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Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry offers a new theoretical approach and historical perspective on the remarkable upsurge in creative poetic practices in France that have ch……続きを見る

This book views late Victorian femininity, the New Woman, and gender through literary representations of the figure of the monster, an appendage to the New Woman. The monster, an aberrant occurrence……続きを見る

¿Es la formación una deuda que todo humano ha de saldar por el hecho de ser humano? ¿ Quién es el recaudador de la deuda? ¿ La propia esencia del hombre, Dios, la cultura o alguna de sus manifestaci……続きを見る

Axel's Castle: A Landmark Exploration of the French Symbolist Movement and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Literature Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary c……続きを見る

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion,……続きを見る

Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkopho……続きを見る

This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is……続きを見る

Originally published in 1977. This book contains four essays by Professor Charles Singleton: "Allegory," "Symbolism," "The Pattern at the Center," and "The Substance of Things Seen." These four essa……続きを見る

This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical an……続きを見る

This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller’s 1801 romantic tragedy, Die Jungf……続きを見る

This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pi……続きを見る

Seit Frank Witzel 2015 den Deutschen Buchpreis für sein bisheriges opus magnum Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969 erhielt, rückt der 1955 ……続きを見る

This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath……続きを見る

This book is a valuable theoretical and critical contribution to the study of realism inworld literature. Proceeding from the mimetic theories of the era of antiquity, and proceeding to explore form……続きを見る

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living i……続きを見る

Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poetare arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before h……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Plague with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Plague by Albert Camus, an existentialist ……続きを見る

Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insist……続きを見る

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La insoportable levedad del ser de Milan Kundera. Al leer esta novela el lector se verá inmerso en un mundo que mezcla con elegancia la ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Dans un grand siècle, tout est grand. Lorsque, par le concours de causes différentes, un siècle est une fois monté au ton de la grandeur, l'esprit dominant pénètre partout : des hommes pe……続きを見る

Si des éléments comme la race, le peuple, le climat ou le décor de la vie ont leur importance dans la formation de l'esprit des écrivains et, par là, dans l'aspect de leurs produits, il n'en reste p……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il est des jours où l'on se pend à Londres, dit-on, sans savoir pourquoi. Ce soir-là, j'étais rentré terriblement agacé, les nerfs tendus comme les cordes d'un violon, la mine morose, l'a……続きを見る

An award-winning biography of one of the greats. Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australi……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Lord of the Flies with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, w……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il est, parmi les gens de lettres, une caste d'individus qui, tout en ayant de nombreux rapports avec eux, ne vivent pas moins à part, ont des mœurs différentes, une religion particulière……続きを見る

This book interprets the ideas, thoughts and concepts that characterize the writings and philosophy of Albert Camus for our contemporary times. It investigates Camus’ "revolted compassion" as an out……続きを見る

A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ‘culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambi……続きを見る

A spirited defence of Tolkien’s mythological creation and its increasing relevance for the real world. Acclaimed by the largest readers’ survey ever conducted as ‘the greatest book of the century’, ……続きを見る

This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction a……続きを見る