Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott (Great Shakespeareans)
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Empson, G. Wilson Knight, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered...
Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including feature and documentary films regarding warfare; and civilian propaganda, including films that address a variety of political subjects. Although the focus is American film and American politics, this book offers insights for all those interested...
Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum
by Peter Arnds
In receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, Gunter Grass, a prominent and controversial figure in the ongoing discussion of the German past and reunification, finally gained recognition as Germany's greatest living author, a writer of international importance and acclaim. Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum remains one of the most important works of literature for the construction of postwar German identity. Peter Arnds offers a completely newreading of the novel, analyzing an aspect of Gra...
Rachel Carson was a marine biologist credited with the founding of the ecology movement and the rise in ecofeminism. One of her most popular works was Silent Spring, which challenged the use of DDT (an insecticide infamous for its negative environmental effects) and questioned the claims of modern industry. Carson also wrote essays, reviews, articles, and more to educate the public about the impacts of chemical pollutants on both the environment and the human body. This literary companion provid...
Henry Peachams -The Garden of Eloquence- (1593) (Literarische Studien / Literary Studies, #4)
by Beate-Maria Koll
In dieser Arbeit wird Henry Peachams -Garden of Eloquence- erstmals in transkribierter und kommentierter Fassung vorgelegt sowie historisch-kritisch untersucht und zugeordnet. Sie schliesst damit eine Lucke auf dem Forschungsgebiet der englischen Renaissance-Rhetorik. Die Analyse greift zuruck sowohl auf den zeitgenossischen als auch den antiken und neulateinischen Kontext. Vor diesem Hintergrund erweisen sich die christlich-humanistische Ausrichtung, der Oralitats- und Affektcharakter und die p...
The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature (Non-Series)
by Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Cum Title Index 2009 (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
Contemporary Literary Criticism covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, #77)
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Restoration periods by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: William Camden Miles Coverdale Jean Gerson 18th Century Travel Narratives
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, #95)
by Juliet Byington
A convenient source of commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. Cumulative title, author, nationality and topic indexes are provided.
Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. Entries provide an introductory biographical sketch, an author portrait, a primary bibliography, annotated full text and excerpted criticism of the poets' works and sources for additional reading. When available, comments from the poets themselves are included. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.Each volume includes cumulative author name...
In our penultimate 70th birthday edition, Meanjin wonders what it takes to make a city: Diana Wells visits Melbourne's ever-shifting outer edge and David Nichols takes a walk through the early housing commission suburb of Doveton. Elizabeth Glickfeld considers Melbourne's latest logo and corporate culture; Rachel Weaver reminds us that, not so long ago, morgues were a place a town's citizens went to be entertained; Michael Harden looks at the impact of the law and policy on the bar and restauran...
The Films of Werner Herzog (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
A challenging range of films is covered offering the readers ways of understanding why, whatever the controversies surrounding Herzog and his films, he remains a major and popular international film-maker.