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Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as...
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Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre
Romanticism has often been associated with the mode of lyric, or otherwise confined within mainstream genres. As a result, we have neglected the...
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Literary Culture and the Pacific
This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture,...
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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
This book explores how Horace’s poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between...
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Shakespeare on the German Stage
Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre...
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The Cambridge History of American Theatre
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre...
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The Arabic Literary Heritage
Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to...
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Dekonstruktion
En let og forståelig gennemgang af dekonstruktion. Fra dens oprindelse som fransk filosofisk retning med Jacques Derrida som hovedfigur til den ...
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Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan
This book offers a concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan. The work is approached both through its context and through a close...
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The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century. His work is performed and studied around the world and...
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Rilke’s Russia: A Cultural Encounter
Anna A. Tavis explores the important of Russia in shaping Rilke's aesthetics. Rilke's two trips to Russia at the turn of the century, made in...
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Det dialogiska ordet
Inget budskap kunde ligga mera fel i tiden, verka mer inopportunt än denna dröm om "en ansvarig delaktighet". Det är också detta som...
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Reading Old English Texts
Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection...
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Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
How do our ideas about Shakespeare inform our understanding of the limits of performance? This stimulating book asks how both text and performance...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European...
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical...
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The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams
This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a...
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Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading
Julian W. Connolly's companion to Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading includes a general introduction discussing the work in the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson provides a unique introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and...
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Myths of Modern Individualism
In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individuals of their time: Faust and Don Juan are...
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Walt Whitman’s Native Representations
Moving through Whitman’s career four times from four different perspectives, this book investigates several major American cultural developments...
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Chicano Poetics
Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces – be they linguistic, political, poetic - that...
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Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference
How do gender and race become objects of intellectual inquiry? What happens to marginal discourses when they participate in the academic processes of...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
This companion to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's includes a general introduction discussing the work in the context of the author's oeuvre as well...
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