Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

The Frankenstein we know is not Mary Shelley's creature at all. Rather it is an amalgam of over 200 years of images and dramatizations that range from the ghoulish fiends of nineteenth-century sensation dramas to Boris Karloff's movie monster to Mel Brooks's tap-dancing giant. These versions treat the Frankenstein myth with varying levels of horror, hysteria, and humor, but all of them attest to its enduring power.

In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend's transformation over time--beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest...

The second volume of a trilogy about aberrant reason and the cognitive fault lines that expose the discontinuities underlying empirical reality, fault lines that are embedded in the discourses of literature, art, social analysis, biology, and philosophy.

The first volume of a trilogy about aberrant reason and the cognitive fault lines that expose the discontinuities underlying empirical reality, fault lines that are embedded in the discourses of literature, art, social analysis, biology, and philosophy.

In Canons and Wisdoms, Albert Cook addresses what is arguable the most profound question about poetry and literature: What is its human value? Cook claims that the value lies in the special yield of wisdom rich, full, and not available in other forms of human discourse. This somewhat traditional position is reinforced by the related arguments of such philosophers as Adorno and Heidegger, and by other works in Renaissance poetry and modern poetry and fiction, where the sense of the work becomes clearer when it is seen in the light of such a question.

Cook addresses what can be...

Solange es Film gibt, gibt es die Verfilmung von Gedichten. Dennoch sind audiovisuelle Erscheinungsformen von Lyrik bislang weitgehend vernachlassigt worden.
Die vorliegende Studie beginnt, diese Forschungslucke auf dem Gebiet der Literatur-Film-Beziehungen zu schlieen und entwirft zunachst eine Typologie des Poesiefilms. Im Zentrum steht der Gedichtfilm, der sich als konkrete Realisierung von Lyrik im audiovisuellen Medium von verwandten Phanomenen wie dem poetischen Film und der Literaturverfilmung abgrenzen lasst.
In einem historischen Abriss werden Traditionen des noch wenig...