This collection of critical essays and interviews gives an overview of the various kinds of medial manifestations which Shakespeare s work has been transferred into over the centuries: into a theatrical performance, a printed text, a painting, an opera, an audio book, a film, a radio or television drama, a website. On the whole this overview also provides a history of the general development of Shakespearean media. Practitioners as well as scholars focus on the strengths and weaknesses, the possibilities and limitations of each medium with regard to the representation of Shakespeare s work."

Das Buch beschaftigt sich mit dem amerikanischen Dichter Ezra Pound, einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Seine epochalen Theorien des Imagismus und Vortizismus sind die Apizes der Ismen des fin de siecle; seine dichterischen Prinzipien und Methoden der Ausgangspunkt fur die Entwicklung einer Kunst und Literatur fur das neue 20. Jahrhundert. Diese Studie untersucht, wie sich seine Lyrik als ein dem Sinnhaften entgegengestellter, extratextlicher Gegenstand fixieren lasst und ob sich eine unmittelbare Verbindung zwischen Pounds Lyrik und physischer...

Modernism in British arts, literature and philosophy is manifest as a unique thing around and after 1900. This paradigm shift in all arts and modern science made traditional beliefs, norms, and social patterns obsolete. Forerunners were 19th-century intellectuals, who favoured a new and lively spiritual culture. A new concept of reality not only changed the view of nature (atomic physics) but also the structure and gist of literature. As the belief in the visible world declined, consciousness and symbolism (surface and depth structures) occupied the focus of attention. Literature became an...