This book delves into Benjamin Franklin's English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English.
This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author's film, television, short fiction and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, der weltberühmte Autor des Klassikers Der kleine Prinz, war nicht nur ein begnadeter Schriftsteller, sondern auch ein leidenschaftlicher Pilot.
This collection showcases the speculative writing of Scottish-born and California-based writer Robert Duncan Milne (1844-99) whose works mark him as one of the forgotten pioneers of early science fiction.
Arguing that the 19th century concept of living form (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.
Perché sei una ragazza meravigliosa: racconti elettrizzanti, stimolanti e incoraggianti per ragazze forti e sicure di séHai una figlia meravigliosa a cui vuoi trasmettere fin da subito il messaggio che è unica?
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers.
Die antike Welt birgt unzählige Schätze, die im Laufe der Zeit verloren gingen – zerstört durch Kriege, Naturkatastrophen oder den Lauf der Geschichte.
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties.
This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative.
Originally published in 1929, The Process of Literature is a study of the art of letters considered from a new point of view, as a process of human activity rather than as a series of objects produced by that activity.
Addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson's early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies.
Most of the articles in this volume belong to what can be described as the preparatory work which is prerequisite to the study of pre- and early Islamic history.
