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Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms …

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, …

Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this ”discove …

In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism”s first readers often complained t …

First Published in 2005. While many previous books on Pynchon allude to his fictional engagement with historical events and figures, this book explores Pynchon as a historical novelist and, by extens …

First Published in 2004. This work is concerned with kodae sos?l, particularly with investigating what kodae sos?l exist or have existed in texts in Korean in a traditional style. One aim of this cat …

Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question ”what is Victorianism?” and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. Th …

This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce’s life and his writing. The passages are presented in chronological order, with a commentary that pays …

First published in 1940 and revised in 1965, this work by the distinguished Hardy Scholar, Carl J. Weber, traces Hardy’s literary career from High Brockhampton to the grave in Poet’s corner, Westmins …

Milton”s Ovidian Eve presents a fresh and thorough exploration of the classical allusions central to understanding Paradise Lost and to understanding Eve, one of Milton”s most complex characters. M …