Literary studies: general

The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent.

Le bonheur jaillit parfois de ces petits riens du quotidien, si souvent oubliés, dont l’observation amusée amène sourire et remise en perspective.

Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition.

Epidemiological studies indicate that the consumption of natural antioxidants from such plant-derived sources as olive oil produces beneficial health effects.

In Print Technology in Scotland and America Louis Kirk McAuley investigatesthe mediation of popular-political culturein Scotland and America, from thetransatlantic religious revivals known as theGreat Awakening to the U.

Lyrik – eine Überforderung als Programm?

During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public.

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is ''Close Encounters with Shakespeare''s Text''.

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched by more than half the world's population.

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emotive speech in literary texts from the classical to the early modern periods.

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health.

Postcolonial Locations seeks to clarify the meaning of 'the postcolonial' through close textual readings, and prioritises material and located readings over more abstract theoretical discussions; it seeks to re-orient the field by providing practical explorations of what the discipline is for.

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

The Mirror of the Worlde is an important addition to the canon of Elizabeth Tanfield Cary.

Das Wort ‹Geschichte› hat bei Hans Mayer, dem Literarhistoriker, sein besonderes spezifisches Gewicht: der erste Abschnitt dieses Buches, der Studien zum Expressionismus, zu Gerhart Hauptmann und Hermann Hesse vorträgt, heißt nicht zufällig «Überhang der Tradition» und endet nicht zufällig mit einem «Rückblick auf Thomas Mann»; mit diesem Schriftsteller, den Mayer als Ende und Neubeginn zugleich verstanden wissen will, führt der Autor zu den elf großen Synthesen, in denen die «Deutsche Literatur seit Thomas Mann» neu interpretiert wird bis hin zur Sonderentwicklung einer zweiten deutschen Literatur in der DDR.

This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce's famed book of short stories, Dubliners.

Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes.

This study traces the steady decline of classical authority in English literature from the mid-seventeenth century and the role of translation in shifting the emphasis away the classical learning.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists.

"e;This is an examination of the influence of the plays of Euripides on the French tragedian Racine, gleaned from Racine's markings on the texts.

This book is a study of European-language translations of Naxi ritual manuscripts, the ritual literature of a small ethnic group living in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

This history of printed ephemera''s rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of ''disposable'' printed items.

This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century.

The recent return of 'world literature' to the centre of literary studies has entailed an increased attention to non-European literatures, but in turn has also further marginalized Europe's smaller literatures.

This is the first critical edition of Richardson''s sequel to Pamela, the most influential English novel of the eighteenth century.

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world.

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance.

An illuminating study looking at an influential group of Roman Catholic novelists and writers - Chesterton, Belloc, Waugh, Greene, Spark and David Lodge among others.

Covering the history and contributions of black women intellectuals from the late 19th century to the present, this book highlights individuals who are often overlooked in the study of the American intellectual tradition.

There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals.

THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey .

Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light.

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J.

In der Arbeit wird mit einem transdisziplinären Ansatz herausgearbeitet, auf welche Weise literarische Texte der Gegenwartsliteratur Erfahrungen der Adoleszenz in der DDR verhandeln und inwiefern sie einen Beitrag zur Erweiterung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses leisten.

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century.

In the years since his suicide, scholars have explored David Foster Wallace's writing in transdisciplinary ways.

Barasi's Human Nutrition: A Health Perspective, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of nutrition.

Schon zu Lebzeiten hat der deutsche Archäologe und Kunsthistoriker Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) europaweit Resonanz gefunden.

Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive.

In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I.