Autor: Pfeiffer Martin

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Oscar Wilde

Die Urteile über Oscar Wilde reichen von höchstem Lob bis zur tiefsten Verachtung. Robert Sherard, sein früher Freund und erster Biograph, beschrieb ihn 1902 als «den reinsten Menschen …


geschrieben von Peter Funke (Autor)

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the …


geschrieben von Derek Walcott (Autor)

Eliot: Middlemarch

A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding …

1. The context of the novel; 2. The method of Middlemarch; 3. Middlemarch and the art of …


geschrieben von George Eliot (Autor) und Karen Chase (Autor) und J. P. Stern (Herausgeber)

The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism

Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals …

Introduction: of imagination and ideology; 1. Coleridge: the institution of imagination; 2. Wordsworth: the poetry of enshrinement; 3. Shelley: the ends of imagination, the 'triumph' of ideology; 4. …


geschrieben von Forest Pyle (Autor)

Four Winds: Poems from Indian Rituals

. . . bits of Zuni, Navajo, Tewa, San Juan ceremonial chants, prayers, blessings, …


geschrieben von Gene Meany Hodge (Autor)

Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit

A study of religion and philosophy in the novels and …

Introduction; 1. Priestess; 2. Spiritual homelessness; 3. Calvinist 'moral tortures'; 4. Fragile …


geschrieben von Carol J. Singley (Autor) und Albert Gelpi (Herausgeber) und Ross Posnock (Herausgeber)

The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940

This literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and …

Introduction; Part I. Escape, Evasion, Ambivalence: 1. Re-creating Walden: Thoureau's economy of work and play; 2. Old ways, new ways: anxiety and identity in Roughing It and Life on the Missisippi; …


geschrieben von William A. Gleason (Autor)

Who The Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?

From Harper Lee to Harry Potter, "The Great Gatsby" to "Jaws," short, pithy chapters …


geschrieben von Jenny Bond (Autor) und Chris Sheedy (Autor)

The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois

Shamoon Zamir is Reader in American Studies …

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent …

Chronology; Introduction Shamoon Zamir; 1. The Souls of Black Folk: thought and afterthought Shamoon Zamir; 2. 'Of the Coming of John' Sieglinde Lemke; 3. The fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois Jennifer …


geschrieben von Shamoon Zamir (Herausgeber)

Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen

Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Recent books include Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems, Uncertain Poetries, a collection of his essays, and Earth and Cave, a memoir of Spain in …

These essays cover the range of Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment of poetry for political activism in …

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Utopocalyptic Moments: Objectivists in the Thirties "Writing Occurs": Reflections on Oppen, Zukofsky and Objectivist Poetics A Mimetics of Humanity: Reading …

Michael Heller's engagement--personally, critically, and poetically--with George Oppen is without parallel. Extending from his early correspondence with Oppen to his groundbreaking book on the …


geschrieben von Michael Heller (Autor)


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