European literary history : an introduction /

"This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pourcq, Maarten de, Levie, Sophie
Format: Printed Book
Subjects:
European literature
Table of Contents:
  • Inroduction / Maarten de Pourcq
  • Antiquity / André Lardinois and Claire Stocks
  • Travelling in Greek and Roman literature : Homer, odyssey / Rebecca Armstrong and Katherine Clarke
  • Experiencing life and love : Sappho, "Sappho's prayer to Aphrodite" / Ellen Greene and André Lardinois
  • Performing culture : Sophocles, Antigone / Bernhard Zimmermann
  • Making literature : Horace, Ars Poetica / Koen De Temmerman and Bé Breij
  • Horace, Ode 3.30 : remembering the past / Nita Krevans and Ruth Scodel
  • Middle ages / Frank Brandsma and Erik Kooper
  • Desiring : Jaufre Rudel, "Vida" / Roy Rosenstein
  • Searching for the Grail : Chrétien de Troyes, Le conte du graal / Frank Brandsma
  • Reaching salvation : Dante Alighieri, Commedia / Roberto Rea
  • Telling tales : Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury tales / Erik Kooper
  • Self-fashioning : Le livre de la cité des dames / Madeleine Jeay, Christine de Pizan
  • Early modern period / Nina Geerdink and Alicia C. Montoya
  • Staging : Joost van den Vondel, Palamedes, oft vermoorde onnooselheyd / Nina Geerdink and Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez
  • Reading : Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote / Robert Folger and Konstantin Mierau
  • Exploring new worlds : Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas / Konstantin Mierau, Alicia C. Montoya and Catriona Seth
  • Corresponding : Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses / Catriona Seth
  • Educating : Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Magasin des enfants / Alicia C. Montoya
  • The long nineteenth century / Marguérite Corporaal and Lotte Jensen
  • Feeling : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther / Anke Gilleir
  • Defining the nation : Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe / Lotte Jensen
  • Circulating traditions : Hans Christian Andersen, Snedronningen / Marguérite Corporaal and Raphaël Ingelbien
  • Selling literature : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret / Chris Louttit
  • Emancipating : Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina / Marguérite Corporaal and Sophie Levie
  • The modern era / Helleke van den Braber, Sophie Levie and Mathijs Sanders
  • Breaking boundaries : Gabriele d'Annunzio, Il Piacere / Sophie Levie
  • Ordering chaos : Franz Kafka, In der Strafkolonie / Kai Evers
  • Marketing literature : D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover / Helleke van den Braber and Mathijs Sanders
  • Writing the city : Heinrich Böll, Der Engel Schwieg / László Muntéan and Pedro Lange
  • Changing Europe : Zadie Smith, White Teeth / Theo D'Haen.

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