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Criticism and Truth

Criticism and Truth


Roland Barthes



From Library Journal Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's Sur Racine , this polemic answers many of the ...
Introducing Kafka

Introducing Kafka


David Zane Mairowitz



About the Author David Zane Mairowitz's plays for radio are produced in over twenty countries, and his radiophonic opera,...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust


Paul De Man



Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust...
The German tradition of psychology in literature and thought, 1700-1840

The German tradition of psychology in literature and thought, 1700-1840


Matthew Bell



Review 'Bell does an excellent job of charting the German psychology of his chosen period, exploring the expression of ps...
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010: An Anthology

Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010: An Anthology


Jacqueline Bel, Thomas Vaessens



About the Author Jacqueline Bel is a senior lecturer in modern Dutch literature at the Free University Amsterdam. Thomas Ve...
Female & male voices in early modern England: an anthology of Renaissance writing

Female & male voices in early modern England: an anthology of Renaissance writing


Anne Lake Prescott, Betty Travitsky



Review "Travitsky (archivist, Staten Island College, CUNY) and Prescott (literature, Barnard College) have put together a f...
Culture and consciousness: literature regained

Culture and consciousness: literature regained


William S. Haney



About the Author William S. Haney II, a University of California, Davis, Ph.D., is Professor of English and has taught at...
Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf


J. Gukova, S. Prokofiev



Amazon.com Review European comics artist Miguelanxo Prado describes his two life passions as "listening to and inve...
Travelling players in Shakespeare's England

Travelling players in Shakespeare's England


Siobhan Keenan



Review 'This is an excellent exploration of the touring performances of the professional companies, focusing on the speci...
Trollope and the Church of England

Trollope and the Church of England


Jill Felicity Durey



Review 'Durey draws upon a wealth of information to illustrate Trollope's interests and concerns...giving at least passin...
Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth (Early Modern Literature in History)

Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth (Early Modern Literature in History)


John Dolan



Review 'This most readable study of literary history not only reveals the well springs of Romanticism in eighteenth-centu...
Was am Ende bleibt

Was am Ende bleibt


Paula Fox



Was am Ende bleibt...
Robert Musil - Essayismus als Selbstreflexion der Moderne

Robert Musil - Essayismus als Selbstreflexion der Moderne


Birgit Nübel



Review "[...] handelt es sich bei N bels Studie um eine respektheischende Leistung, deren Beitrag als Vorgabe und Anregun...
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

Representing the Plague in Early Modern England


Ernest B. Gilman, Rebecca Totaro



Review "This is an extraordinary collection, filled with many strong and engaging arguments, readable and broad in its trea...
Writing Europe: What Is European About the Literatures of Europe? : Essays from 33 European Countries

Writing Europe: What Is European About the Literatures of Europe? : Essays from 33 European Countries


Ilma Rakusa, Ursula Keller



Review "An adventure trip into European regions off the beaten track." About the Author ABOUT THE EDITORS Ursula...
(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 23)

(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 23)


David R. Castillo



(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 23)...
Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and American Literature 1830-1917 (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Verleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and American Literature 1830-1917 (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Verleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)


Hugh Ridley



Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and American Literature 1830-1917 (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Verleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)...
'And Never Know the Joy'': Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry

'And Never Know the Joy'': Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry


C.C. Barfoot



'And Never Know the Joy'': Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry...
William Blake's Comic Vision

William Blake's Comic Vision


Nicholas Rawlinson



About the Author NICK RAWLINSON is a Graduate of London and Oxford. He works as an actor, writer and teacher. ...
Peter Ackroyd: the ludic and labyrinthine text

Peter Ackroyd: the ludic and labyrinthine text


Julian Wolfreys, Jeremy Gibson



Review 'The Laughter of Peter Ackroyd - no, this is not a novel by Agatha Christie, it is just what this exhilarating and...
A Poetics of Forgiveness: Cultural Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing

A Poetics of Forgiveness: Cultural Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing


Jill Scott



About the Author Jill Scott is Associate Professor of German at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. She is the aut...
Ulysses (Gabler Edition)

Ulysses (Gabler Edition)


James Joyce, Hans Gabler



Amazon.com Review Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge Joh...
Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain

Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain


Vincent Barletta



Book Description Forcibly expelled from Spain in the early seventeenth century, the substantial Muslim community known a...
The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature)


Stephen Harrison



Book Description Horace is a central author in Latin literature and his work spans a wide range of genres. In this 2007 v...
Romanticism and Pleasure

Romanticism and Pleasure


Michelle Faubert, Thomas H. Schmid



About the Author Thomas H. Schmid is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso.  Michelle...
Die deutsche Krankheit: Sparwut und Sozialabbau

Die deutsche Krankheit: Sparwut und Sozialabbau


Gustav A. Horn



Die deutsche Krankheit: Sparwut und Sozialabbau...
Kierkegaard und Schelling: Freiheit, Angst und Wirklichkeit

Kierkegaard und Schelling: Freiheit, Angst und Wirklichkeit


Jon Stewart, Jochem Hennigfeld



Kierkegaard und Schelling: Freiheit, Angst und Wirklichkeit...
The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)


Annette Cozzi



About the Author Annette Cozzi is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Unive...
Memory and history in George Eliot: transfiguring the past

Memory and history in George Eliot: transfiguring the past


Hao Li



Review 'On the one hand a closely and elegantly written critique of all her novels, Hao Li's book on the other hand weave...
A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (Monografías A)

A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (Monografías A)


Aníbal González



Review A work of scrupulous scholarship. --Times Literary Supplement About the Author Aníbal GonzÃ...