Languages & Literatures 2011 | 1 | - Peter Lang

Modernism, and contemporary British and
Irish fiction . The variety of genres and approaches
notwithstanding, the essays attempt
to locate their subjects within a context
that is sufficiently broad to illuminate
the European dimension of English literature
and culture .
ContentS: Irene Erfen: «Honey turns to
gall» – Lucretia als Mythologem in Spätmittelalter
und früher Neuzeit • Rüdiger Ahrens:
Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, A Generic
Approach • Heinrich F . Plett: Interkulturelle
Rhetorik, Der Antagonismus von Orient
und Okzident in Shakespeares Antony
and Cleopatra • Michael Szczekalla: Shakespeare
und die ästhetische Moderne im Werk
von G . Wilson Knight • Stefan Plasa: Von den
Tugenden des ‘homo doctus et politicus’:
Francis Bacons Essays • Dirk Vanderbeke:
Milton’s Two Rebellions and the Romantic
Poets • Hermann Josef Real: The Dean and
the Lord Chancellor: Or, Swift Saving His Bacon
• Rolf Breuer: Perspektivismus bei Jonathan
Swift • Mascha Hansen: Love, Honour and
Revenge: Suicide and the Question of Honour
in Eighteenth-Century European Literature
• Kevin L . Cope: Time, Timing, and Time Off:
Why the Enlightenment Happened at Odd
Hours • Drummond Bone: Fragment, Poem,
Translation, Song: A Study in Transformations
• Wolfgang Wicht: «Everything Speaks
in its Own Way» (Ulysses 7 .177), Deconstructing
the Narrator • Marianne Thormählen: T . S .
Eliot – Poet of Love • Uwe Böker: «I, a stranger
and afraid / In a world I never made»: Horaz,
Vergil, A .E . Housman und Tom Stoppards The
Invention of Love • Hans-Ulrich Mohr: ‘Romantic
Love’ and the Concept of the ‘Sublime’ •
Christoph Houswitschka: The Individual and
Cosmopolitan Europe in Contemporary British
and Irish Novels • Andrea Beck: Postmoderne
Variationen über die «Metaphysik des
gegenwärtigen Augenblicks», Michel Onfray,
Bernulf Kanitscheider, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
und Christian Enzensberger • Jens Martin
Gurr: Urbanity, Urban Culture and the European
Metropolis • Walter Rothholz: Fundamentalismus
als Phänomen der Moderne .
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Langue et littératures anglaises · Anglistik · English Language and Literatures
Hugo G . Walter
his book is a collection of wonderful
and thoughtful essays that explore the
theme of beautiful sanctuaries in nineteenthand
early-twentieth-century European literature
. The book focuses especially on selected
works by Percy Shelley, E . T . A . Hoffmann,
Henrik Ibsen, and James Hilton . These sanctuaries
of light, natural beauty, and tranquility
comfort, nurture, and soothe the heart,
mind, and soul of the individual, and inspire
creative expression .
hugo g. walteR has a BA from Princeton
University, an MA from Old Dominion
University, a PhD in literature from Yale Uni-
Władysław Witalisz
The Trojan Mirror
Middle English Narratives of Troy
as Books of Princely Advice
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 224 pp .
Studies in English Medieval Language
and Literature . Vol . 29
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
hb . ISBN 978-3-631-60593-6
CHF 67 .– / € D 45 .80 / € A 47 .10 / € 42 .80 /
£ 38 .50 / US-$ 66 .95
T
he book examines four Middle English
narratives of the Trojan War as ex amples
of the medieval appropriations of classical
history and classical narrative traditions as
a discourse related to issues of contempor-
Beautiful Sanctuaries in Nineteenth-
and Early-Twentieth-Century
European Literature
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
XII, 253 pp .
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature . Vol . 106
General Editor: Horst S . Daemmrich
hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-1325-3
CHF 78 .– / € D 53 .80 / € A 55 .30 / € 50 .30 / £ 45 .30 / US-$ 77 .95
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versity, and a PhD in interdisciplinary studies
from Drew University . Walter is Professor
of English and Humanities at Berkeley
College, New Jersey, and Online . He has written
widely on European literature, including
The Apostrophic Moment in Nineteenth
and Twentieth Century German Lyric Poetry
(Lang, 1988), Space and Time on the Magic
Mountain: Studies in Nineteenth- and Early-
Twentieth-Century European Literature (Lang,
1999), and Sanctuaries of Light in Nineteenth
Century European Literature (Lang, 2010) . In
addition, Walter has published ten volumes
of poetry .
ary politics and morality . The medieval stories
of the fall of Troy are viewed as educational
texts offering advice on moral and political
conduct related in their aims to the
genre of the medieval speculum . Four major
verse narratives of the history of the Trojan
War composed in Middle English at the end
of the fourteenth and the beginning of the
fifteenth century are discussed: the anonymous
Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy,
the Laud Troy Book, the Seege of Troye and
John Lydgate’s Troy Book .
władySław witaliSz teaches English
medieval and Renaissance literature at the
Jagiellonian University in Kraków and at
Krosno State College (Poland) . He has published
on medieval romance, drama and mystical
writings .
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