Litteraturvetenskap

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia …

Karl Erik Lagerlöfs populära bok om den legendariska författaren ges nu ut i en ny, uppdaterad version. Första gången den gavs ut var 1978. Det har alltid rått sensation kring …

Who was Cinna? What do the hawthorn and primrose symbolize? Or President Snow's roses and Peeta's bread? What about Katniss's last name? Bringing details from myths, herbal guides, …

"Butterfly Valley" is a tour de force, exploring the major themes of life, love, death and art. The form is simple yet complex, a sonnet sequence building to a final sonnet of …

Estetik kommer av aisthesis, det grekiska ordet för sinnlig varseblivning. På vilket sätt skapar sinnena ett eget fält för vetande? På vilket sätt ska vi förstå deras roll som …

The work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy …

On 3 January 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old "genius"—by his own reckoning—arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made a spectacle of himself in London with …

‘In all his life [Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill …

While a student at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was courting a beautiful Dublin girl, Florence Balcombe, and on Christmas Day 1876 he presented her with a love gift of a golden crucifix. …

This monograph presents original research findings concerning Oscar Wilde's membership of a Liberal political club and hisviews on Irish Home Rule. It has significant implications …