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John Taylor's brilliant new book examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. Venturing far and wide from the France in which he h……続きを見る

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George E……続きを見る

The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French ……続きを見る

Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Werk 'Wilhelm Meister' präsentiert sich dem Leser als ein einzigartiges literarisches Erlebnis, das drei Bildungsromane in einem Band vereint. Die Geschichte folgt dem ju……続きを見る

Anatole Frances Werk "Nützliche und erbauliche Meinungen des Herrn Abbé Jérôme Coignard" ist eine faszinierende Mischung aus philosophischer Reflexion, historischer Fiktion und satirischem Humor. Da……続きを見る

In 'Gesammelte Erzählungen von Anatole France' präsentiert der Autor eine Sammlung seiner faszinierenden literarischen Werke, die sowohl eine tiefe philosophische Reflexion als auch eine subtile Iro……続きを見る

This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness whi……続きを見る

Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artisti……続きを見る

This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival. Its investigations are centered on four specific performance events: The First International Poetry Inca……続きを見る

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the pres……続きを見る

This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War. Drawing on over 200 novels and collections of short stories, the monograph explores the ways in w……続きを見る

This book focuses on W. B. Yeats’s critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his oc……続きを見る

Die wichtigsten Werke von Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Leben und die Gedanken des berühmten russischen Schriftstellers des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dieser B……続きを見る

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter’s overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthet……続きを見る

This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the ninete……続きを見る

This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This origina……続きを見る

This bookuses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, th……続きを見る

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Off……続きを見る

This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Em……続きを見る

This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who d……続きを見る

This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-wr……続きを見る

In 'SARRASINE' von Honore de Balzac taucht der Leser in die Welt der Pariser Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts ein, in der Liebe, Eifersucht und gesellschaftliche Konventionen eine zentrale Rolle sp……続きを見る

In 'Ein Held unserer Zeit', geschrieben von Michail Lermontow, entdecken Leser eine faszinierende Sammlung von Erzählungen, die sich auf die Psyche eines zynischen und egoistischen Helden konzentrie……続きを見る

Die 'Gesammelten Gedichte von Giosuè Carducci' bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Schaffen eines der bedeutendsten italienischen Dichter des 19. Jahrhunderts. Carducci, der als Begründer de……続きを見る

Honoré de Balzacs "Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen" ist ein meisterhaftes Werk der französischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch bietet eine detaillierte Darstellung des Pariser Gesellschaft……続きを見る

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the ran……続きを見る

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offer……続きを見る

This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques a……続きを見る

This book examines C. S. Lewis’s writings about animals, and the theological bases of his opposition to vivisection and other cruelties. It argues Genesis is central to many of these ethical musings……続きを見る

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth c……続きを見る