies.
