The formerly communist countries of Central Europe are currently being studied by eager historians, sociologists and anthropologists, among others. Pyrah (cultural history, St. Anthony's College, Oxfo
This book discusses George Sand's autobiography Histoire de ma vie from a variety of perspectives - thematic, structural and stylistic - and examines the often contradictory images of the author/narra
Twenty-one essays presented by Grundtvig (Italian, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark), McLauglin (Italian studies, U. of Oxford, UK), and Petersen (Italian, U. of Copenhagen) examine the relationship between
Harkness (Queens U., Belfast) uses the writings of 19th century George Sand to examine the subject of masculinity in the novels of the time, using the female writer's propensity to masquerade in publi
Dickinson (English, Manchester Metropolitan U.-Cheshire) presents and annotates selected letters between British art critic Ruskin (1819-1900) and his cousin Joan Agnew Ruskin Severn, 260 of his to he
Leading Soviet Yiddish writers David Bergelson, Itsik Fefer, and Peretz Mazrkish were among the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee who were executed in 1952 when Gennady (Yiddish studies, Ne
Three years spent in France, during the 'Second Empire' of Napoleon III, gave Henry James an early mastery of the French language and its literature. When he settled in Europe, as an adult, it was not
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) and Femando Pessoa (1888-1935) adopted distinct poetic styles to convey different attitudes towards experience in their poetry. Silva McNeill's study examines how each existent
Lewis (French, Birbeck, University of London) employs both word and image in this study of the visual and written interpretations of the term "sensibility" in eighteenth century French literature. whi
Saul (German, U. of Durham, UK) traces the symbolic representation of the Romany people (the Gypsies) in German literature and anthropology over the course of the 19th century. In addition to placing
This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow at the cr
The philosopher Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) is one of the foremost Spanish intellectuals of the twentieth century. A disciple of Ortega y Gasset, she taught at the University of Madrid in the 1930s and
This book examines both classic and less-known works of Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Its starting-point is that both authors and readers are born into a network o
