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Durante varios decenios la crítica ha seguido el concepto restrictivo de ékphrasis entendida como descripción literaria de una obra de arte. Esto ha llevado a una confusión generalizada sobre la mag……続きを見る

Doce profesores con amplia experiencia educativa ofrecen este libro para ayudar al lector a interrelacionar conocimientos en los campos de Lengua, Cultura y Literatura. Se trata de un libro único en……続きを見る

Covering nine major works of Catalan writer Terenci Moix, Reflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity: Autobiography and Fiction in Terenci Moix’s Novels places Moix’s fictional prose……続きを見る

Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wro……続きを見る

Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. ……続きを見る

The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of th……続きを見る

This book explores the post-insular imprint in Puerto Rican letters through a sample of authors from the island and the diaspora. From a canonical figure like Alejandro Tapia to the post-Nuyorican p……続きを見る

The turn of the twentieth and twenty-first century brought about sweeping technological changes which impacted our way of functioning in society. One of those constitutes the transition from analog ……続きを見る

The aim of my work was to show the performative nature of the stage performances of the musical group Rammstein. Due to their amazing nature, the group's shows can be treated as artistic performance……続きを見る

First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on major contemporary critics, Dr. Burrows provides ……続きを見る

First published in 1988, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Century French writer, Simone de Beauvoir. Her novels are popular with both the s……続きを見る

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Entstehungsgeschichte und Funktion der Hamburger Zeitschrift in der Frühen Neuzeit. Anhand eines Close Reading-Verfahrens werden mehr als 30 zum Teil noch nie analy……続きを見る

Zentraler Gegenstand dieses Buchs ist die Figur des wandernden Juden Ahasver, die 1602 im Flugblatt der Kurzen Beschreibung eingeführt wurde, später zahlreiche literarische Werke inspiriert hat und ……続きを見る

In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday hu……続きを見る

Contradicting common perception of them as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet and reveals that the women in……続きを見る

Ubiquitous triple consciousness frameworks address the limitations of W.E.B Du Bois’ seminal double consciousness concept by emphasizing a third gendered lens, a definite consciousness that legitimi……続きを見る

As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisèle Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes dev……続きを見る

There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it was only in the twentieth century that formal and sustained criticism……続きを見る

Elizabeth Ham's 1845 novel, The Ford Family in Ireland, provides a snapshot, based on the personal experiences of the author, of a pivotal period in that country’s history. It examines the state of ……続きを見る

¿Cuáles son las imágenes, concepciones y metáforas de salud y enfermedad que aparecen en la literatura chilena entre 1860 y 1920? ¿Cómo se vinculan los discursos literarios con otros discursos socia……続きを見る

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A d……続きを見る

Das Buch untersucht E.T.A. Hoffmanns Roman Die Elixiere des Teufels. Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus eines Capuziners mit dreifacher Zielsetzung: Zum Ersten präzisiert es anhand einer ein……続きを見る

The Church of England was at the heart of Jane Austen's world of elegance and upheaval. Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen's England explores the church's role in her life and novels,……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs user……続きを見る

In Women’s Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire, the author examines how writers captured various experiences of living under imperialism in their fiction and nonfic……続きを見る

Zehs Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess bietet, über brandaktuelle Fragestellungen hinaus, eine Fülle von interdisziplinären Querverbindungen zur mittelalterlichen Inquisition, zum deutschen Strafprozessre……続きを見る

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. This philosophically complex novel examines the themes of the importance of women's education, economic equal……続きを見る

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women ……続きを見る

Leben und Werk der Drehbuchautorin Thea von Harbou stehen im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Studie, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf ihrem kulturpolitischen und ideologischen Wirken während des Dritten Reich……続きを見る

From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiet……続きを見る