Autore: Ben Hutchinson

This book investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bel …

A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke’s luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German- …

‘Spätzünder’ – die ZIG widmet sich in der Sommerausgabe jenen Ideen, die lange ein Schattendasein fristen, um dann urplötzlich Wirkungsmacht zu entfalten. Mit Winckelmann, Hobbes, Beethoven oder dem …

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as ‘new’. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary moder …

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as ‘new’. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary moder …

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth c …

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth c …

‘Rainer Maria Rilkes” early verse is often seen as having little relevance to the great achievement of the middle years, the Neue Gedichte. Yet the very different styles of the juvenilia and this ne …

‘Rainer Maria Rilkes” early verse is often seen as having little relevance to the great achievement of the middle years, the Neue Gedichte. Yet the very different styles of the juvenilia and this ne …

This book investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bel …

Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich einer Analyse des Sebald’schen Prosastils unter Rekonstruktion des literarischen Produktionsprozesses. Erstmals in einer Monografie wird seine Handbibliothek im Deu …

Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less k …

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.How do we live fully?How do we live successfully?Adrift in an anchorless world, we o …