Jurgen Fohrmann 
Das Projekt der deutschen Literaturgeschichte [PDF ebook] 
Entstehung und Scheitern einer nationalen Poesiegeschichtsschreibung zwischen Humanismus und Deutschem Kaiserreich

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare »s reception by major American writers and poets. …

The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities. In this b …

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer »s poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer »s distinctive poetic strategies by …

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante »s  »second love »; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative  »master vision » which  »supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace ». All his life, Newman reflected on this  »master vision ». Hi …

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America »s great modernist writers and the nation »s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore exp …

In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome,  »displacing » them from their original settings-in time and space, in point …

This volume addresses the issue of freedom in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. This is all the more challenging in that Deleuze-Guattari almost never use the term freedom, preferring instead, …

The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. T …

Shakespeare »s characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern co …