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"Es sind alles Geschichten aus meinem Leben"
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2011; US$ 55.32Hauptbeschreibung Der Sammelband stellt erstmals die literarischen Werke Hans Werner Richters in ihrer Vielfalt und im Zusammenhang mit seiner publizistischen Tätigkeit dar. Auf diese Weise wird Richters Rolle im literarischen Feld nach 1945 deutlicher markiert. Zugleich eröffnet sich ein dezidierter Blick auf das Verhältnis von Literatur und Gesellschaft... more...
101 Best Scenes Ever Written
Linden Publishing 2006; US$ 11.95Readers will delight at the best scenes ever written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them. With each scene, Barnaby Conrad provides insights as to what the author wishes to accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he or she employs. Any avid reader will enjoy Conrad?s 101 Best Scenes Ever Written , but countless... more...
1913
Wiley 2008; US$ 109.95This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats,... more...
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...
After 1945
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 35.00What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of converging and threatening inevitabilities: nuclear annihilation,... more...
Anti-Americanism in European Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature. more...
Approaching Postmodernism
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 180.00Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity. Other essays offer readings of Postmodernist texts and relate practical criticism to a theoretical framework.... more...
Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. 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...









