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Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Häftad, 1989
377 kr
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Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it …
Idylls & Realities
Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Av J. P. Stern
Inbunden, 2020
2096 kr
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Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry …
Idylls & Realities
Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Av J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2021
626 kr
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Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry …
On Realism
Av J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2023
577 kr
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First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction to the complex problem of literary realism. Written from both a critical and philosophical perspective, the book brings together the concrete study of literary cases and the conceptual analysis of the terms used in describing them. …
On Realism
Av J. P. Stern
Inbunden, 2021
2100 kr
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First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction to the complex problem of literary realism. Written from both a critical and philosophical perspective, the book brings together the concrete study of literary cases and the conceptual analysis of the terms used in describing them. …
Hitler
Av J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1975
557 kr
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Professor Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He performs thoroughly and brilliantly the examination that Kenneth Burke saw as a crying need on the brink of World War II. The questions Professor Stern asks are fundamental and still of the first importance in our own society. How …
The Dear Purchase
A Theme in German Modernism
Av J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2006
860 kr
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This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of …
Re-Interpretations
Seven Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Av J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1981
767 kr
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This is a reissue of Professor Stern's distinguished study of German prose from the death of Goethe to the heyday of the Wilhelminian Empire. Professor Stern argues that nineteenth-century German prose is characterized by a particular combination of the prophetic and the archaic, of the existential …
Conrad: Nostromo
Av Ian Watt, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1988
407 kr
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Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. Ian Watt addresses Conrad's concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of …
Constant: Adolphe
Häftad, 1987
486 kr
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Dr Wood traces in detail the frequently paradoxical development of themes and situations introduced in the opening chapters and lays stress on the novel's intricate writing. He places the book in its historical, intellectual and biographical context and examines its reception by writers as various …
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Häftad, 1990
542 kr
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In …
Mann: Buddenbrooks
Häftad, 1987
523 kr
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This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks …
Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Häftad, 1987
654 kr
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The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for spirited advocates; but, despite all …
Byron: Don Juan
Häftad, 2008
523 kr
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In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literary landmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading, and offers an interpretation of the poem which demonstrates its underlying coherence and artistic integrity, despite Byron's mischievous protestations …
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1993
392 kr
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This critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It characterises the significant historical and literary background to the work, and explores the text itself in the reading order intended by Swift. It gives proper attention …
Eliot: Middlemarch
Häftad, 1991
486 kr
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A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and …
The Bible
Av Stephen Prickett, Robert Barnes m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
504 kr
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This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been influenced by contemporary literature. It describes what is known about the historical context of the documents, the changes of interpretation they …
Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Av Michael Black, Michael Black m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
361 kr
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This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the substantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book - the writing …
Mann: Doctor Faustus
Av Michael Beddow, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1994
392 kr
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In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkühn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores …
Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta
Av Harriet S. Turner, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s. In this new critical introduction …
Scott: Waverley
Av Richard Humphrey, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1993
504 kr
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Scott's Waverley (1814), set in and around the Jacobite Rising in the Scotland of 1745-6, was the first historical novel in world literature. Innovative and humane in its plot, rich in social detail, and truly international in popularity, it not only launched a genre, but also became a landmark in …
James Boswell: The Life of Johnson
Häftad, 2008
504 kr
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This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and …
Emile Zola: L'Assommoir
Häftad, 2007
486 kr
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This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola's masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876-7. L'Assommoir (the tale of a Parisian washerwoman who after a hard life turns to drink and dies in abject poverty) is analysed as a social and political novel, as a representative work …
Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin
Av A. D. P. Briggs, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2008
538 kr
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This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of all Russian poetry. Professor Briggs addresses the question of how such remarkable poetry can have been composed about a rather banal plot, and …
Boccaccio: Decameron
Av David J. Wallace, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1991
373 kr
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In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new …
Racine: Phèdre
Av Edward D. James, Gillian Jondorf m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
486 kr
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This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and theatrical context, shows its thematic relationship with other tragedies of Racine, and sketches its influence on later writers in a variety of …
Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan
Häftad, 1997
467 kr
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This book offers a concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan. The work is approached both through its context and through a close reading of key passages of the text. The contextual reading compares Gottfried with his predecessors Beroul, Eilhart and Thomas in order to reveal his …
The Dear Purchase
A Theme in German Modernism
Av J. P. Stern
Inbunden, 1995
1704 kr
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This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of …
Delusions, Confusions, and the Poggenpuhl Family: Theodor Fontane
Av Theodor Fontane, J. P. Stern m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
642 kr
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On Realism
Av J. P. Stern
E-bok, 2021
677 kr
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First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction to the complex problem of literary realism. Written from both a critical and philosophical perspective, the book brings together the concrete study of literary cases and the conceptual analysis of the terms used in describing them. …
