The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form.
Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "e;comic"e; and "e;tragic"e; is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization.
Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "e;Civil Disobedience,"e; a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail.
En El método Pianetti, Amílcar Ladislao Pianetti comparte una historia real de superación que comienza en uno de los puntos más difíciles de su vida y se transforma en un camino de crecimiento personal y profesional a través de las ventas.
One of the few theological formulas of medieval times to survive the scrutiny of the Reformation was that of the infernal triad of the sins of the Flesh, the World, and the Devil.
Considered an exemplar of "e;Art-for-Art's Sake"e; in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of aestheticism has since been used to attack deconstruction.
The rich and fascinating life of Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) has been reconstructed by Professor Binion on a vast documentary basis, and his findings contradict all earlier versions of her life.
Ob ein Essen bei einem Bekannten, eine Zugfahrt durch den Schwarzwald oder ein Besuch beim Bäcker, ob Tod und Krankheit, Liebe und Sehnsucht, eine Flasche Bier oder eine russisch-westfälische Tunke, für den scharfsinnigen Denker und Aphoristiker Otto Jägersberg ist alles Anlass zur Äußerung, zur literarischen Positionierung oder zum hellsichtigen Philosophieren.
El padre Fernando Montes SJ ha tenido una vida prolifica desde su sacerdocio, influyendo de manera importante en la sociedad civil, especialmente desde la educacion a la que ha dedicado gran parte de su energia y vocacion.
Basing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women's journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint.
Integrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896-1982), this book situates Italy's premier poet of the twentieth century within the Modernist movement.
Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works.
Dass sich die Industrialisierung in den deutschen Ländern später vollzog als in Großbritannien oder Frankreich, ist in der Geschichtswissenschaft oft untersucht worden.
Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way.
Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence.
From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous academic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that strikingly contrasted with the repressive atmosphere of the periods before and after.
Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil.
En Arabia mía, Juliana Stephanie Lezcano despliega un relato íntimo y visceral sobre el amor, el deseo y la pérdida, donde cada emoción se vive al límite.
By analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition.
Este libro se presenta como un manual, como una herramienta metodológica, para acompañar el proceso de escritura de tu propia historia de vida autobiográfica.
Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses.
Las ocultaciones explora los rincones ocultos de la geografía personal de la autora, buscando desvelar los enigmas de la existencia con una lírica enérgica y profunda.
