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Don Juan: Variations on a Theme (Routledge Revivals)

First 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)

The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society)

Duality 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)

This 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

A 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

'...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

This 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

Britain 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.

"Ein Gefühl von freierem Leben": Deutsche Dichter in Italien

Ein Leben in Briefen: Ergänzungsband I. Die Texte (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften #84/1)

Ein Leben in Briefen: Ergänzungsband II. Die Erläuterungen (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften #84/2)

Ein neuer Anfang?: Schriftsteller-Reden zwischen 1945-1949. Metzler Studienausgabe

Eine Frau und die Mathematik 1933–1940: Der Beginn einer wissenschaftlichen Laufbahn

Hel Braun (1914-1986) ist eine der wenigen, international bekannten Mathematikerinnen. Sie studierte in Frankfurt und Marburg von 1933 bis 1937 zusammen mit C. L. Siegel, wohl einem der bedeutendsten Mathematiker dieses Jahrhunderts. 1938 ging sie nach Göttingen. Siegel verließ bekanntlich 1940 Göttingen und nahm einen Lehrstuhl in Princeton am Institute for Advanced Studies an. Der Text gewährt Einblicke in das "Innenleben" mathematischer Institute zur Zeit des Dritten Reiches. Wenn er auch im wesentlichen unpolitisch ist, verschweigt Hel Braun nicht ihre Differenzen mit den derzeitigen Machthabern. Auch zu ihrer Position als Frau in einer "Männerwissenschaft" nimmt sie Stellung. Max Koecher der Herausgeber dieser Autobiographie, studierte in Göttingen bei Braun und Siegel.

Einführung in die Literaturinterpretation: Sammlung Metzler, 217 (Sammlung Metzler)

The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3 (Analecta Husserliana #28)

Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists: A sparkling miscellany of literary lists

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compiling hundreds of bookish lists. This eclectic gallimaufry showcases his favourites: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet several pigs with wings. From the sublime to the ridiculous - and everything in between ­- Eliot's lists, recommendations and nuggets of trivia will delight, inspire and surprise anyone who loves reading.Beautifully presented with supplementary maps and illustrations, Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists is the essential gift for book-lovers.

Elizabeth Bowen

This critical biography is part of a series that helps in the reassessment of women's writing in the light of what we understand today. All the books in the series are written by women. This particular title concentrates on the work of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

Emily Dickinson's Readings Of Men And Books: Sacred Soundings (pdf)

English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39: (pdf)

The English Novel at Mid-Century: From the Leaning Tower

'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's innovation in this exciting study of the postwar generation's major novelists lies in seeing the consequences of that dissolution in formal rather than political terms, arguing that the novelist's difficulty in representing human character in what Wyndham Lewis called a 'shell-shocked' age is itself a sign of that loss of belief. But while most studies of this generation end with the coming of World War 2, Gorra follows these novelists throughout their careers. The result is a book that not only shows how the British novel's increasing consciousness of its own limitations stands as a mirror to the country's loss of power, but also provides memorable portraits of four major twentieth century writers.

Entities and Indices (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy #41)

In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers. We say that there has been a hitch in our arrangements or that the solution to the problem required us to examine all the probable outcomes of our action. So it would seem that we speak as if in addition to eloeks, mountains, queens and grains of sand there are hitches, arrangements, solutions, probiems, and probable outcomes. It is not immediately obvious when we must take such ta1k as really assuming that there are such to develop tests for things, and one of the tasks in this book is discerning what has eome to be called ontological commitment, in naturallanguage. Among the entities that natural language appears to make reference to are those connected with temporal and modal discourse, times, possibilities, and so on. Such entities play a crueial role in the kind of semantieal theories that I and others have defended over many years. These theories are based on the idea that an essential part of the meaning of a sentence is constituted by the conditions under whieh that sentenee is true. To know what a sentence says is to know what the world would have to be !ike for that sentence to be true.

Erkenntnisse unter Tage: Bergbaumotive in der Literatur der Romantik (Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zur Deutschen Literatur)

Der Bergbau war in der Literatur der Romantik ein besonders wichtiges Thema und Motiv. Diese Arbeit geht den Gründen dieses Phänomens nach und wendet sich gegen Pauschalurteile einer angeblich "romantisierenden" Verklärung. Literarisch-romantischer Bergbau ist vielmehr zu begreifen als kritisches Eingedenken ausgegrenzter Strukturen von Natur, Ökonomie, Geschichte und des erkennenden Subjekts selbst. Seine Bedeutung liegt in der Suche nach Vermittlungsebenen für die Integration dieser "Nachtseiten". Konvergenzpunktder Linien ist das Verhältnis zur Natur.Dabei offenbart sich einmal mehr die "Modernität der Romantik" denn der literarische Diskurs um romantischen Bergbau - mit der zentralen Thematisierung des Weiblichen und der Bezugnahme auf einorganisches Weltbild - bietet Anknüpfungspunkte zur aktuellen Ökologiediskussion.

Ernst Specker Selecta

Ernst Specker has made decisive contributions towards shaping direc­ tions in topology, algebra, mathematical logic, combinatorics and algorith­ mic over the last 40 years. We have derived great pleasure from marking his seventieth birthday by editing the majority of his scientific publications, and thus making his work available in a unified form to the mathematical community. In order to convey an idea of the richness of his personality, we have also included one of his sermons. Of course, the publication of these Selecta can pay tribute only to the writings of Ernst Specker. It cannot adequately express his originality and wisdom as a person nor the fascination he exercises over his students, colleagues and friends. We can do no better than to quote from Hao Wang in the 'Festschrift' Logic and Algorithmic I: Specker was ill for an extended period before completing his formal education. He had the leisure to think over many things. This experi­ ence may have helped cultivating his superiority as a person. In terms of traditional Chinese categories, I would say there is a taoist trait in him in the sense of being more detached, less competitive, and more under­ standing. I believe he has a better sense of what is important in life and arranges his life better than most logicians. We are grateful to Birkhauser Verlag for the production of this Selecta volume. Our special thanks go to Jonas Meon for sharing with us his intimate knowledge of his friend Ernst Specker.

Erzählte Krankheit: Medizinische und literarische Phantasien um 1800. Metzler Studienausgabe

Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory #20)

The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as results on syntactic theory, on learnability, and on acquisition begin to converge. I hope that this book can provide researchers in all of these areas with some insight into the evolution of ideas about these issues. The articles appear in their original form, with the following exceptions: A few typographical and other minor errors have been corrected; bibliog­ raphic references have been updated and a unified bibliography provided. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge my vast intellec­ tual debt to Noam Chomsky. My research would not have been possible without his work, his advice, and his guidance. Next, I offer deep thanks to Chomsky and my other co-authors represented here: Bob Fiengo, Joe Kupin, Bob Freidin, and Mamoru Saito. I am grateful, indeed, for the opportunity to collaborate with such outstanding linguists, and, more immediately, for their permission to reprint their co-authored articles. I also offer general thanks to the holders of the copyrights of the reprinted material. Specific acknowledgements appear on a separate page.