In Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film, Abdulla Al-Dabbagh’s unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new light on these subjects, revealing innovative fiel
Suggests that the concept of paradise persists in literature because it transcends boundaries between fiction and other literature, and the certainties of theology and mythology. Literary paradises cr
An American scholar of comparative literature and German, Eisenhauer explains that he is here focusing on a context of identificatory representation analogous to the Hesperia or West to which Virgil's
Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and
Explores the theme of the magic mountain as an aesthetically, intellectually, and spiritually unique environment representing a threshold realm at the interface of life and death, time and eternity, w
Krzizanovskij summed himself up in one of his notebooks: "I am known for being unknown." Yet he was an authority on Shakespeare and Shaw, a noted scholar, and the author of very popular dystopian and
Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. Wh
Examines six longer works by the three contemporary American writers to identify a common form of narrative that balances a longing for inclusion into mainstream society with a deep-seated anger towar
Hugo (English, humanities, Berkeley College New Jersey) discusses the depiction and the representation of magnificent houses and architectural creations in 20th century European literature, in works b
Kley (German studies, Gettysburg College) presents a study of communist and anti-authoritarian socialist literature in Weimar Germany, focusing on the communist understanding of work as a socializatio
Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition and several contemporary masterworks of world literature, in order to flesh out an et
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the
The libretto is an integral part of every opera, but it is also a text in its own right and therefore able to be viewed both in isolation, as literature, and in conjunction with the music, for which i
Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll House , was a model for feminist Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s and 1930s. In this study, Chang examines the reception and trans
Appl (German, Baker U., Kansas) maintains that because of his focus on the relationship between science and literature, Schirmbeck is a participant in the two cultures debate that was launched in the
Selectively represents the developing understanding of the modern self from the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) to the present. Contextualizes the late-20th-century crisis of the self by exp
Among the works discussed are Rushdie's The Satanic Verses , Conrad's Victory , Finnegans Wake , and Absolutely Fabulous . Other topics include domesticating the monster; peaking through keyholes;
Sneeringer (Germanic languages and literature, Lindbergh High School, St. Louis, Missouri) broadens the conventional discussion of honor and argues that Strassburg's early 13th-century Middle High Ger
