The Rule of Four

Robert L Berner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 21
• Many American Indian cultures define material and spiritual reality in the symbolism of the four seasons and the four directions. The Rule of Four exa... 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

Antigone's Daughters

Marta L Wilkinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 97
• Antigone's Daughters presents various readings of the classical myth of Antigone as interpreted through modern feminist and psychoanalytic literary th... Lees meer

After Romanticism

Robert Eisenhauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 98
• After Romanticism explores the ground common to European romanticism and American modernism, a space of translation and echoing where gulfs of ironic ... Lees meer

Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke

Johannes Wich-Schwarz

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 109
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the most famous European poet of the twentieth century, exemplifies how the crisis of language inherent in lit... 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

Inversion of Revolutionary Ideals

Huimin Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 33
• The dialectical principle of Hegel's theory of tragedy exposes the tragic essence of revolution: the totalized claims of revolutionary ideas contradic... Lees meer

Dreams, Hallucinations, Dragons, the Unconscious, and Ekphrasis in German Romanticism

Joseph D. Rockelmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 137
• This study posits that ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into... Lees meer

Anglistische Literaturstudien

Haskell M Block

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 40
• Dieses Buch enthält achtzehn Studien von Richard Gerber, der an der Freien Universität Berlin englische und amerikanische Literatur unterrichtete. Im ... Lees meer

In Their Own Terms; American Literary Historiography in the United States and Italy

Francesco Pontuale

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 95
• In a historical period of international and global frames of literary investigation, In Their Own Terms is a timely and valuable contribution to cross... Lees meer

Silence and the Silenced

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 119
• Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the va... 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

Modes of Historical Discourse in J.G. Herder and N.M. Karamzin

Samuel Mark Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 12
• During the eighteenth century, the need for European literature to expand chronological and national boundaries and the function of historical discour... 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

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

Journeys and Journals

Carol Allen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 127
• Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American ... Lees meer

Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 90
• This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and ... Lees meer

Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth-Century European Literature

Hugo G Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 102
• This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially ... Lees meer

The Island Motif in the Fiction of L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists

Theodore F Sheckels

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 68
• Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye... Lees meer

Kleist's Female Leading Characters and the Subversion of Idealist Discourse

Grant Profant McAllister Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 75
• Heinrich von Kleist's problematic relationship with the philosophy and the aesthetics of idealism informs his parodic, rebellious, and destructive oeu... Lees meer

Selbstverwirklichung/Selbstverneinung

Herlinde Nitsch Ayers

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 15
• Die weiblichen Charaktere der Dramatiker Hebbel, Ibsen und Strindberg reflektieren das Autonomiestreben der Frau im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Si... Lees meer

Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature

Hugo G Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 115
• Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and ... Lees meer

Becoming Fiction

Olivia Gabor-Peirce

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 131
• Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt's Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Lees meer

Archeologies of Invective

Robert Eisenhauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 94
• Focusing on specimens of discourse where criticism assumes a flagrantly bucolic persona, Archeologies of Invective investigates hitherto little acknow... Lees meer