European 67

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La insoportable levedad del ser de Milan Kundera. Al leer esta novela el lector se verá inmerso en un mundo que mezcla con elegancia la ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Dans un grand siècle, tout est grand. Lorsque, par le concours de causes différentes, un siècle est une fois monté au ton de la grandeur, l'esprit dominant pénètre partout : des hommes pe……続きを見る

Si des éléments comme la race, le peuple, le climat ou le décor de la vie ont leur importance dans la formation de l'esprit des écrivains et, par là, dans l'aspect de leurs produits, il n'en reste p……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il est des jours où l'on se pend à Londres, dit-on, sans savoir pourquoi. Ce soir-là, j'étais rentré terriblement agacé, les nerfs tendus comme les cordes d'un violon, la mine morose, l'a……続きを見る

An award-winning biography of one of the greats. Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australi……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Lord of the Flies with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, w……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il est, parmi les gens de lettres, une caste d'individus qui, tout en ayant de nombreux rapports avec eux, ne vivent pas moins à part, ont des mœurs différentes, une religion particulière……続きを見る

This book interprets the ideas, thoughts and concepts that characterize the writings and philosophy of Albert Camus for our contemporary times. It investigates Camus’ "revolted compassion" as an out……続きを見る

A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ‘culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambi……続きを見る

A spirited defence of Tolkien’s mythological creation and its increasing relevance for the real world. Acclaimed by the largest readers’ survey ever conducted as ‘the greatest book of the century’, ……続きを見る

This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction a……続きを見る

George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth c……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde’s life, this volum……続きを見る

This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and ……続きを見る

Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” provided Victorian novelists……続きを見る

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters……続きを見る

This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of othe……続きを見る

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fou……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

Originally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of who……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967. Professor Sachs shows the inner coherence of Samuel Johnson's thought by pointing out the interconnectedness of his remarks on religious, moral, aesthetic, political, a……続きを見る

Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin’s storyーor thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of women’s shrewd accounts of their relationships with men. And the verdict is not flatter……続きを見る

Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical, narrative scholars and environmental humanities scholars interested in nar……続きを見る

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary res……続きを見る

Krúdy Gyula világa álom és valóság, múlt és jelen, költészet és látomás különös, varázsos elemeiből épült. Századunk magyar irodalmának egyik legszuverénebb költői világa ez, mely lélekrajzban, idők……続きを見る

„Kérem az olvasót – írja Hegedüs Géza –, hogy ezt a regényt semmiképpen se tekintse afféle szabványos-szabályos történelmi regénynek, még ha teljes egészében bele is illeszkedik nemzeti történetünk ……続きを見る

Ez a vézna, törékeny, befelé élő és belülről izzó – ugyanakkor a külvilágot minden érzékével magába fogadó s éles szemmel figyelő – költő, akiről nemcsak a valais-i parasztok, de a végső perceiben v……続きを見る

Die Deponie ist eine paradoxe, risikobehaftete Einrichtung. Die moderne Gesellschaft erhofft sich durch sie, weggeworfene, unbrauchbare oder gefährliche Dinge, Stoffe oder Substanzen ein für alle Ma……続きを見る

In "Ivory, Apes and Peacocks," James Huneker presents a compelling exploration of the intersection between art and imagination, using his keen aesthetic sensibility to dissect the intricacies of hum……続きを見る

This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkers-Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot-use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. ……続きを見る