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Liverpool University Press The Sense of Community in French Caribbean
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The islands’ complex history means that community is a central and problematic issue in their literature, and underlies a range of other questions such as political agency, individual and collective subjectivity, attitudes towards the past and the future, and even literary form itself. Britton examines Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée, Edouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle, Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, Vincent Placoly’s L’eau-de-mort guildive, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco, Daniel Maximin’s L’Ile et une nuit and Maryse Condé’s Desirada.Trade ReviewCelia Britton's new book provides an approach that avoids the binary trap of identity and alterity. [...] A rich and diverse range of conceptions of community emerges from Britton's readings.TLSBritton's book is a thoughtful and valuable contribution to discussions both of [French philosopher Jean-Luc ] Nancy's work and about community in the French Caribbean; it will certainly become a touchstone for scholars in the field.Modern Language Review, 104.3At a time when francophone postcolonial studies appears to be seeking a second wind, this book by Professor Britton (and indeed the Liverpool University Press collection within which it figures) would seem to be offering an exemplary pathway out of the current impasse. This is a book that demonstrates how a serious engagement with theory from another discipline can enrich and re-vitalize the field of postcolonial literary study.French Studies, Vol. 64 No. 10Celia Britton's latest book is a finely-crafted piece of writing that deserves a readership far beyond the relatively narrow community of French Caribbean scholars for whom one might assume it was intended ... At a time when francophone postcolonial studies appears to be seeking a second wind, this book by Professor Britton (and indeed the Liverpool University Press collection within which it figures) would seem to be offering an exemplary pathway out of the current impasse. This is a book that demonstrates how a serious engagement with theory from another discipline can enrich and re-vitalize the field of postcolonial literary study.French Studies 64 (1)Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Restoring Lost Unity in Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée 2. Past, Future and the Maroon Community in Edouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle 3. Living by Mistake: Individual and Community in Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle 4. Singular Beings and Political Disorganization in Vincent Placoly’s L’Eau-de-mort guildive 5. Conquering the Town: Stories and Myth in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco 6. Community, Nature and Solitude in Daniel Maximin’s L’Ile et une nuit 7. On Not Belonging: Surrogate Families and Marginalized Communities in Maryse Condé’s Desirada Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and
Book SynopsisThe 2007 manifesto in favour of a “Littérature-monde en français” has generated new debates in both “francophone” and “postcolonial” studies. Praised by some for breaking down the hierarchical division between “French” and “Francophone” literatures, the manifesto has been criticized by others for recreating that division through an exoticizing vision that continues to privilege the publishing industry of the former colonial métropole. Does the manifesto signal the advent of a new critical paradigm destined to render obsolescent those of “francophone” and/or “postcolonial” studies? Or is it simply a passing fad, a glitzy but ephemeral publicity stunt generated and promoted by writers and publishing executives vis-à-vis whom scholars and critics should maintain a skeptical distance? Does it offer an all-embracing transnational vista leading beyond the confines of postcolonialism or reintroduce an incipient form of neocolonialism even while proclaiming the end of the centre/periphery divide? In addressing these questions, leading scholars of “French”, “Francophone” and “postcolonial” studies from around the globe help to assess the wider question of the evolving status of French Studies as a transnational field of study amid the challenges of globalization.Trade Review... a timely invitation to reflect on the situation of litterature d'expression francaise on the world stage, and should be considered essential buying for any scholarly library.New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 33, Number 2Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: What Does Littérature-monde Mean for French, Francophone and Postcolonial Studies? Alec G. Hargreaves, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy From World Literature to Littérature-monde: Genre, History and the Globalization of Literature Francophone World Literature (Littérature-monde), Cosmopolitanism and Decadence: ‘Citizen of the World’ without the Citizen? Deborah Jenson From Weltliteratur to World Literature to Littérature-monde: The History of a Controversial Concept Typhaine Leservot Littérature-monde in the Marketplace of Ideas: A Theoretical Discussion Mounia Benalil The Postcolonial Manifesto: Partisanship, Criticism and the Performance of Change David Murphy Postcolonialism, Politics and the ‘Becoming-Transnational’ of French Studies ‘On the Abolition of the French Department’? Exploring the Disciplinary Contexts of Littérature-monde Charles Forsdick Francophonie: Trash or Recycle? Lydie Moudileno (Not) Razing the Walls: Glissant, Trouillot and the Post-Politics of World ‘Literature’ Chris Bongie The ‘Marie ND iaye Affair’ or the Coming of a Postcolonial Evoluée Dominic Thomas (R)Evolutions Thomas C. Spear Littérature-monde and Old/New Humanism Jane Hiddleston Mapping Littérature-monde Littérature-monde, or Redefining Exotic Literature? Jean-Xavier Ridon From Littérature voyageuse to Littérature-monde via Migrant Literatures: Towards an Ethics and Poetics of Littérature-monde through French-Australian Literature Jacqueline Dutton Littérature-monde and the Space of Translation, or, Where is Littérature-monde? Jeanne Garane Littérature-monde or Littérature océanienne? Internationalism versus Regionalism in Francophone Pacific Writing Michelle Keown The World and the Mirror in Two Twenty-first-Century Manifestos: ‘Pour une “littérature-monde” en français’ and ‘Qui fait la France?’ Laura Reeck The Post-Genocidal African Subject: Patrice Nganang, Achille Mbembe and the Worldlinesss of Contemporary African Literature - in French - Michael Syrotinski Afterword: The ‘World’ in World Literature Emily Apter Appendix: Toward a ‘World-Literature’ in French Notes on Contributors
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Liverpool University Press The Female Body in Medicine and Literature
Book SynopsisThe Female Body in Medicine and Literature features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women’s surgery. Gender studies and feminist approaches to literature have become busy and enlightening fields of enquiry in recent times, yet there remains no single work that fully analyses the impact of women’s surgery on literary production or, conversely, ways in which literary trends have shaped the course of gynaecology and other branches of women’s medicine. This book will demonstrate how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender. Medical textbooks and pamphlets have consistently cited fictional plots and characterisations as a way of communicating complex or ‘sensitive’ ideas. Essays explore historical accounts of clinical procedures, the relationship between gynaecology and psychology, and cultural conceptions of motherhood, fertility, and the female organisation through a broad range of texts including Henry More’s Pre-Existency of the Soul (1659), Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1855), and Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues (1998). The Female Body in Medicine and Literature raises important theoretical questions on the relationship between popular culture, literature, and the growth of women’s medicine and will be required reading for scholars in gender studies, literary studies and the history of medicine. This collection explores the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of women between 1600 and 2000. Employing a range of methodologies, it furthers our understanding of the development of women’s medicine and comments on its wider cultural ramifications. Although there has been an increase in critical studies of women’s medicine in recent years, this collection is a key contributor to that field because it draws together essays on a wide range of new topics from varying disciplines. It features, for instance, studies of motherhood, fertility, clinical procedure, and the relationship between gynaecology and psychology. Besides offering essays on subjects that have received a lack of critical attention, the essays presented here are truly interdisciplinary; they explore the complex links between gynaecology, art, language, and philosophy, and underscore how popular art forms have served an important function in the formation of ‘women’s science’ prior to the twenty-first century. This book also demonstrates how a number of high-profile controversies were taken up and reworked by novelists, philosophers, and historians. Focusing on the vexed and convoluted story of women’s medicine, this volume offers new ways of thinking about gender, science, and the Western imagination.List of contributors: Janice Allan, Madeleine K. Davies, Greta Depledge, Laurie Garrison, Joanna Grant, Lori Schroeder Haslem, Dominic Janes, Emma L. Jones, Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, Pam Lieske, Andrew Mangham, Emma L. E. Rees, Sheena Sommers, Susan C. Staub, and Carolyn D.Williams.Trade Review'An engaging and important book.' Holly FurneauxTable of Contents Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction - Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge 2. ‘Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear’d up’: The Controversial Mother, 1600–1800 - Carolyn D.Williams 3. Monstrous Issues: The Uterus as Riddle in Early Modern Medical Texts - Lori Schroeder Haslem 4. Surveilling the Secrets of the Female Body: The Contest for Reproductive Authority in the Popular Press of the Seventeenth Century - Susan C. Staub 5. ‘Made in Imitation of Real Women and Children’: Obstetrical Machines in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Pam Lieske 6. Transcending the Sexed Body: Reason, Sympathy, and ‘Thinking Machines’ in the Debates over Male Midwifery - Sheena Sommers 7. Emma Martin and the Manhandled Womb in Early Victorian England - Dominic Janes 8. Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman - Emma L. E. Rees 9. ‘Those Parts Peculiar to Her Organization’: Some Observations on the History of Pelvimetry, a Nearly Forgotten Obstetric Subspeciality - Joanna Grant 10. ‘She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly’: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Challenge to Medical Depictions of Female Masturbation in 'The Doctor’s Wife' - Laurie Garrison 11. Mrs Robinson’s ‘Day-book of Iniquity’: Reading Bodies of/and Evidence in the Context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act - Janice M. Allan 12. Rebecca’s Womb: Irony and Gynaecology in 'Rebecca' - Madeleine K. Davies 13. Representations of Illegal Abortionists in England, 1900–1967 - Emma L. Jones 14. Afterword: Reading History as/and Vision - Karín Lesnik-Oberstein Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of
Book SynopsisThe Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the United States. In 1957, his luck changed: the famous French Série noire brought out the first installment of his “Harlem” crime series, La reine des pommes. Suddenly, he was a household name in France. Later, he would also have a significant influence on Francophone African writers; for them, Himes’s blend of absurdist humor and violence offered an alternative to a high literary paradigm implanted during the colonial era. Likewise, his heterogeneous identity as American, black, and a writer of “French” bestsellers modeled an escape from the centripetal pull of the Métropole. Starting with Abasse Ndione’s depictions of Senegal’s marijuana-smoking subculture in La Vie en spirale (1982) and ending with Mongo Beti’s 2001 Branle-bas en noir et blanc, set in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Francophone African crime fiction rejected French criteria of literary success; it embraced a new postcolonial aesthetic that emphasized entertaining the reader while making a living. The Noir Atlantic demonstrates why turning to what this study calls a “frivolous literary” mode represented a profound shift in perspective that anticipated more recent developments such as littérature monde.Trade ReviewThe Noir Atlantic is a captivating book in which Pim Higginson carves out new terrain through absorbing readings of the under-explored corpus of francophone African crime writing. Readers will be stimulated by the numerous insights provided into the multi-directional nature of cultural and political networks that have historically shaped relations between Africa, Europe, and the United States, and appreciate the far-reaching implications for diaspora, francophone, and postcolonial studies. Dominic Thomas -- Dominic ThomasIt will be useful not only to scholars of African literature in French but also to readers of Chester Himes’s novels and crime fiction in general. In short, this book makes interesting and important connections between Francophone African and African American literature. It is also, like the crime fiction it discusses, a very good read. Nicki HitchcottTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Frivolous Literary 1. "Pas de litterature": Abasse Ndione and the Rise of Crime 2. Minor Mistranslations: Simon Njami and the Making of a Parisianist Himes 3. Crime Pays: Achille Ngoye and the Serie noire 4. Ethnographic Erotics: Bolya and the Writing of the Other 5. Terreur Rose: Kouty, memoire de sang and the Gendering of Noir 6. Going out Blazing: Mongo Beti's Last Two Novels Bibliography Index
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James Currey Anglophone African Detective Fiction 19402020
Book SynopsisProviding a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.Since the late 1940s, African writers including Cyprian Ekwensi, Arthur Maimane, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Hilary Ng'weno, Unity Dow, Parker Bilal, and Angela Makholwa have published over 200 murder mysteries, police procedurals, spy thrillers, and other fictional narratives of investigation and discovery in English-language newspapers, magazines, and novels. Distributed widely across the continent's diverse cultural and political geographies, these texts share aesthetic characteristics and thematic preoccupations that reflect transnational networks of production, circulation, and influence. Anglophone African Detective Fiction, 1940-2020 surveys this literary history and examines how African writers have repeatedly harnessed the detective story to interrogate postcolonial realities of selfhood and the state. It argues that African writers have turned the detective story into a highly productive, while at the same time suspense-filled and entertaining, mode of social and political critique, first of colonialism and the independence era and latterly of neoliberal governance. Offering an overview of paradigmatic texts, from Ghana to Kenya and Sudan to South Africa, the book traces the contours of the history of Anglophone African detective fiction that is at once a cultural history of a uniquely African assessment of the ongoing problematics of sovereignty and decolonization.
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James Currey ALT 42 Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
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Pushcart Press Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
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The Classical Press of Wales (UK) Whats in a Name The Significance of Proper Names
Book SynopsisJoan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II.Robert Maltby is Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Leeds. He graduated from Cambridge and worked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich and at the Department of Classics in Sheffield before moving to Leeds in 1989. His main publications are A Selection of Latin Love Elegy (1980), A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies (1991) and Tibullus: Elegies, Text, Introduction and Commentary (2002). His research interests include Roman Comedy and Elegy and ancient etymological and linguistic theory.
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Classical Press of Wales Persian Responses
Book SynopsisA generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander.
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Liverpool University Press Unamuno: Aunt Tula
Book SynopsisAunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure for successive generations of children; some related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of the 20th century.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliographical Note Tia Tula / Aunt Tula Notes
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Liverpool University Press Unamuno: Aunt Tula
Book SynopsisAunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure for successive generations of children; some related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of the 20th century.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliographical Note Tia Tula / Aunt Tula Notes
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Liverpool University Press Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead
Book SynopsisRamon del Valle-Inclan is one of Spain's greatest dramatists. His particular legacy is theesperpento, a satirical mode combining tragedy and farce and characterised by its use of the grotesque.The Dead Man's Finery (1926) andThe Captain's Daughter (1927) are two short esperpentos that satirise the military, which for Valle-Inclan encapsulated the worst and most retrogressive qualities of the Spanish nation. InThe Dead Man's Finery, Johnny Bluster is a decommissioned veteran of the Spanish American War who steals a dead man's clothes in order to woo a prostitute. A parody of the Don Juan legend, the play takes the problematic, protean and devilish Don Juan and sets his outrageous behaviour in a very particular social and historical context.The Captain's Daughteris the most historically and politically oriented of Valle-Inclain's works for the theatre. A man is killed and the accident of his death sets off a chain of events in which exploitation and self-interest are the orchestrating forces, concluding in a military coup that topples the government. An overt satire of the rise to power of General Primo de Rivera in 1923, the play dispenses with the individual protagonist and portrays a society in crisis. Notorious for his recondite use of language, Valle-Inclain emphasises the popular idiom without ever falling into picturesque realism. Rather than recreate accurate modes of speech he creates a mode of expression that highlights incongruity and contrast, emphasising the puppet-like quality of his characters. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes to guide the reader or director of these plays. Notorious for his recondite use of language, in these plays Valle-Inclan emphasises the popular idiom without ever falling into picturesque realism; rather than recreate accurate modes of speech he creates a mode of expression that brings together all the play's characters, regardless of their status or place in society. The emphasis on incongruity and contrast creates a peculiarly sarcastic tone that permeates the dialogue. The plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes to guide the reader or director of these plays, both fine examples of Valle-Inclan's expressionistic and experimental theatre.Table of Contents Translator’s Note Critical Introduction Bibliography Las galas del difunto/The Dead Man’s Finery Notes La hija del capitán/The Captain’s Daughter Notes
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Liverpool University Press Going Down to Morocco
Book SynopsisGoing Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s. Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin Pepito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour, creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film references. Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.Table of Contents Introduction Bibliography Interview with JoséLuis Alonso de Santos Bajarse al moro/Going Down to Morocco
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Liverpool University Press Going Down to Morocco
Book SynopsisGoing Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s. Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin Pepito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour, creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film references. Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.Table of Contents Introduction Bibliography Interview with JoséLuis Alonso de Santos Bajarse al moro/Going Down to Morocco
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Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
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Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
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Clemson University Digital Press The European Metropolis: Paris and
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Clemson University Digital Press Rupert Brooke in the First World War
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Clemson University Digital Press A Companion to Ezra Pound's Guide to Kulchur
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Clemson University Digital Press Readings in the Cantos: Volume 1
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Clemson University Digital Press Virginia Woolf and Heritage
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Clemson University Digital Press Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World
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University of Nevada Press Reimagining Environmental History: Ecological
Book SynopsisChristian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists. Knoeller starts out with Audubon, and cites Thoreau’s journals in the 1850s as he assesses an early 17th century account of New England’s natural resources by William Wood, showing the epic decline in game and bird populations in Concord. This reading of environmental history is replicated throughout with a gallery of novelists, poets, essayists, and other commentators as they explore ecological memory and environmental destruction. In apt discussions of Matthiessen, Lopez, Wendell Berry, William Stafford and many others, Knoeller offers vibrant insights into literary history. He also cites his own memoir of perpetual development on his family’s farm in Indiana, enriching the scholarship and making an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination. Reading across centuries and genres, Knoeller gives us a vibrant new appraisal of Midwestern/North American interior literary traditions and makes clear how vital environmental writing is to this region. To date, no one has written such an eloquent and comprehensive cross-genre analysis of Midwestern environmental literature.Trade ReviewReimagining Environmental History provides a chronological and cross genre analysis of the environmental history of the Midwest. Knoeller provides a fresh and compelling perspective on many landscapes of the Midwest that include the Ohio River Valley, the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and lands of the Great Lakes, to stretches of tallgrass prairie and the High Plains of North America. The book is well-supported through careful reading of primary texts and parsing of secondary literature."" - Susan Naramore Maher, author of Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains""Knoeller’s book is an important addition to ongoing scholarship on environmental history in literature, eco criticism, and the intersection of landscape and imaginative vision in literature. It is extremely well written in a voice that will reach scholarly communities and the general public pursuing insights and solutions to dealing with climate change. The research is meticulously careful and thorough. The approach is a close reading of texts leading to new insights on literary history, an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination, and an exquisitely clear memoir on the author’s experiences which enrich the scholarship."" - Ronald Primeau, author of Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry
£26.96
Clemson University Digital Press Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Contemporary American Fiction in the European
Book SynopsisThis book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.Trade Review“Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts … fills a gap in research by exploring the subject of teaching literature at university through a compilation of essays written by professors of American literature at various higher-education institutions across Europe. … This book provides a glimpse into the list of authors and works of fiction that are part of the syllabus, with each part of the book examining a different aspect of education … .” (Olga Kajtár-Pinjung, Americana - E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Vol. 18 (1), 2022)Table of Contents1. Introduction: American Fiction Abroad.- Part I: Why Teach …?.- 2. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in Hungary: Racialized Discourse in the Classroom.- 3. Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown in Europe as an Evaluative Tool of U.S. Race Relations: “When you think American, what color do you see?”.- 4. Octavia Butler at a Swedish University: Gender, Genre, and Intercultural Encounters.- 5. John Updike in Serbia.- 6. Contemporary American Women Writers in Romania.- Part II: How to Teach …?.- 7. Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace: Contextualizing the “Systems Novel” in Estonia.- 8. Donald Barthelme at Sorbonne University: Narrative, Internet Memes, and “The Rise of Capitalism”.- 9. The (Post)Apocalypse in Hungary: American Science Fiction and Social Analysis.- 10. Gloria Anzaldúa at European Universities: Straddling Borders of Fiction and Identity.- Part III: What Lessons Might Be Gained by …?.- 11. Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah in Ireland: “If you don’t understand, ask questions”.- 12. Teaching Philip Roth in Denmark: It’s Complicated.- 13. Teaching Post-Black Aesthetics and the Coming-of-Age Novels of Danzy Senna and Colson Whitehead in Portugal: Reconsidering the Gap.- 14. Teaching Marilynne Robinson, Democracy and the Mystery of American Belonging Through the PostChristian Eyes of Millennial Brits: “Homesick for a place I never left”.- 15. Teaching Jesmyn Ward and William T. Vollmann in Finland: Genres of Environmental Justice.- Part IV: What Light from the Recent Past?.- 16. A Backward Glance o’er American Fiction in French Academia.- 17. American Literature: A Tale of Two Polands.- Part V: Additional Resources.- 18. Incorporating One’s Own Literary Criticism into the Curriculum: The Teachable Essay via John Updike’s Short Stories.- 19. Sources for Further Study.
£104.49
Springer International Publishing AG Representations of the Moon in Literature and Art
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a collection of essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first man on the moon a time when tourist journeys to the moon, now a real possibility, were no more than a fantasy.
£34.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in Deutschland
Book SynopsisDas seit 1990 erscheinende Gesamtverzeichnis aller zwischen 1840 und 1950 in deutscher Sprache verlegten Titel zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur wird mit dem Registerband abgeschlossen.
£136.32
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band I,1 Text
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£75.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band I,2
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£75.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band II,1
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£75.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band II,2
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£75.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band III,1
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£74.10
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band III,2
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£74.10
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in Deutschland
Book SynopsisUnentbehrlich für jeden, der mit dem Bereich Kinder- und Jugendbuch zu tun hat!
£151.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 1933-1945: Ein
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Niederländische Literaturgeschichte
Book SynopsisReise durch die Literatur der Niederlande und Flanderns. Hermans, Mulisch, Nooteboom, Claus, Boon, de Moor u. a. - im deutschsprachigen Raum bekannt und geschätzt. Doch wer war Heinrich van Veldeke? Was schrieb die Mystikerin Hadewijch? Die Verfasser lassen Autoren und Werke von der mittelniederländischen Literatur bis zur Gegenwart Revue passieren. Das "goldene" 17. Jahrhundert wird dabei ebenso gewürdigt wie die innovativen Bewegungen an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert. Voller Fakten und spannend geschrieben.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Italienische Literaturgeschichte
Book SynopsisItalien klassisches Ziel deutscher Bildungsreisen. So ist auch die italienische Literatur seit jeher ein Muss für alle Kulturinteressierten. Von Dante, Petrarca und Boccaccio über Manzoni und Leopardi bis Pirandello, Calvino, Fo, Eco und Tabucchi werden alle bedeutenden Autoren, ihre Werke und ihre Epoche vorgestellt. In der 3. Auflage um die letzten 20 Jahre und das Genre des Kriminalromans erweitert.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Übergänge. Zwischen Künsten und Kulturen:
Book SynopsisHeine und Schumann im Wechselspiel von Literatur und Musik. Ausgehend von den vielen Berührungspunkten im Schaffen und Wirken der beiden Romantiker, haben Experten Beziehungen zwischen Musik, Bild und Literatur, Kunst- und Kulturkritik neu untersucht und eine Fülle überraschender Erkenntnisse formuliert.
£26.59
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band IV,1
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£74.10
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band V,1 Text
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£74.10
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Lateinamerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Book SynopsisStreifzug durch den südamerikanischen Kontinent. Von den Inkas über die Kolonialzeit, von Borges und Neruda bis Volpi und Villoro stellt die Literaturgeschichte alle bedeutenden Schriftsteller Lateinamerikas ins Rampenlicht. Augenfällig wird dabei der gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Wandel. In der 3. Auflage um die jüngsten Entwicklungen in der lateinamerikanischen Literatur aktualisiert.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Einführung in die Gedichtanalyse
Book SynopsisDieser Band bietet eine Einführung in alle Aspekte der Gedichtanalyse und -interpretation. Der Autor beschreibt die sprachlichen Besonderheiten von Lyrik und stellt die metrischen Grundformen sowie verschiedene Gedichtformen vor. Weitere Kapitel untersuchen die Bildlichkeit und den Wirklichkeitsbezug von Gedichten. Die 3. Auflage wurde überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Sie ist erweitert um Kapitel zur Ballade, zum Bildgedicht und zu Lyrikübersetzungen. Im zweifarbigen Layout.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Einführung in die Deutschdidaktik
Book SynopsisWegweiser für angehende Deutschlehrer. Die Einführung präsentiert die Grundlagen der Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie sowie neuere Erkenntnisse der Lernpsychologie. Ein fundierter Überblick informiert über die einzelnen Bereiche der Deutschdidaktik. Anhand von Beispielen aus der Unterrichtspraxis werden ausführlich die Grundbegriffe und Methoden der Sprach-, Literatur- und Mediendidaktik vorgestellt. Ein eigenes Kapitel ist der Grundschuldidaktik gewidmet. Inklusive Ausblick auf bildungspolitische Debatten.
£19.99
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Einführung in die spanische Literaturwissenschaft
Book SynopsisPflichtlektüre für alle Spanischstudenten. Die Einführung bietet einen fundierten Überblick über die Geschichte der spanischen Literatur, ihre zentralen Gattungen und Autoren. Auch literaturwissenschaftliche Methoden und Grundlagen der Textinterpretation werden ausführlich erläutert. Beispielinterpretationen zeigen exemplarisch die wichtigsten Verfahren der literaturwissenschaftlichen Textanalyse. Für die 3. Auflage wurde der Band durchgehend überarbeitet, aktualisiert und um ein Kapitel zur Geschichte und Kultur Spaniens erweitert.
£21.84
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Book SynopsisStändig wachsende Vielfalt der amerikanischen Literatur. Von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne beleuchtet das beliebte Standardwerk alle wichtigen Autoren und ihre Werke. Ausführliche Porträts der indianischen und der Chicano-Literatur, der afro-, jüdisch- und asiatisch-amerikanischen Literatur tragen dem für die Literatur Nordamerikas charakteristischen Phänomen der Multikulturalität Rechnung. Die 3. Auflage wurde um jüngste Entwicklungen ergänzt, wie z. B. die Literatur nach 9/11. Mit einem Kapitel zu Literaturkritik und feministischen Literaturstudien.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band VI,1
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tagebücher: Band VI,2
Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.
£78.00
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Spanische Literaturgeschichte
Book SynopsisVon Teresa de Ávila über Cervantes bis Zafón. Die Literaturgeschichte entwirft ein lebendiges Bild der kastilischen Literatur vom maurisch-christlich-jüdischen Zusammenleben bis heute. Sie lässt ganze Epochen Revue passieren, geht aber auch auf einzelne Texte und Themen, wie z. B. den Schelmenroman oder die corral -Bühne, detailliert ein. Für die 4. Auflage wurden die Kapitel zum 18. Jahrhundert und zur Gegenwartsliteratur einschließlich des Films deutlich erweitert. Der Abschnitt über die Zeit nach dem Bürgerkrieg (1975-2010) wurde komplett neu konzipiert.
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