Georg Braungart 
Hofberedsamkeit [PDF ebook] 
Studien zur Praxis höfisch-politischer Rede im deutschen Territorialabsolutismus

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce»s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. …

150 years after Alice»s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll»s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Thomas Hardy»s ‘The Dynasts’ and Leo Tolstoy»s ‘War & Peace’ are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being …

An excellent account of, and reflection on, each diverse stage of American literary giant Philip Roth»s fifty-year career, this book also looks outwards, touching on other aspects of intellectual …

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary …

The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, …

This collection brings together a series of essays that combine the public and private nature of dissent, stories of dissent that encapsulate the mood of an historical or cultural period, or of a soc …

This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectu …

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism – literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics includ …