Prague Territories

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Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer war ein detaillierter Kenner der deutsch-sprachigen und internationalen Literatur. Zugleich verstand er sich immer auch als Literaturvermittler und Entdecker zeitgenössischer Autoren und Autorinnen. Seine zahlreichen, noch heute lesenswerten Essays, Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenartikel, Vorträge, Buch- und Theaterbesprechungen belegen dies deutlich. Landauer erkannte rasch, welche gesellschaftliche Sprengkraft etwa der Vermittlung von Dramen – Tragödien und Komödien – vor allem des englischen Schriftstellers William Shakespeare in Schrift und Vortrag sowie auf der Theaterbühne innewohnt. Viele Autoren – Honoré de Balzac, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo N. Tolstoi, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde – hat er, häufig gemeinsam mit seiner Lebensgefährtin, der Lyrikerin Hedwig Lachmann, durch erstmalige Übersetzungen und umfassende Betrachtungen dem deutschsprachigen Kulturleben zur Verfügung gestellt. (Quelle: Edition AV)

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edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

This book, a collection of contemporary criticism on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," contains essays by Michael Moorcock, Jane Chance, Michael N. Stanton, Mark T. Hooker, Jared Lobdell, Marjorie Burns, Andrew Lynch, Sue Zlosnik, Verlyn Flieger, Mary R. Bowman, and Nancy Enright.

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Phyllis T. Dircks

"This book covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee. Comprehensive entries detail each of the plays and major characters, and all works are cross referenced with important themes. Other features include biographical information focusing on Albee's artistic beliefs, his understanding of the playwright's responsibility, the importance of music in drama, and the technical craft of writing plays"--Provided by publisher.

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Laura Rattray

"During her lifetime, Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, publishing over forty books and winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But after her death her work slipped out of favour, and it is only in the last thirty years that her reputation as a literary heavyweight and a great writer has recovered." "Bringing together twelve leading Wharton scholars from Europe and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Wharton's 1913 text, The Custom of the Country. Described as 'her greatest book' by Hermione Lee in her 2007 biography of the writer, and listed by Wharton herself at the end of a long and prolific career as one of her own favorite works, The Custom of the Country arguably remains the author's most complex and controversial novel. The contributions to this collection demonstrate the continuing evolution of Wharton scholarship within modern critical approaches." --Book Jacket.