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Mit seinem Schauerroman «Die Elixiere des Teufels» steht E. T. A. Hoffmann ganz in der Tradition der Schwarzen Romantik: Der Kapuzinermönch Medardus beschreibt in seiner Lebensbeichte, wie undurchsichtige Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen, unheimliche Wiederbegegnungen, Doppelgänger, Wahn und Mord sein Leben langsam aus den Fugen geraten ließen.
| Автор | E. T. A. Hoffmann |
Heinrich Mann verfasste sein Werk «Die Göttinnen oder Die drei Romane der Herzogin von Assy» in den Jahren 1900 bis 1902. Es besteht aus den drei Einzelromanen «Diana», «Minerva» und «Venus», jeweils benannt nach den römischen weiblichen Gottheiten. Die Handlung ist weitestgehend in Italien angesiedelt und spielt hauptsächlich in den großen Städten Rom, Venedig und Neapel, beziehungsweise deren Umgebung.
| Автор | Heinrich Mann |
Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in his own words (in translation) and are discussed in the extensive commentaries and introduction. The texts range from 1910 to 1946 and are between two and ninety pages long. There are commentaries on all the texts, as well as a final essay on...
| Автор | Boris Pasternak |
This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, not omitting theatre, cinema or music, the concepts of “end of history” and “end of present time” are specifically examined as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A handy and concise introduction to a complex novel of Russian literature.Provides an authoritative account of Bulgakov’s life and his struggle to survive during the Terror.The author has been following Bulgakov studies since the novel first appeared in the 1970s, and offers a review of all the major critical debates about the text.Offers close analysis of stylistic features of the novel, for readers of Russian and English alike.Provides a helpful comparison of available English translations.An...
| Автор | J.A.E. Curtis |
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic...
| Автор | Julia Trubikhina |
Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art. Through close textual analysis, the author offers a view of the unity of form...
| Автор | Robert Louis Jackson |
Julián, eminencia mundial en neurología, descubrió cómo acceder al «archivo» del cerebro humano y así copiar, borrar, trasladar y manipular conocimientos y recuerdos de una persona a otra.Tras su muerte hereda sobre su sobrino Sebastián, quién comprende que este descubrimiento lo convierte en una especie de Dios, que puede cambiar su vida y el mundo.
| Автор | Héctor Rial |
Mit Millionen online publizierter Texte stellt die Fanfiction ein oft unterschätztes literarisches Massenphänomen unserer Zeit dar; zu einer Expedition in diese bunte Parallelwelt, in der nicht nur Harry Potter & Co., sondern auch Homer und Shakespeare, Goethe und Tolstoj, ja selbst die Bibel spielerisch fort- und umgeschrieben werden, lädt dieser neue Dialoge-Band ein.
| Автор | Martina Stemberger |
During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his writings is presented here in this volume of...
| Автор | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges between Europe and Latin America.In Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France, leading...
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George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade’s keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his immensely popular newspaper columns, books, and...
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Una historia de una reina y su pequeño reino, una historia de búsqueda, conflictos y amor. Resultando determinante cada pequeño suceso y detalle, la reina Esirceva hallará las respuestas en sus propios desafíos. Lo aparente y lo legendario se conjuga con lo evidente y necesario, desembocando en un confuso y misterioso camino de retos que termina empujando a Esirceva al predestinado encuentro con su propia verdad.
| Автор | Aitor Bayón Alcolea |
Sweeping in scope and insightfully written, this biography of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the great man's political and military career in great detail, while also discussing his personal life from infancy, including his genealogy, upto his death at age 52. (Volume I of II)
| Автор | Fahed Aslan Agha Al Barazi |
Kleine Gedankensplitter, Erinnerungen. Weil man sich nicht viele Gedanken darum machte, früher. Familie, Schule, Jobgedanken, heute im Nachhinein. Horoskop und Astrogedanken. War es Schicksal? Oder Alltagswahnsinn in gesamtkosmischem Kontext? Selbst die Fadesse im Rückblick. Zwischensplitter, gemischte Gefühle, Wehmut, Mosern und eine Portion österreichischer Humor. Weil alles eh ein natürliches Ende findet. Denn aus ist aus …
| Автор | Silvia Lausmann |
Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas, written by well-known authors such as Yehoshua,...
| Автор | Adia Mendelson-Maoz |
Faust Adaptations, edited and introduced by Lorna Fitzsimmons, takes a comparative cultural studies approach to the ubiquitous legend of Faust and his infernal dealings. Including readings of English, German, Dutch, and Egyptian adaptations ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary moment, this collection emphasizes the interdisciplinary and transcultural tenets of comparative cultural studies. Authors variously analyze the Faustian theme in contexts such as subjectivity, genre,...
| Автор | Lorna Fitzsimmons |
This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière’s evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with Molière’s theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authors’ rights and to the professionalization of the literary...
| Автор | Michael Call |
Pauline's life is turned upside down by a friend request on Facebook which leads to her finding herself the victim of a complex fraud. Her quest for love leaves her vulnerable to becoming prey to professional scammers and the consequences lead Pauline on a mission to not only find love but also to seek her revenge.
| Автор | Pavlina Valavanidou |
Resi Schandra wurde 1939 als eines von 14 Kindern in Falkenbach bei Freyung geboren. 40 Jahre widmete sie sich ausschließlich ihrer Familie – dann begann sie zu schreiben – direkt und unverstellt. Mit Momentaufnahmen über die Liebe, die natur und das Leben lenkt sie unseren Blick auf den Kern der Dinge. Ihr achtes und letztes Buch – sagt sie… "Der Apfel braucht nur einen Sommer um zu reifen. Die Weisheit – Jahre." Resi Schandra
| Автор | Resi Schandra |