Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkers--Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot--use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. Danta shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah. His claim is twofold: firstly, that all three authors choose to respond to the Genesis narrative by manifesting literature; and, secondly, that each heretically endows literature--or fiction--with the power to suspend the sacrifice.

Abraham's near-sacrifice of...

Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers explores how nine different "outsider" authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. All the novels under review were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years), and all are structured around a hero or heroine who remains culturally, ethically or aesthetically distant from his/her narrative counterparts. Works discussed: Albert Camus' L'Etranger; Richard Wright's The Outsider; Andre Langevin's Poussiere sur la ville; Ernesto Sabato's El tunel; V.S. Naipaul's Guerrillas; Elie Wiesel's Le Cinquieme fils;...

When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. "Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature" reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period....

The essays in "Virgin Microbe" foreground thematic issues and advance recent theoretical agendas, such as the study of identity construction and the relationship between the avant-garde and mass culture, rather than focusing on biographies of individual Dadaists or centers of Dada activity. The authors represent a wider spectrum of disciplines and a broader international perspective than other recent collections on Dada. Ambitious in terms of contemporary academic interests, "Virgin Microbe" draws on a rich spectrum of intellectual traditions and contexts, prioritizing Dada s metaphysical...

Nachdem Gerhard Rohlfs 1974 die 7. Auflage publiziert hatte, wurde diese fur die 8. Auflage erneut einer sorgfaltigen Revision unterzogen. Erganzugen und Verbesserungen ergaben sich vor allem in der Bibliographie, geringfugige Modifikationen im Text und im Glossar. Eine vertiefte Beschaftigung mit der "Chanson de Roland" erfordert einen Vergleich der Oxforder Handschrift mit der kritischen Ausgabe von Cesare Segre (1971), uberarbeitet und in franzosischer Ubersetzung von Madeleine Tyssens (1989).