Contemporary celebrations of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences often harbor a distrust of traditional disciplines, which are seen as at best narrow and unimaginative, and at worst complicit in larger forms of power and policing.
This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau.
One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s.
A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy.
This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.
This book provides a critical introduction and translation of fifty Santiniketan (Abode of Peace) essays written by Rabindranath Tagore between 1908 and 1914.
This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectual and scholarly traditions to the meaning of ideology.
I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me.
A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture and what we can do to fight their influenceFour titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known.
A book that calls us to witness our place in history Sally RooneyAn urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women s Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost.
Der Band bietet erstmals einen systematisierenden Überblick über die deutschsprachige, journalistische Literaturkritik mit notwendigen Ausblicken auf die akademische Kritik in der Literaturwissenschaft.
Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.
Ulrich Prills Einführung erschließt Dantes sprach- und staatstheoretische Schriften, sie präsentiert seine Lyrik und sein Hauptwerk "Die Göttliche Komödie".
Diese Einführung in die psychoanalytische Literaturwissenschaft stellt die Bedeutung der Psychoanalyse für die Literaturtheorie heraus und führt verschiedene Ansätze vor, die sich auf die Grundfragen der psychoanalytischen Textanalyse, den literarischen Schaffensprozess, die Rezeptionstheorie und die Interpretation literarischer Werke beziehen.
Im Fokus der deutschen, französischen und englischsprachigen Literaturen zeichnet dieser Band eine international repräsentative Entwicklungsgeschichte des Romans vom Beginn des Jahrhunderts bis in die Zeit nach der Postmoderne.
'Fascinating' Psychologies'A brilliant read' Happiful'A really, really, really, really good book' Liz Jones, You magazine podcast How much do you enjoy your life?
Este libro, que transcribe 322 cartas de los protagonistas de la aventura cientifica que fue ALPI - seleccionadas de entre mas de mil localizadas en archivos publicos y privados, y clasificadas cronologicamente por periodos significativos-, es una historia interna de los intentos para construir una parcela de la ciencia linguistica, la dialectologia y la geografia linguistica, a la altura de lo que existia en otros paises europeos.
'The best poet in America' Jean Genet'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.
From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today - this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.
Published to coincide with his major biography of Iris Murdoch, Peter Conradi's acclaimed critical appreciation of her work is reissued in a fully revised and updated edition, with a foreword by John Bayley.
Literatur als Strategie der ImmunisierungImmunität ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem Leitbegriff geworden – Johannes Türk nimmt ihn auf und macht ihn für die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft fruchtbar: Literatur und Immunität hängen eng zusammen, so seine These, ja man kann sogar behaupten, dass Literatur den Menschen immun macht gegenüber den Zumutungen des Lebens – so deutet Türk z.
