Philippe de Vigneulles (1471-1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux.
The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry-has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based.
English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, Graham Greene was one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller.
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance.
After falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet.
Sprachkraft, eng verwandt mit der Einbildungskraft, wird von Meuthen in Auseinandersetzung mit Meisterwerken allegorischer und ironischer Sprachgestaltung untersucht.
Silvio Vietta stellt erstmals die europäische Literatur von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in die Zusammenhänge einer Funktionsgeschichte, die quer zur Epochen- und Gattungsgeschichte sowie zu den Nationalphilologien liegt.
In the symbolic language of ballads, a lady's costly dress tells of the beauty of the body beneath it or of the wearer's happiness; a lost hawk or hound foreshadows the hunter's fate long before the plot reaches a turning point.
En esta conversacion inspiradora y llena de complicidad, Annie Ernaux y Rose-Marie Lagrave exponen una reflexion comun sobre sus obras, su evolucion feminista, el concepto de clase social y las transformaciones producidas en Europa desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity.
While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "e;talking cure"e; of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature.
Mit dem Rezensionsautomaten CENSEO, der im Literaturseminar der Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe unter der Leitung von Stephan Krass entwickelt wurde, steht erstmals ein Modus der Literaturkritik zur Verfügung, der allein auf dem Verfahren automatisierter Texterzeugung beruht.
Many critics hold that Shakespeare's King Lear is primarily a drama of meaningful suffering and redemption within a just universe ruled by providential higher powers.
Miracle tales, in which people are rewarded for piety or punished for sin through the intervention of the Virgin Mary, were a popular literary form all through the Middle Ages.
More often than not, critics have looked upon Milton's great epic not as a literary work but rather as a theological tract or a display of Renaissance learning.
Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City analyzes depictions of non-elite, working women in relation to specific London neighborhoods and sites in early modern drama and culture from primarily the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.
John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family.
