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Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish people to be complicit with orientalism because of the Zionist movement. However, the Jews of Europe have themselves been caught between East and West -both marginalized as the "Orientals" of...

Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the dream and dream-theory in texts and in social movements. In topics ranging from the dreams of animals to the visions of Elizabeth I, and from prophetic dreams to ghosts in political writing, this book asks what meanings early modern people found in dreams.

Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern.

Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of...

Georg Lukacs stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is a crucial thinker in the tradition of critical theory, but also, by extension, a crucial set of ideas that can be used to shed new light on the major problems of contemporary society.
This book reconsiders Lukacs' intellectual contributions in...

Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern.

Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of...

In einer Zeit der Globalisierung und der Nivellierung nationaler Strukturen durch Groorganisationen wie die Europaische Union kommt der Kulturpolitik als Faktor der Identitatsstiftung herausragende und mit Sicherheit weiter wachsende Bedeutung zu. Italien hatte fur die deutsche Kulturpolitik immer einen besonderen Stellenwert, was sich etwa an der Vielzahl der mit der Vermittlung deutscher Kultur in Italien beauftragten Institutionen ablesen lat. Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine Einfuhrung in die Geschichte der kulturellen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Italien und fuhrt in die...

Lessings Ubersetzungswerk- ca. 7.000 Druckseiten - umfasst mehr als vierzig Titel, fast ebenso viele Autoren und diverse Gattungen. Lessing ubersetzt aus dem Lateinischen, Italienischen, Franzosischen, Englischen und Spanischen.

Unter seiner Federfuhrung wird die Ubersetzungsfrage in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts erstmals Gegenstand der deutschen Literaturkritik; Lessing ist Leitfigur einer Epoche, in der die deutsche Literatur zu den europaischen Nachbarliteraturen aufschliet. Seine Bedeutung als Ubersetzer ist gleichwohl bisher nur selten untersucht worden, ein Grund mag die noch...