Faber Richard Faber & Puschner Uwe Puschner 
Intellektuelle und Antiintellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert [PDF ebook] 

‚The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic, ‚ writes Sacvan Bercovitch, ‚because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the …

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on “European Shakespeares“, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare“s literary craft was not just nativ …

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all …

First published in 1991, this book radically challenged the view of Nana as the story of an old fashioned femme fatale and reinterprets her as a feminist heroine who manages to overturn patriarchy. T …

Arjun Appadurai’s 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic …

This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour in order to show how this subject is sometime …

Exploring the ways in which women have formed and defined expressions of culture in a range of geographical, political, and historical settings, this collection of essays examines women“s figurative …

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom Mc Alindon combines a number of previous …

Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent“s place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal …

Until recently, Anne Clifford has been known primarily for her Knole Diary, edited by Vita Sackville-West, which recounted her steadfast resistance to the most authoritative figures of her culture, i …