The fear of falling, the awareness of lost innocence, lost illusions, lost hopes and intentions,
of civilization in declinethese are the themes which link literature to theology, both concerned with the shape of human destiny. Otten discusses the continuing viability ...
One of the outstanding revolutionary leaders of the 20th century discusses questions of literature, art,
and culture in a period of capitalist decline and working-class struggle. In these writings, Trotsky examines the place and aesthetic autonomy of art and artistic ...
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 86,
University of Leeds (Trinity & All Saints College), course: National and Global Culture, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: For at least the ...
David Ellison's book is an ambitious presentation of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of Modernist
literature. The author brings together philosophical, theoretical, and literary texts ranging over a century and a half of intellectual historyfrom Kant and Kierkegaard to Freud ...
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore
in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected ...
Gothic Romanticism, winner of the 2010 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, is a study of
the relationship between British Romanticism and the Gothic Revival. Reading a wide range of canonical and raretexts, and spanning the Romantic discourses of architecture, politics, ...
Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin
in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison ...
At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems,
alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics ...