Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

This volume spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. The essays range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England.

Contributors and Contents:

Mary Sheriff, The King, the Trickster and the Gorgon: On the Illusions of Rococo ArtBeverly Wilcox, The Hissing of Monsieur PaginJessica Richard, Lotteries and the Romance of Chance in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEmrys D. Jones, 'Friendship like mine / Throws all...

Die "Geschichte der spanischen Literatur" will nicht nur das Interesse des Lesers an der spanischen Literatur wecken, sondern auch in die gegenwartigen literaturwissenschaftlichen Diskussionen einfuhren. Dabei wird auch der Forschungsstand zum jeweiligen Thema dargestellt. So hat nicht die bloe Ansammlung von Fakten die Prioritat, sondern deren Erorterung und Erlauterung. Insgesamt wird das Charakteristische eines Autors, einer Epoche bzw. einer literarischen Gattung vorgefuhrt.

The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics. By the end of the eighteenth century, reason as the predominant human faculty had run its course, and imagination emerged as another force whose contributions to human intellectual existence and productivity had to be newly calculated and constantly recalibrated. The attempt to establish a...

There is a great deal of kissing in Renaissance poetry, but modern critics do not generally recognise (as early readers did) that the literary conventions of the kiss were closely related to a fully-formed, lively and popular genre of Neo-Latin -kissing-poems-. Beginning with the imitation of Catullus in fifteenth-century Italy, this specialised form was securely established in the next century by the Dutch poet Janus Secundus, whose elegant Basia (-Kisses-) were an extraordinary international success. Secundus stimulated a long-lived tradition of Latin and vernacular -kisses-, willfully...

1) How could traces of certain time or certain historical period be performed in literary texts and how are we able to recognize these traces of historical strategies, ideas, aims or imaginative structures? Concepts of representations - often discussed in humanities...