Literature: history and criticism

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Kennzeichnend für den Postfranquismus war eine erinnerungskulturelle Paradoxie, die sich durch das politisch-institutionelle Verdrängen des für die Menschen Unvergesslichen auszeichnete.

The latest title in the much-loved Element Encyclopedia series, The Element Encyclopedia of Fairies explores the history, legends, and mythology of these little peoples.

Diversität ist der Schlüssel zu Lessings literarischem Werk – nicht Mitleid und Toleranz.

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Kennzeichnend für den Postfranquismus war eine erinnerungskulturelle Paradoxie, die sich durch das politisch-institutionelle Verdrängen des für die Menschen Unvergesslichen auszeichnete.

A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century.

Discover the Good Life as you learn from the wise voices of the past.

'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book.

Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form.

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"e;This book is a triumph!

From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades.

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between themand their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American historythe novelist and poet Herman Melville (18191891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (18951990).

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them.

How nineteenth-century "e;disciplines of attention"e; anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "e;spiritual but not religious"e;Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it-most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices.

GOTHIC & HORROR - Edgar Allan Poe Edition (Illustrated) gathers the tales and poems through which Poe helped define the modern literature of terror: haunted interiors, unstable narrators, premature burials, spectral women, and minds drawn toward obsession and ruin.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;An Open-Eyed Conspiracy (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Uno más de los legados del maestro Jaime Sabines es este puñado de poesías que, de entre toda su obra quiso, como agua del pensamiento, compartir con los enamorados y entusiastas de su oficio.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger series gathers the author's major scientific romances: The Lost World, The Poison Belt, The Land of Mist, The Disintegration Machine, and When the World Screamed.

Gottfried Benn hielt sie für die größte Lyrikerin, die Deutschland je hatte, Karl Kraus bekannte, für eines ihrer Gedichte den ganzen Heine herzugeben.

Dieses eBook: "Die Monikins" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

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.

Este ebook presenta "La divina Comedia", con un índice dinámico y detallado.

This comprehensive volume gathers Henry James's novels, tales, plays, essays, memoirs, and letters, offering an unparalleled view of one of modern fiction's decisive architects.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

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The minutes, hours, and days after President John F.

Dieses eBook: "Unterwegs und Daheim - Lustige Reiseerzählungen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktalePerhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie.

Finally, one of the most of the most beloved books every publishedexplained.

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W.

We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling.

"e;Why are you learning Zulu?

The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization.

An essential handbook for literary studiesThe Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.

A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "e;the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language.

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "e;early"e; and "e;late"e; workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact.

This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other.

In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present.

A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "e;Homelandic,"e; is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew.

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat.

Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistanceBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy.

How FBI surveillance influenced African American writingFew institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J.

A provocative look at how cowardice has been understood from ancient times to the presentCoward.

How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems?

Inside "e;Paradise Lost"e; opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse.

Compelling essays from one of today's most esteemed cultural criticsSpanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics.