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The View from the Tower
Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal …
The Mirror of Justice
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society …
The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of …
Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus
German Romanticism and Its Institutions
Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, …
Cults and Conspiracies
Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against …
Scandal on Stage
New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the …
The Novels of Hermann Hesse
The description for this book, The Novels of Hermann Hesse: A Study in Theme and Structure, will be forthcoming.