Intrigues et infidélités amoureuses viennent troubler la vie de gens ordinaires, les plongeant dans le maelstrom des passions et des vilenies humaines.
William Motherwell (1797-1835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in 1827.
Der traditionell behauptete Gattungsunterschied von wahrheitsorientierter philosophischer Prosa und fiktionaler Literatur stellt sich nicht zuletzt dann als problematisch heraus, wenn Formen des Denkens und Erkennens aus der Betrachtung herausfallen, die sich keinem der beiden Modelle zuordnen lassen.
The hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252-84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain.
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.
In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy.
Although there has been a general revival of interest in Ben Jonson's dramatic work in the past twenty years, little critical effort has been directed to his late plays-dismissed by John Dryden as the "e;dotages"e; of an aging mind.
Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw's own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces.
Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this book analyses the role that vision and visuality, especially interpersonal visuality, plays in the constitution of subject and subjectivity in Chinese and American traditions.
In The Shavian Playground, originally published in 1972, Shaw's plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical performance.
The profound impact of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Western thought has been frequently examined, yet the extent of Goethe's relationship to Rousseau has never before received thorough study.
To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes.
Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance.
Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography.
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with representations of "e;Homeland"e; - a term that resurfaced with renewed intensity in the United States through the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 and gained traction across Europe, contributing to the formation of new securitarian configurations whose impact has resonated globally.
Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887-1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.
Distinguishing figural or typological allegory-a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament-from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature.
Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry.
Dass Kritik nach dem Ende der großen Geschichte(n) weder als Lehre noch als Aufklärung, sondern als Reflexiv- und Problematisch-Werden von Entscheidungsprozeduren und Urteilsformen gedacht werden kann, souffliert Alexander Kluges Kunst- und Medienarbeit seit den frühen 60er-Jahren.
These ten essays, written over a period from 1950 to 1962, are bound together by their common concern with questions of the meaning of criticism and the larger meaning of literature itself.
Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States.
Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day.
This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life and reading during those years and of the intellectual and artistic ambience of the later nineteenth century.
Mit Beiträgen von Peter Berz, Lars Denicke, Beatrice Gründler, Friedrich Kittler, Ludwig Morenz, Barry Powell, Oliver Primavesi, Joachim Schaper, Gerhard Scharbert, Joulia Strauss, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski.
