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The Abject of Desire
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 86.80The Abject of Desire approaches the aestheticization of the unaesthetic via a range of different topics and genres in twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. The experience of disgust, which Winfried Menninghaus describes as an acute crisis of self-preservation, is correlated with conceptualizations of gender in... more...
Women Write Back
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 49.00Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century womens responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaires Mahomet... more...
Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 119.00In 28 essays selected from the proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, scholars and teachers of languages and literatures have noted, bemoaned and analyzed the waning influence of the humanities to varying degrees. They have raised questions, offered solutions and vigorously defended their languages... more...
Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 100.10In Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary , the authors assess British Romanticisms creative and polemical engagements with the Peninsular War, the bid of Spanish American colonies to establish independence with British support, and the impac more...
Northrop Frye
University of Ottawa Press 2010; US$ 19.99More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism , Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism.... more...
Impossible Individuality
Princeton University Press 1992; US$ 46.50Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to... more...
Europa nach dem Verlust des Absoluten: Existenzielle Identitätssuche in der europäischen Literatur um 1900
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 14.19Im 19. Jahrhundert büßt das Christentum in Europa endgültig seine Vormachtstellung ein. Der Verlust der sinngebenden, absoluten Instanz "Gott" bewirkt einen grundlegenden gesellschaftlichen Wandel und zwingt das Individuum dazu, seine Identität aus sich heraus neu zu definieren. Von dieser Gegebenheit ausgehend werden unterschiedliche Identitätsmodelle... more...
The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultural institutions and promoting new methods of instruction. Butler examines representations of language as war in texts written in Latin, French, and German; the study, by exploring the relationship between... more...
L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400?1600)
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 330.00L?Époque de la Renaissance. Crises et essors nouveaux (1560?1610), a collaborative literary history of the second half of the sixteenth century in Europe, responds to a number of challenges, including those critical of the Renaissance concept itself in favour of a broader Early Modern concept. It inventories the writings of its chosen time-span in... more...
East West Mimesis
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 55.00East-West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. more...









