Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolin
This collection examines the multifaceted opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini through a contemporary critical lens. It offers new interpretations to some classic works such as Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom and Decameron while considering some lesser studied pieces, for example Orestiade and his Friulian verse.
Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz offers a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s emerging global networks and how ......
The exemplary life and devotions of the reform journalist W. T. Stead (1949-1912) provided James Joyce with a model, a theme, and a purpose. Joyce integrated Steadfacts with his own personal emerging autobiography and interpretation of the ongoing Irish national, international, and even cosmic events.
This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Aesthetics and Ideology of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot explores the correlation between the aesthetic and the ideological in Modernism, with special focus on Lawrence, Woolf, and Eliot. It challenges common views of modernists as opponents of established religious, political, and social order.
Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women's Literature
This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian literary production.
Through the lens of ecocriticism, history, memory, and gender studies, this book studies the many ways in which the image of the river has been integrated into Latin/o American literature from the period of exploration and colonization to modern times, examining the imagery and symbolism tied to rivers in the writings of the region.
Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction as interrelated texts composed by three generations of members of one extended gentry family in nineteenth-century China.
Chaucer's Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement.
