European category: 23182 books
Locating August Strindberg's Prose
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism.
Stenport examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In...
René Marans «Batouala»
Jazz-Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise. The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are shown to lie in Western,...
Locating Hybridity
Creole, Identities and Body Politics in the Novels of Ananda Devi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research.
The Men with Broken Faces
«Gueules Cassées» of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual...
by Louise Ackermann
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Extrait : ÉLAN MYSTIQUE
Alors j’avais quinze ans. Au sein des nuits sans voiles,
Je m’arrêtais pour voir voyager les étoiles
Et contemplais trembler, à l’horizon lointain,
Des flots où leur clarté jouait jusqu’au matin.
Un immense besoin de divine harmonie
M’entraînait malgré...
Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985)
Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist — perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment — and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary...
by Judith Gautier
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2016
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The Politics of Humour
Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics...
by Enrico Massetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
2019 edition
"For me, Bolzano - Bozen is a mountain transformed into a city. The moment you move, it changes appearance. You edge forward, and the profile is different, you go back and discover new faces. It speaks different languages. At its heart, it is an actor, enchanting and contradictory,...
The First German Theatre (Routledge Revivals)
Schiller, Goethe, Kleist and Büchner in Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces...
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness
Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness reads the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment’s ethical legacy.
Race and Sex across the French Atlantic
The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Jean Genet's masterpiece Les N_gres was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first performed at the ThZ%tre de Lut_ce in Paris in October 1959. Yet even though the play is more than 50 years old, it remains a fundamental contribution to critical race theory, as Genet unequivocally...