Bøker i kategorien Teori
Kun lagervarer
The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919–1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical...
Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
One of America’s most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the...
Les mer
Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Theo Davis offers a new account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature\'s universalism as an...
Les mer
Contemporary Poetics
Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics,...
Les mer
Esther Regina - A Bakhtinian Reading
Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the Book of Esther in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book's flagrant displays of...
Les mer
Shakespeare and the Nature of Love
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary,...
Les mer
Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy
Aristophanes’ Birds, Wasps, and Frogs offer the best-known examples of the animal choruses of Greek comedy of the fifth century BC, but...
Les mer
Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia
Branded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the...
Les mer
Hamlet without Hamlet
Hamlet without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has...
Les mer
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than universal psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and...
Les mer
The Origins of American Literature Studies
Although American literature is now a standard subject in the American college curriculum, a century ago few people thought it should be taught...
Les mer
Henry James and the Visual
In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his...
Les mer
Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
The bucolic poetry of Theocritus is the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it....
Les mer
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed...
Les mer
Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
This study focuses on ways in which Statius’ epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus’ sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the...
Les mer
Statius and Virgil
At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its...
Les mer
Shakespeare and the Nobility
Shakespeare and the Nobility examines, for the first time, how Shakespeare was influenced by the descendants of the aristocratic characters in his...
Les mer
Representing Shakespearean Tragedy
Reiko Oya explores theatrical expressions of Shakespearean tragedy in Georgian London and the relations between the representative players of the...
Les mer
Shakespeare and Childhood
This collection offers the first definitive study of a surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation, namely the relationship between...
Les mer
Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor
Sonia Massai’s central claim in this book is that the texts of early printed editions of Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare’s, did not...
Les mer
Shakespeare Films in the Making
Shakespeare Films in the Making examines the production and reception of five feature-length Shakespeare films from the twentieth century, focusing...
Les mer
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists...
Les mer
Poor Women in Shakespeare
Poor women do not fit easily into the household in Shakespeare. They shift in and out of marriages, households, and employments, carrying messages,...
Les mer
Shakespeare, A Lover’s Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford
When Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A Lover’s Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, who was...
Les mer
