Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Subjects & Themes - General

Die Erforschung der menschlichen Sexualitat erlebt um 1900 eine Hochkonjunktur. Uber die Grenzen der Wissenschaft hinaus werden die neuen Erkenntnisse in der Gesellschaft im Lichte ihrer moglichen sozialen, moralischen und politischen Folgen rege diskutiert. Der Sammelband untersucht die Interferenzen zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Kunst und unterzieht verschiedenste sexualpathologische Reprasentationen historisch-kritischen Lekturen.

Although things play an 'active' and visible role in a number of texts, especially older works, they have rarely been examined by narratologists in their own right. This comparative study of the Eneasroman, the Roman d'Eneas and the Aeneid reveals the interpretive value of deliberate attention to objects. In addition, it also suggests starting points for their systematic categorization.

Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of belonging in diasporic contexts....

Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance and evil.

A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian...

In the last few decades, the phrase "spatial turn" has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women's writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization,...

A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis's groundbreaking study examines literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what impact they have had on cultural stereotypes, autistic culture, and the identity politics of autism. Imagining Autism looks at fictional characters (and an author or two) widely understood as autistic, ranging from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Harper Lee's Boo Radley to Mark Haddon's boy...

Eliot s "Four Quartets "is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In "Word Unheard, "first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by guiding the reader line by line through the poem, blending paraphrase with commentary. Blamires pays particular attention to the philosophical and theological dimensions of the poem and to its multifarious personal, historical and literary allusions. This title will be of interests to students of literature. "

This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot s work, and includes Eliot s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature. "

Noch vor kurzem erschien es kaum denkbar, dass in der westlichen Welt Konflikte entstehen konnten, die an langst vergangene Religionskriege erinnern. Ob die Erinnerung an die Ursprunge unserer Toleranzauffassung daran etwas andern kann, ist fraglich. Eine historische Vergewisserung ist dennoch notwendig, da Losungsansatze in naturrechtlich-politischen Diskussionen der Fruhen Neuzeit zu finden sind. Dieser Band liefert die notwendigen Grundlagen.

Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. The book deals with the plurality of the sciences and technologies. It is about the way in which each of them develops around the prosthetics of printed languages and the models used as visual aids to help us create new modes of communication and solve human problems.

This volume will deal with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history.

As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically, these writers focused on encounters with black Africans throughout the Atlantic world, attempting to use these points of contact to articulate and defend England s global ambitions. In "Black Africans in the British Imagination," Cassander L. Smith investigates how the physical presence of...

First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre. It begins by discriminating between the literature of roguery and the picaresque in particular before discussing the origins of the genre in Spain and tracing its development into Europe. The book concludes with a brief description of contemporary works which belong to the same tradition.

In tracing the itinerary of the "picaro" in Europe and in America, it attempts to define a myth of the picaresque which consists of two phases: the first being the traditional Spanish model of the picaresque and the second...