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Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) ist der einzige in der Schweiz geborene Literaturnobelpreisträger. Dazu hat er durch seine Rede «Unser Schweizer Standpunkt» 1914 die Beibehaltung der absoluten Neutralitä……続きを見る

Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine and Richard Russo……続きを見る

This book contains excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be po……続きを見る

Anfangs in Fan-Zeitschriften, später dann im Internet hat sich eine neue Literaturgattung etabliert: Slash-Fanfiction. Leser*innen und Zuschauer*innen populärer Spielfilme und Fernsehserien machen s……続きを見る

Der Unternehmer, Coach und Autor Wolfram Berghüser nimmt Dich mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu einigen seiner bewegendsten Lebensstationen und taucht mit Dir ein in die Erkenntnisse über die tief……続きを見る

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contempor……続きを見る

Desiderius Erasmus's "The Praise of Folly" stands as a seminal work in Renaissance literature, intertwining humorous satire with profound philosophical inquiry. Composed in 1509, this essay employs ……続きを見る

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary……続きを見る

We live in confounding times that the author attempts to explain with incisive analyses, broad criticism and boundless humor. His compilation of essays course through our cultural, social, political……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Desiderius Erasmus This Complete Collection includes the following titles: -------- 1 - The Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I 2 - A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Sh……続きを見る

How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, ……続きを見る

« En ce début de XXIe siècle, en Occident, la folie sociale a pris un nouveau nom, celui d’ÉVALUATION. » Le mot essaime partout. Il est à la fois le dispositif et le symptôme d’un mode de contrôle s……続きを見る

1920 erschien Karel Čapeks Drama R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots, das bereits im Januar 1921 uraufgeführt wurde und innerhalb von zwei Jahren Übersetzungen in dreißig Sprachen und weltweit Aufführu……続きを見る

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anth……続きを見る

Ende dreißig, single, kinderlos – und endlich nicht mehr fremdbestimmt. In «Die Kranichfrau» erzählt CJ Hauser, wie aufreibend und befreiend es war, die Erwartungen anderer endlich hinter sich zu la……続きを見る

Die Untersuchung fokussiert die funktionelle Distribution einzelner Dativstrukturen im Russischen und Tschechischen und die damit einhergehende und durch die Slavistik wenig erforschte Frage nach mö……続きを見る

In Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae, written by the Italian humanis……続きを見る

Explores pioneering works of digital poetry and demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse For……続きを見る

Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him 'endearing' or 'totally unpalatable', while later genera……続きを見る

In diesem grundlegenden Werk geht es um die Darstellung und Interpretation einer Kulturgeschichte der Literatur im Spannungsfeld von buchstäblichem Verstehen und symbolischer Deutung. Ausgangspunkt ……続きを見る

Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many……続きを見る

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into ……続きを見る

First published in 1952. This title explores the lives of authors during their time in Geneva; including chapters on the Romantic author Mary Shelley, the novelist Joseph Conrad and the critic John ……続きを見る

Erasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture p……続きを見る

This study examines the development and characteristics of various historical and contemporary genres of Korean literature. It presents explanations on the development of Korean literacy and offers ……続きを見る

"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes ……続きを見る

Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twent……続きを見る

At the onset of his hugely successful satire of medieval European society, Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus invokes the goddess Folly, daughter of Youth and Wealth, who was raised by Drunkenness and……続きを見る

Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and o……続きを見る

In ogni racconto le misure si sovrappongono, l’attesa si trasforma in spazio “cinque chilometri di tempo per corteggiare una città sfuggente” leggiamo a un certo punto. In più passaggi ricorre la pa……続きを見る