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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching
Prints, Process, Prose
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching reassesses Edmond and Jules de Goncourts' work as both authors and etchers, arguing that their firsthand experience with printmaking fundamentally shaped their prose. Known as novelists, diarists, art historians, and collectors, the Goncourt …
Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel
A Study of Novels by Johnson, Frisch, Wolf, Becker, and Grass
Inbunden, 1999
3287 kr
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Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel, a study of novels by Uwe Johnson, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, Jurek Becker, and Günter Grass, investigates the fictions and fantasies invented by five narrators, examining the purpose which the fictions serve within each text and the means by which …
Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
Walking by Night
Inbunden, 2011
3390 kr
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Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. Although existing studies of this climate have been …
Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the 'Commedia' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it. Dante's masterplot is the teleological trajectory by which the poet subordinates the …
Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age
A Measure for Measure
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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This book presents the first sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean and related ideas of moderation in the literature and thought of early modern Spain (1500-1700). It explores the Golden-Age understanding of Aristotle's doctrine as a prolegomenon to literary study, and …
Mann's Magic Mountain
World Literature and Closer Reading
Inbunden, 2022
1851 kr
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This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the interrelated fields of …
Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal
From Paper to Gold
Av Simon Park
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy, poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons. This did not prevent them, however, …
Ecstasy in Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915)
Av Clemente
Inbunden, 2026
1755 kr
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The book investigates the notion of ecstasy in Italian culture and literature from the country's unification in 1861 to its entry into World War I in 1915. Combining historical and cultural investigation with literary analysis, it traces the circulation and spreading of ecstatic phenomena in a …
The Anxious Body of Modernism
Hamsun, Kafka, and Woolf
Inbunden, 2027
1336 kr
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European modernist studies currently face a double pressure. On one side, the global turn has reframed European literature as one regional tradition among many, shrinking its perceived cultural significance. On the other, broader developments in literary studies have fragmented the study of …
The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish
Inbunden, 1999
2083 kr
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This is the first systematic attempt to trace the beginnings of modern literary Yiddish, an issue of great significance in the linguistic, literary, and social history of the Yiddish language. The eighteenth century marked the turning point in the history of literary Yiddish, a period of rapid …
The Thought and Art of Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
Inbunden, 1992
1387 kr
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This book rescues Joubert from the ranks of minor French moralistes, and, by tracing the development of his thought from his time as secretary to Diderot through to the period of his association with Chateaubriand, demonstrates that he was a writer on aesthetics of considerable …
Word as Action
Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language
Inbunden, 1992
4391 kr
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France's greatest tragedian, Jean Racine, is often admired for his poetic and tragic qualities. This book, on the other hand, explores the theatrical qualities of Racine's language and takes as its analytical tool two neglected parts of rhetoric, inventio and dispositio. How does Racine write …
Beauty and Truth
A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics
Inbunden, 1984
724 kr
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The first book in English to attempt a full theoretical analysis of Hegel's philosophy of art, Beauty and Truth examines Hegel's central thesis: that both beauty and truth can be understood in terms of systematic coherence, and that art, as a purveyor of truth, embodies and reflects the beliefs of …
Playing with Truth
Language and the Human Condition in Pascal's Pensées
Inbunden, 1994
558 kr
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Pascal's Pensées is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century France, an unfinished work which has both inspired and perplexed readers in succeeding centuries.Playing with Truth is the first comprehensive book on Pascal to be devoted to his use of key terms …
Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology
Man and Other Plants
Av Matthew Bell
Inbunden, 1994
3337 kr
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For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in …
Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance
The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo
Inbunden, 1996
4128 kr
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The concept of imitatio - the imitation of classical and vernacular texts - was the dominant critical and creative principle in Italian Renaissance literature. Linked to modern notions of intertextuality, imitation has been much discussed recently, but this is the first book to offer a …
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Influences and Analogues
Inbunden, 1996
923 kr
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One of the great innovators of medieval literature, Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetic voice is as distinctive and resonant as those of his more celebrated contemporaries Chaucer and Boccaccio. This book - the first major study of the largely submerged popular verse tradition of medieval Wales and its …
Winckelmann and the Notion of Aesthetic Education
Inbunden, 1996
805 kr
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This book examines the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann as an arbiter of classical taste. It identifies the key features of Winckelmann's treatment of classical beauty, particularly in his famous descriptions, and investigates his teaching of the appreciation of beauty. The work …
Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics
Inbunden, 1996
1838 kr
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Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragodie and Schiller's Asthetische Briefe are two texts which make a vital contribution to the history of aesthetic and cultural theory. This is the first work to make a comparative study of the texts, bringing a mutually illuminating perspective to bear on them.Dr …
Building the Text
Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
Inbunden, 1998
4602 kr
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Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical buildings was, however, more than a literary fashion: by deploying familiar metaphors of the building in new contexts, writers gained a powerful …
Reading Nathalie Sarraute
Dialogue and Distance
Inbunden, 1999
1282 kr
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Spanning seven decades, Nathalie Sarraute's literary career has established her as one of the most prominent and highly respected French writers of the twentieth century. From the outset she has sought, through consistent formal innovation, to develop a mode of literary expression adequate to an …
Technique and Technology
Script, Print, and Poetics in France 1470-1550
Inbunden, 2000
4087 kr
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Literary studies cannot neglect the study of books, the physical objects through which literary texts are transmitted. Book form is especially relevant to the literature of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which saw the crucial shift from manuscript to print in Western Europe. This …
Science and Structure in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Inbunden, 2000
4918 kr
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Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is a hybrid, a novel-essay, a capacious work of fiction containing a commonplace-book. It might, as Roland Barthes has suggested, be thought of as the product of profound and cherished indecision, Proust's indecision between two styles of writing, the …
The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism
Inbunden, 2000
4602 kr
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal became famous at the age of sixteen for poetry and lyrical drama of almost uncanny facility and beauty. Yet he ceased to write lyric poetry almost completely in the early 1900s and his fictional farewell to poetry, the so-called 'Chandos Letter', is a paradigm for the …
Proust's Gods
Christian and Mythological Figures of Speech in the Works of Marcel Proust
Inbunden, 2000
4286 kr
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Proust's Gods explores two interweaving networks of imagery which are vital to key thematic areas of Proust's fictional construct. These are Christian and biblical, and classical and mythological figures of speech. Proust's metaphorical vision plucks legends and figures drawn from these sources out …
Literary and Linguistic Theories in Eighteenth-Century France
From Nuances to Impertinence
Av Edward Nye
Inbunden, 2000
4454 kr
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Linguistic' theories in the eighteenth-century are also theories of literature and art, and it is probably better, therefore, to think of them as 'aesthetic' theories. As such, they are answers to the age-old question 'what is beauty?', but formulated, also, to respond to contemporary concerns. …
Duras, Writing, and the Ethical
Making the Broken Whole
Inbunden, 2000
5340 kr
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This book offers a study of the whole of Duras's written oeuvre, covering journalism and lesser-known works as well as more famous texts. It brings out the constant presence of ethical questions in and around the experiences of passion and excess with which her work is always concerned, and …
The Presentation of Authorship in Medieval German Literature 1220-1290
Av Sebastian Coxon, Sebastian Coxon
Inbunden, 2001
3443 kr
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This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c. 1220-1290) by analysing the attitudes of narrative poets towards the issue of authorship. It describes the various ways in which vernacular writers could address the …
Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing
Césaire, Glissant, Condé
Av Jeannie Suk, Aime Cesaire m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
4128 kr
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This book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of …
Soviet Yiddish
Language-Planning and Linguistic Development
Inbunden, 1999
2944 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union. A chronicle of orthographic and other reformsfrom the state of the language in pre-Revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980sis …
