The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively 'modern' notions of truth, property and political order.
Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult texts and their influence on young people.
Einige literaturwissenschaftliche Begriffe und Konzepte haben ihre Kontur erst allmählich im Laufe von Austauschbewegungen zwischen Ost und West gewonnen.
Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity and connections across Arab world contexts.
This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature in English from India and the diaspora, in native languages, and works by non-Indians.
Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Written in a clear and accessible style, Stylistics, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all the major theories, concepts and methods required for the investigation of language in literature.
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World.
Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden.
Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical professionals and other outsiders.
Ausgehend von der Rezeptionsasthetik der Fruhromantiker werden in diesem Buch grundlegende literaturdidaktische Ansatze und Konzepte der Subjektkonstituierung durch Literatur im Jugendalter mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Waldorfpadagogik behandelt.
The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration.
Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope - This is the fourth of the 'Palliser' series of novels and the sequel to the second book of the series,_Phineas Finn.
Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies.
Der Schriftsteller und bildende Künstler Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916-1991) erschien in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur, so heißt es im Spiegel-Nachruf, "wie ein Sonntagskind": "Frei von der sehr deutschen Bedrückung, Zerknirschtheit und Provinzialität, die im Freundeskreis der 'Gruppe 47' vorherrschten", erzählte er in den Lieblosen Legenden (1952) "weltläufig, gebildet, mit geradezu musikalischer Eleganz [.
This volume considers Samuel Beckett's fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009-2015.
This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance.
Hölderlins Texte begreifen sich aus persönlicher Not wie gesellschaftlichen Missverhältnissen heraus als eine poetische wie politische Revolution der Sprache.
Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and literature.
Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and literature.
The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the twentieth century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.
In this study, the engaging art created by children's author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children's literature.
