Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition and several contemporary masterworks of world literature, in order to flesh out an et
Ten essays by Al-Dabbagh (English literature, United Arab Emirates U.) explore literary and cultural issues of British literary criticism, in seven of the essays, and Arab intellectuals and Arab liter
Examines some implications of the American Indian concept that material and spiritual reality are defined within the symbolic framework of the four seasons and four directions. Suggests that quaternit
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnati
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the
Across the years there has been a certain amount of fascination reserved for the Melville creation of Billy Budd. Budd was the ultimate victim, and the innocent unworthy of any part of his sentence; t
Kley (German studies, Gettysburg College) presents a study of communist and anti-authoritarian socialist literature in Weimar Germany, focusing on the communist understanding of work as a socializatio
American poet, photographer, and literary scholar Eisenhower traces the role of invective in literature from Virgil to the present. The derogation of colleagues, schools of thought, or styles of writi
Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, eco
Hugo (English, humanities, Berkeley College New Jersey) discusses the depiction and the representation of magnificent houses and architectural creations in 20th century European literature, in works b
Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote
When reading Ludwig Tieck’s texts, the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study posits that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both ana
Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and
This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrai
Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt’s Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed atheis
Kichner (English, Lorain County Community College, Ohio) explores the changing literary and historical conventions of epitaph writing and the value placed upon individual burial within the wider cultu
In Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film, Abdulla Al-Dabbagh’s unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new light on these subjects, revealing innovative fiel
Assaiante (German language and literature, Trinity College, Connecticut) examines the centrality of corporeal finitude in German philosopher Hamann's (1730-88) construction of subjectivity and the res
