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  1. Dimensiones del latinoamericanismo /
    Contributor: Moraña, Mabel, (editor.)
    Published: [2018]; ©2018
    Publisher:  Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft,, Frankfurt am Main :

    Entre otros, los temas de memoria, testimonialismo, migración, realismo mágico, descolonización, cómics, "nuevo cine" e identidad reciben en este libro un tratamiento nuevo, que incorpora ángulos críticos y teóricos que permiten replantear problemas... more

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    Entre otros, los temas de memoria, testimonialismo, migración, realismo mágico, descolonización, cómics, "nuevo cine" e identidad reciben en este libro un tratamiento nuevo, que incorpora ángulos críticos y teóricos que permiten replantear problemas ya presentes y visualizar aspectos impensados en el corpus siempre abierto del latinoamericanismo contemporáneo.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Moraña, Mabel, (editor.)
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783954876976
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    RVK Categories: IQ 00192
    Series: South by Midwest ; ; 6
    Subjects: Latin American literature; Motion pictures; Postcolonialism; Hispanic Literature, general.; Literary Studies.; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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  2. Lust und Limit :
    Der postmoderne Roman und die sexuelle Befreiungsbewegung in den USA /
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag,, Bielefeld :

    Sexualität als Brennpunkt des Konflikts zwischen Kontrolle und Freiheit ist ein Schlüsselthema in den frühen Romanen der amerikanischen Postmoderne. Magda Majewska beleuchtet den Zusammenhang zwischen experimenteller literarischer Praxis,... more

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    Sexualität als Brennpunkt des Konflikts zwischen Kontrolle und Freiheit ist ein Schlüsselthema in den frühen Romanen der amerikanischen Postmoderne. Magda Majewska beleuchtet den Zusammenhang zwischen experimenteller literarischer Praxis, Kulturkritik und Sexualität am Beispiel von Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow und William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Dabei rekonstruiert sie das Verhältnis von Trieb und Kultur in den beiden Romanen vor dem Hintergrund freudomarxistischer Diskurse der sexuellen Befreiung und ihrer Bedeutung für die amerikanische Gegenkultur. Erst diese ideengeschichtliche Einbettung erlaubt es, die Welthaltigkeit und politische Stoßkraft des postmodernen Romans offenzulegen.

     

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  3. Der Abgrund im Spiegel :
    Mise en abyme - zur Aufhebung der ontologischen Dichotomien von Kunst und Wirklichkeit /
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag,, Bielefeld :

    Art and reality seen as in a network of reciprocal references: This volume examines the fascinating form of mise en abyme theoretically and illustrates it with literary texts. Sie wird als faszinierende Form ästhetischer Selbstbezüglichkeit gewürdigt... more

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    Art and reality seen as in a network of reciprocal references: This volume examines the fascinating form of mise en abyme theoretically and illustrates it with literary texts. Sie wird als faszinierende Form ästhetischer Selbstbezüglichkeit gewürdigt und doch kaum in ihrer Komplexität wahrgenommen: Die Mise en abyme - eine Spiegelungsfigur, die im weitesten Sinne als die Einlagerung eines Kunstwerks in ein anderes beschrieben werden kann. In der Verschmelzung von Spiegel- und Kunstbild suggeriert sie eine Aufhebung der ontologischen Dichotomien von Kunst und Wirklichkeit. Doch mehr als das: Die Mise en abyme zeigt, inwiefern künstlerische Zeichen nicht nur durch Kontexte determiniert werden, sondern jene auch gleichzeitig verschieben und verändern. Charlotte Gauger veranschaulicht diese theoretischen Überlegungen in der Analyse literarischer Texte von Michael Ende, Markus Zusak und Aldous Huxley.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839447222
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    Series: Metabasis - Transkriptionen zwischen Literaturen, Künsten und Medien ; ; 57
    Subjects: Aldous Huxley.; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft.; Artwork.; General Literature Studies.; Kontextualisierung.; Kunsttheorie.; Kunstwerk.; Literary Studies.; Literatur.; Literature.; Literaturwissenschaft.; Markus Zusak.; Michael Ende.; Mirror.; Reality.; Selbstreflexivität.; Self-reflexiveness.; Spiegel.; Theory of Art.; Wirklichkeit.; LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
    Scope: 1 online resource
  4. Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 /
    Published: [2018]; ©1989
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press,, Ithaca, NY :

    In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a... more

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    In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective.Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501731907
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    Subjects: Authors, Russian; Politics and literature; Russian literature; History.; Literary Studies.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
    Scope: 1 online resource
  5. An Eclectic Bestiary :
    Encounters in a More-than-Human World /
    Contributor: Spengler, Birgit, (editor.); Tischleder, Babette B., (editor.)
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag,, Bielefeld :

    The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual... more

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    The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Spengler, Birgit, (editor.); Tischleder, Babette B., (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839445662
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    Series: Human-Animal Studies ; ; 20
    Subjects: Animal History.; Animal Studies.; Animal.; Anthropocene.; Critical Plant Studies.; Cultural Studies.; Culture.; Ecocriticism.; Human.; Literary Studies.; Nonhuman Studies.; North American Ecocriticism.; Photography.; Posthumanism.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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  6. »Fremde, ferne Welt«
    Mazedonienimaginationen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Gegenwärtig ist Mazedonien - insbesondere aufgrund des sogenannten »Namensstreits« mit Griechenland - wieder verstärkt im deutschsprachigen Mediendiskurs präsent. Worum aber handelt es sich, wenn von Mazedonien die Rede ist? Die mediale... more

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    Gegenwärtig ist Mazedonien - insbesondere aufgrund des sogenannten »Namensstreits« mit Griechenland - wieder verstärkt im deutschsprachigen Mediendiskurs präsent. Worum aber handelt es sich, wenn von Mazedonien die Rede ist? Die mediale Repräsentation der Region bleibt oft diffus und ist stark von Stereotypen geprägt. Benjamin Langer zeigt in seiner umfassenden Analyse erstmals auf, wie diese südosteuropäische Region in deutschsprachigen Texten aus einer terra incognita an der Peripherie Europas geformt und mit Zuschreibungen versehen wurde. In zehn thematischen Kapiteln weist er nach, wie wirkmächtig diese Bilder trotz ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit und wechselnden Instrumentalisierung bis heute sind.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Book; Data medium
    ISBN: 3-8394-4784-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: Mazedonien; Zuschreibungen; Balkan; Deutschsprachige Literatur; Stereotypenbildung; Europa; Literatur; Raum; Germanistik; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Postkolonialismus; Literaturwissenschaft; Macedonia; Attributions; German Literature; Stereotyping; Europe; Literature; Space; General Literature Studies; Postcolonialism; Literary Studies;
    Other subjects: Attributions.; Balkan.; Europe.; General Literature Studies.; German Literature.; Literary Studies.; Literature.; Postcolonialism.; Space.; Stereotyping.
    Scope: 1 online resource (312)
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    Frontmatter 1 Inhalt 5 Vorbemerkung 7 1. Mazedonien - ein umstrittener Raum. Forschungszugänge 9 2. Von Pistolen, Luftmatratzen und Flöhen. Prägungen einer bisherigen terra incognita im deutschsprachigen Diskurs des 19. Jahrhunderts 27 3. ›Mazedonien‹ und die ›Mazedonier‹ und ihre Etablierung auf den mental maps deutschsprachiger Autoren 69 4. Die Vereinnahmung des Raums. Kolonialdiskurs und Erster Weltkrieg 109 5. Die ›mazedonische Front‹ als literarischer Topos 147 6. Macedonia heroica sed inferiora. Freiheitskämpfer und Germanen 177 7. Das ferne Land 217 8. »All das schöne Undsoweiter«. Mazedonien bei Peter Handke 245 9. »Ein unentdecktes Land«. Mazedonien als Reisedestination 255 10. »Skopje liegt im Vardartal«. Resümee und Ausblick 273 Dank 283 Literaturverzeichnis 285

  7. To Kiss the Chastening Rod :
    Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance /
    Published: [2019]; ©1992
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press,, Ithaca, NY :

    Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive... more

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    Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality.

     

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  8. "La bella España" :
    El teatro de Lope de Vega en la Rusia soviética y postsoviética /
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft,, Frankfurt am Main :

    A pesar de la enorme popularidad de las comedias de Lope de Vega en Rusia, el tema de su recepción en este país ha sido poco estudiado por la crítica occidental. El presente volumen pretende llenar dicha laguna en los estudios de la recepción teatral... more

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    A pesar de la enorme popularidad de las comedias de Lope de Vega en Rusia, el tema de su recepción en este país ha sido poco estudiado por la crítica occidental. El presente volumen pretende llenar dicha laguna en los estudios de la recepción teatral con un repaso de la historia de representaciones de las obras lopescas en Rusia a lo largo de los últimos cien años y un análisis de las formas en que los rusos han visto, traducido e interpretado estas obras, con un enfoque especial en los procesos de consolidación de un canon lopesco específicamente ruso.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783954877850
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    Series: Escena clásica ; ; 11
    Subjects: Spanish drama; Hispanic Literature, general.; Literary Studies.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Santo-Tomás, Enrique García --: Array

  9. I, the Poet :
    First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius /
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press,, Ithaca, NY :

    First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet,... more

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    First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies—including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic "I-voice."In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form. Informed in part by the "New Lyric Studies," I, the Poet will appeal not only to scholars of Latin literature but to readers across a range of literary studies who seek to understand the Roman contexts which shaped canonical poetic genres.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501739569
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    Subjects: First person narrative.; Latin poetry; Point of view (Literature); Self in literature.; Literary Studies.; poetic address, lyric, Hellenistic period, Roman period, Latin poetry.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
    Scope: 1 online resource (258 p.)
  10. Seinsentdeckungen, Seinsverdeckungen :
    Eine literaturphilosophische Untersuchung zu den Vorsokratikern, Platon, Nietzsche und Heidegger /
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag,, Bielefeld :

    Sein oder Nichtsein - ist das noch eine Frage? Philipp Christian Kastropp setzt der tendenziellen Vernachlässigung der Seinsfrage eine akribische Lektüre zentraler Seinstexte entgegen - von der Entdeckung der Seinsfrage bei den Vorsokratikern über... more

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    Sein oder Nichtsein - ist das noch eine Frage? Philipp Christian Kastropp setzt der tendenziellen Vernachlässigung der Seinsfrage eine akribische Lektüre zentraler Seinstexte entgegen - von der Entdeckung der Seinsfrage bei den Vorsokratikern über ihre Verdeckung bei Platon und von Nietzsches ambivalentem Verhältnis zur Seinsfrage bis zu ihrer streitbaren Wiederentdeckung bei Heidegger. Flankiert durch eine Untersuchung des Wechselspiels von Sein und Nichts, führt er somit auch den Nihilismus auf seine Wurzeln zurück. Durch die liminalen Verortung zwischen Philologie und Philosophie eröffnen sich für beide Wissenschaften fruchtbare Perspektiven.

     

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  11. Kriegserfahrungen erzählen
    Geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven
    Author: Rogge, Jörg
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Wie wurde im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit von Kriegserfahrungen erzählt? Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen dieser Frage auf innovative Art und Weise nach, indem sie geschichtswissenschaftliche und literaturwissenschaftliche Methoden miteinander... more

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    Wie wurde im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit von Kriegserfahrungen erzählt? Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen dieser Frage auf innovative Art und Weise nach, indem sie geschichtswissenschaftliche und literaturwissenschaftliche Methoden miteinander verbinden. Mithilfe dieses interdisziplinären Ansatzes werden Erzählpraktiken und -strategien beleuchtet, die Gattungsgrenzen zwischen faktualen und fiktionalen Texten aufgelöst und damit die Erkenntnismöglichkeiten im Hinblick auf die Erfahrungsgeschichte erweitert. Der Band ist nicht nur ein wegweisendes Werk der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung, sondern zudem ein Beispiel für gelungene und produktive interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. »Als Ergebnis einer im März 2015 in Wien stattgefundenen Tagung ist der Verdienst [des Sammelbandes] neben der Darstellung und Ausführung einer Vielzahl von methodischen Zugängen nicht zuletzt sein Vermögen, beim Lesen neue Fragen aufzuwerfen.« Holger Englerth, www.literaturkritik.de, 30.12.2017 Besprochen in: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2 (2018)

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Rogge, Jörg (editor)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-8376-3708-5
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften ; 37
    Subjects: Kultur; Erzählung; Geschichte; Chronik; Dichtung; Krieg; Mittelalter; Frühe Neuzeit; Narratologie; Erfahrung; Erzählen; Literaturwissenschaft; Gewalt; Kulturgeschichte; Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit; Mittelalterliche Geschichte; Geschichtswissenschaft; Culture; Narrative; History; Chronicle; Poetry; War; Middle Age; Early Modernity; Narratology; Experience; Storytelling; Literary Studies; Violence; Cultural History; Early Modern History; Medieval History;
    Other subjects: Chronicle.; Cultural History.; Early Modern History.; Early Modernity.; Experience.; History.; Literary Studies.; Medieval History.; Middle Age.; Narrative.; Narratology.; Poetry.; Storytelling.; Violence.; War.
    Scope: 1 online resource (158 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
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    Selection of revised papers that were originally presented at a conference held March 12-13, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

    Includes bibliographical references.

    Also available in print form.

    Frontmatter 1 INHALTSVERZEICHNIS 5 Vorwort 7 Kriegserfahrungen erzählen - Einleitung 9 Krieg der Ritter - Erzählmuster des Heroischen bei Jean Froissart 31 Arthurische Archivierung: Die Objektivierung subjektiver Kriegserfahrungen in Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte Darthur 47 Kämpfer als Schreiber Bemerkungen zur Erzählung von Kampferfahrung und Verwundung in deutschen Selbstzeugnissen des späten Mittelalters 73 "Sauberer Krieg" oder Katastrophe Der Sacco di Mantova (1630) in zeitgenössischen Darstellungen 107 "Beichtsweiß erzehlen" Krieg und Bekenntnis in Grimmelshausens Courasche 135 AUTOREN 157

  12. The Violet Hour :
    The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture /
    Published: [2004]; ©2004
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York, NY :

    The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill--Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, and George Whitmore--collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing... more

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    The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill--Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, and George Whitmore--collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing during and after the gay liberation movement. This social history shows how the works of these authors both reflected and criticized the values, principles, and prejudices of the culture of gay liberation. In spinning many of the most important stories gay men told of themselves in the short period between the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s, the Violet Quill exerted an enormous influence on gay culture.

     

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  13. Courtesans and Opium :
    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou /
    Author: Anonymous.
    Published: [2009]; ©2009
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York, NY :

    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the... more

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    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning others against the example of the Fool.Chinese literature's first true "city novel," Courtesans and Opium recounts the illustrious career of a debauched soul enveloped by enthralling pursuits and romantic illusions. While socially acceptable marriages were arranged and often loveless, brothels offered men accomplished courtesans who served as both enchanting companions and sensual lovers. These professional sirens dressed in the latest styles and dripped with gold, silver, and jewels. From an early age, they were taught to excel at various arts and graces, which transformed the brothel into a kind of club for men to meet, exchange gossip, and smoke opium at their leisure.The Fool's fable follows five sworn brothers and their respective relationships with Yangzhou courtesans, revealing in acute detail the lurid materialism of this dangerous world-its violence and corruption as well as its seductive but illusory promise. Never before translated into English, Courtesans and Opium offers a brilliant window into the decadence of nineteenth-century China.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Hanan, Patrick.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231519830
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    Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Subjects: Brothels; Literary Studies.; Literature in Diverse Languages.; Other Nations and Languages.
    Scope: 1 online resource (344p.)
  14. The True Story of the So-Called Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi :
    "In Defence of an Elderly Lady" /
    Published: [1927]; ©1927
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674186613
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur.; Anglo-American Literature, general.; British and American Literature.; Literary Studies.
    Other subjects: Conway, William Augustus, (1789-1828.); Piozzi, Hester Lynch, (1741-1821.)
    Scope: 1 online resource(85p.) :, illustrations.
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  15. Dostoevsky and The Idiot :
    Author, Narrator, and Reader /
    Published: [1981]; ©1981
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674182530
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    Subjects: Literatur in anderen Sprachen.; Literary Studies, general.; Literary Studies.; Novela rusa
    Scope: 1 online resource(ix,296p.) :, illustrations.
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  16. The Oracle and the Curse :
    A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War /
    Published: [2013]; ©2013.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

    Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human... more

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    Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature. Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

     

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  17. Lu Xun's Revolution :
    Writing in a Time of Violence /
    Published: [2013]; ©2013.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

    Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by... more

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    Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. Widely recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the voice of a nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies’s portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. In Davies’s vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passionately engaged with the heady arguments and intrigues of a country on the eve of revolution. She traces political tensions in Lu Xun’s works which reflect the larger conflict in modern Chinese thought between egalitarian and authoritarian impulses. During the last phase of Lu Xun’s career, the so-called "years on the left," we see how fiercely he defended a literature in which the people would speak for themselves, and we come to understand why Lu Xun continues to inspire the debates shaping China today. Although Lu Xun was never a Communist, his legacy was fully enlisted to support the Party in the decades following his death. Far from the apologist of political violence portrayed by Maoist interpreters, however, Lu Xun emerges here as an energetic opponent of despotism, a humanist for whom empathy, not ideological zeal, was the key to achieving revolutionary ends. Limned with precision and insight, Lu Xun’s Revolution is a major contribution to the ongoing reappraisal of this foundational figure.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674073944
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    Subjects: Intellectual life.; Literatur in anderen Sprachen.; HISTORY; Literary Studies.; Literature in Diverse Languages.; Other Nations and Languages.; LITERARY CRITICISM
    Scope: 1 online resource(448p.) :, illustrations.
  18. A World Not to Come :
    A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture /
    Published: [2013]; ©2013.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

    A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond monarchy and... more

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    A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. A World Not to Come focuses on how Spanish Americans in Texas used writing as a means to establish new sources of authority, and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World. The geographic locale that became Texas changed sovereignty four times, from Spanish colony to Mexican republic to Texan republic and finally to a U.S. state. Following the trail of manifestos, correspondence, histories, petitions, and periodicals, Raúl Coronado goes to the writings of Texas Mexicans to explore how they began the slow process of viewing the world as no longer being a received order but a produced order. Through reconfigured publics, they debated how best to remake the social fabric even as they were caught up in a whirlwind of wars, social upheaval, and political transformations. Yet, while imagining a new world, Texas Mexicans were undergoing a transformation from an elite community of "civilizing" conquerors to an embattled, pauperized, racialized group whose voices were annihilated by war. In the end, theirs was a world not to come. Coronado sees in this process of racialization the birth of an emergent Latino culture and literature. In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. Coronado focuses on how Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.

     

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  19. Delirious Milton :
    The Fate of the Poet in Modernity /
    Published: [2006]; ©2006.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :

    The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives,... more

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    The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective, the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective, the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world.

     

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  20. In Search of Nella Larsen :
    A Biography of the Color Line /
    Published: [2006]; ©2006.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] :

    Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook, Nella Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Her writings about that life, briefly celebrated in her time, were lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and... more

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    Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook, Nella Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Her writings about that life, briefly celebrated in her time, were lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many. In his search for Nella Larsen, George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, as well as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as it was lived by one person who truly embodied all of its ambiguities and complexities.

     

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  21. Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction :
    Environment and Affect /
    Published: [2014].; ©2014.
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York, NY :

    The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction"... more

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    The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms of threat and the sick body to bring readers to environmental consciousness. Tracing the development of ecosickness through a compelling archive of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction establishes that we cannot comprehend environmental and medical dilemmas through data alone and must call on the sometimes surprising emotions that literary metaphors, tropes, and narratives deploy. In chapters on David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marge Piercy, Jan Zita Grover, and David Wojnarowicz, Heather Houser shows how narrative affects such as wonder and disgust organize perception of an endangered world and orient us ethically toward it. The study builds the connective tissue between contemporary literature, ecocriticism, affect studies, and the medical humanities. It also positions ecosickness fiction relative to emergent forms of environmentalism and technoscientific innovations such as regenerative medicine and alternative ecosystems. Houser models an approach to contemporary fiction as a laboratory for affective changes that spark or squelch ethical projects.

     

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  22. Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure :
    The Dirty Art of Poetry /
    Published: [2014].; ©2014.
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York, NY :

    William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These... more

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    William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word, often finding in its hardest cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a devastating polemic against the wish to have critics announce their aesthetics every time they begin a review. "The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism" is a plea to read those critics who got it wrong when they reviewed Lyrical Ballads or Leaves of Grass or The Waste Land. Sometimes, he argues, such critics saw exactly what these books were--they saw the poems plain yet often did not see that they were poems. In such wrongheaded criticism, readers can recover the ground broken by such groundbreaking books.Logan looks again at the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, and Philip Larkin; at the letters of T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell; and at new books by Louise Glück and Seamus Heaney. Always eager to overturn settled judgments, Logan argues that World War II poets were in the end better than the much-lauded poets of World War I. He revisits the secretly revised edition of Robert Frost's notebooks, showing that the terrible errors ruining the first edition still exist. The most remarkable essay is "Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp," which prints for the first time her early adolescent verse along with the intimate letters written to the first girl she loved.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231537230
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    Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Englische Literatur Amerikas.; Literary Studies.; Poetics .; Poetics.
    Scope: 1 online resource(344 p.) :, illustrations.
  23. Reading The Tale of Genji :
    Sources from the First Millennium /
    Contributor: Harper, Thomas, (editor.); Shirane, Haruo, (editor.)
    Published: [2015].; ©2015.
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York, NY :

    Written one thousand years ago, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, often regarded as its best prose fiction. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy... more

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    Written one thousand years ago, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, often regarded as its best prose fiction. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself. The most comprehensive record of The Tale of Genji's reception to date, this sourcebook presents a range of landmark texts relating to the work during its first millennium, almost all of which are translated into English for the first time. An introduction prefaces each set of documents, situating them within the tradition of Japanese literature and cultural history. These texts provide a fascinating glimpse into Japanese views of literature, poetry, imperial politics, and the place of art and women in society. Selections include a recorded conversation among court ladies gossiping about their favorite Genji characters and scenes; learned exegetical commentary; a vigorous debate over Genji's moral concerns; and an impassioned defense of Genji's ability to enhance Japan's standing among the twentieth century's community of nations. Taken together, these documents reflect Japan's fraught history with vernacular texts, particularly those written by women.

     

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    Contributor: Harper, Thomas, (editor.); Shirane, Haruo, (editor.)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231537209
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    Subjects: Literary Studies.; Literatur in anderen Sprachen.; Literature in Diverse Languages.; Other Nations and Languages.
    Other subjects: Murasaki Shikibu.
    Scope: 1 online resource(656 p.) :, illustrations.
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  24. Poetic Machinations :
    Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form /
    Published: [2015].; ©2015.
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York :

    Brian Reed, University of Washington:Poetic Machinations demonstrates that, from 1930s Objectivism to 2010s Conceptualism, poets have written allegorically, that is, taken metaphors--writing as photography, history as assembly line, colonial politics... more

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    Brian Reed, University of Washington:Poetic Machinations demonstrates that, from 1930s Objectivism to 2010s Conceptualism, poets have written allegorically, that is, taken metaphors--writing as photography, history as assembly line, colonial politics as printing press--and turned them into "systematic procedures for formal composition." Golston reassesses marquee names such as John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, and Myung Mi Kim, and he excels when analyzing "formally extreme" poetry by Clark Coolidge and P. Inman. He twists the kaleidoscope and, suddenly, much writing that seemed illegible becomes pellucid. Stephen Burt, Harvard University, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry:Clark Coolidge's photographic meta-process, Lyn Hejinian's alphabet, Susan Howe's Peirce, what Lorine Niedecker learned from Surrealism, what language writers learned from Czech and Russian Formalism, what Craig Dworkin learned from everyone-- Golston's provocative, ambitious, learned, and useful study unifies these discoveries under the banner of allegory, a term capacious enough to include many ways that Golston's challenging present-day writers highlight the invention, the arbitrariness, and yet the continuing meaningfulness, of their estranged, and yet explicable, forms. If you care for those writers-- and I do-- you will be glad you read Golston's book. Bob Perelman, University of Pennsylvania :Infectiously interesting, Poetic Machinations is useful both as a survey of critical claims for allegory and as a practical guide for reading the challenges of contemporary poetry. The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought.Beginning with Walter Benjamin's explicit understanding of Surrealism as an allegorical art, Golston defines a distinct engagement with allegory among philosophers, theorists, and critics from 1950 to today. Reading Fredric Jameson, Angus Fletcher, Roland Barthes, and Craig Owens, and working with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Pierce, Golston develops a theory of allegory he then applies to the poems of Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker, who, he argues, wrote in response to the Surrealists the poems of John Ashbery and Clark Coolidge, who incorporated formal aspects of filmmaking and photography into their work the groundbreaking configurations of P. Inman, Lyn Hejinian, Myung Mi Kim, and the Language poets Susan Howe's "Pierce-Arrow," which he submits to semiotic analysis and the innovations of Craig Dworkin and the conceptualists. Revitalizing what many consider to be a staid rhetorical trope, Golston positions allegory as a creative catalyst behind postwar American poetry's avant-garde achievements.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231538633
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    Subjects: Allegory.; American poetry; Poetics.; Surrealism (Literature); Literary Studies.; Poetics .; American; Literary Criticism.; Poetry.
    Scope: 1 online resource (272 p.)
  25. Killing the Moonlight :
    Modernism in Venice /
    Published: [2014].; ©2014.
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press,, New York, NY :

    As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered... more

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    As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase.Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture--from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover--Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231537742
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    Series: Modernist Latitudes
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Modernism (Aesthetics); Modernism (Literature); Literary Studies.; Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft.; Literature, Modern.; Modernism (Aesthetics); Modernism (Literature); Semiotics, other.; Literary Criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource(464 p.) :, illustrations.