English Language and Literatures
Film and Performance Studies
Horst Daemmrich
Louis Fantasia (eds.)
Tessa Roynon • Marc C. Conner (eds.)
David Spurr
Fiona Brennan
Self-Realization
Playing Shakespeare’s Rebels and Tyrants
Global Ralph Ellison
The Consolation of Poetry
Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders
Ten Lessons on Life and Death
George Fitzmaurice: ‘Wild in his Own Way’
Analysis of a Primary Literary Theme The self as a primary literary element can be identified as an axis of symmetry, similar to a central section of a wheel, which connects to all related themes.
In Playing Shakespeare’s Rebels and Tyrants contributors (actors, directors, scholars, educators, etc.) analyze the concepts of rebellion, tyranny, leadership, empathy with only references to Elizabethan and Jacobean studies, but also to Donald Trump, the social justice movement, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
Biography of an Abbey Playwright This book proposes a series of ten “les-
This essay collection begins the vast pro-
sons” on many of the important ethical
This biography delves into Fitzmaurice’s
ject that is the global history of Ralph El-
questions in human life, based on a wide-
creative identity by reconstructing the
lison’s life and work. It examines how and
ranging series of poems in English. These
regional roots of his themes, characters
why this avowedly «American» author
poems are treated as testimonies to the
and dialect.
read literature and scholarship from across
poets’ experience and understanding of
the world and has in turn been widely
such topics as forgiveness, centering, self-
read outside the borders of the USA. How
reliance, and one’s ultimate parting from
did Ellison’s encounters with the «inter-
life.
national» Henry James, the Cambridge Ritualists, the Roman poet Ovid and with Dostoevsky shape both the aesthetics and the politics of his own work? And what is the relationship between Invisible Man and the complex and always evolving political and cultural contexts of South Africa, the USSR and Russia, Germany and Japan since World War II?
New York, 2021. VIII, 194 pp. Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature. Vol. 141 hb.
ISBN 978-1-4331-8725-4
New York, 2021. X, 120 pp.
Oxford, 2021. VIII, 316 pp.
Oxford, 2007. XXIII, 192 pp., 34 fig. b/w.
Playing Shakespeare’s Characters. Vol. 4
Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century. Vol. 6
Bern, 2021. 140 pp.
hb.
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pb.
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