The City

Reinhard Thum

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 1
• Before the mid-nineteenth century, the modern industrial metropolis played only a minor role in lyric poetry. In incorporating the new urban reality i... Lees meer

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

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

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

A Case of Mis-Taken Identity

Helen Lock

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 9
• The detective story, staple of Western popular culture, has undergone a transformation in recent African American fiction. In the work of Ishmael Reed... 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

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

Will and Representation

Bernhard Radloff

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 17
• The «Theatrum Mundi» of Melville's thought investigated in this work signifies the representational space of modern subjectivity, which posits a «worl... 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

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

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

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

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

The Dialogue of Marriage in Contemporary German and Latin American Short Stories

Hanna Geldrich Leffman, College of Arts and Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 48
• Marriage as a problematic and endangered institution is the theme of many contemporary short stories. Using a Bakhtinian, dialogic approach, this stud... 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

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

Before the Sun Has Set

John Lawrence Darretta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature | nr. 84
• This detailed analysis of the theme of retribution is a key to understanding the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. An idea central to the Bible, Dante, an... Lees meer