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The Middle English Mystery Play
A Study in Dramatic Speech and Form
Av Hans-Jurgen Diller, Ulrich Broich
Häftad, 2005
748 kr
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The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of language in conventional …
Romantic Verse Narrative
The History of a Genre
Av Hermann Fischer, Ulrich Broich
Häftad, 2006
710 kr
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Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It brings together the longer epic verse tales of Scott, Byron and Southey and the more …
The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Derived from French models, the mock-heroic became something more than merely a parody of the serious epic: relieved of its gravity, it was nevertheless a legitimate and independent form …
The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature
A Study of Pre-Raphaelitism and Fin de Siècle
Häftad, 2011
767 kr
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This major and acclaimed study of the symbolist tradition in England focuses on the years 1850 to 1900 and discusses the poetry of such as William Morris, O'Shaughnessy, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Wilde and Yeats, paintings by Holman Hunt, Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones and others, and critical …
Parentage and Inheritance in the Novels of Charles Dickens
Av Anny Sadrin
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Dickens' plots have often been dismissed as conventional or cheaply sensational: Anny Sadrin argues that they should rather be seen as the embodiment of one of Dickens's central preoccupations: dramatised rituals of succession. Through readings of individual texts Professor Sadrin shows how the …
Oscar Wilde
The Works of a Conformist Rebel
Av Norbert Kohl
Häftad, 2011
804 kr
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Originally published in English in 1989, from a 1980 German edition, this book provides a comprehensive study of Oscar Wilde's work. It aims to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre by fully analysing each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking …
The Rise of the English Street Ballad 1550-1650
Häftad, 2011
804 kr
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Originally published in German in 1981, and first published in English as this Cambridge edition in 1990, Natascha Würzbach's study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected. Attention is focused on the social …
The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse
Av Gvtz Schmitz
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
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The image of the 'fallen woman' was a common one in Elizabethan literature. This 1990 study, translated from the original German by the author, deals with an unconventional aspect of the motif; the genre of 'complaint' in which writers enabled women to put their own case, bewailing their fate, …
Walter Pater
The Aesthetic Moment
Häftad, 2011
654 kr
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Wolfgang Iser's study of Walter Pater (1839-94) was first published in German in 1960. It places the English critic, essayist and novelist in a philosophical tradition whose major exponents were Hegel and Coleridge, at the same time showing how Pater differed crucially from these thinkers to become …
Romantic Verse Narrative
The History of a Genre
Inbunden, 1991
1489 kr
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Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It brings together the longer epic verse tales of Scott, Byron and Southey and the more …
The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem
Inbunden, 1990
1797 kr
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Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Derived from French models, the mock-heroic became something more than merely a parody of the serious epic: relieved of its gravity, it was nevertheless a legitimate and independent form …
The Middle English Mystery Play
A Study in Dramatic Speech and Form
Inbunden, 1992
2078 kr
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The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of language in conventional …
The Theory and Analysis of Drama
Häftad, 1991
725 kr
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Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The materical on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods of drama, from Greek tragedy and comedy to the contemporary …
Shakespeare's Festive World
Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage
Häftad, 1993
663 kr
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This book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare's relation to popular culture. Shakespeare's plays draw extensively on the events and traditions of Elizabethan festivals and holidays, mingling popular and aristocratic or royal forms of entertainment in ways that combine or clash to …
