Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Marchenhafter Orient - Projektionen Eines Landes Der PhantasieMit Antoine Gallands erster Ubersetzung der Marchen von 'Tausendundeiner Nacht' in eine europaische Sprache (1704-1707) beginnt eine beispiellose und bis in die Gegenwart anhaltende Rezeption in Literatur, Philosophie, bildender Kunst und Musik, die das europaische Orientbild in entscheidender Weise mit gepragt hat. Der kulturhistorischen...
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Louise Dupin: Defendre l'Egalite Des Sexes En 1750Louise Dupin (1706-1799) is a major author who advocated for gender equality. Her Ouvrage sur les femmes is an ambitious encyclopedia of the status of women and proposes a comprehensive plan for reforming society to restore women's rights.Author: Frederic MartyPublisher: Classiques GarnierPublished: 01/27/2021Pages: 338Binding...
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Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing JusticeTuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive intervention in the field of law and literature. It seeks to understand and inhabit the intersection between judicial procedure, legal thinking and imaginative practice, where epistemic processes...
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Leonardo Sciascia the Man and the WriterRestlessness of imagination and intellect in a writer can damage his standing with critics, but Sciascia's insatiable curiosity, keen intellect, detestation of injustice wherever perpetrated have made him a writer who could not be restricted to any one genre. His reputation has been enhanced...
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Le Mysterieux CorrespondantMarcel Proust was in his twenties when he wrote most of the texts included in this volume. Through various genres, the author evokes, in a darkly tragic way, how he became aware of his homosexuality.Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Classiques GarnierPublished: 06/29/2022Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 8.09lbsISBN:...
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Le Bourgeois GentilhommeAs entertainment for the king, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is very much a "comedy-ballet" that is to say a comedy, lavishly embellished with music and dance, followed by the Ballet des nations. The social satire is that of a bourgeois, M. Jourdain, who wishes to...
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Kokin Waka Shu: Recueil de Poemes Japonais d'Hier Et d'Aujourd'huiLa poesie du Yamato a pour semence le coeur humain et s'epanouit en une myriade de feuilles, les mots. Le Recueil de poemes japonais d'hier et d'aujourd'hui est la premiere des anthologies de poemes en japonais compilee sur ordre imperial, vers 905. Il a...
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Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war' Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the historical framework of...
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James Boswell, the Journals in Scotland, England and Ireland, 1766-1769This volume, the second volume in the Research Edition series of journals in Scotland, England and Ireland from the autumn of 1766 to May 1769.The journals covered by the volume record much of Boswell's life as a young advocate during the first few years...
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Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIIIIn diesem dreizehnten Band wird durch Originalbeitrage, Essays, Quellen und Rezensionen die bewahrte Themenbreite des 'Jahrbuchs Literatur und Medizin' abgedeckt. In den Originalbeitragen liegt der Fokus sowohl auf historischen Fragestellungen, etwa Nietzsches Aufgreifen eigener Krankheitserfahrung im 'Zarathustra', als auch auf der literarischen Aufarbeitung gegenwartiger...
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Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also to multi-lingual productions of the Jacobites themselves, including works in Irish Gaelic, Latin, Scots,...
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Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting RoomIvor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room is the first biography of one of post-war Britain's most recognisable authors, poets and performers. Mr Cutler (as he preferred to be known) wrote and recorded some of the most unusual and memorable songs and poems...
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Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn: Serve Your Own SentencesThe first full-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book consolidates Mendelssohn's reputation as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape....
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Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction: Case Studies in Novel ReflexivityCan novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we ethically accountable for how we read fiction? This study takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects overwhelmingly ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics,...
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Illuminating a Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lawrence NeesThis anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware. These essays present a cross-section of recent research by students, colleagues, and friends; the breadth of subjects explored demonstrates...
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Humanities for Humans: Clear Thinking on Challenging IssuesCan the academic humanities serve the general public to address some of today's most critical challenges? This unusual volume builds on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," curated by Irene Kacandes and funded by the De Gruyter Foundation and the New York nonprofit 1014:...
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Hispanic Hagiography in the Critical Context of the ReformationThe sixteenth century was the time of greatest religious effervescence in Europe, in which the critical positions with the Catholic Church tensed until the break between Christians, the consequent persecutions and wars between Protestants and Catholics; a conflict of such magnitude that it defines...
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Hermann Kurz (1813-1873): Das Blaue GenieSei mir Dichter, willkommen! denn dir hat wahrlich die Muse / Heiter Lippen und Stirn und beide glanzenden Augen / Mit unsprodem Kusse beruhrt, so kusse mich wieder." Eduard Morike betrachtete Hermann Kurz, dem er dieses Epigramm widmete, als seinesgleichen; auch andere Zeitgenossen wie...
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From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda: Aspects of Oral Narration in the Greek TraditionFrom Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda provides a multidisciplinary discussion of the concept of orality in the framework of Greek narrative tradition, from Antiquity to the 21st century. Orality is a prominent concept in contemporary folkloristics, philology, and other related fields and a basic concept for...
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Fragmenta Comica: Antiphanes Frr. 1-100Antiphanes is one of the most important writers of the Middle Attic comedy. His plays deal with matters connected to mythological subjects, although others referenced particular professional and national persons or characters, while other plays focused on the intrigues of personal life. This volume...
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