As partisan attacks have become increasingly bitter in American politics, contemporary culture has found ways to channel this outrage into the outrageous, responding with comedy and satire from both sides of the political spectrum.
Shakespeare's Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure.
This book explores contemporary women's historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings.
This book explores contemporary women's historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings.
Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "e;intertextuality"e; (Kristeva) and recent scholarship on literary exoticism to explore Germany's postwar crises of psychology, masculinity, and national identity mapped onto Oceanic spaces.
Shakespeare's Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure.
This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors.
Ein Meister auf dem Weg zur UnsterblichkeitEduard Mörikes Novelle Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag von 1855 entführt die Leser:innen in die Welt des genialen Komponisten Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffith Show through the frame of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on its cultural significance in the Southern Appalachians.
This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, with a focus on a specific breed of dog: the greyhound.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
The Elizabethans witnessed not only a great flowering of drama, but also a flourishing of fiction and the development of a literary entertainment business.
This is the first study on the development of Italian ethnic identity in North America (United States and Canada) from a gender perspective and based on memoir.
Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffith Show through the frame of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on its cultural significance in the Southern Appalachians.
This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
Jemanden einen Versager zu nennen, ist die größtmögliche Beleidigung, wurzelt darin doch das Urteil, dass sich im Versagen der angesprochenen Person etwas Bahn gebrochen hat, das ohnehin nicht zu vermeiden war: Wer versagt hat, hat das eigene Leben verfehlt, wer versagt hat, ist unfähig, das zu leisten, was allen anderen Menschen scheinbar mühelos gelingt.
