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Die Uraufführung von John Osbornes Look Back in Anger (1956) ging als tiefgreifende Zäsur in die britische Theater- und Dramengeschichte ein. Der Autor greift diesen vermeintlich dichotomen Übergang……続きを見る

Mit diesem Buch wird erstmals die Rezeption der literarischen Wiener Moderne in Bulgarien dargestellt. Es werden bislang nicht aufgearbeitete Quellen erschlossen. Die Publikation beginnt mit der Bes……続きを見る

Der Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof in Berlin ist zwischen Hegels Tod und der Gegenwart allmählich zu einem Mausoleum deutscher Kulturgeschichte geworden. Er bezeugt steinern die Größe deutscher Litera……続きを見る

Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be cons……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage est une invitation à la rencontre entre la sociocritique et le tournant décolonial. Il examine dans quelle mesure leurs champs, leurs objets d’étude et leurs méthodes peuvent interagir o……続きを見る

The book is the first academic study of Henry Beissel’s bilingual poetic autobiography. The Canadian poet going back through memories to his childhood in Nazi Germany, wrote a long poem in English a……続きを見る

The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beacon of hope amidst dark tendencies that endanger the future. This books offers a……続きを見る

Das Nibelungenlied zählt zu den bekanntesten Texten des Mittelalters. Seine Bedeutung für die europäische Heldenepik spiegelt sich auch in den vielfältigen Adaptionen wider, die den Stoff bis heute ……続きを見る

This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual moth……続きを見る

In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined……続きを見る

A testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore’s exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today’s women how to best tap into their inner st……続きを見る

“Fascinating....Loaded with perceptive and provocative comments on Shakespeare’s plots, characters, and contemporary analogs.” ーJustice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court of the United States “Kenji ……続きを見る

“Not Just Jane restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and ……続きを見る

Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wr……続きを見る

A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index. 続きを見る

Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich’s writing, analysing the textual com……続きを見る

This pioneering study, described as ‘a model of feminist criticism’ (The Year’s Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challe……続きを見る

Women’s work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors……続きを見る

Issue d’un congrès de l’Institut des Amériques (IdA) organisé à Aix-Marseille Université sur le thème « Femmes dans les Amériques », la vingtaine d’études réunies dans cet ouvrage examine de quelle ……続きを見る

Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of wom……続きを見る

In Fair Copy Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States. In opposition to a traditional scholarly emphasis on ori……続きを見る

Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. Th……続きを見る

Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her “best story” to be A Mar……続きを見る

Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure o……続きを見る

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social c……続きを見る

From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical ph……続きを見る

For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who fo……続きを見る

Ashlee McDonald is a poet and storyteller whose work explores the whispers of the soul and intense feelings of the human heart. Born and raised in Rozelle, Sydney, she draws inspiration from everyda……続きを見る

A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" ( Slate) Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection,……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage collectif, original et novateur, étudie la place du comique, de l'humour et de l'ironie dans l'oeuvre autobiographique, romanesque, théâtrale et journalistique de George Sand (1804-1876)……続きを見る