Beck Andreas Beck & Kaminski Nicola Kaminski 
Literatur der Fruehen Neuzeit und ihre kulturellen Kontexte [PDF ebook] 
Bochumer Ringvorlesung im Sommersemester 2011

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men fr …

This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant …

Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education”s First Book Award Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s Bri …

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene ‘will seeme displeasaunt’ to those who would ‘rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way …

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we …

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose …

In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world …

First published in 1996, Explorations in Difference explores how contemporary debates over identity and difference come into play within the workings of cultural, legal, and political institutions. T …

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare”s World explores Shakespeare”s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable …

First published in 1950. This volume contains the essence of over three hundred well-known literary critics who, between 1661 and 1947, considered the great literary riddle of the years · Entries arr …