Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of... Læs mere
This book aims to show new ways in which Dada explains itself, and that Dada, in turn, can help to animate and expand debates about a diverse range of other fields including poetics, psychoanalysis, ethics, semantics, intellectual history and science.
This book explores Dante's reception and polemical representation of Epicureanism, and the light this sheds on his dualistic theory of the secular and spiritual hemispheres of human conduct. It also addresses a significant gap in Dante scholarship.
This book explores both the relevance of Edoardo Sanguineti theoretical postures and the ideological and formal fabric of his literary production. It highlights his subversive objectives, the complexity of the language, whimsical disposition, and provocative social critique.
This book discusses the styles of performance developed in different European countries in response to prevailing conditions, drawing attention to the complex relationship between scripted text and improvisation.
In this book, the author conducts a philological comparison of Iris Murdoch's and Elias Canetti's works, from their literary themes and theories to... Læs mere
This book is an outcome of the international academic conference on Joseph Opatoshu held in Regensburg on 22–24 April 2012. It brings together literary specialists and historians working in Jewish and Slavic Studies.
This book seeks to recontextualize the quarrel, embedding it in the cultural politics of the 1770s, and thereby to offer a richer account of the disputes which would account for some of the wider issues at stake.
This book considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud.
This book develops both a methodology that aims at clarifying what we mean when we refer to 'reception' and a theoretical alternative to... Læs mere
This book examines both the notion that the non-political fiction of the Revolution is responding to the events in France and the idea that trauma theory might shed light on the ways in which novelists responded to the Revolution.
This book explores what Louise Bourgeois, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust show us, through representations of childhood, about the... Læs mere