Johann Gottfried Herder 
Herders Shakespeare-Aufsatz in dreifacher Gestalt [PDF ebook] 

In Blindness and Insight , de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism. Not …

The ‘Eumenides’, the concluding drama in Aeschylus» sole surviving trilogy, the ‘Oresteia’, is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, …

Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on sub …

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American …

Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologi …

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten»s contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memora …

This cutting-edge volume demonstrates both the literary quality and the socio-economic importance of works on ‘the matter of the greenwood’ over a long chronological period. These include drama texts …

This book, first published in 1990, studies the oral fiction entertainments of Afghanistan by focusing on aspects of the oral narrative process which can be observed in individual performances. …

The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally d …

First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism’s third volume covers Poetics, the Novel and Authorship and brings together work on poetics, the novel and authorship. Joanna Baillie and Elizabeth Hami …