Walter Zimmermann 
Der Dichter Heinrich Leuthold [PDF ebook] 
Essay

Turns a critical eye on Aesop»s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop»s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop»s Fa …

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an ins …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe»s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf»s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

Women»s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. I …

‘My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to D …

This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare»s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespea …

This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916 …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …