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Die literarische Funktion von Kleidung in den Íslendingasögur und Íslendingaþættir
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00Die Isländersagas sind seit jeher Schwerpunkt altnordistischer Forschung. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive ist ihren zahlreichen, oft minutiösen Beschreibungen von Kleidung bislang aber wenig Beachtung geschenkt worden. Vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Bekleidung der Figuren im Hinblick auf soziale, geschlechtliche und emotionale Konstellationen... more...
Graham Greene
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 115.00This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its "literary" interpretation into his fiction. more...
The Victorian Novel
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 110.95This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles... more...
James Joyce and the Language of History
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 109.99History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood... more...
Perils of the Night
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 109.99This book argues that the source of Gothic terror is anxiety about the boundaries of the self: a double fear of separateness and unity that has had a special significance for women writers and readers. Exploring the psychological, religious, and epistemological context of this anxiety, DeLamotte argues that the Gothic vision focuses simultaneously... more...
Amnesiac Selves
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 49.99With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel... more...
Modernism and the Theater of Censorship
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 134.99Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the U.S.S.R. at Yalta? And, most significantly, did Roosevelt abandon... more...
Sisters in Time
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 110.99Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features "feminine heroism," Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters... more...
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 26.00This volume provides a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading, and there is a challenging reassessment of major figures and traditional views. Other genres and other literatures, and novels from other periods are also discussed. All quotations are translated... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00Key dimensions of Tolstoy's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the Tolstoy's life and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students. more...









