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Deutsche und europäische Romantik (Sammlung Metzler)
by Gerhart HoffmeisterDer Band liefert eine ausführliche Einführung in eine zentrale Epoche der deutschen Literatur. Die Darstellung setzt bereits Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts bei der "Vorromantik" ein und endet Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts mit den Werken die noch in der Tradition der Romantik standen. Die historische Perspektive, die Wesenszüge und die Wechselbeziehungen zu den europäischen Literaturen stehen im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung.
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf: From Fanny Burney To Virginia Woolf
by J. SimonsThis highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz KafkaAvailable for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers 'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications — notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones.By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive — and often surprisingly unpolished — writing as it appeared in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination but also their value as a work of genius in and of themselves.
Dictionary of Riddles (Routledge Revivals)
by Mark BryantOriginally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about fleas, worms and vegetables to the sophisticated puzzles composed by literary figures from Schiller, Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau and Cervantes to Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book traces the history of riddles from their origins in antiquity through the golden age of the Renaissance, to their decline into the nursery and the first few signs of their modern revival, and draws together all the strands of the riddling art. Dictionary of Riddles received a Special Commendation in Reference Review’s Best Specialist Reference Books of 1990 Awards.
Die Erzählung im Sturm und Drang: Studien zur Prosa des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Germanistische Abhandlungen, Band 66
by Harmut Dedert
Die Literaturen des Baltikums: Ihre Entstehung und Entwicklung (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften #80)
by Friedrich Scholz
Die schriftliche Form germanistischer Arbeiten: Empfehlungen für die Anlage und die äußere Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Manuskripte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Titelangaben von Schrifttum (Sammlung Metzler)
by Georg BangenEmpfehlung für die Anlage und die äußere Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Manuskripte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Titelangaben von Schrifttum.
Die strategische (Ohn-) Macht der Friedensbewegung: Kommunikations- und Entscheidungsstrukturen in den achtziger Jahren
by Thomas LeifDer Autor untersucht detailliert und mit konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis der Friedensbewegung die Kommunikations- und Entscheidungsstrukturen sowie die Entwicklung der Strategiediskussion der größten Bewegung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse stehen die Erfolge und Defizite der 'professionellen Bewegung', die Einordnung der beteiligten Gruppen mit ihren oft gegensätzlichen politischen Profilen sowie ihrer Einflußsphären in den Gremien und Aktionskonferenzen. Die Untersuchung weist nach, daß der Anspruch der Basisdemokratie im Machtkampf der beteiligten Spektren oft unterging, und hinterfragt damit die häufig von Mythen begleitete Bewegungsforschung und Bewegungspraxis.
Discourse and the Translator
by B. Hatim Ian MasonDiscourse and the Translator both incorporates and moves beyond previous studies of translation. Its logical and informative approach to the problems of translation ensures that it will be essential for all those who work with languages 'in contact'. Incorporating research in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics and semiotics, the authors analyse the process and product of translation in their social contexts. Through this analysis, the book emphasises the importance of the translator as a mediator between cultures.
Discourse and the Translator
by B. Hatim Ian MasonDiscourse and the Translator both incorporates and moves beyond previous studies of translation. Its logical and informative approach to the problems of translation ensures that it will be essential for all those who work with languages 'in contact'. Incorporating research in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics and semiotics, the authors analyse the process and product of translation in their social contexts. Through this analysis, the book emphasises the importance of the translator as a mediator between cultures.
The Discursive Social Psychology of Evidence: Symbolic Construction of Reality (Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics)
by Salomon RettigHaving spent more than thirty years in the laboratory studying human behavior under preformatted, controlled conditions, I found myself dissatisfied with my work. It is not that my work produced no new findings on human conduct, or that working almost exclusively with college students gave me little information on other groups of people, but that the study of human beings in the laboratory told me little about the people themselves. Having been born in Europe, socialized in the Middle East, and educated in the United States, I had entered the profession of psychology in order to better understand different people's behavior. What I found instead was that under uniform conditions, imposed by the laboratory, people responded more or less in uniform manners. The resulting behavior told me little about the people and more about my laboratory. After considerable search for a better understanding of my own formal training in psychology on the one hand and my diversified cultural background on the other, I began to see that these two early influences clashed in some basic manner. Upon further reflection it occurred to me that my own radical transformation in a period of six years, from a poorly educated (elementary school only) adult to a doctor of philosophy, made me see a different world. My earlier world of reality revolved around forms of evidence that were not only never questioned by me, but v vi PREFACE were themselves highly unreliable.
Don Juan: Variations on a Theme (Routledge Revivals)
by John SmeedFirst published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century. The book concentrates on the ways in which perceptions of Don Juan’s character have altered in response to changes in social and moral values. It examines famous Don Juan works, including those by Moliere, Byron, Pushkin, Shaw, Anouilh, and Max Frisch, and relates them to these changing views. It also looks at a variety of other plays, poems, and novels on this theme, and highlights the important role of music in Don Juan’s history. The book concludes with a consideration of Don Juan’s lasting popularity and whether it has run its course. Don Juan: Variations on a Theme will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of Don Juan, comparative literature, and European literature.
Don Juan: Variations on a Theme (Routledge Revivals)
by John SmeedFirst published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century. The book concentrates on the ways in which perceptions of Don Juan’s character have altered in response to changes in social and moral values. It examines famous Don Juan works, including those by Moliere, Byron, Pushkin, Shaw, Anouilh, and Max Frisch, and relates them to these changing views. It also looks at a variety of other plays, poems, and novels on this theme, and highlights the important role of music in Don Juan’s history. The book concludes with a consideration of Don Juan’s lasting popularity and whether it has run its course. Don Juan: Variations on a Theme will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of Don Juan, comparative literature, and European literature.
Doppelgänger seiner selbst: Der Erzähler Albert Vigoleis Thelen (DUV Sprachwissenschaft)
by Jürgen Pütz
The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society)
by J. HerdmanDuality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.
A Dr Johnson Chronology (Author Chronologies Series)
by Norman PageThis chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.
Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters
by Janet Goodwyn Gillian KidmanA study of Wharton's work which discusses her novels and travel books according to their specific geography or landscape rather than the date of composition. Emphasis is placed on Wharton's concern with America's place in the Western world and women's place in European society.
Edith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters
by Janet Beer Goodwyn'...in this study, Goodwyn sets the standard for Wharton criticism.' - Judith E. Funston, American Literature 'Janet Goodwyn sets out, by looking at Wharton's appropriation of different cultures, to nail the 'canard' that she was 'but a pale imitator of Henry James' - Hermione Lee, Times Literary Supplement `The Land of Letters was henceforth to be my country and I gloried in my new citizenship'. So Edith Wharton described her elation upon the publication of her first collection of short stories; her nationality was henceforth `writer' and as such she moved with ease between landscapes, between cultures and between genres in the telling of her tales. In this acclaimed study of Wharton's work, the discussion is shaped by her use of specific landscapes and her consistent concern with ideas of place: the American's place in the Western world, the woman's place in her own and in European society, and the author's place in the larger life of a culture. Her landscapes, both actual and metaphorical, give structure and point to the individual texts and to the whole body of her work.
Editing Yeats’s Poems: A Reconsideration
by Richard J FinneranThis study is a companion to the revised edition of W.B.Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition. Professor Finneran outlines the complex problems facing an editor of Yeats's poetry and explains the solutions adopted in the new text. Manuscript materials are drawn on extensively, including some which have recently come to light in the Scribner Archives at the University of Texas and at Princeton University. Compared with the first edition of this volume (Editing Yeats's Poems, 1983), there is an additional chapter - on the order of the poems - as well as new information on the Scribner Edition and other revisions throughout.
Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France and the USA
by Andy GreenBritain was the last major European state to create a national education system and is set to be the first to dismantle it. In this wide-ranging comparative study, Andy Green examines the reasons for the uneven development of public education in England, Prussia, France and the USA.
