This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.
In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century.
In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre.
Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and the important novels of the 1860s.
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson.
There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction.
Dieses eBook: "Das Herz der Finsternis " ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a ';long-eared galut' or a frustrated Homer Simpson blurts out his famous catch-word, ';D'oh!
Dead White Guys is a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country.
The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or "e;songs of deeds"e;, provided the chief means of cultural and imaginative expression in the French language for over one hundred and fifty years (c.
Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically these major characteristics of his work.
Delve into the depths of human nature with Joseph Conrad's haunting masterpieceEmbark on a chilling and profound journey into the heart of humanity with Joseph Conrad's mesmerizing masterpiece, Heart of Darkness.
Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare.
In einer Welt, in der Mythen und Legenden die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion verwischen, erhebt sich die faszinierende Figur des Merlin als der geheimnisvolle Prophet und Zauberer.
The volume is intended for classical philologists and a broad range of scholars working in the fields of theoretical, historical, and comparative linguistics with Ancient Greek, Latin, or Slavic languages as the primary evidence in their research.
e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: A Christmas Carol The Chimes Oliver Twist A Christmas Tree David Copperfield Little Dorrit The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man What Christmas Is As We Grow Older The Poor Relation's Story The Child's Story The Schoolboy's Story Nobody's Story The Seven Poor Travellers The Holly-Tree The Wreck of the Golden Mary The Perils of Certain English Prisoners A House to Let The Haunted House A Message From the Sea Tom Tiddler's Ground Somebody's Luggage Mrs.
Argirópolis o la Capital de los Estados Confederados del Río de la Plata (1850), plantea el tema de la utopía en Hispanoamérica, desde una perspectiva cercana a la del Facundo.
Robert Walsers Institutionenportraits und Lebensläufe verkrachter Adliger, unsteter Angestellter und müßiggängerischer Drifter erzählen in besonderer Weise von der Entstehung des Sozialstaats um 1900.
Die Integration der Dokumente wird als eine Geste der Spaltung betrachtet, die das Zusammenspiel der faktischen und fiktionalen Wahrheitsbehauptungen in literarischen Texten hervorhebt (Riffaterre, 1990).
Pocos escritores de lengua española tuvieron una disciplina epistolar tan intensa y extensa como Octavio Paz: miles de cartas a otros escritores, a sus amigos, a sus editores y, desde luego, a las mujeres que amó.
Overcome fatigue, brain fog and anxiety, and gain energy, clarity and peace of mind with Dr Izabella Wentz, internationally acclaimed thyroid specialist and #1 New York Times bestselling author.
