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Aesthetic Anxiety
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 72.00Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but sometimes also enjoyable, experience of a more...
The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 26.00In this 1994 book sixteen chapters explore Ibsen's life and work and his influence on the modern theatre, with supporting reference material. more...
CliffsNotes On Ibsen's A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler
Wiley 2004; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on A Doll's House & Hedda Gabler takes you into Henrick Ibsen's dramatic plays, controversial theater productions that inflamed audience reactions in the nineteenth century. A Doll's House follows the story of... more...
Der Narziss Peer Gynt
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 51.77Hauptbeschreibung Der "Narziss Peer Gynt" widmet sich einem Aspekt von Henrik Ibsens Peer Gynt, der bisher in der deutschsprachigen Literatur kaum behandelt wurde. Der Fokus dieser Arbeit liegt auf der psychologischen Dimension Peer Gynts, die sich einerseits aus den Parallelen von Ibsens und Peers Leben, andererseits aus Ibsens Persönlichkeitsveränderung... more...
Der mittelalterliche Tristan-Stoff in Skandinavien
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 154.00The tale of Tristan and Isolde is one of the great European love stories. Based on material from Celtic sagas, it was given literary form in all European vernaculars in the Middle Ages. In Northern Europe, a French version was translated into Old Norwegian in 1226; this is of great significance, as the French source text by Thomas de Bretagne has been... more...
Der öffentliche Vater
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00From the time it emerged in the 18th century until its collapse in the 20th century, the model of the bourgeois father held a central place in politics and literature. For the first time, the present study systematically examines the history of this construct with a focus on the interplay between the mechanisms of paternal authority and the emotionalization... more...
Deutschsprachige Literatur(en) seit 1989
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 86.06Hauptbeschreibung Zwei Jahrzehnte nach dem Ende der deutsch-deutschen Teilung scheint es an der Zeit, sich der/den deutschsprachigen Literatur/en seit 1989 allgemeiner und grundsätzlicher zuzuwenden. Das vorliegende Sonderheft der ZfdPh richtet den Blick auf die Entwicklungen und Transformationen dieser neuesten Literaturepoche in statu nascendi;... more...
Die Anfänge: Versuche volkssprachlicher Schriftlichkeit im frühen Mittelalter (ca. 700-1050/60)
De Gruyter 1995; US$ 42.00Die deutsche volkssprachige Literatur des frühen Mittelalters beginnt unscheinbar: von kargen Glossierungen des frühen 8. Jahrhunderts schwingt sie sich über Wörterbücher und Übersetzungen geistlicher Texte empor zu den dramatischen Schöpfungen des »Hildebrandsliedes« und des »Ludwigsliedes«, zu den inspirierten Evangeliaden des altsächsischen »Heliands«... more...
Die Karlamagnús-Saga I und ihre altfranzösische Vorlage
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 105.00The 13th century Old Norse Karlamagnús-Saga, a monumental biography of Charlemagne from translated and adapted French Caroline epics such as the Chanson de Roland, is a fascinating example of intensive reception at a distance. Its first branch appears to pre-empt the whole in a compressed form, and has thus been puzzling scholars for more than a century.... more...
A Doll's House
The Floating Press 1923; US$ 3.95When A Doll's House was first published in 1879 it created a sensation. The play follows the ordinary life of a housewife. Gradually the tensions within her marriage become clear and build to a final, stunning action. The play is widely studied because of its sharp critique of 19th century marriage norms, and its feminist tendencies. more...









