Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.
What do two white men born in the century before last have to say that could possibly be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse, the end of the age of fossil fuels and much life on earth, and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics?
Das jiddische Sefer Misle Su'olim, 1583 gedruckt, ist die erste vollständige Übertragung der hebräischen Fabelsammlung Misle Su'alim von Berechja ben Natronaj haNakdan (um 1200) in eine europäische Sprache.
Perhaps more timely than ever, Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics offers novel perspectives on both contemporary and canonical topics in Margaret Atwood's work with a special focus on the intersections of literature and politics.
Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations.
Auslöser eines großen Theaterskandals und Reiseführer durch ein unbekanntes Universum: Roland Barthes ist in seinem Racine-Buch als ingeniöser Analytiker von Macht- und Affektstrukturen neu zu entdecken.
The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature is a collection of papers by influential scholars who are engaged in comparative literary studies and addresses a central and highly important question about the discipline: if Eurocentrism has been integral to comparative literature, and if the world we live in is undergoing radical changes, then how can, or should, the discipline change to overcome this problem, of the discipline as well as of literary history, to accommodate non-Western traditions?
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Literary Revisionism places Bloom, his ally Geoffrey Hartman, and their contemporary literary situation in a borad historical and theoretical context by exploring the provenance of the revisionist stance in the origins of the New Testament canon, in the works of the Sensibility Poets and the great Romantics, and in the emergence of our own secular modernity.
Die Bibelübersetzungen des galizisch-podolischen jüdischen Aufklärers Menachem Mendel Lefin Satanower (1749-1826) gehören zu den frühesten unverfälschten Zeugnissen des modernen Ostjiddisch.
In 1985, Italo Calvino proposed six values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, 'crystal' exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency.
Though canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia, we are, once again, at a historical moment when there is resistance to teaching texts by writers of color and texts that deal with race, ethnicity and gender.
This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as its explanatory framework and arguing that every adaptation is an independent communicative act.
This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.
Rainer Maria Rilke hat der Verkündigung des Todes Gottes, die Friedrich Nietzsche jubelnd und doch unter Schmerzen vorträgt, nicht zugestimmt und sie von seinem Werk ferngehalten.
The Rime petrose, Dantes powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development.
