European category: 23182 books
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this...
by Brian Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965,...
by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing...
Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality
Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
This timely collection of essays on British and European Catholic spiritualities explores how ideas of the sacred have influenced female relationships with piety and religious vocations over time. Each of the studies focuses on specific persons or groups within the varied contexts of England, France,...
The Poetics of Piracy
Emulating Spain in English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
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,...
Vikings
A History of the Norse People
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"“From the fury of the Northmen, good Lord deliver us.” – Anonymous monk, Noirmoutier, France, 9th century ADBeginning in 789AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats...
Shakespeare in Cold War Europe
Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled here consider representative...
Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race
Black Female Tricksters Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with tricksters who throw dust in...
by Simon Gikandi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that...
Los agravios de la letra
La letra colonial y la formación de la alteridad afro-andina [Siglos XVI, XVII y XIX]
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales del periodo colonial). La naturaleza heterogénea de estos textos constituye la base y dirección de este trabajo; esta diversidad permite observar...
Textos de los «Lieder» de Richard Strauss
Enfoque poético-musical
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Esta obra es una verdadera composición artística, que cuida el ritmo del lenguaje con un léxico erudito. Y si bien parte de un examen científico minucioso, el mundo interior y creativo de la autora traduce su prosa con dinámica ágil y atractivos ejemplos poético-musicales.
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Commentary and Ideology
Dante in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah Parker's thorough compendium on the reception...
by C. P. Cavafy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria’s ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak...