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Das älteste von Hoffmanns «Nachtstücken» und ein Beispiel der Schauerromantik: Andres, der Revierjäger des Grafen Aloys von Vach, und seine Frau Giorgina leben in Armut, und Giorgina scheint unheilbar krank. Doch dann taucht ein fremder Kaufmann auf, der Giorgina heilt und dem Paar zu einigem Wohlstand verhilft. Bald wird jedoch klar, dass Ignaz Denner, der mysteriöse Fremde, so manch Unheil mit sich bringt und es übernatürliche Verbindungen zu geben scheint…-
| Автор | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
"Hundsfott, wer sich nach hinten ausdrängen lässt!", so stand es im Reglement der Zietenhusaren. Als Detlef von Rombeck 1756 zu den Husaren und ihrem Chef, dem alten Zieten, stößt, ahnt er noch nicht, dass sieben Jahre Krieg ins Haus stehen. Eine Zeit, in der die Durchsetzungskraft des vielversprechenden Husaren nicht nur auf dem Schlachtfeld, sondern auch in der Liebe gefordert ist.-
| Автор | Paul Oskar Höcker |
Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from 1830 to 1910 reflected competition between two modern visual modes: a not-yet-outdated idealism and an empiricism that located truth in the body. More specifically, the book argues that key narrative...
| Автор | Andrea Goulet |
Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The Flowing Light of the Godhead , the first such work in the German vernacular. Yet her writings...
| Автор | Sara S. Poor |
American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people. In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms...
| Автор | Lloyd Pratt |
Wie oft kann eine Frau kommen?Rina und ihr Kumpel stellen sich immer wieder die Frage: Wie viele Orgasmen kann eine Frau hintereinander bekommen? Rina stellt Nachforschungen an und lädt gleich mehrere weibliche Internetbekanntschaften zum Brunch in ihre Wohnung ein. Gemeinsam wollen sie der Orgasmus-Frage auf den Grund gehen. Und schnell wird klar, dass es nicht bei rein theoretischen Diskussionen bleibt…-
| Автор | Beatrice Nielsen |
"Would there have been a Renaissance without translation?" Karen Newman and Jane Tylus ask in their Introduction to this wide-ranging group of essays on the uses of translation in an era formative for the modern age. The early modern period saw cross-cultural translation on a massive scale. Humanists negotiated status by means of their literary skills as translators of culturally prestigious Greek and Latin texts, as teachers of those same languages, and as purveyors of the new technologies...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of «constructive» treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was perceived as an increasingly serious threat and policed with a new urgency. Referring to the extensive early modern literature on the subject of treason, Imaginary Betrayals reveals how and to what extent...
| Автор | Karen Cunningham |
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations...
| Автор | Roberto Garvia |
Narrar y narrar historias, noche tras noche, vence a la muerte, enseña Scherezade, pero en esta novela la protagonista narradora está tirada en el diván y es su amado quien le cuenta su vida llena de aventuras, ora maravillosas, ora pringosas e irritantes, sin que ninguno de los dos se atreva a interrumpir esta intimidad con otra suerte de acercamiento.
| Автор | Enrique Butti |
Der Regisseur Hans Billian wurde oft gefragt, wie es denn beim Drehen eines Films zugehen würde. Werfen Sie in diesem Roman einmal einen Blick hinter die Kulissen…-
| Автор | Hans Billian |
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. In Crossing Borders , Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic...
| Автор | Sahar Amer |
At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the...
| Автор | Sonja Drimmer |
In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants of American—rather than...
| Автор | Joshua David Bellin |
Tantadel es un personaje femenino interesante y poco común en las letras nacionales. Su autor, René Avilés Fabila, cautivado por los temas amorosos y sus principales consecuencias, hizo de la novela una historia donde la realidad y la fantasía van de la mano y predomina justo lo contrario: el desamor.
| Автор | René Avilés Fabila |
En La tumba del alacrán encontraremos relatos crudos y desgarradores, así como algunos plagados de humor negro. También leeremos cínicos relatos. Todos contados con el alma en la mano, tan así que en muchos nos sentiremos identificados, y quizá incómodos. Esa es la maestría de Eusebio Ruvalcaba —uno de los mejores cuentistas mexicanos—, lograr que un relato breve esté cargado de emociones y ocasione recuerdos y añoranzas.
| Автор | Eusebio Ruvalcaba |
In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women's reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women's writing in...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial competition, the rise of commercial authorship, and...
| Автор | Barbara Fuchs |
In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced new anxieties. Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures and their expression in works by Jane Austen, Horace Walpole, Samuel Taylor...
| Автор | Colin Jager |
Der dritte Fall für die Journalistin Dicte Svendsen: An einem warmen Sommertag findet Dicte die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Schnell wird klar, dass es sich um einen besonders brutalen Mord handelt, denn die Frau wurde einem professionell ausgeführten Kaiserschnitt unterzogen. Doch von dem Baby gibt es keine Spur. Dicte ermittelt auf eigene Faust und ist damit der Polizei immer etwas voraus. Die Spur führt auf einen internationalen Verbrecherring…-
| Автор | Elsebeth Egholm |
¿Te cuento un vino? es el libro de vinos que gustará a todos; desde los más expertos en elaboración y cata al consumidor poco entendido pero que sabe distinguir lo más importante: si un vino le gusta o no. A través de más de 30 microrelatos, su autor Enrique López, nos abre las puertas de otras tantas bodegas para que sintamos y conozcamos algo más que sabores, aromas, fermentaciones y taninos: el alma, el corazón… el «lado humano» de nuestros vinos y bodegas.
| Автор | Enrique López |
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the...
| Автор | Miriam Jacobson |
A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians, Goethe's literary rendering of interiority has not been the subject of detailed analysis in itself. Goethe's Allegories of Identity examines how Goethe created the essential bridge between...
| Автор | Jane K. Brown |