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2022 erscheint der 61. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u. a. Untersuchungen zu zwei der berühmtesten lyrischen Werke Heines: eine narratologische Analyse der „Heimkehr“ und eine Quellenstudie zum „Sklavenschiff“. Neben Artikeln von Norbert Waszek über Heines Verhältnis zu dem französischen Philosophen Victor Cousin, Ernst-Ulrich Pinkert über Heine-Rezeption in Dänemark und von Inge Rippmann und Joseph A. Kruse über Literatur und Judenemanzipation im 19. Jahrhundert präsentiert er bisher unbekannte Briefe Heinrich Heines.

Das Strafrecht der frühen Neuzeit erfährt zwischen dem beginnenden 17. und dem späten 18. Jahrhundert in Theorie und Praxis grundstürzende Veränderungen. Vor allem im Zuge der Aufklärung wird es entschärft, rationalisiert und teilweise humanisiert. Diese Prozesse werden von der europäischen Literatur kritisch reflektiert und kommentiert, womit es ihr häufig gelingt, in die Strafpraxis einzugreifen. Der Band klärt die moralphilosophischen Grundlagen dieser Entwicklung und untersucht das Wechselverhältnis von Literatur und Recht in Einzelstudien zu bedeutenden Werken der Zeit.

This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris) in which he spent significant parts of his life. As a refugee during World War I, Joyce wrote a substantial part of Ulysses in Zurich and subsequently visited the city regularly during the 1930s. Finally, a refugee for the second time, he died there on 13 January 1941 and is buried in Fluntern Cemetery. This guide is conceived both as a book that may be read in its entirety or consulted selectively for specific information. An introduction and three chapters, Joyce in Zurich, Zurich in Joyce and Zurich after Joyce, are followed by sixty alphabetically ordered articles on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich. Linked by cross-references and an index, they provide a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Joyce's Zurich.

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe -- during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.

Von'Les Serments de Strasbourg'über Molière, Racine und Voltaire bis Simon. Der Band zeigt die Literatur Frankreichs von der Herausbildung von Staat und Sprache bis zur Gegenwart. Im Mittelpunkt: typische Erscheinungen wie Heldenepen, die höfische Literatur der Renaissance und deren Beziehungen zu Italien, die Literatur des'klassischen'17. und des'aufklärerischen'18. Jahrhunderts, der Pariser Commune und der Dritten Republik. Die frankophone Literatur in Belgien, Kanada, der Karibik, Maghreb und Schwarzafrika und die Literatur der Nachkriegszeit, mit dem Existentialismus, Theater des Absurden, Nouveau Roman bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Bandes. Zahlreiche Beispiele, Abbildungen und ein ausführliches Register machen diese Literaturgeschichte zu einem unentbehrlichen Nachschlagewerk.

The Bible and Literature: The Basics provides an interpretive framework for understanding the significance of biblical allusions in literature—even for readers who have little prior knowledge of the Bible. In doing so, it surveys the Bible's influence on a broad range of English, American, and other Anglophone literatures from a variety of historical periods. It also: offers a'greatest hits'tour of the Bible focuses as much on 20th- and 21st-century literatures as on earlier periods addresses the Bible's relevance to contemporary issues in literary criticism such as poststructuralist, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and narrative theories includes discussion questions for each chapter and annotated suggestions for further reading This book explains why readers need a basic knowledge of the Bible in order to understand and appreciate key aspects of Anglophone literary traditions.

Standardwerk zur Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Von Opitz, Gryphius, Grimmelshausen und Wieland über Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Herder, Heine und Hauptmann, Büchner, Kafka, Brecht, Böll und Grass bis Brussig, Stuckrad-Barre und Lebert stellt die Literaturgeschichte alle namhaften deutschensprachigen Schriftsteller ins Rampenlicht. Die Einflüsse der Weltliteratur, besonders der europäischen Nachbarländer bleiben stets im Blick. Augenfällig wird dabei der gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Wandel. Gegliedert in die prägenden Epochen, die wichtigen Stilrichtungen und Gattungen, präsentiert sich die Literaturgeschichte als lebendiges Nachschlagewerk. Dank der gelungenen Verknüpfung von Text und Illustration ein Vergnügen für Neugierige und Kenner.

'Dichter der beiden Deutschland'. Die Bibliographie von Nicolai Riedel dokumentiert in systematisch-chronologischer Ordnung die internationale Wirkungsgeschichte Uwe Johnsons. Der Band zieht die Bilanz einer vierzigjährigen publizistischen und wissenschaftlichen Rezeptionsgeschichte. Mit rund 4.000 Einträgen zeigt er ausführlich das Werk des Autors der deutschen Teilung.

This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of the Artist dramatizes the experience of rhythm as the subject matter of the modernist novel. Including comparative analyses of the lyrical prose of Virginia Woolf and the'cadences'of the Imagists, Martin outlines a new concept of the'modern period'that describes the interaction between poetry and prose in the literature of the early twentieth century.

Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. He questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing ground-breaking theoretical concepts.

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.