Search
Search Results
-
Literature in the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties
A total of 29 emperors ruled the Western and Eastern Han dynasties, which lasted for 405 years. They together made a very powerful unified dynasty in...
-
Literary Classics in Liao, **, Western **a, and Other Ethic Areas
While the literature in the Song Dynasty was develo**, literary achievements were made in the Liao, **, and Western **a dynasties. They not only...
-
Opera in the Qing Dynasty
In the Qing dynasty, all the emperors were fond of watching opera. Imperial appreciation and reward best motivated the flourishing creation and...
-
Overview
The Qin and Han Dynasties ruled the country for more than 400 years, during which literature developed in parallel with politics.
-
Poetry in the Yuan Dynasty
Abundant records of poetry have survived from the Yuan Dynasty. According to the record in The Complete Collection of Poems in the Yuan Dynasty...
-
Overview
The Qing Dynasty was the last monarchical dynasty in China. From the establishment of the capital in Bei**g (1644) to the gloomy end (1911), the...
-
From Brehms Tierleben to “A Report to an Academy”: Franz Kafka’s Animal Story Read as a Critical Commentary on Writing About Nature
Under the influence of cultural (literary) animal studies, a kind of paradigmatic shift has taken place among the Kafka studies community. No longer...
-
Wilhelm Lehmann: Nature Writing as a Behavioural Strategy
This exploration of the German novelist and poet Wilhelm Lehmann (1882–1968) as a nature writer situates his seminal writings within the broader...
-
The Representation of Alaska in Peter Handke’s Slow Homecoming (1979) through the Lens of Nature Writing
This chapter proposes a reading of Peter Handke’s 1979 novel Langsame Heimkehr [Slow Homecoming] through the lens of new nature writing. With its...
-
From Both Sides Now: Nature Writing at Literary Festivals
This contribution examines how literary festivals in Europe present nature writing as part of their efforts to become more sustainable and to what...
-
Water, Clouds, Rocks: Nonhuman Temporalities and Adalbert Stifter’s Poetics of Nature
This contribution reads Stifter’s work and its critical reception alongside the tradition of American transcendentalism. In both cases, the narrative...
-
Office and Duty in King Lear Shakespeare’s Political Theologies
This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean...
-
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D’Annunzio Modernist Playwrights
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D’Annunzio: Modernist Playwrightschallenges the general resistance in scholarship and queer studies to approach...
-
English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution
This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national...
-
Family, Normativity, and the Will to Escape
Building on seminal studies by queer theorists Sara Ahmed, Heather K. Love, and Jack Halberstam, this chapter conceptualises the relationship between...
-
The Majesty of Kingship: Spectacular and Sacred Sovereign Power
To analyse office in Lear, I begin with the most spectacular: kingship. Lear’s initial entrance, speech acts, and exclusions display his sovereign...
-
‘The Bloody Proclamation to Escape’: Edgar and Romantic Outlawry
In contrast to the ‘gusto and energy’ of his half-brother Edmund and his ‘richer’ alter ego of Poor Tom, Edgar has been critiqued for emptiness—as...
-
Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee and American Feminist
Famine refugee Kate Kennedy, one of the most politically effective women in nineteenth-century America, is also one of the most obscured. Born in...
-
Introduction
This introductory chapter unpacks for the reader several key concepts and contexts of queer and theatre studies along with French philosopher Didier...
-
Conclusion: Willem the English Hero
The arbitrary reign of James II ended in 1688 when influential English figures entreated the Dutch stadholder to replace him. The political head of...