Category Archives: European

Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, … Continue reading →

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Kafka and Photography

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka’s personal engagement with the medium – as a keen viewer and collector of … Continue reading →

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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked – and then conquered – the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring … Continue reading →

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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections: with parallel French text (Oxford World’s Classics)

Posted on February 26, 2007 by singleton

Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La … Continue reading →

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Selected Writings of Max Reger

Posted on February 25, 2006 by singleton

Max Reger (1873-1916) was a celebrated German composer, performer on piano and organ, and conductor. Well known for his compositions for keyboards and orchestra, Reger worked during the crucial decades when Western music transformed itself from the misty veil of … Continue reading →

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Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))

Posted on February 26, 2004 by singleton

Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts … Continue reading →

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The Essential Victor Hugo (Oxford World’s Classics)

Posted on February 25, 2004 by singleton

‘To the English, I am “shocking”…What’s more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet…’ Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half … Continue reading →

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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Introductions to Literature)

Posted on February 25, 2004 by singleton

From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as … Continue reading →

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A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Posted on February 25, 2003 by singleton

The legend of Tristan and Isolde — the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love — achieved its most complete and profound rendering in the German poet Gottfried von Strassburg’s verse romance Tristan (ca. 1200-1210). Along with … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Posted on February 25, 2001 by singleton

This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky’s work. The essays cover such topics as temptation, his use of the gospels, the Russian tradition of the veneration of icons, as … Continue reading →

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