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- English Studies (101)
- Science, Society & Culture (69)
- German Studies (50)
- Romance Studies (44)
- History & Political Science (36)
- The Arts (17)
- Linguistics (15)
- Theology & Philosophy (15)
- Law, Economics & Management (14)
- Slavic Studies (12)
- Education (6)
- Media and Communication (3)
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Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature
©2012 Monographs -
Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
©2010 Monographs -
Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures
©2013 Monographs -
National Identities and European Literatures / Nationale Identitäten und Europäische Literaturen
©2008 Edited Collection -
The Catholic Revival in Modern European Literature (1890–1945)
©2018 Monographs -
Critical Probings: Essays in European Literature
From Wolfram von Eschenbach to Thomas Mann©1984 Others -
Mutating Idylls
Uses and Misuses of the Locus Amoenus in European Literature, 1850–1930©2019 Edited Collection -
Inspiring Views from «a' the airts» on Scottish Literatures, Art and Cinema
The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014©2017 Conference proceedings -
Literature as History / History as Literature
Fact and Fiction in Medieval to Eighteenth-Century British Literature©2007 Conference proceedings -
The Daybreak and Nightfall of Literature
Friedrich Schlegel’s Idea of Romantic Literature: Between Productive Fantasy and Reflection©2007 Thesis -
Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe
©2009 Monographs -
Seventeenth- Century Dutch Painting and Modern Literature
©2024 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. "
3 publications
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The Rebirth of Hebrew Literature
©2016 Monographs -
Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature
©1988 Monographs -
A Comparative Approach: The Early European Supernatural Tale
Five Variations on a Theme©2012 Thesis