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Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé makes a critical contribution to the “resolute” p……続きを見る

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought……続きを見る

This is the first complete translation in English of Giambattista Marino’s Adone, a poem of 20 cantos written in Italian and first published in 1623 in Paris. Although Marino’s work has been charact……続きを見る

In Waldemar Bonsels' Buch 'Blut' taucht der Leser in eine düstere Welt ein, in der die menschlichen Abgründe präsent sind. Das Buch bietet einen introspektiven Blick auf die Psyche der Protagonisten……続きを見る

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the tw……続きを見る

Ganz oben in der Liste der Themen, die zur Allgemeinbildung zählen, steht die deutsche Literatur, die Literatur aus dem Land der Dichter und Denker. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen einen Überblick über die G……続きを見る

'Oscar Wilde: Complete Plays' contains: Lady Windermere’s Fan An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest A Woman of No Importance Salomé Duchess of Padua Vera, or The Nihilists A Flor……続きを見る

Dans son Suvre intitulée 'Littérature et Philosophie mêlées', Victor Hugo explore la relation entre la littérature et la philosophie, deux disciplines qui se complètent et s'enrichissent mutuellemen……続きを見る

Les "Voyages du capitaine Robert Lade en differentes parties de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amérique" de Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles est un récit captivant qui mêle fiction et réalité pour tr……続きを見る

No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started……続きを見る

The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer fa……続きを見る

Eseul lui Ion Vartic e construit deopotriva pe opera lui Cioran si pe scrisorile din tinerete ale acestuia descoperite după 1989 – mai ales 12 scrisori catre Bucur Tincu din 1930-1933 –, pe cartile ……続きを見る

An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol from scripture and tapestry to T-shirts and text messages, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiqu……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Unbearable Lightness of Being with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Unbearable Lightnes……続きを見る

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial in ……続きを見る

The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical foc……続きを見る

A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fictionーwith some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpiecesーCharles Dicke……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volum……続きを見る

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 is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical, Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological innovat……続きを見る

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our b……続きを見る

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

Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinar……続きを見る

Drawing from and reworking Gothic conventions, the New Woman version is marshaled during a tumultuous cultural moment of gender anxiety either to defend or revile the complex character. The controve……続きを見る

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in The Mosaic Constitution, arguing that Moses’s constitution of Israel, which cr……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Charlie and the Chocola……続きを見る

Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest in themselves, are……続きを見る

Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama,” but in fact the sub……続きを見る

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the tw……続きを見る

Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the for……続きを見る