Literatur / Sprache

James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism examines anew how myth exists in Joyce’s fiction. Using Joyce’s idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern age ...

In Anamorphosic Texts, Maryna Romanets turns a discriminating lens on a still “liminal” Ukrainian cultural space and, through its relation to the experiences of one of the earliest decolonized nations, Ireland, puts it on the discursive postcolonial map, thereby destabilizing the paradigm of ...

This collection seeks to examine the intersections of aesthetics and morality, of what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. The inclination toward either the artistic or social perspective in each essay has been rendered more straightforwardly by employing ...

Das Verhältnis von Historiographie und Literatur ist seit den Publikationen von Hayden White in den 80er-Jahren Thema auch in der Literaturwissenschaft. Der Konstruktivismus in der Geschichtswissenschaft ist im Kontext der allgemeinen Diskussion um die Textualität von Geschichte und der ...

This scholarly study of the formation of the Irish literary canon in the first half of the twentieth century provides fascinating and often surprising insights into the ways in which different educational institutions responded to the political and historical changes taking place as Ireland ...

These proceedings of the symposium ‘The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victim-hood in Contemporary Literature,’ conducted by the Department of American Culture and Literature at Haliç University, Istanbul, on 13-15 April 2005 contain discussions of power and ...

Yang Yu behandelt in diesem Buch einen Motivkomplex in dem bisherigen Œuvre von Günter Grass, der seit den siebziger Jahren eine immer bedeutendere Rolle spielt. Grass’ jahrzehntelange Auseinandersetzung mit den Problemen der Dritten Welt wirkt sich nämlich nicht nur entscheidend auf die ...

Was sind Modalpartikeln? Was ist Modalität - und erst recht: Was sind Partikeln überhaupt? Im Zuge der Beantwortung dieser Fragen stellt Mohamed El-Shaar aufschlussreiche Analysen, neue Ansichten und originelle Ideen vor, die die moderne Sprachwissenschaft so bislang noch nicht kannte. ...

Inci Bilgin Tekin's study offers a comparative perspective on two very challenging contemporary female playwrights, Liz Lochhead and Cherrie Moraga, and their Scottish and Chicanese adaptations of myths – such as the Greek Medea and Oedipus or the Mayan Popul Vuh – which address ethnic, ...

“This study represents a significant step towards understanding an important social phenomenon in Canada at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. Throughout much of the twentieth century the life of virtually all Aboriginal people had been marked by a set of ...