The book studies the emergence in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity that legitimate modern Catalan literature
The book studies the emergence in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the r...
Evgenii Zamiatin's reputation rests on the pivotal role he played in the development of Russian modernism. Hitherto, however, critical engagement with the experimental nature of his fiction has been largely confined to his middle period: the satirical stories set in Great Britain, the dystopian novel My, and related works. As a writer who came to prominence at the time of the October Revolution, Zamiatin is best known as an early and vocal critic of the new culture of conformism, and as the author in the 1920s of various artistic manifestoes in which he engaged with the problem of...
Evgenii Zamiatin's reputation rests on the pivotal role he played in the development of Russian modernism. Hitherto, however, critical engagement with...
Through the interrogation of medieval documents, the author traces the development of the veneration of Saint Dominic of Silos in Spain. The geneses of accounts of the saint's life are examined in both the Latin and the vernacular, shedding light on the construction and organization of narratives an
Through the interrogation of medieval documents, the author traces the development of the veneration of Saint Dominic of Silos in Spain. The geneses o...
Le Fort's contribution to German literature has often been identified narrowly with the Christian inner emigration during the Third Reich. This study's concentration on the period 1924-46 extends the critical perspective towards a more nuanced assessment of her work that pays appropriate attention to the literary, theological, and sociocultural context of German Catholicism in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich.
Le Fort's contribution to German literature has often been identified narrowly with the Christian inner emigration during the Third Reich. This study'...
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of identity crisis for the upper and middle classes, one in which increased social mobility caused the blurring of traditional boundaries and created a need for reference works such as the British Who's Who (1897). At the same time, the rise of a new leisure industry and an increase in international travel led to a boom period for confidence men, who frequently operated in hotels and holiday resorts. Thomas Mann's Felix Krull, written between 1910-13 and continued (though never completed) in 1951-54, uses contemporary accounts of these figures as a...
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of identity crisis for the upper and middle classes, one in which increased social mobility caused the bl...
DEGREESDJohann Georg Hamann (1730-88) was one of the most radical and sophisticated critics of the German Enlightenment. The three late works DEGREESGKonxompax DEGREESg, DEGREESGMetakritik uber den Purismum der Vernunft DEGREESg and DEGREESGGolgatha und Scheblimini DEGREESg, written between 1779 and 1784, are polemics against iconic texts by the Enlightenment luminaries Lessing, Kant and Mendelssohn. This diverse and rich material, ranging from the DEGREESGFragmentenstreit DEGREESgto Kant's first DEGREESGCritique DEGREESg, is refracted through Hamann's radical Lutheranism, with freemasonry...
DEGREESDJohann Georg Hamann (1730-88) was one of the most radical and sophisticated critics of the German Enlightenment. The three late works DEGREESG...
