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Wie interpretiert man ein Gedicht? – Schülerinnen und Schülern fällt der Zugang zur Lyrik oft schwer. Als Lehrer kennt Ralf Kellermann die Tücken der Gedichtinterpretation nicht …

As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an …

This is a book about English Studies, aimed at all those who are taking English degrees, or teaching them. It gives a detailed account of the core of the discipline - the close …

Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps …

From Augustine's Confessions to Augusten Burroughs's Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses S. Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a …

This book explores the relationship between Anne Bronte's work and the life and writings of Lord Byron. Byron's influence on the other Bronte siblings is well-documented but absent …

According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such …

By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As …

What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and acquired wider and looser meanings.Originally published in 1968, Dr …

This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. …