Dieser Band präsentiert erstmals den zwischen 1939 und 1975 geführten Briefwechsel zwischen Hannah Arendt und Günther Anders sowie gemeinsam verfasste oder in thematischer Nähe zueinander entstandene Texte. Diese erhellen die persönliche und intellektuelle Beziehung des einstige…
A study of prominent 19th century American writers shows how they assimilated themes and images from popular culture into their art, particulary sensationalistic literature that addressed controversial themes such as religion, slavery, sexual mores, and workers' and women's righ…
Introduction: Jonson in the age of Juvenal -- Jonson and the comedy of humors -- The depths and heights of satire: Jacke Drum's entertainment and Cynthia's revels -- The scourge and the purge: satiromastix, poetaster, and satiric ethos -- "Thy wiser temper": Jonson's epigrams an…
"Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric persona and style uniquely his own.…
Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of their careers, identifying mutual echoes in their poetry and political rhetoric and charting them against key intersections in the two men's lives.
