Horst Steinmetz 
Die Komödie der Aufklärung [PDF ebook] 
Sammlung Metzler, 47

‘If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ”Pre-histories” and ”afterlives”, methods that have …

‘This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93). The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social catego …

Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel written by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time compa …

Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collabor …

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil”s texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapt …

Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally div …

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of …

While Dickens”s religion and religious thought is recognized as a significant component of his work, no study of Dickens”s religion has carefully considered his often ignored, yet crucially relevan …

Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Mi …

The <EM>Critical Heritage</EM> gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling …