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The Catholic Revival in Modern European Literature (1890–1945)
©2018 Monographs -
Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature
©2012 Monographs -
National Identities and European Literatures / Nationale Identitäten und Europäische Literaturen
©2008 Edited Collection -
In the Footsteps of Kierkegaard
Modern Ethical Literature by Józef Wittlin and Pär Lagerkvist©2022 Monographs -
Literature as History / History as Literature
Fact and Fiction in Medieval to Eighteenth-Century British Literature©2007 Conference proceedings -
Modernismo, noventayochismo y novela: España y Europa
Ensayo de literatura comparada©2014 Monographs -
Olhares lítero-artísticos sobre a cidade moderna
Literarisch-künstlerische Blicke auf die moderne Stadt©2011 Monographs -
The Rebirth of Hebrew Literature
©2016 Monographs -
Seventeenth- Century Dutch Painting and Modern Literature
©2024 Monographs -
Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World
©2022 Edited Collection -
Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe
Representation, Contestation, Critique©2021 Edited Collection -
The Early Modern Stage-Jew
Heritage, Inspiration, and Concepts – With the first edition of Nathaniel Wiburne’s «Machiavellus»©2017 Thesis -
Patterns in Twentieth-Century European Thought
©2004 Monographs -
Contemporary Critical Concepts and Pre-Enlightenment Literature
ISSN: 1074-6781
"Writers who worked before the beginning of rationalist universalism's triumphal period which may be ending now-explored issues of consciousness, ideology, and culture that recent criticism and critical theory, using various specialized vocabularies of concepts, have returned to the center of literäry and social criticism. These early modern figures often anticipated some of our clilemmas; How to manipulate an apparently quite mutable world and, at the same time, preserve belief in an immutable "centered" self? How to reconcile rationalist universalism with personal and cultural stability? Rene Descartes's postulate of man as the master and proprietor of an increasingly built world is fundamentally incompatible with his effort to underwrite man as a stable philosophical subject. Man's technical and linguistic mastery devours his "transcendent subjectivity." Students of literature are now using the ideas of what Larry Riggs calls "post-enlightenment thinkers"-Max Horkheimer, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Rene Girard, and others-to elucidate the implicit and explicit debates about rationalism that are embedded in literary works. This trend is most usefully seen as a renewal of contact with preoccupations that were quite current in medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century European literature. To date, however, innovative criticism has focused an more recent literature. Some post-structuralists-most notably Jacques Lacan-have tried their hand at interpreting early works. Their ideas are interesting, but their knowledge of the periods in question is often weak. Manuscripts on Elizabethan and Restoration theater, French, Italian, and German writers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, and die seventeenth-century French dramatists and moralists are welcome. "
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La poesía melancólica en Europa de la Edad Media al siglo XVIII
Spleen, Schwermut, Mélancolie, Tristessa, Saudade©2023 Edited Collection -
Modernist Translation
An Eastern European Perspective: Models, Semantics, Functions©2016 Monographs -
German Literature, History and the Nation
Papers from the Conference ‘The Fragile Tradition’, Cambridge 2002. Volume 2©2004 Conference proceedings -
Authors in Dialogue
Comparative Essays in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English LiteratureMonographs -
Foundational Texts of World Literature
©2011 Monographs