Robert Walsers Institutionenportraits und Lebensläufe verkrachter Adliger, unsteter Angestellter und müßiggängerischer Drifter erzählen in besonderer Weise von der Entstehung des Sozialstaats um 1900.
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 bible commentary traces the reception of Judges through the ages, not only by scholars and theologians, but also by preachers, teachers, politicians, poets, essayists and artists.
This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity.
How the King James Bible has influenced the style of the American novel from Melville to Cormac McCarthyThe simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning-and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today.
Wolfgang Herrndorfs verbüffende Einsichten über Sprache, Kommunikation und Medien in seinem Bestseller tschick verbergen sich in aberwitzigen Dialogen.
This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity.
Wolfgang Herrndorfs verbüffende Einsichten über Sprache, Kommunikation und Medien in seinem Bestseller tschick verbergen sich in aberwitzigen Dialogen.
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.
In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality?
The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth.
From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will beIn this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.
A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuriesThanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information.
A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.
How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.
A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century.
Voltaire's 'The Sincere Huron, Pupil of Nature' is a captivating tale that delves into the themes of colonialism, cultural clash, and the quest for truth.
In seinem Werk 'Über die Liebe' (De l'amour) beschreibt Stendhal auf detaillierte Weise die verschiedenen Facetten der Liebe und deren Auswirkungen auf das menschliche Leben.
Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation.
El Curso de Linguistica General, publicado originalmente en 1916 a partir de los tres cursos impartidos por Ferdinand de Saussure entre 1907 y 1911 en la Universidad de Ginebra, se puede considerar como el texto fundacional de los estudios linguisticos modernos.
La presentación del delito en los medios de comunicación es parte de un circuito productivo integral que incluye las condiciones de estructuración del sector de las comunicaciones, las rutinas de trabajo, los criterios, operaciones y encuadres editoriales, su puesta en el aire y su recepción por parte del público.
El diagnóstico de época que se desprende de los testimonios de jóvenes populares en los que se basa este libro refiere al sentimiento de inexistencia de claras trayectorias institucionales que aseguren el tránsito entre los diferentes períodos etarios; en la imagen de una trama institucional globalmente abusiva y que sólo algunos individuos logran matizar; en la fuerza de las aspiraciones y de los sueños personales que no se abdican.
La cultura de masas es una expresión que, incluso con sus especificidades contingentes, se desarrolló en el mundo occidental a la salida de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
La relación entre la escritura y el género femenino está signada por la lucha entre el disciplinamiento y la transgresión, entre las prohibiciones y los espacios asfixiantes.
En el barrio de la infancia, los amores y los libros son intensos, la lectura no es un oficio módico sino la llave que abre puertas a otros mundos: las grandes librerías del centro, la vida literaria, la amistad o la enemistad con escritores y artistas.
