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Secondo la maggior parte dei critici, la fortuna di Manzoni in Gran Bretagna e negli Stati Uniti è stata molto limitata. Ma questo volume, che tratta della ricezione manzoniana nei paesi anglosassoni nell’Ottocento, cerca di ridimensionare l’interpretazione tradizionale...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-05
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This book analyzes Siri Hustvedt’s three novels The Blindfold, What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American with a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular American writers today and her work is predominantly concerned with art historical and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-05
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Der vorliegende Band erkundet die deutsche Dante-Rezeption in der Literatur und den Künsten im 20. Jahrhundert. Er dokumentiert anhand von verschiedenartigen Beispielen die Vielfalt der von der Divina Commedia ausgehenden künstlerischen Anregungen in Moderne und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-04
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This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary. Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis Brings together the most up-to-date international...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Am 4. Oktober 1914 wurde der von 93 führenden Repräsentanten der deutschen Kunst und Wissenschaft unterzeichnete Aufruf «An die Kulturwelt!» veröffentlicht. Er ist sogleich ein Schlüsseldokument geworden, das bis heute jede Untersuchung des «Kriegs der Geister» im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-28
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-22
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Die Ereignisse nach dem 11. September 2001 und die jüngsten gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche im Nahen Osten, der Irak-Krieg, der Bürgerkrieg in Syrien, der fortdauernde Konflikt in Afghanistan, aber auch die interkulturellen Probleme innerhalb Deutschlands machen deutlich,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-22
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The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowicz’s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context.The research extends to English and American literary traditions in order to account for the ways the writer’s version of existentialism is interpreted in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-22
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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism onVictorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Critical Reader
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Die Goethezeit gehört zu den glanzvollsten Epochen der deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte. Dieses Studienbuch vermittelt Studierenden der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft übersichtlich und klar strukturiert die Epoche der Goethezeit. Auf der Basis der aktuellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study analyses how these authors employ tropes and myths of childhood in their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising interrelations between the arts, and this book offers a discussion of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Nicholas Breton (1545/55-1626?) was one of the most prolific writers of the Early Modern period and left behind a vast œuvre that is, however, largely neglected today. Breton addresses instrumental questions of his time, especially those of man’s identity. This study...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-02
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-24
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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