Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial for the first time are frequently perplexed by ……続きを見る
著者:Rebecca Walkowitz
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2015年08月04日
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written i……続きを見る
This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in……続きを見る
著者:Nikos Stabakis
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2010年01月01日
In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical heritage and also as a ……続きを見る
New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are of……続きを見る
著者:Patrick O'Neill
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake has repeatedly been declared to be entirely untranslatable. Nonetheless, it has been translated, transposed, or transcreated into a surprising variety of languages – inc……続きを見る
Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also ha……続きを見る
I. Les Missions du prince Gortchakof et les débuts de M. de Bismarck juin 1875 II. Un ministre national et un diplomate frondeur à Saint-Pétersbourg. &nb……続きを見る
This study argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to many of his more famous Romantic contemporaries. Hogg creates a unique literary style which, the a……続きを見る
著者:B. Korte, G. Zipp
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年03月05日
Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to po……続きを見る
著者:Koichi Hagimoto
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月24日
In 1898, both Cuba and the Philippines achieved their independence from Spain and then immediately became targets of US expansionism. This book presents a comparative analysis of late-nineteenth-cen……続きを見る
著者:E. König
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年05月24日
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this o……続きを見る
著者:M. Koehler
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月31日
By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of reade……続きを見る
Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering. Abigail L. Palko argue……続きを見る
With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Ex……続きを見る
The Man Booker International–winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania’s most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literatu……続きを見る
British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Koczy
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年10月02日
This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring ……続きを見る
This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions b……続きを見る
This important and timely new book assesses modern representations of Eastern Europeans in contemporary literature and culture. With emphasis on the idea of a 'new Europe', Vedrana Velickovic articu……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
While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka’s Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity t……続きを見る
The 1990s violence in the Former Yugoslavia, the worst in Europe since World War II, triggered the conversion of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan areas of idiosyncratic and independen……続きを見る
著者:Andrea Köhler
出版社: Libros del Asteroide
発売日: 2017年10月27日
La vida está tejida por un hilo continuo de acontecimientos y esperas. «Esperar es una lata» –reza la primera frase del libro–, pero esperar es inevitable; es algo que hacemos constantemente: espera……続きを見る
著者:Rebecca Walkowitz
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2006年04月25日
In this broad-ranging and ambitious intervention in the debates over the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of cosmopolitanism, Rebecca L. Walkowitz argues that modernist literary style has been cruci……続きを見る
First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and s……続きを見る
Fêtes et spectacles du vieux Paris, écrit par Edmond Neukomm, offre une exploration approfondie des divertissements et des célébrations qui animaient la vie sociale du Paris du passé. Neukomm présen……続きを見る
著者:Branko Vraneš
出版社: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
発売日: 2021年06月08日
According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Fai……続きを見る
"Die Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur" präsentiert eine außergewöhnliche Sammlung literarischer Meisterwerke, die sich durch eine beeindruckende Vielfalt in Stil und Thematik auszeichnet. Von Shakespe……続きを見る