A fascinating playbill of stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre through the centuries, including distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole.
En la actualidad, el gesto nostálgico de rescatar antiguas fotografías analógicas reivindica simbólicamente la perdurabilidad de lo tangible frente a la inconsistencia de las imágenes digitales.
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.
Die Epistolarkultur um 1900 ist bislang kaum erforscht worden - obwohl Autoren wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Rainer Maria Rilke immens viele Briefe verfasst haben, deren Poetizität an Prosagedichte heranreicht.
Wenn Erich Auerbach im Auszug des höfischen Ritters die Funktionskrise des feudalen Standes sieht, so benennt er damit einen politischen Strukturwandel, von dem der Ritterroman entstehungsgeschichtlich bedingt wird.
On the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fiction and literature in a new direction that addressed the chaos that the nation-and the world-was facing.
Napoleon und Nelson, Wellington und Blücher, Trafalgar und Austerlitz - Personen und Orte, die im europäischen Gedächtnis für die napoleonische Epoche stehen.
Riccardo Nicolosis Studie fördert ein neues, überraschendes Bild des russischen fin de siècle in seinen vielfältigen Beziehungen zum gesamteuropäischen Degenerationsdiskurs zutage.
Dieses eBook: "Dickens Klassiker für die Weihnachtszeit: Der Weihnachtsabend, Doktor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Klein-Dorrit, David Copperfield, Der Kampf des Lebens und viel mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Stellt das Scheitern in Form von Bankrott und Börsencrash häufig den dramatischen Endpunkt einer ökonomischen Unternehmung dar, so gilt für die Literatur nachgerade das Gegenteil.
In the world of the novel, there is an affective tendency that derives its intrinsic components from several aspects, the most prominent of which are the aspects of form and content, the nature of reception, intertextuality, interpretation, and other units that influence in one way or another the format and formulation of the artistic and literary work of the novel.
The critical vocabulary that is used in criticizing a dramatic text is undoubtedly different from that used in more traditional linguistic and literary trends, and in this book "The Language of Drama" by David Burch, the writer attempts through it to present a set of important ideas and principles of contemporary critical theory and language analysis to students of drama, especially since drama has not received sufficient attention from linguistic theorists and linguistic analysts compared to other types of discourse.
The experience of writing about novels from the other side of the world carries within it the experience of travel and travel, the discovery of new geographies, histories, and strange customs, where the joy of real and imaginary tales about souls living beside a river that makes its way through vast fields, and an old fortune teller who sings to passers-by and reads fortunes to them; With every novel there is a different experience, and a long life that reveals its secrets behind the lines.
Wilhelm Heinse gilt noch immer als philosophischer Außenseiter, als ästhetischer Opponent, als Vertreter eines "anderen Klassizismus" oder als dionysisch bewegter Antimoralist.
In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida.
Lebanon's Scheherazade is the subject of this book, the short story in the creations of Lebanese women storytellers, what the writer narrates in Lebanon and what she embodies through her narrative imagination from the first indications until the last findings of the story among the writers of this scene now, are the selections that were chosen from a number of short story collections in addition to some Arab periodicals that publish the Lebanese short story creations, and we believe that these selected short story texts only express and embody the imagination of the Lebanese writer in this field.
Perhaps the relationship between the novel and the novelist is the core of what is expressed, and criticism of this art addresses it, starting from the emergence of the idea as an initial stage in which reality dialogues with the imagined, to the embodiment of this reality and the imagined and its emergence into the space of novelistic action that speaks of the images of life and its various variations in a human context, which carries the answer to many of the questions that are on the mind.
An inventory of most of the phrases and words with common errors in writing, as the author - who is a capable writer and linguist - was able to benefit from his scientific expertise, and collect for us these words that may have appeared in the writings of some writers, poets, and orators, and the reader accepts them without examining or researching them, because they came within the folds of a poetic text or a literary article by a famous writer of literature and prose.
A la croisee du recit litteraire et de l'exploration clinique, ce recueil de chroniques propose une immersion dans le quotidien d'un educateur specialise en protection de l'enfance.
Tous ces mots de toi maman, qui m'arrivent maintenant que tu n'es plus, me renvoient a la jeune fille que je n'ai pas connue et que je decouvre dans sa vie d'assistante francaise en Angleterre en cette annee 1947, aimee d'un homme "e;lyrique"e;, Claude, lie a ce pays et epousee en septembre de la meme annee par celui qui deviendra mon pere, Jean B.
This volume is unconventional in its critical intent since it counters the established criticism that views Joseph Conrad as a predominantly male writer.
Charlie Kaufman's Mobius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman's diagnosis of alienation and corruption in the modern age as a fundamentally spiritual malady.
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics.
Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality and Friendship offers a sophisticated and original lens for understanding transnational African identities and their experiences of community, hospitality, and friendship in contemporary urban fiction.
First published in 1984, Fantasy and Reason (now with a new foreword by Judith Summerfield) retraces the major philosophical, moral and social factors bearing on children's development in the eighteenth century, leading up to the poetic expression in book V of Wordsworth's Prelude of a sustained analysis of children's growth, their mental health, and the life of their imaginations.
The Narrative Power of Domestic Space: Metaphors for Change in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Women's Writing examines how domestic environments function as active agents in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British women's fiction.
First published in 1984, Fantasy and Reason (now with a new foreword by Judith Summerfield) retraces the major philosophical, moral and social factors bearing on children's development in the eighteenth century, leading up to the poetic expression in book V of Wordsworth's Prelude of a sustained analysis of children's growth, their mental health, and the life of their imaginations.
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics.
The Narrative Power of Domestic Space: Metaphors for Change in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Women's Writing examines how domestic environments function as active agents in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British women's fiction.
Charlie Kaufman's Mobius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman's diagnosis of alienation and corruption in the modern age as a fundamentally spiritual malady.
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia.
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia.
Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality and Friendship offers a sophisticated and original lens for understanding transnational African identities and their experiences of community, hospitality, and friendship in contemporary urban fiction.
