Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

Fifty years after the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts, Jonathan Dollimore explores, in, through and beyond the gay sub-cultures of cities like New York, Brighton and Sydney, what the new freedoms meant for him and others in the following decades. He writes honestly and movingly about his teenage attraction to risk and danger; of accidents and escapes; of curiosity as a flight from boredom; of suicidal depression and ecstasy; and, beneath all, of the life of desire haunted and torn by loss.

For more than thirty years Jonathan Dollimore has been one of...

In today's theatre, productions of plays that originated in another language are frequently distinguished by two characteristics: the authorship of the English text by a well-known local theatre specialist, and the absence of the term 'translation'-generally in favour of 'adaptation' or 'version'. The Translator on Stage investigates the creative processes that bring translated plays to the mainstream stage, exploring the commissioning, translation and development procedures that end with a performed play.

Through a sample of eight plays that span two thousand years and six...

In today's theatre, productions of plays that originated in another language are frequently distinguished by two characteristics: the authorship of the English text by a well-known local theatre specialist, and the absence of the term 'translation'-generally in favour of 'adaptation' or 'version'. The Translator on Stage investigates the creative processes that bring translated plays to the mainstream stage, exploring the commissioning, translation and development procedures that end with a performed play.

Through a sample of eight plays that span two thousand years and six...

An important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face, and the centrality of facial expressions in characterization, in the works of William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hermann Hesse, and C.S. Lewis.

Maurice Hunt explores both the human yearning to see the divine face from post-Apostolic time to the 20th century, as reflected in religion, myth, and literature by writers such as Augustine, Shakespeare, Hardy and...

On Valentine's Day 1900, three schoolgirls and a teacher disappear while on a school outing at Hanging Rock in Victoria.

What became of the missing girls and their teacher?

Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock detailed the tragedy, and the author left strict instructions for the final chapter not to be printed until her death.

Many Australians remember the 1967 book and 1975 film; many high school students studied it as part of their school curriculum. But was the story real? And did the secret chapter released after Joan Lindsay's death cast a new light on...

From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in France, James Joyce's Ulysses and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the US, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in Great-Britain, up to the more recent trials on Klaus Mann's Mephisto and Maxim Biller's...

From the innovative and astonishingly insightful mind of Jesse H. McKnight, Chaplin, Joyce, Melville-Roots and Branches of the Modern Mind uses a spellbinding combination of astute research and articulate argument to discover the creative seeds of the singularly imaginative minds of three great men.

Students of film or literature may feel as if everything has already been unearthed regarding these important artists. However, McKnight forges entirely new connections among three seemingly disparate notables, acting as our guide and exposing every captivating link we never knew...

The essays and reviews in Transatlantic Trio are laid out in a sequence that, though differing slightly from the chronological order in which they were first printed, best reveals the scholarly narrative implicit throughout these formerly scattered, yet now assembled, shorter pieces. One case--namely, "Locke and Wesley: An Essence of Influence"--compresses the collection's take not just on the British, but on the British-to-Anglo-American, milieu. At least one essay in the first series, accordingly, may be short enough for readers in a hurry. Two cases, as already specified in the...

Ausgehend von der These, dass Literatur im 21. Jahrhundert in vielfacher Weise durch das Phanomen der Wanderung gepragt ist (von der Thematisierung von Migration bis zur beschleunigten 'Wanderung' von Texten uber Sprach- und Nationalgrenzen hinweg) stellt der aus einer internationalen Tagung an der Universitat Mainz hervorgegangene Band die Frage, wie die Komparatistik auf die zugig sich verandernde literarische Welt reagieren soll. Das aus der Ubersetzungstheorie Schleiermachers entlehnte, jedoch neu akzentuierte Konzept der -fremden Ahnlichkeiten- bietet vielfaltige Moglichkeiten,...