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The Theater of Trauma
American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930©2005 Monographs -
Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage
Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR©2007 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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El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón- The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus
Una comedia en tres actos por Lope de Vega/A Play in Three Acts by Lope de Vega- Una edición crítica y bilingüe/A Critical and Bilingual Edition©2014 Monographs -
Elastizität
The Poetics of Space, Movement and Character in Frank Wedekind’s Theater©2013 Monographs -
Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera
©2019 Monographs -
Jacques Copeau’s Friends and Disciples
The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in New York City, 1917-1919©2008 Monographs -
Shakespeare’s Knowledgeable Body
©2008 Monographs -
The Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres
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The Art of Comedy and Social Critique in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (1800-1868)©2005 Monographs -
Prophetic Critique and Popular Media
Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications©2013 Textbook -
The Moral World of «Billy Budd»
©2014 Monographs -
Austrian Culture
The series on Austrian Culture provides critical evaluations, in English or German, of Austrian authors, artists, works, currents, or figures from the Middle Ages to the present. Austria is defined as those parts of the old Habsburg empire that produced notable writings in the German language, including Czechoslovakia (Prague) and the Bukovina (Czernowitz). The series offers a forum for the exploration of the multifarious relationships between literature and other aspects of Austrian culture, such as philosophy, music, art, architecture, and the theater. Dissertations and other monograph-length material as well as scholarly translations or editions of outstanding literary works are welcome. The series on Austrian Culture provides critical evaluations, in English or German, of Austrian authors, artists, works, currents, or figures from the Middle Ages to the present. Austria is defined as those parts of the old Habsburg empire that produced notable writings in the German language, including Czechoslovakia (Prague) and the Bukovina (Czernowitz). The series offers a forum for the exploration of the multifarious relationships between literature and other aspects of Austrian culture, such as philosophy, music, art, architecture, and the theater. Dissertations and other monograph-length material as well as scholarly translations or editions of outstanding literary works are welcome. The series on Austrian Culture provides critical evaluations, in English or German, of Austrian authors, artists, works, currents, or figures from the Middle Ages to the present. Austria is defined as those parts of the old Habsburg empire that produced notable writings in the German language, including Czechoslovakia (Prague) and the Bukovina (Czernowitz). The series offers a forum for the exploration of the multifarious relationships between literature and other aspects of Austrian culture, such as philosophy, music, art, architecture, and the theater. Dissertations and other monograph-length material as well as scholarly translations or editions of outstanding literary works are welcome.
43 publications