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Subjektkonstitution in der Lyrik Simon Dachs
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 126.00the East Prussian poet Simon Dach is considered to be the master of Baroque social poetry. However, the narrative subject in his occasional poems cannot always be interpreted as the conventional "I" role. Rather, it is the bearer of different discourses which come into conflict with each other in times of a personal crisis of the poet. The study interprets... more...
Unmade Roads
Muswell Press 2010; US$ 7.29A collection of moving, witty and passionate poems about love, loss and landscape, about men and women struggling to find meaning in a land reeling from urbanisation. Here too are beautifully crafted homages to Donne, Arnold, Clare, Betjeman and many more. more...
Pícaro and Cortesano
Bucknell University Press 2011; US$ 64.99Pícaro and Cortesano have been traditionally viewed as antithetical figures representing a strict spatial metaphor between center and periphery. This book challenges that view by positing a relationship between these two significant figures and their respective books, picaresque narrative and courtesy manual. The handbook of conduct tacitly engages... more...
Three Major Plays
Oxford University Press, UK 1999; US$ 8.99Lope de Vega (1562-1635), the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, combine the serious and the comic in their desire to imitate life. This unique edition combines Lope's best-known play Fuente Ovejuna,... more...
Goethe-Philologie im Jubiläumsjahr - Bilanz und Perspektiven
De Gruyter 2001; US$ 126.00The 150th anniversary of Goethe's birth in the year 1999 is taken here as an occasion for reviewing the achievements of modern-day Goethe studies and focussing on the future tasks to be accomplished in this field. Chief among the latter are critical discussion of the major scholarly Goethe editions from Frankfurt and Munich, as well as the question... more...
Rabenschlacht
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 133.00This is the second of the new Bremen editions of epic poems centring around Dietrich von Bern. In its content, the text of the »Rabenschlacht« (13th century) takes up where »Dietrichs Flucht« left off. The subject matter is a further abortive victory by Dietrich over his adversary Ermrich in the battle near Ravenna. The edition largely follows the... more...
Antología poética del siglo de oro
Edhasa 1753; US$ 5.10La poesía del Siglo de Oro presenta un panorama tan rico como diverso. En la preparación de esta antología, a cargo de David López del Castillo, se han buscado claramente dos objetivos: El primero, ofrecer una selección lo más completa posible de la lírica, y por ello incluye los poemas más representativos de las diferentes corrientes y de los autores... more...
Diccionario filológico de literatura española. Siglo XVII
Edhasa 1753; US$ 20.40Esta obra recoge y analiza en una sola obra, de manera comprensiva y panorámica, los textos esenciales del a literatura española de esa época que se han conservado obras y autores- y su situación actual, en pormenorizados estudios a cargo de más de un centenar de reconocidos especialistas de las principales universidades tanto españolas como europeas... more...
Garcilaso de la Vega y otros poetas cortesanos
Edhasa 2012; US$ 3.98En 1526 el emperador Carlos V contrajo matrimonio en Sevilla con Isabel de Portugal, y, a los pocos días, los recién casados decidieron visitar Granada. No faltaban en el séquito real caballeros capaces de encarnar adecuadamente el ideal cortesano de la época, en cuanto que habían puesto su espada al servicio de los sueños cristiano-europeístas del... more...
De amore / Von der Liebe
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 307.00Andreas Capellanus wrote De Amore, his famous Latin treatise on marriage, around 1186. Enhanced by theological, medical and legal wisdom, his book of the art of loving greatly influenced the literature of courtly love during the Middle Ages. For the first time, this new edition contains E. Trojel's 1892 Latin text alongside a modern German translation.... more...









