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"A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of Me"
Seven Stories Press 2013; US$ 23.95Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and told in a young theater director's letters home to a friend who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South Africa's national treasures, co-founder of the Market Theatre, director of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and mentor to a generation of South... more...
'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmarer Dominikanerchronist
De Gruyter 1978; US$ 335.00Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon / 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmarer Dominikanerchronist more...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
Other Press 2010; US$ 17.99In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a ?functional? marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London, where... more...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
Other Press 2010;In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London,... more...
Emily Dickinson
Wiley 1982; US$ 4.95The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems, you explore some 85 poems from one of America's... more...
"In roten Schuhen tanzt die Sonne sich zu Tod": Lyrik expressionistischer Dichterinnen
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 14.01HauptbeschreibungDer literarischen Qualität expressionistischer Lyrikerinnen wurde und wird trotz derprinzipiell umfassend erforschten Bewegung des Expressionismus kaum Beachtunggeschenkt. Eine professionelle Etablierung war vielen Autorinnen in einer von männlichenSichtweisen dominierten Zeit kaum möglich, so dass sie oftmals aus Mangel anVeröffentlichungen... more...
Julius Caesar
Wiley 2006; US$ 8.99"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." Now you can appreciate Julius Caesar in plain English. Political intrigue. Ambition. Envy. Conspiracy. Hypocrisy. Betrayal. Assassination. Pride. Suicide. The Ides of March. The tides of war. Julius Caesar makes today's political scene seem boring! If the original text seems Greek (or geek) to you, now... more...
"Just Mary" Reader
Dundurn 2006; US$ 24.99Selections from Mary Grannan?s sweet-tempered and humorous series, including Just Mary , Maggie Muggins , Jubilee Road , and Land of Supposing . more...
"Kleine Leute" und große Helden in Homers Odyssee und Kallimachos' Hekale
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 182.00Callimachus? Hekale is one of the most famous short epics of Greek literature and was highly regarded as such in antiquity. This study addresses the question of whether and to what extent the Hekale is related to the Homeric epics, and especially the Odyssey. The ensuing conclusions show that the Odyssey exerted a strong influence on the diction, character... more...
'Le Roman des Eles', and the Anonymous: 'Ordene de Chevalerie'
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 149.00Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc. The present volume, which presents critical editions of the two earliest didactic poems of this kind... more...









