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The book provides a complementary view of modernism by investigating Anglo-American little magazines published in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Addressing symbolic and practical aspects of physical location and international themes in the little reviews, it highlights...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The formative influences of Paris and France on the Anglo-Irish writer George Moore (1852–1933) cannot be underestimated. While the years Moore spent in Paris in the 1870s were seminal for his artistic awakening and development, the associations and friendships he...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-10
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Von Sprachwechslern im Kontext der Einwanderung und des politischen Exils auf den Weg gebracht, hat die interkulturelle deutschsprachige Literatur im Laufe von mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten eine bemerkenswerte Entwicklung durchgemacht, deren Ausdruckspotential bei weitem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zola’s fiction: the question of the author’s family secrets. The novels addressed here present a variety of sub-textual issues highlighting Zola’s sexual insecurity and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a «new specimen of beauty»? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new understanding of Poe's literary significance by considering the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Die Adoleszenz geht nicht selten mit psychischen Krankheiten einher; mitunter erscheint sie selbst als eine Krankheit, die überwunden werden muss.Die Nähe von Adoleszenz und psychischer Krankheit ist ein prominentes Thema von Jugenderzählungen und Romanen der Zeit um...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Versprechen sind prekär. Denn nimmt man sie als Worte, verpflichten sie zu Taten. Diese also heiklen Sprechhandlungen sind von literarischem Reiz. Namentlich Bürgschafts- und Fleischpfand-Geschichten verhandeln Versprechen. In einer differenzierenden und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Als Leser, Herausgeber und Forscher von interkultureller Literatur hat Carmine Chiellino im Laufe von drei Jahrzehnten eine elementare deutschsprachige Terminologie erarbeitet, um über seine Erfahrungen mit der interkulturellen Literatur in Westeuropa und in Nordamerika...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal of the authority of canonical authors – and also of traditional forms,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book introduces a number of selected ideas from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism. Peirce, pronounced ‘purse’, was born in America in 1839 and died in 1914. He published little in his own lifetime and he continually struggled to become...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-29
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Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen das vielfältige Konzept des Transitorischen und seine literarischen Ausgestaltungen. Die Beiträge beleuchten den etwas diffusen Begriff des Transitorischen anhand unterschiedlicher literarischer Werke, Motive, Themen und Topoi. Das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Once a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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The volume takes a close look at the forms and functions of family and kinship in cultural narratives in the United States. It analyzes social and cultural contexts of kinship and family membership, relations of family and nation on a metaphorical level, and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin’s poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being – one of the eighteenth...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of a celebrated...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-11-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This volume seeks to put drama and its neglected mental dimension into the limelight. While narrative fiction with its intricate ways of rendering consciousness has been deemed an ideal playground for approaches of a cognitivist leaning, the dramatic genre has been all...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-06
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