Covers writers who have made significant contributions to European literature. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis.
These three writers and others competed with Andersen for Denmark's laurels and patronage . In an era of growing individualism , when the middle classes were seeking more power in central and northern Europe ; when industrialism and ...
This collection of transnational, globalized European literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks.
In real life it was also the Karen Coffee Company , whose fortunes were to become part of Karen Blixen's life — as , indeed , of the destiny of Isak Dinesen . It was an illfated venture from the start ; the land was too high and the ...
When the reporters to a sex-trafficking exposé are murdered and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is targeted as the killer, Mikael Blomkvist, the publisher of the exposé, investigates to clear Lisbeth's name.
With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major ...
This reference work is comprised of two volumes treating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, three volumes on the Romantics, and four volumes dealing with twentieth century authors.
Her only other occupations were to think about her brother Maurice , to spin by the kitchen fireside , to read the life of a saint , or at best a stray volume of Scott or Lamartine , or Bernardin de Saint - Pierre ; to observe zealously ...
This volume also features a bibliographical supplement, a list of contributors, and master lists of subjects arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and by language. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Analyzing the treatment of Eastern Europeans as builders, fruit pickers, nannies, and victims of sex trafficking, and ways of resisting the stereotypes, this is an important intervention into debates about Europe, migration, and ...
... Die Entropie des Menschen: Studien zum Werk Hermann Brochs (Würzburg; K & H, 2000) Lützeler, Paul Michael (ed.), Visionaries in Exile (Rochester: Camden House, 2003) Magris, Claudio, Der habsburgische Mythos in der modernen ...