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"...all diese fingierten, notierten, in meinem Kopf ungefähr wieder zusammengesetzten Ichs"
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 16.17Hauptbeschreibung Dass jede literarische Selbstdarstellung fiktionale Elemente beinhaltet, ist in der gegenwärtigen Autobiographie-Diskussion unbestritten. Mit dem von Serge Doubrovsky geprägten Terminus "Autofiktion" hat sich die Forschung verstärkt literarischen Texten zugewendet, die fiktionales und faktuales Erzählen der eigenen Biographie mehr... more...
' Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art
Palgrave Macmillan 1994; US$ 61.00This book is an examination of the fiction of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Bowles, with a view to clarifying the narrative strategies these women adopt to establish, in varying degrees, a critique of realism and its hidden dualistic, patriarchal assumptions about life, literature, and... more...
, said the shotgun to the head.
Pocket Books 2009; US$ 14.00The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of babble and brilliance... more...
"Ars corrigendi" in der frühen Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00Under the maxim Ars corrigendi, it was discussed in the Early Modern period how authentic versions of texts could be extracted from ancient literature, as the texts in the manuscripts had been affected by many slips of the pen and other editorial revisions which they had endured on their long journey of tradition during the Middle Ages. The current... more...
"Born in a Mighty Bad Land"
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 15.95The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this... more...
'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00Brian Vickers examines the issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. Shakespeare's authorship has been claimed for two poems, 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye. Vickers shows that neither has the requisite stylistic and imaginative qualities. In other words, they are 'counterfeits', in the sense of anonymously authored... more...
A Critical Companion to 'Beowulf'
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 80.00This book contains an overview of the current state of scholarship on Beowulf, looking back over the history of the field and suggesting new directions for future research. More than 1,000 books, articles, recordings and websites are surveyed and a nuanced sense is offered of the great variety of views that have been expressed on this greatest of all... more...
"Das Land, von welchem niemand wiederkehrt"
De Gruyter 1978; US$ 133.00"Das Land, von welchem niemand wiederkehrt" : Mythos, Fiktion u. Wahrheit in Chrétiens "Chevalier de la Charrete", im "Lanzelet" Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven u. im "Lancelot"-Prosaroman 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...









