Author: Ulrich Broich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521309653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody, satire and occasional poetry. The second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry.
Studien Zum Komischen Epos
Author: Ulrich Broich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521309653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody, satire and occasional poetry. The second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521309653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody, satire and occasional poetry. The second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry.
Telling Stories
Author: Ulrich Broich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9060323343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The contributions in this volume are all related to one of Ulrich Broich's main fields of research and teaching, the way stories are told in the various literary genres. The papers range from Chaucer to 20th-century literature; they discuss poems, prologues, plays and novels, French philosophers and English sermons, the Anglo-Boer War and totalitarianism.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9060323343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The contributions in this volume are all related to one of Ulrich Broich's main fields of research and teaching, the way stories are told in the various literary genres. The papers range from Chaucer to 20th-century literature; they discuss poems, prologues, plays and novels, French philosophers and English sermons, the Anglo-Boer War and totalitarianism.
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Author: Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058674241
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Volume 53
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058674241
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Volume 53
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
Author: Manuel Baumbach
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This book offers a critical re-examination of some important (and some lesser known) texts which are commonly labelled 'epyllia' in classical scholarship. It traces the history of the generic term 'epyllion' and sketches the literary and scholarly reception of these texts.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004214321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
This book offers a critical re-examination of some important (and some lesser known) texts which are commonly labelled 'epyllia' in classical scholarship. It traces the history of the generic term 'epyllion' and sketches the literary and scholarly reception of these texts.
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
Author: Ritchie Robertson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199571589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199571589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.
Cervantes in the English-speaking World
Author: Darío Fernández-Morera
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
ISBN: 9783937734002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
ISBN: 9783937734002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature
Author: Lothar Hönnighausen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521320631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521320631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Rise of the English Street Ballad 1550-1650
Author: Natascha Würzbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521177443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Natascha Würzbach's 1981 study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected. Attention is focused on the social and cultural conditions which accompanied its development. It is also looked at as a literary form.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521177443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Natascha Würzbach's 1981 study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected. Attention is focused on the social and cultural conditions which accompanied its development. It is also looked at as a literary form.
Oscar Wilde
Author: Norbert Kohl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521176538
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521176538
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.