Chapters on the narrative frame, characters, imagery and symbols, structure and themes use practical analysis to build and refine our insight into Wuthering Heights.
This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways.
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje.
Die knapp eineinhalb Jahrzehnte nach 1970 erscheinen im Rückblick als eine Art Sattelzeit der deutschen Popmusik: Fast alle maßgeblichen, zukunftsträchtigen Stile, Artikulations- und Inszenierungsweisen des deutschen Pop entwickeln und etablieren sich in diesem Zeitraum.
Rhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine ‚Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft‘ aufgeboten worden ist.
Gerichte, Essenspraktiken, zugeschriebene Bedeutungen sowie mit konkreten Gerichten verbundene Assoziationen und Erinnerungen unterscheiden sich je nach Kultur, gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen und individuellen Dispositionen.
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined.
Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett.
This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel as a genre in the last few decades.
Covering specific mouth and dental conditions such as ulcers, halitosis and tooth grinding, this book recognises the link between these conditions and systemic diseases.
In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.
Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s discusses the work of three prominent women writers by focusing on the response to the French Revolution and the struggle for reform in Britain.
This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture.
This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.
An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.
Aus Besprechungen zur ersten Auflage:Günter Waldmann hat ein Buch vorgelegt, das sich als systematische Einführung in diesen unterrichtlich oft schwer zu vermittelnden Bereich der Literatur versteht und die Gattung Lyrik nicht von ihren abstrakten literarischen Formen, sondern von der aktiv-produktiven Rezeption des Lesers her erfahrbar werden lässt.
Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person-through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour.
Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities.
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.
Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form.
Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära.
A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writersfrom Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to bell hooks, and Marcus Aurelius to Joan Didion.