16,293円 Voltaire: A Reference Guide To His Life and Works French author. This Guide offers 21st-century readers a glimpse into the multifaceted Voltaire: the thinker, rebel, writer, exile, and campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day. A wide-ranging Introduction situates the prolific au...

5,970円 A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate th...

6,477円 El debate sobre la deceleración, la emergencia del movimiento aceleracionista y la consolidación de la era neoliberal como un periodo basado en la administración y regulación del tiempo,demuestran que este es una categoría esencial en el pensamiento crítico actual. De igual modo, el “giro tempora...

4,934円 Byron concealed himself in various literary disguises, a process he called “mobility.” In this study of influences on Byron’s verse and Byron’s European impact, I explore these borrowings and transformations as they manifested themselves in his reading. At issue is the very concept of romantic po...

12,544円 Why do some creations flourish while others fade into obscurity? In Fame or Oblivion? the author makes a provocative thesis: that Russian society has historically nurtured literary and artistic genius while stifling technological innovation. Based on the tools of cultural and historical analysis,...

9,578円 This book analyses Tolkien’s approach to the depiction of vices and virtues in three Middle-earth works, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. While providing a general synthetising overview of up-to-date research in the topic, its uniqueness consists in the fact that it goes b...

1,657円 Cinismo e umorismo, animali antropomorfizzati ed esseri umani dai caratteri ferini, piante mostruose e angeli martiri si mescolano, si avvolgono e si sovrappongono nel bestiario moderno di ciò che è rimasto nell’Europa centro-orientale dopo il tramonto delle ideologie e delle dittature. La scritt...

9,578円 The eponymous inter esse means the elusive “third” position of that which lies between, that which escapes unambiguous classification and constitutes the essence of Romanticism. The book provides a constellation of texts, a clash of case studies that provide contrasting views of Romanticism, shif...

10,424円 Desde la Antigua Hélade hasta el reino de Castilla, desde Castilla hasta el virreinato del Perú, las quince contribuciones de este volumen dan cuenta de las distintas formas en las que el pensamiento heleno conoció un nuevo resplandor en la poesía y la prosa de los siglos XVI al XIX en distintas ...

7,887円 Este libro presenta los resultados de la investigación de varios especialistas que, en sus respectivos capítulos, redactados en español y alemán, abordan distintos aspectos de conspicuo interés relacionados con la cultura alemana, su lengua y su literatura, bajo un enfoque intercultural. En este ...

13,122円 An inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a “World poet,” tracing his critical reception, his translation history and his work's multiple interpretations around the globe, from the 1920s to the present. Translated into many languages and in multiple editions, the poetry of C. P. Cavafy ha...

3,517円 In the fields of literary and memory studies, the cultural impact of the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 appearsーdespite the scale of devastationーsomewhat minimal. Reading War, Making Memory focuses on how authors from the diaspora of the former Yugoslavia have transmitted and translated the realities...