El amplio caudal de literatura religiosa producido durante los siglos XVI y XVII convierte a este género en uno de los más importantes de las letras del Siglo de Oro.
Die jidischen schtudies gehören zu den wenigen Reihen im deutschen Sprachraum, in denen Editionen jiddischer literarischer Werke sowie Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprache und Literatur der aschkenasischen Juden veröffentlicht werden.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments in this vigorously multi-disciplinary field, with leading scholars illuminating the cognitive, affective, and bodily dimensions of literary reading.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature, trauma studies, and disability studies to examine the presentation of PTSD in Shakespeare's plays.
This book seeks to break free from Eurocentric historical perspectives of medieval-era travel through Egypt and Sinai by focusing on the testimonies of 4th to 15th-century travellers from the African continent, especially pilgrim diaries from the Arab Muslim Egyptian world.
Dans Le jouet pernicieux, un homme manipulateur entraîne sa famille à Paris, utilisant la maladie de son fils comme prétexte, dans le but d’attirer une grande artiste dans un piège mortel.
Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.
Desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, se observa en la literatura y las artes de Canarias y del Caribe un resurgimiento de lo precolonial, que da voz, cuerpo e imagen a personajes legendarios, lenguas silenciadas, mitos y ritos olvidados o resignificados.
This comprehensive volume explores the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.
Seven the Thread of God: How God Sevened Himself, Made Covenant, and the Role Sevens Play in Restoring Us to God from Genesis to Revelation is a story of promise, transgression, and redemption, as well as a beacon of hope in a world that has become chaotic and divisive.
Vous venez de franchir les portes de la cinquantaine quand vous vous retrouvez devant l’emplacement vide de ce qui fut le groupe scolaire où se situait votre école primaire.
This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the potential of this fiction to intervene into discourses that shape the worlds in which it is situated.
First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography.
In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields -poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and more- explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft.
A partir de la literatura de viajes (diarios, memorias y correspondencia), escrita por viajeros extranjeros que recorrieron Colombia entre 1819 y 1899, el libro aborda dos temas: la religion y la religiosidad profesadas, ambas, por los colombianos.
Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycanthrope as an emblem for society's fear of untamed wilderness.
This edited collection combines social science and humanities inquiries to examine the collective mentalities, identities, and national cultural models of people from different communities and nations.
A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed?
