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Originally published in English in 1989, from a 1980 German edition, this book provides a comprehensive study of Oscar Wilde's work. It aims to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical uvre by fully analysing each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts. Professor Kohl's starting-point is the thesis that Wilde's identity - both personal and artistic - can only be adequately described in terms of a conflict between two opposing forces: individualism and convention. This conflict colours not...

Der junge Dorian Gray sprt heftiges Verlangen nach ewiger Schnheit, dem Garanten fr andauernde Sinnesfreuden. Zur Erfllung seines Traums schliet Gray einen Teufelspakt: Er verpfndet seine Seele. Statt seiner wird in Zukunft ein Portrt von ihm altern. Doch der Vertrag ist befristet, und am Ende fordert die gestundete Vergnglichkeit ihren bitteren Preis. Mit seinem gewagten Roman provozierte der Publikumsliebling Oscar Wilde seine gesamte Fangemeinde und beeinflute die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts mageblich.

Die fnfbndige Ausgabe Mark Twains Abenteuer prsentiert den groen amerikanischen Erzhler mit seinen Abenteuerromanen Tom Sawyers Abenteuer, Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer und Ein Yankee am Hofe des Knigs Artus ebenso wie den Reiseschriftsteller, der aus der Perspektive des Arglosen im Ausland auch einen Bummel durch Europa unternommen hat.

This book first appeared in Germany in 2004. In response to the great amount of interest in the book expressed by colleagues from all over the world, we subsequently decided to produce this English version. We have also taken this opportunity to update the information on the Department of Psychiatry since 1994 to include further developments up to the present day (see Chapter 15). One can look at a hospital from all kinds of different perspectives. For psychiatrists with the daily medical task of dealing with the life histories of their patients, it is understandable that they are interested...