Literature: history & criticism books

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, perspectives, and main emphases of studying processes...  Read More >>

This volume takes an innovative approach to ancient epistolography by arguing that all ancient Greek and Roman letters...  Read More >>

The story of the Knight of the Swan does not just fascinate us due to its otherworldliness and the ""forbidden question,""...  Read More >>

The literary and political works of Bettina von Arnim have been rediscovered by the public. Drawing on the latest...  Read More >>

The category of the ""work"" has been the subject of intense criticism in literary studies over the past 50 years....  Read More >>

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848) is considered the most important female author writing in German in the...  Read More >>

The works of J. M. R. Lenz (1751-1792) have garnered increased attention and respect during the last few decades....  Read More >>

The Austrian author Robert Musil (1880-1942) was a soldier, engineer, and trained philosopher. Besides his fragmentary...  Read More >>

The notion that like prefers the company of like is characteristic of the love and friendship relationships in medieval...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first critical edition, complete with translation and exegetical and textual notes, of the...  Read More >>

Recently, a new idea of Cicero has emerged, which once against takes Cicero seriously as an academic philosopher....  Read More >>

SOS signals, knocks, flares, or messages in a bottle: when people find themselves in distress, they must use all...  Read More >>

This study takes a literary studies and urban sociological perspective to examine poetry that can be seen or heard...  Read More >>

Über die Wirkmacht von Technologien Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) wird viel diskutiert - zu selten wird jedoch thematisiert,...  Read More >>

Günter Grass has primarily been perceived by research and the public as an author. But he was also an influential...  Read More >>

Characteristic of the premodern Mediterranean world were the manifold connections between communities shaped by...  Read More >>

As one component of ongoing research into the persistence of similarity in aesthetic modernism, this study sketches...  Read More >>

The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations (late 18th/early 19th cent.). Using the example of...  Read More >>

This comparatist study is the first to address failure, a historically recent figure of thought. By looking at selected...  Read More >>

Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Wagner und Handke in Übersetzung auf italienischen Bühnen, Kafka, Goethe und Brecht in...  Read More >>

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

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An insightful guide to the life and literary career of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005)...  Read More >>

""... an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former ""good Democrat"" even...  Read More >>

A collection of essays from emerging and established Anglo-Latin scholars, on the sources, transmission, and reception...  Read More >>