AA.VV. & Alberto Frigerio 
Rainer Maria Rilke [PDF ebook] 
Alla ricerca dello “spazio interiore del mondo” tra arti figurative, musica e poesia

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a c …

Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also developmen …

The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading …

First published in 1971, this book explores the theme of the pastoral in literature and the way in which it adapts itself to various forms. It examines some of the ways in which it has manifested its …

Elizabeth Evelinge, now firmly believed to have been the translator of The admirable life of the holy virgin S. Catharine of Bologna, entered the English Poor Clare monastery in Gravelines in 1620. A …

Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between ”pagan” and ”Christian” forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms …

Henry James”s ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for undergraduate study. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting …

‘Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?’ In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, in …

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, first published in 1926, presents the great artistic and literary innovations of the Romantic movement according to an often overlooked and …

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, …