Aus der Literaturepoche des beginnenden 19. Jahrhunderts sollen hier drei Dichter besprochen werden, deren Schaffen in einem besonders engen Zusammenhang mit der antiken Literatur steht, nämlich Batjuškov, Gnedič und Del'vig.

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and...

Richard Albrechts Aufsätze diskutieren kritisch die zeitgenössische Unterhaltungsliteratur in der DDR, und geben zugleich einen systematischen Überblick über Leseverhalten, Lektüreinteressen und Lesemotive im anderen Deutschen Staat.

Günter Grass setzt sich in seinen Werken, besonders in «Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke», intensiv mit dem Thema Melancholie auseinander. Grass wertet Melancholie nicht als Krankheit, sondern als Grundbestand menschlicher Existenz. Über...

His Story, Her Story

Although there are a number of book-length studies of rhetoric in Shakespeare’s plays, With What Persuasion discerns a distinctly Shakespearean ethics of the art of rhetoric in them. In this interdisciplinary book, Scott F. Crider draws...

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this...

This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this...

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.