El nuevo libro de Jairo Osorio recoge, en su mayoría, una selección de apostillas publicadas en prensa escrita, entre los años mil novecientos noventa y nueve y dos mil diez.
"Armado de la teoría literaria queer, formalista y poscolonial, Juan Pablo Rivera escudriña la obra narrativa de cinco autores puertorriqueños contemporáneos.
Literatur, nicht nur die klassische, sondern sehr augenscheinlich auch die der Gegenwart, zeichnet ein buntes Bild von Geschlecht, das mit den herkömmlichen, patriarchalisch geprägten ,Lektürebrillen' nicht richtig erfasst werden kann.
English language education that wants to be relevant for today's learners in a media-influenced social environment needs to include series and serials.
Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932).
In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world.
“Dew on the Grass”: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic dimensions of Anton Chekhov’s prose and drama.
Manon (1804) Der Instinct (1804) Meister Dietrich (1809) Magister Rößlein (1810) Haushahn und Paradiesvogel (1813) Der Todesengel (1814)Vergib uns unsere Schuld (1814) Der schwarze See (1815) Das Gastmahl (1815) Das Schwert und die Schlangen (1816) Das Bild der Mutter (1817) Die Schatzgräber (1819) Die weiße Rose (1820) Aus Herr Balthasars Leben (1821/23)
Vision subjetiva sobre Medellin, en cinco capitulos: La ciudad como objeto (en sentido filosofico); la ciudad ideal (imaginaria); la ciudad atolondrada (aproximacion critica); la ciudad secreta y la ciudad real, .
In den Lektüren Barbara Vinkens wird Literaturwissenschaft zu einer ebenso existenziellen wie verheißungsvollen Praxis: zu einer prekären Hingabe an Texte und Artefakte im Zeichen der Verbindung, vor allem aber der Differenz zwischen den Geschlechtern, Sprachen und Kulturen.
Pour la première fois en Belgique, un auteur investit le milieu de la critique gastronomique et lève un coin du voile sur cette profession aujourd’hui en voie de disparition, désormais remplacée par les influenceurs de tout poil et les émissions de télé-réalité.
This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the specifically Russian poetic paradigm, i.
Fruto de la investigación de un grupo de veinte profesores de nueve países europeos que estudian la formación de diferentes miradas hacia la literatura escrita en español en diferentes épocas.
Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period.
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers.
Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion.
Literatur, nicht nur die klassische, sondern sehr augenscheinlich auch die der Gegenwart, zeichnet ein buntes Bild von Geschlecht, das mit den herkömmlichen, patriarchalisch geprägten ,Lektürebrillen' nicht richtig erfasst werden kann.
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeare's plays and poems.
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects―pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils―tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here ascultural texts.
A wide-ranging study of empire, religious prophecy, and nationalism in literature, Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940 provides the first examination of Russia’s self-identification with Rome during a period that encompassed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the rise of the Soviet state.
Prior to becoming Crown Prince of Japan in 1989, following the death of his grandfather Emperor Showa, Prince Naruhito studied at Merton College, Oxford, from June 1983 to October 1985.
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies "e;cultural engagements"e; that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by tradition, and the immediate digital, unreal future.
This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.
This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork – the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair – in Victorian Britain.
Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world's most beloved writers.
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books - also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors - are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910.
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.
