William Shakespeare 
Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung. Viel Lärm um Nichts. Die Comödie der Irrungen [PDF ebook] 

Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues as reform and protest, gender, science …

The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to th …

Browne”s famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years. As an overview of Persian literature from the earliest times until Firdaw …

The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years” his …

For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that th …

While much has been written on Shakespeare”s debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full ra …

Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the …

This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its ‘literary’ interpretation into his …

Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history?   The relati …

Myths reflect, reinforce, and sometimes subvert gender ideologies and so have an influence in the ”real world”. This is true in the present no less than when the Greek and Roman myths were created. …