A Topos Subverted = Italy in the 20th and 21st century German literary imagin…

What has become of the literary topos “Italy”—once so central to German literature—in the 20th and early 21st centuries? Does it still have a role to play in the German self-understanding and in what way has this role changed? To address these questions, this study focusses on six texts. Each text revises, subverts, and radicalises this literary topos such that it gains new contemporary…

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.

Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-476-04080-0

Collation

Literasi

Series Title

Sammlung Metzler

Call Number

379

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia

This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike …