Friedrich von Hardenberg und Friedrich Schlegel verdanken wir zwei der berühmtesten Denkfiguren der Romantik: die ‚blaue Blume‘ und die ‚progressive Universalpoesie‘.
Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth.
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie.
A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time.
This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.
This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.
Trotz der Dominanz des Audiovisuellen in unserer Zeit sind das Bilderbuch und das illustrierte (Kinder-)Buch zu einer ungeahnten künstlerischen Höhe gelangt.
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.
Trotz der Dominanz des Audiovisuellen in unserer Zeit sind das Bilderbuch und das illustrierte (Kinder-)Buch zu einer ungeahnten künstlerischen Höhe gelangt.
"It is easier to deceive a person than to prove to him that he has been deceived," said Mark Twain, the world famous American writer, journalist and public figure.
Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas through eight seminal Bangladeshi novels in English from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments and Spiral Road, Farhana H.
This book redirects attention to a truth largely ignored by recent criticism-that Shakespeare's excellence as a playwright is inextricable from his excellence as a poet.
Through critical textual analysis of the trauma narratives for young readers written in English on political conflicts and the violation of humanitarian values, this book recovers the response to trauma from the margins of the survivor spectrum.
Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book.
Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book.
Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.
British culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in Britain from 1945 up to and beyond the Brexit referendum of 2016, combining approaches from the fields of history, English and cultural studies.
This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English.
