This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights ...

This wide-ranging book looks at the author as a Victorian 'man of letters', and explores his cultural and critical impact, both on the definition of the novel in the 19th century and the subsequent development of the form in the 20th. It examines the full spectrum of Dickens's writing, including his journalism, work as an editor of periodicals, sketches and stories, placing his work in its contemporary context as well as reassessing it in the ...

This first English publication of Maria Lampadaridou Pothou's work is a collection of her critically acclaimed writing. It includes a revisionist version of a Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone or The Nostalgia of Tragedy, which was written to protest Greek dictatorship. Praised by Samuel Beckett, Pothou wrote the other two featured plays, The Glass Box and Bidding You Farewell, in the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd. Also included are poems ...

Captures the rich spectrum of Joycean emotion, influence and creation ...

Shakespearean Entrances offers a systematic study of entrances and exits on the Shakespearean stage. Elizabethan playwrights and players not only routinely handled these movements but they also used them to bring about various effects. Through analyzing the surviving play-texts, the author attempts to identify the unspoken but standard rules that lay behind the minimal and conventionalized stage directions'Enter' and'Exit'/'Exeunt'. The findings ...

This collection of twelve essays written in English and French honors Victor Brombert, the eminent humanist, thinker, and scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European letters. Though their subjects range broadly over the literature, music, and painting of France, Russia, Italy, and Germany, many of the essays share concerns, topics, or methods, thus creating illuminating parallels and contrasts as well as internal coherence.
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"An ambitious, authoritative new reading of "The Man Without Qualities," which establishes forcefully the relevance of the fascination of the incomparable Austrian writer. A Robert Musil for the twenty-first century? Yes. And Jonsson's book is as suggestive about the summative powers of Musil the novelist as about that still incompletely charted cultural labyrinth called 'modernity' in which we continue to wander."--Susan Sontag
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In the dramatic monologues that make up "The Fourth Dimension"--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the "The Fourth Dimension" ...

"The Philip Larkin I Knew" traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull, taking in his literary achievements from "The Less Deceived" (1955), through "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964), to "High Windows" (1974). It reveals Larkin in a new light - courteous, compassionate, generous, and a man of deep sensitivity and charm - with a natural sense of fun and ...

This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights. ...