Literary Studies: General

The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoi...

The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divinat...

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It em...

Goncharov's novels have been popular in Russia since their publication, and Oblomov, the central character of his most famous novel, has become the...

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James And...

Die vorliegende Einführung erscheint in der 4. Auflage als völlig neu konzipierte Bearbeitung. Sie vermittelt neben einem umfassenden Überblick übe...

Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those w...

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community ...

In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of A...

The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman...

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Mi...

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to glob...

2023 erscheint der 62. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums Heinrich Heine und die Menschenrecht...

Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out....

By his contemporaries, Raoul de Houdenc was 'mentioned in the same breath as Chrétien de Troyes as one of the masters of French poetry' (Keith Busb...

In the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have b...

Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of re...

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated ...