Literary studies: general books

In the epistemic and generic reworking of the end of the 19th century, Walter Pater occupies the singular place...  Read More >>

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Written in the span of a decade between 1580 and 1589, Pierre Matthieu's plays, from Esther to La Guisiade and Vasthi-Aman,...  Read More >>

"While the pilgrimage to Jerusalem seemed to be definitively in decline in the sixteenth century in the West, literature...  Read More >>

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Die Studie zeigt ein fur Cicero konstitutives Denkmuster in seinen philosophischen Schriften auf und nutzt die Erkenntnisse...  Read More >>

This book features a collection of articles on comparative literature from a translational perspective, with a special...  Read More >>

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses...  Read More >>

"Character and Dystopia examines dystopian characterization through analysis of the ""last man"" figure. By reading...  Read More >>

Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction explores the multiple ways in which narrative...  Read More >>

First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of Shakespeare’s sonnets, arguing that studying...  Read More >>

Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and...  Read More >>

Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices...  Read More >>

Providing comprehensive case studies of the forms and functions of embedded poems in fantasy literature, this volume...  Read More >>

This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust...  Read More >>

This volume contains two comedies-ballets: Le Mariage force, danced as a ballet at the Louvre, then adapted as a...  Read More >>

In order to portray the age of Louis XIV in his own way, Boileau sought to become the French Juvenal and to create...  Read More >>

Der dreizehnte Band von Rists Sämtlichen Werken beschließt die Ausgabe mit Angaben zur Familie des Autors, seiner...  Read More >>

The ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early subject matter - is here to the fore.  Read More >>

In the epistemic and generic reworking of the end of the 19th century, Walter Pater occupies the singular place...  Read More >>

Written in the span of a decade between 1580 and 1589, Pierre Matthieu's plays, from Esther to La Guisiade and Vasthi-Aman,...  Read More >>

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"While the pilgrimage to Jerusalem seemed to be definitively in decline in the sixteenth century in the West, literature...  Read More >>

Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or...  Read More >>

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