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The Poetics of Space, Movement and Character in Frank Wedekind’s Theater
Av Jennifer Ham, Horst Daemmrich
Inbunden, 2012
851 kr
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Frequenting circuses in Paris and Berlin, Frank Wedekind, best known for Spring Awakening and the Lulu plays, learned that trapeze artists and tightrope walkers rely on different artificial reference points in space, in order to maintain their balance and orient themselves and to create their own …
Folklore in British Literature
Naming and Narrating in Women’s Fiction, 1750-1880
Inbunden, 2006
1117 kr
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Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women’s writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because supernatural …
Island Motif in the Fiction of L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists
Inbunden, 2003
700 kr
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Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye and Julia Kristeva, this book closely examines fourteen novels by eight twentieth-century authors, emphasizing works by L. M. Montgomery, Margaret …
Images and Imagery
Frames, Borders, Limits – Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
913 kr
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Images and Imagery: Frames, Borders, Limits – Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by scholars from around the world exploring the complex interactions between literary texts and visual images (in the form of paintings, photographs, and films). Giving coherence to these …
Fanny Lewald
Between Rebellion and Renunciation
Av Margaret E. Ward, Horst Daemmrich
Inbunden, 2006
1117 kr
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Fanny Lewald: Between Rebellion and Renunciation provides the first comprehensive account in English of the life and work of Fanny Lewald (1811-1889), tracing the way she positioned herself – sometimes precariously – between rebellion and renunciation. All genres are considered: novels and stories, …
History and Utopian Disillusion
The Dialectical Politics in the Novels of John Dos Passos
Av Jun Young Lee, Horst Daemmrich
Inbunden, 2008
878 kr
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Canonical but controversial works of radical modernism, John Dos Passos’ novels continue to intrigue readers and challenge literary critics with their unique styles and provocative messages. This book offers an insightful and refreshing perspective on his fictional world, exploring the historical …
Beauty and the Abject
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
846 kr
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This collection of eighteen essays explores the meanings and depictions of beauty and the abject in art (from Renaissance portraiture to the canvasses of Salvador Dali); photography and the representation of the body; film (from the horror genre and gay/lesbian sexuality to socio-political …
Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault
Inbunden, 2008
1463 kr
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Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is the first full-length study of Foucault and the Foucaultians not to look at them from a quasi-hagiographical perspective. The Lawrentian point of view employed here to deal with Foucault and his oeuvre is utterly unique, imaginative, and efficacious in …
Motifs and Characters in the «Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy» and in the «Laud Troy Book»
Av Walter Wilflingseder, Horst Daemmrich
Inbunden, 2007
897 kr
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Both the alliterative Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy (c. 1400) and the Laud Troy Book (c. 1400), a metrical romance, deal with the lives and feats of chivalric heroes and place special emphasis on the psychological effects of love. This book is a study of the motifs in John Clerk’s and …
Archeologies of Invective
Inbunden, 2007
1181 kr
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Focusing on specimens of discourse where criticism assumes a flagrantly bucolic persona, Archeologies of Invective investigates hitherto little acknowledged contexts of irony, aggressivity, and vilification. After considering briefly Lucilius and Horace, the author evaluates such diverse figures as …
Recognition: The Poetics of Narrative
Interdisciplinary Studies on Anagnorisis
Av Philip Kennedy, Marilyn Lawrence
Häftad, 2008
792 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis («recognition»), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from …
Antigone’s Daughters
Gender, Family, and Expression in the Modern Novel
Inbunden, 2008
918 kr
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Antigone’s Daughters presents various readings of the classical myth of Antigone as interpreted through modern feminist and psychoanalytic literary theories. Topics such as femininity, education, and establishing selfhood amidst the restrictions of the patriarchal society presented by Sophocles …
After Romanticism
Inbunden, 2008
936 kr
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After Romanticism explores the ground common to European romanticism and American modernism, a space of translation and echoing where gulfs of ironic difference open between islands of topographic similarity, where literary history is subject to fictive renegotiation. Robert Eisenhauer situates …
Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l’œil
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Leslie Boldt, Corrado Federici m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1060 kr
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The essays in Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l’œil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives investigate the subject of deception and falsehood from various perspectives. Classical, modernist and postmodern texts and art forms, both visual and performative, are examined in frames of reference that range from …
Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
Inbunden, 2010
1032 kr
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This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works by William Wordsworth, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Charlotte Brontë. These sanctuaries of light, natural beauty, …
Rewriting Texts Remaking Images
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Leslie Boldt, Corrado Federici m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1377 kr
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The twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. The process involves the rereading, …
Youth at War
Feldpost "Letters of a German Boy to His Parents, 1943-1945"
Av Ruth Cape
Inbunden, 2010
1248 kr
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Youth at War: Feldpost Letters of a German Boy to His Parents, 1943-1945 is a bilingual (German and English), annotated edition of a large collection of Feldpost letters and postcards written by a German boy between September 1943 and February 1945. Born in 1927, Gerhard G. was one of Germany’s …
Domestic Biographies
Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home
Inbunden, 2011
1000 kr
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Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the authors’ private lives, …
Beautiful Sanctuaries in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature
Av Hugo Walter
Inbunden, 2011
1117 kr
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This book is a collection of wonderful and thoughtful essays that explore the theme of beautiful sanctuaries in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature. The book focuses especially on selected works by Percy Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Henrik Ibsen, and James Hilton. These …
Africana Women Writers
Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing
Inbunden, 2013
1040 kr
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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers – emanating from Cameroon (Nicole …
Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke
Inbunden, 2011
1853 kr
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the most famous European poet of the twentieth century, exemplifies how the «crisis of language» inherent in literary Modernism also constitutes a crisis of religious discourse. In Rilke’s poetry and prose, language replaces God as the focal point of human …
Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun
Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the 19th Century through the Great War
Inbunden, 2012
1052 kr
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Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to death and burial, including …
Body Language
Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann
Inbunden, 2011
978 kr
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Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann addresses the centrality of sensual perception to the constitution of subjectivity and the resulting relationship between subjectivity and language in the work of Johann Georg Hamann. In positing the body as the entity …
French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period
Av A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1093 kr
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This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution’s impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly – but by no means exclusively – on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the Revolution was interpreted and …
Weimar and Work
Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left
Av Martin Kley
Inbunden, 2013
1074 kr
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Weimar and Work: Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left analyzes writing about work that was published in communist and anarchist newspapers during the Weimar Republic. By discussing texts that have been almost completely neglected, this book’s approach departs from existing …
Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and aesthetically interesting houses in twentieth century European literature. It focuses especially on important works by Thomas Mann, Evelyn Waugh, …
Scheherazade’s Daughters
The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change
Inbunden, 2012
1139 kr
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Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade’s Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality …
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Inbunden, 2012
1052 kr
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The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in …
Silence and the Silenced
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Leslie Boldt, Corrado Federici m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1225 kr
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Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the various ways in which the theme of silence is developed in literary narratives as well as in such visual media as photography, film, painting, and …
Moral World of «Billy Budd»
Inbunden, 2013
1290 kr
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The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the difficulty of making decisions in the …
