Literary studies: general

In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness.

Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven.

Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans.

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identityThe rabbinic corpus begins with a question';when?

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers.

A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, tradition is a word everyone uses but few address critically.

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life-yet his poems are anything but conventional.

Dieses eBook: "Odyssee" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Have you heard the story about the android that took to the operatic stage of eighteenth century London?

Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba.

'The scent of God.

How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry.

Nuestra comprensión de Federico García Lorca siempre se ha construido en diálogo con el archivo.

In 'Immer mutig!

Leo Tolstoy's 'The Complete Works' stands as a monumental collection of some of the greatest literary works to have ever graced the world of literature.

Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love' is a captivating and insightful exploration of the realm of love and relationships during the medieval period.

En los últimos seis años, Pablo Mancini pasó la mayor parte de su tiempo con quienes imaginan, planifican y producen los principales medios periodísticos online del mundo.

"e;The prime importance of the rude fragments of poetry preserved in early Icelandic literature will now be disputed by none.

El Bernardode Balbuena es una obra clave de la historia literaria hispánica.

Lustrum Band 64, eine Fortsetzung der Lustrum-Bände 54 (2012), 56 (2014) und 61 (2019), bietet ein weiteres großes Kapitel des Forschungsberichtes von Edzard Visser (Basel) zu Homer 1977-2000: In Kapitel IX gibt Edzard Visser jetzt einen ebenso gründlichen wie gehaltvollen Überblick über "Homerische Darstellungsformen und Erzähltechnik", in dem er die Forschungsliteratur aus Narratologie und Intertextualität sowie zu Zeitdarstellungen, "Beinahe-Szenen", psychologischen Aspekten der Darstellung sowie "typischen Szenen", Katalogdichtung, Ekphrasis und Gleichnissen (um nur einige Darstellungsmodi zu nennen) äußerst kenntnisreich vorstellt und bespricht.

In 'Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Books', readers are treated to a collection of five classic Christmas tales by the renowned author Charles Dickens.

In 'Iphigenie auf Tauris: Ein Schauspiel' von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wird die Geschichte der Prinzessin Iphigenie erzählt, die von den Göttern gerettet und auf der Insel Tauris gebracht wurde.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Collected Letters of F.

If the Arabic language, with its eloquent word, was delivered to the old Arab poets until their poems were linguistic arguments, then in some of their poets, expressions have come out of their meanings from integrity, which is prepared by the author of this book, illusions that show their mistake and delusion.

If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're missing the most magical fun.

This carefully crafted ebook: "John Keats: The Eve of St.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Ode on a Grecian Urn (Complete Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Short Stories: The Necklace + The Piece of String + Boule de Suif + Mademoiselle Fifi + Pierrot + Two Friends + La Maison Tellier + Ghosts and much more"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

In The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Anthony Trollope captures the essence of Victorian England through his detailed portrayal of the residents of the fictional county of Barsetshire.

Dieses eBook: "Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (Ein Klassiker der deutschen Literatur)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Peor está que estaba es una de las más logradas y exitosas comedias de enredo del repertorio calderoniano.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Poetry"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Spain’s decadence and England’s rise to power is commonly believed to be the result of the uncontested victory of the English navy over Philip II and the Duke of Medina Sidonia’s obsolete and slow Spanish Armada in 1588.

Spain’s decadence and England’s rise to power is commonly believed to be the result of the uncontested victory of the English navy over Philip II and the Duke of Medina Sidonia’s obsolete and slow Spanish Armada in 1588.

"Köln ist keine, war nie eine Stadt der Literatur", konstatierte im Jahre 1980 der Kölner Autor Jürgen Becker in seiner Laudatio auf den in Köln gebürtigen Literaturwissenschaftler Hans Mayer, der seinerzeit den Kölner Literaturpreis erhielt.

Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right.

In Johann Wolfgang von Goethes berühmtem Werk 'Faust' taucht der Leser in die tiefgründige und komplexe Welt des deutschen Gelehrtentums ein.

Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception.

Through a series of candid personal interviews with nearly one hundred donors, Why the Wealthy Give offers an in-depth look at the world of elite philanthropy.

The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC.

George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject.

En su obra literaria, Abel Posse (1934-2023) ambicionaba forjar un lenguaje narrativo propio que conjugase lo cultural, lo filosófico, lo político y lo poético.

Henrik Ibsen, einer der bedeutendsten Dramatiker des 19.

In Effi Briest, geschrieben von Theodor Fontane, wird die Geschichte einer jungen Frau erzählt, die in einer streng moralischen Gesellschaft des 19.

Das Antiatticista genannte attische Lexikon aus dem 2.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Absolution - a false start to The Great Gatsby"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Virginia Woolf's collection, 'Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works', is a comprehensive anthology encompassing the entirety of Woolf's literary output, showcasing her innovative and influential writing style.

Dieses eBook: "Gefährliche Mächte" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republicone that challenges the ';rise of the novel' narrativeWhat is the use of fiction?

Der erste Band der vierbändigen Ausgabe der "Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta", der nun vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert vorliegt, enthält alle bekannten für Livius Androncius, Naevius und die "poetae tragici minores" überlieferten Tragödienfragmente, die ohne Autornamen tradierten wahrscheinlich der Tragödie zuzuordnenden Fragmente sowie die Fragmente der "fabula praetexta" und die Testimonien zu den Gattungen der römischen Tragödie und der "fabula praetexta".