Domestic Biographies

Elif S Armbruster

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 105
• Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet B... Lees meer

Literary Intellectuals

Abdulla M. Al-Dabbagh

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 117
• Essays in this book deal with Western intellectuals, Arab intellectuals and Arab literary and cultural concerns, the spread of Islamophobia, and the d... Lees meer

Images and Imagery

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 74
• Images and Imagery: Frames, Borders, Limits - Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by scholars from around the world exploring the... Lees meer

Writers and Artists in Dialogue

Cortney Cronberg Barko

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 122
• This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tr... Lees meer

Elastizitaet

Jennifer Ham

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 29
• Frequenting circuses in Paris and Berlin, Frank Wedekind, best known for Spring Awakening and the Lulu plays, learned that trapeze artists and tightro... Lees meer

Heinrich Von Kleist

Erika Berroth

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 58
• Die Texte Heinrich von Kleists haben bis heute nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren. Diese Studie verschafft Einblicke in das Verhältnis von Geschlec... Lees meer

Seven Essays

Abdulla M. Al-Dabbagh

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 128
• In Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film , Abdulla Al-Dabbagh's unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new... Lees meer

Komische Geschichte(n)

Helga Halbfass

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 3
• Das Buch analysiert Achim von Arnims Teilnahme an den philosophischen und historisch-politischen Diskursen seiner Zeit sowie die Beziehung zwischen ge... Lees meer

The Moral World of «Billy Budd»

Russell Weaver

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 120
• The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those v... Lees meer

Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 125
• Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey is an essential tool for scholars and students of Middle Eastern literature, Turkish literatur... Lees meer

Wo Das Pulver Liegt

Patricia K Calkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 23
• Adolf Glassbrenner's short-lived literary journal, Berliner Don Quixote (1832-1833), provides an intimate portrait of a city on the verge of modernity... Lees meer

Enigmatic Bliss

Ingrid Daemmrich

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 25
• What power has assured the continual fascination of writers with paradise? This book suggests that the answer lies in the complex, dynamic, and enigma... Lees meer

Beautiful Sanctuaries in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature

Hugo Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 106
• This book is a collection of wonderful and thoughtful essays that explore the theme of beautiful sanctuaries in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-centur... Lees meer

Family in Wolfram Von Eschenbach's «Willehalm: Mîner Mâge Triwe Ist Mir Wol Kuont»

Sylvia B Stevens

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 18
• Family in Wolfram von Eschenbach's «Willehalm» mîner mâge triwe ist mir wol kuont explores Wolfram von Eschenbach's use of familial relationships in W... Lees meer

Folklore in British Literature

Sarah R Wakefield

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 80
• Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations ... Lees meer

History and Utopian Disillusion

Jun Young Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 86
• Canonical but controversial works of radical modernism, John Dos Passos' novels continue to intrigue readers and challenge literary critics with their... Lees meer

Der Mythos Der Weiblichkeit Im Werke Max Frischs

Liette Bohler

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 36
• Die Identitäts- und Rollenproblematik sind die Leitmotive in Max Frischs Werk, die in der Literaturkritik am meisten Beachtung fanden. Daß diese Probl... Lees meer

The Final Crossing

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 124
• The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from arou... Lees meer

Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

Tom Absher

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 134
• This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features ... Lees meer

Heinrich Boell ALS Moralist

Lawrence F Glatz

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 42
• Heinrich Böll wird mit Recht als Moralist bezeichnet. Das Thema von Verbrechen und Gewalt, das eine zentrale Funktion in seinen Prosawerken einnimmt, ... Lees meer

August Strindberg Und das Expressionistische Stationendrama

Johannes F Evelein

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 13
• Dieses Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, August Strindbergs formale Erneuerungen, die zur Entstehung des Stationendramas führten, anhand einer Analyse der Dra... Lees meer

Self-Realization

Horst Daemmrich

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 141
• The self as a primary literary element can be identified as an axis of symmetry, similar to a central section of a wheel, which connects to all relate... Lees meer

Black Banners

Donald K Weaver

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 101
• Black Banners , written in 1904, is August Strindberg's last major novel of social criticism. It embodies an attack on the decadence and immorality he... Lees meer

Sanctuaries in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book

Hugo G Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 121
• This volume comprises a collection of insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book . These are sanctuar... Lees meer