Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Subjects & Themes - Historical Events

In Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial, Michael Rubenstein documents the relationship between Irish modernism and a restricted segment of the material culture of the modern state known colloquially as "public utilities" or "water, gas, and electricity." The water tap, the toilet, the gas jet, and the electrical light switch: these are all sites, in Irish modernism, of unexpected literary and linguistic intensities that burst through the routines of everyday life, defamiliarizing and reconceptualizing that which we might not normally consider...

In der Reihe Deutsche Literatur erscheinen Studien und Quellen der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Es handelt sich um philologisch grundlegende Arbeiten, die das Fach in seiner ganzen methodischen und thematischen Breite abdecken und literaturgeschichtliche Analysen mit theoretischer Reflexion auf hohem Niveau verbinden. Die Ausgaben im Rahmen der Reihe stellen ambitionierte, innovative Editionsvorhaben dar. Komparatistische Perspektiven auf die deutschsprachige Literatur sind ausdrucklich erwunscht.

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Focusing on several key cities, this study measures the influence of the distinctive urban landscaper on various modernisms emerging between 1890 and 1950. In particular, it explores interactions among literary texts and institutions of cultural production in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and New York. Along with absorbing analyses of key modernist texts, each chapter surveys different sites in which modernism emerged: publishing houses, bookstores, discussion circles, salons, and caf?s, and they address new urban features, such as the underground transportation system, the growth of the...

Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century--still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age--and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that postwar fiction functions as a fascinating model of revolutionary change. Uniting literary criticism, cultural analysis, political theory, and science studies, Revolution reimagines the years after World War II as at once distinct from the decades surrounding them and part of a...

Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces.

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.

The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...

The year was 778. Charlemagne, starting homeward after an expedition onto the Iberian Peninsula, left his nephew, Count Roland, in command of a rear guard. As Roland and his troops moved through the Pyrenees, a fierce enemy swooped down and annihilated them. Whether the attackers were Moors, Basques, Gascons, or Aquitainians is still disputed. The massacre soon passed into legend, preserved but at the same time expanded and interpreted in oral tradition and written accounts.

Dormant after the late Middle Ages, the legend began to inspire literary works even before the discovery and...

Although The Tin Drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework. Here is the full-length study to penetrate the brilliance of Gunter Grass's style and uncover the novel's mythopoetic core. In A Mythic Journey: Gunter Grass's Tin Drum, author Edward Diller convincingly demonstrates the still valid relationship between modern and classical literary criticism. By reading The Tin Drum as both modern myth and historical epic, he provides a...

Written in 1929--1930, when Federico Garcia Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe" -- an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the technological world of New York.

Craige here describes -- through close analysis of the structure, style, and themes of individual works in Poet in New York -- the chaos into which...

What is it about theatre, compared to other kinds of cultural representation, which provokes such a powerful reaction? "Theatrical Unrest" tells the compelling tales of ten riots whose cause lies on stage. It looks at the intensity and evanescence of the live event and asks whether theatre shares its unrepeatable quality with history.

Tracing episodes of unrest in theatrical history from an Elizabethan uprising over Shakespeare's "Richard II" to Sikhs in revolt at Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's "Behzti," Sean McEvoy chronicles a selection of extreme public responses to this inflammatory art...

Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, an individual whose life story takes on meaning from his or her relation to the collective history and ethos of the nation. Her second and related argument is that this self--individually and...