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Verbale Obszönität bei Francisco de Quevedo
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 84.00Francisco de Quevedo?s satirical poetry is commonly viewed as lewd and grotesquely comical, a manifestation of what Bakhtin called the Carnivalesque. But not all of de Quevedo?s satirical poetry fits this interpretation. In this study the author investigates the aggressivity and obscenity of Quevedo?s work, especially his personal invectives against... more...
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately 325 19th century writers who meet those criteria.... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, this is a wide-ranging overview of the rich tradition of medieval French literature. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00New essays for students of German's best-known living author and his works, including The Tin Drum. more...
Temporalities
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of temporality across a range of disciplines. The author... more...
Rethinking Emotion
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00This book reevaluates premodern, modern and contemporary conceptions of affects, passions and emotion by analyzing various historical manifestations of the discourse on emotion. Unlike most previous research, which ? especially in the German tradition ? often focused exclusively on the rise of the modern (Romantic) interiority without paying attention... more...
Gesicht und Schrift
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 126.00How does one create vivid narratives about realms that cannot be experienced before death, such as hell, purgatory, and paradise? This work uses early Jewish texts to reconstruct the narrative process of describing journeys to the beyond, and follows its transformations through different texts ? from the Apocryphal Apocalypses of Peter and Paul to... more...
Der Präsensroman
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 126.00This minutely detailed examination of a supposedly small grammatical detail, the use of the present tense, opens up new perspectives on a founding myth of the aesthetics of modernity: the longing for presence. This collection approaches the issue by documenting how the present tense became dominant in the 20th century novel. The authors draw on perspectives... more...
The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableThe complete Cavafy poems ? including the unfinished works ? in a stunning new translation, published in the UK on the 150th anniversary of his birth and 80th anniversary of his death . more...
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 24.00Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon. more...









