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 …

Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ’race’ and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and e …

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 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 …

Originally published by 1984 Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman provides a clear and informative introduction to the complexities of Langland’s Piers Plowman. It identifies Langland’s major concerns …