This book investigates how Laurence Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction. It reveals that Shandean humour is a Grenzganger—a point of commerce between English and German literature and philosophy.
This book focuses on some of the best known and most important books, feature films, and television series in contemporary Span, and addresses three pairs... Læs mere
This book presents a broad range of interpretations pertaining to very diverse aspects of the M. Proust's work, stemming from a number of fields of interpretations. It is based on an international symposium convened at Princeton University on 22 and 23 April 2006.
In this book, the author challenges the notion that French Realist fiction is peculiarly and intrinsically hostile to female freedom, arguing that it is criticism itself that has marginalized Stendhal's noncompliant heroines and condemned them as self-centred.
This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century Italian composers: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni and Armando Gentilucci.
This book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within... Læs mere
This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of philosophical paradigms as an approach to his works.