著者:Geertjan de Vugt
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年06月07日
This book traces a genealogy of political dandyism in literature. Dandies abstain from worldly affairs, and politics in particular. As an enigmatic figure, or a being of great eccentricity, it was t……続きを見る
著者:Christopher Wixson
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年06月13日
This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the c……続きを見る
著者:Luca Cottini
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2018年06月15日
The Art of Objects is a cultural history of early Italian industrialism, set against the political, social, and intellectual background of post-unification Italy, and a cutting-edge investigation of……続きを見る
O serie de eseuri despre cărțile contemporane și nu numai. Printre titluri se numără:
De trei ori Gabriel García Márquez
Cum ne trage pe sfoară KGB-istul Putin
Ce făcea alesul poporului, Petru Groz……続きを見る
著者:Fredric Jameson
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2016年11月22日
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form prov……続きを見る
While most scholars who study children's books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored construction of adu……続きを見る
From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, this book examines representations of interpersonal reconciliation in works of literature, focusing on how these representations draw on the language ……続きを見る
著者:Michelle Chiang
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月16日
Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuiti……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月04日
This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and rec……続きを見る
著者:Hilary Clark
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2018年07月19日
First published in 1990, this work offers an analysis of the phenomenon of encyclopaedism in literature. Hilary Clark develops the theory of an encyclopaedic form in the interests of making clear di……続きを見る
著者:Heather Ingman
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月18日
Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest w……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月20日
This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of t……続きを見る
著者:Nicola Thomas
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月13日
Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Derek Mahon, Sarah Kirsch, Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl, bringing together postwar English- an……続きを見る
First published in 1901. According to Wikipedia: "Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850–1928) was an independent scholar and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts. Her best-known work is Fro……続きを見る
著者:Arun Sood
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月23日
This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his wo……続きを見る
This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to rea……続きを見る
Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys explores the postcolonial significance of Rhys’s modernist period work, which depicts an urban scene more varied than that found……続きを見る
著者:Diana Q. Palardy
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月27日
This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged l……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月27日
This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays disc……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月30日
This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing. It focuses on how literature is ideally suited to expressions and understanding ……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月31日
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing ……続きを見る
Diese Einführung in die Grundprinzipien des gesprochenen Portugiesisch richtet sich an Dozenten, die im Bereich der kontrastiven Sprachforschung und Didaktik des Portugiesischen als Fremdsprache for……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Gould
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月12日
This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and t……続きを見る
著者:Geoffrey W. Gust
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年07月12日
Chaucerotics examines the erotic language in Chaucerian literature through a unique lens, utilizing the tools of “pornographic literary theory” to open up Chaucer’s ribald poetry to fresh modes of a……続きを見る
This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure. More precisely, the book c……続きを見る
The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the Ger……続きを見る
著者:Elisabeth Krimmer
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2018年08月31日
This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical a……続きを見る
Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great ……続きを見る
著者:Bettina Jansen
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年08月16日
Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particul……続きを見る
著者:Giles Whiteley
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年08月18日
This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers during the nineteenth century. Challenging the idea t……続きを見る