The Literature of Emigration and Exile is a collection of works from various writers that explore the literature of emigration and exile. These writers examine poetic, fictional, and biographical voic
The introductory essay asking "What is comparative literature?" is followed by three chapters devoted to close analyses of Daniel Deronda, Anna Karenina, and Women in Love. The concluding discussion s
The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ‘copies’ of reality. He
Whitehead (Russian, U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) investigates the literary genre of the fantastic as it was practiced in the two countries during the rise of the novel and the grand narrative. Investi
A Community of Witches explores the beliefs and practices of Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft--generally known to scholars and practitioners as Wicca. While the words "magic," "witchcraft," and "paganism"
On Zeus' order, Prometheus was chained to Mount Caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver being devoured by a bird of prey his punishment for bringing fire to mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is mostly known for his contribution to early British Romantic poetry, but later in life he also wrote extensively on philosophical matters. It is this philosophica
In this wide-ranging study Richard Hibbitt provides the first book-length comparative analysis of the concept of dilettantism, tracing its chronological development and proposing a synthesis of its di
Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least two things in common. They all begin when sense is made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative images and explanatory words begin
Since the revelation of Iris Murdoch's (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994), scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular on Canetti's alleged r
In postwar France and Greece, says Papanikolaou (modern Greek, U. of Oxford) popular music was dominated by discussions about what constituted a good popular song in which literary criteria often pred
