Literary studies: general

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

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries.

Jiddischsprachiges Theater entwickelte sich als Teil des jüdischen Purimfestes in der Frühen Neuzeit.

Die "Zenerene" – eine voluminöse Bibelparaphrase – ist seit dem 17.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a masterful exploration of transformation, weaving together a vast tapestry of mythological and human tales that span the origins of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a masterful exploration of transformation, weaving together a vast tapestry of mythological and human tales that span the origins of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar.

This title was originally published in 1976.

Folk Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics is Rhys Carpenter's classic exploration of the oral traditions behind the Iliadand the Odyssey.

Ce récit est une ode à la liberté.

Life and Literature in the Roman Republic delves into the dynamic interplay between the societal environment and the literary evolution of early Rome.

Folk Tale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics is Rhys Carpenter's classic exploration of the oral traditions behind the Iliadand the Odyssey.

This title was originally published in 1986.

This title was originally published in 1986.

Distinguished historian Richard W.

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time.

Es incuestionable la importancia que tuvo el estudio del artista en la literatura decimonónica como lugar en el que los autores podían disentir y articular opiniones diferentes de aquellas marcadas como "normales" por las reglas socioculturales de su época.

This title was originally published in 1976.

Life and Literature in the Roman Republic delves into the dynamic interplay between the societal environment and the literary evolution of early Rome.

This title was originally published in 1977.

Jacob Burckhardt claimed that the state in Renaissance Italy became a work of art.

The Lemon Fruit: Its Composition, Physiology, and Products is a comprehensive exploration of the unique properties and applications of the lemon, a fruit prized not for its direct edibility but for its extraordinary versatility across culinary, industrial, medicinal, and beverage uses.

Das Schwedesch lid ist ein bislang wenig bekannter Text über die letzten Jahre des Dreißigjährigen Krieges in Prag.

The Lemon Fruit: Its Composition, Physiology, and Products is a comprehensive exploration of the unique properties and applications of the lemon, a fruit prized not for its direct edibility but for its extraordinary versatility across culinary, industrial, medicinal, and beverage uses.

This title was originally published in 1977.

The Satyrica of Petronius is a one-of-a-kind satirical comic novel in Latin: an engaging narrative of the shady, sex-and-cash-engrossed lives of men and women in provincial first-century Italy.

This title was originally published in 1962.

This title was originally published in 1962.

Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (7941185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents a picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations.

Jacob Burckhardt claimed that the state in Renaissance Italy became a work of art.

This book reexamines the emergence of Urdu as a literary and poetic language in the 18th century, at the time called Rekhtah, highlighting its engagement with diverse regional cultures and communities in South Asia.

Robert Duncan's nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson's influential 1950 essay "e;Projective Verse.

Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Civil Agents highlights early modern women writers' invocations of civility to reach for the privileges of whiteness.