Literaturwissenschaft

Cultural Participation

Culture is studied in this collection, not merely as a set of products, but in terms of the involvement of individuals and groups in the making and using of such products. A wide range of activiti...

Aspects of Literary Comprehension

Given the fact that there are widely different types of text, it is unlikely that every text is processed in the same way. It is assumed here that for each text type, proficient readers have devel...

Other Mary Shelley

Indi'n Humor

Kenneth Lincoln

Elizabeth Bishop

C. K. Doreski

Loose Canons

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Shakespeare and Ovid

Jonathan Bate

This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Jonathan Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare's work, identifying Ovid...

William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture

Brian Bremen A.

Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Tobin Siebers

Mixed Race

West of Everything

Jane Tompkins

Beauties and Beasts

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

Joanne Feit Diehl

Nobody's Home

Arnold Weinstein

Focuses on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture -- individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life -- Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career o...

Nobody's Home

Arnold Weinstein

Catharine and Other Writings

Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant short pieces she plays with...

The Beginning of Terror

David Kleinbard

<p>The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and huma...

The Beginning of Terror

David Kleinbard

<p>The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and huma...

Fictive People

Ronald J. Zboray

Rezeption und Interpretation der Aristotelischen Politica im spaten Mittelalter

Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden. Gleich nach dem Erscheinen der ersten vol...