Allgemeine & Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Sacred Biography

Thomas J. Heffernan

Conflicting Stories

Elizabeth Ammons

Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

Michel Beaujour

<p>A serious and independent contribution to the literature of autobiography.<br>-- John SturrockFrench StudiesClearly a landmark study. It seems certain to provoke a great deal of pro...

Garden of Priapus

Amy Richlin

Lorca, una escritura en trance

Lorca's poetry is founded upon a complex symbolical system of recurring motifs. This book analyses a number of those motifs as poetic signs through a contextual reading of Libro de poemas (192...

Anthropology and Autobiography

Helen Callaway

John Bunyan and English Nonconformity

Greaves Richard Greaves

Composition of Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia

John J. Keaney

Telling Stories

The contributions in this volume are all related to one of Ulrich Broich's main fields of research and teaching, the way stories are told in the various literary genres. The papers range from ...

Whitman's Presence

Tenney Nathanson

<p>"Nathanson addresses with renewed insight a problem that has vexed Whitman scholars at least since James E. Miller, Jr.'s A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass turned Whitman into a...

Love's Knowledge

Martha C. Nussbaum

Sending My Heart Back Across the Years

Hertha Dawn Wong

Strange Power of Speech

Susan Eilenberg

London Calling

Rob Nixon

Wallace Stevens

LONGENBACH JAMES

By examining a full range of Stevens's writing in the context of American political and intellectual history, Longenbach reveals him as a poet who was not only aware of current events but whos...

Word in Black and White

Dana D. Nelson

Beckett in Dublin

Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 4, Books 13-16

Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature

In Gorbachev's Russia and outside of it the strength and scope of Russian nationalism is currently a subject of strenuous scholarly debate. The many and varied forms national ideology takes in...

Writing History as a Prophet

This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past.Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter ...