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This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and……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 book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism app……続きを見る

Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejectio……続きを見る

"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mul……続きを見る

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with……続きを見る

This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank M……続きを見る

Dieser Band zur französischen Sprachgeschichte vereint die verschiedensten Schwerpunkte zu diesem Thema und liefert neben einigen grundlegenden und gängigen Aspekten vor allem spezifische und ungewö……続きを見る

Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from 1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era. The book begins with the ……続きを見る

With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth ce……続きを見る

This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the outbreak ……続きを見る

Extrait : C’était vers la fin du mois d’août, par une belle matinée claire et chaude. La réunion de la famille Karamazov chez le starets Zossima devait avoir lieu à onze heures et demie. On avait eu……続きを見る

Extrait : À M. César Daly Pendant que vous voyagez, mon cher Daly, et que le souvenir de vos amis ne sait où vous prendre, voici quelque chose (je n’ose pas dire un livre) qui vous attendra à votre ……続きを見る

Extrait : Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes quest……続きを見る

Extrait : Louroux, mardi 3 septembre 1822[1]. ー Je mets à exécution le projet formé tant de fois d’écrire un journal. Ce que je désire le plus vivement, c’est de ne pas perdre de vue que je l’écris……続きを見る

Extrait : Paris, le 10 mai 1759. Nous partîmes hier à huit heures pour Marly ; nous y arrivâmes à dix heures et demie ; nous ordonnâmes un grand dîner, et nous nous répandîmes dans les jardins, où l……続きを見る

Extrait : Dans la première de ses lettres sur la crise de l’esprit, Paul Valéry constate : « L’espoir n’est que la méfiance de l’être à l’égard des prévisions de son esprit. » Or cette méfiance n’es……続きを見る

The plague first arrived in the English port of Weymouth in the summer of 1348. Two years later, half of Britain was dead, but the Black Death was just beginning. In the decades to come, England wou……続きを見る

This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, th……続きを見る

Kohlhaas é um comerciante de cavalos que vive na Alemanha, no século XVI. Sua vida é pacata e próspera, até que lhe acontece uma grande desgraça: um homem poderoso, o barão Wenzel von Tronka, se apo……続きを見る

This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought a……続きを見る

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on “Global Romanticism”, it develops a recip……続きを見る

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the firs……続きを見る

Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contempor……続きを見る

In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War. The European Society of Culture was composed of many of Wester……続きを見る

Odyssee von Homer – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser.de! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Homers Odyssee aus dem 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. hilft Dir dabei, den Klassik……続きを見る

This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth ……続きを見る

This new study explores how evangelicalism played a vital role in the development of the Victorian novel. In contrast to those who see the evangelical movement as trivial to our histories of the nov……続きを見る

For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) and an object that is able to transform meaning and……続きを見る

Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a……続きを見る