The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama
Tragedy Walks the Streets challenges the conventional understanding that the evolution of European drama effectively came to a halt during France's Revolutionary era. In this interdisciplinary history on the emergence of modern drama in European culture, Matthew S. Buckley contends that the political theatricality of the Revolution tested and ......
The time has come to take another look at Longfellow, America's most popular poet. Christoph Irmscher overturns the modern prejudice against Longfellow as the mere purveyor of literary comfort food. Examining his unpublished papers alongside letters written by his fans at home and abroad, Irmscher offers a fresh view of the poet's connection with ......
Offers an introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This title traces its development from the medieval Arabic literary tradition - beginning in the sixth-century with nomadic Bedouin poetry and the Qur'an - through new literary forms adapted from Western imaginative literature.
Because gothic fiction was the one semi-respectable genre that regularly explored sexual and social transgressions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George Haggerty's Queer Gothic argues that it makes sense to consider the ways in which gothic fiction itself helped to shape thinking about sexual matters, create the darker shadows of ......
In this insightful study, Rochelle Tobias explores images inPaul Celan's poetry drawn from three of the sciences: geology,astrology, and physiologythe scientific discourses ofthe earth, the heavens, and the human body. Celan's workborrows from each of these disciplines to represent itself asif it were a physical phenomenon or a body in ......
The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, oneof the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in orderto reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historicalcritique. Works of modern literature are commonlytheorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history.In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over ......
Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts
Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the secrets of the universe, of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this pathbreaking collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck provides a comprehensive sourcebook and introduction to magic as it was practiced by witches and ......
Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden, author of The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning, again presents new approaches to understanding the themes and story of the poem. In this thought-provoking study, he demonstrates how repeated narrative motifs argue for an expanded understanding of the ......
As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldviewnot grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nationcomparative literature has benefited from regular re-examination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association's 1993 report on the state of the ......
