Författare: Theodore Ziolkowski

In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller a …

This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, …

The world’s oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his f …

Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers–W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung–moved into towers as their principal habitations. Takin …

This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil St …

Why, Theodore Ziolkowski wonders, does Western literature abound with figures who experience a crucial moment of uncertainty in their actions? In this highly original and engaging work, he explores t …

’It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, permeated every aspect of thought during the Romantic era: philosophy, theology, law, natural science, medici …

This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The ’First Movement’ of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present …

Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers. This book deals with three aspects that have bee …

Employs an innovative approach by ’stages’ to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline. Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending ro …

Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the …

Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature fro …

Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the …

In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller a …

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The world’s oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his f …

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of …

These translations of Friedrich Durrenmatt s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921 90) was one of the most important literary figures …

Adam, Prometheus, and Faust–their stories were central to the formation of Western consciousness and continue to be timely cautionary tales in an age driven by information and technology. Here Theod …

Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions–mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums …

Diese 1934 entstandene Erzählung, die ursprünglich in Hesses Alterswerk Das Glasperlenspiel aufgenommen werden sollte, ist Fragment geblieben und wurde erst drei Jahre nach seinem Tod veröffentlicht. …

Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets. Analogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in American t …

Explore 2, 000 years of conspiracy in literature.Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in …

Employs an innovative approach by "stages" to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline.Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, ext …

Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist. The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century …

In Friedrich Durrenmatt s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstr …

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addres …