Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Begin 2008 is het 65 jaar geleden dat Buddingh ‘ het gedicht De Blauwbilgorgel schreef. In deze jubileum uitgave zijn – naast de oorspronkelijke versie – nieuw geschreven, alternatieve gorgel-rijmen…

Duizend kilometer, negen dagen, pure uitputting: Frederique Schut beschrijft in *Missie: Mongolië* haar magische en genadeloze tocht door het onbekende. In 2011 voltooide…

De Nederlander Henk Brugman (1955) woont en werkt sinds eind 2000 in een dorpje ten noorden van Trondheim, samen met zijn vrouw Esther. In zijn columns (soms serieus, vaak met een knipoog) gunt…

Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and more besides. It can be appreciated…

This tenth, and final, volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of 32 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts…

Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect theory. …

Stefan George: Gesamtausgabe. Endgultige Fassung in 18 Banden von Georg Bondi in einem Buch Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Grossformat, 210 x 297 mm Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2014.…

This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not…

Writing After War develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, to make sense of American literary history in particular. The Iliad, Limon argues, inaugurates…

This book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical…

The contents of linguistic and mental representations may seem to be individuated by what they are about. But a problem arises with regard to representation of the non-existent - words and thoughts…

Set in the years leading up to the First World War, this work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war. First published in…

In diesem Buch wird erstmals der werkubergreifende Walpurgisnacht-Komplex von Johann Wolfgang Goethe in seinem literarhistorischen, poetologischen und ideengeschichtlichen Gesamtzusammenhang…

This book demonstrates through the works of Iqbal, Manto, and Faiz that the only enduring foundation for human civilization is love, empathy, and compassion. The authors taught through their…