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Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce’s Modernist Vision

by David Weir

When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses , the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors.

ULYSSES in Progress

by Michael Groden

The publication of James Joyce's Ulysses crowned years of writing and constant rewriting at almost every stage, so that as many as ten versions exist for some pages. To understand how Joyce worked, Michael Groden traces the book's history in detail, synthesizing evidence from notebooks, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses (The\florida James Joyce Ser.)

by Terence Killeen

Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and comprehensive guide which will provide new and vital insights for everyone from students to specialists.In this new edition, published to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses' first publication in 1922, Killeen seamlessly combines close literary analysis with a broad account of the novel's fascinating history, from its writing and publication to its long contemporary afterlife. We get under the skin of the text to discover the joys of Joyce's remarkable range of themes, styles and voices, as Killeen reanimates the real people who inspired many of the characters. Ulysses Unbound is an indispensable, illuminating and entertaining companion to one of the twentieth century's great works of art.With a foreword by Colm Tóibín

Uma ilha brasileira no campo literário alemão: Dinâmicas de circulação literária pela editora Suhrkamp e a recepção da literatura do Brasil (1970-1990) (Biblioteca Luso-Afro-Brasileira #1)

by Douglas Pompeu

30 anos de literatura brasileira na RFA: como uma das editoras centrais da Europa do pós-guerra, a editora Suhrkamp, contribuiu e impulsionou a recepção da literatura brasileira no mercado editorial alemão. Através da análise de documentos do arquivo da editora Douglas Pompeu reflete sobre a posição marginal da produção literária brasileira na circulação literária internacional, assim como sobre o seus esforços de divulgação para além das fronteiras nacionais. O estudo pode ser resumido como uma pesquisa de cruzamento entre dois espaços literários com valências distintas, mas em contato e movimento constante, no qual editores, agentes, redatores, tradutores e o leitor tomam o protagonismo da instância autor na produção do livro e na legibilidade, traduzibilidade e vendabilidade do produto literário.

Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

by Michael Caesar

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.

Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

by Michael Caesar

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today.

Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture

by Douglass Merrell

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.

Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture

by Douglass Merrell

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.

Umberto Eco-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung


Umberto Eco war einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Der Name der Rose wurde er einem Weltpublikum bekannt, danach blieb er mit sechs weiteren Romanen sowie zahllosen Essays, Interviews und Zeitschriftenkolumnen präsent. Einen Namen gemacht hatte sich Eco jedoch bereits mit theoretischen Texten, u.a. seinem kontrovers diskutierten Offenen Kunstwerk sowie seinen Schriften zur Semiotik. Auch als Schriftsteller blieb Eco zeitlebens Literatur- und Kulturtheoretiker; bei kaum einem weiteren Autor des 20. Jahrhunderts ist das theoretische und literarische Schaffen ähnlich stark verknüpft. Das Umberto Eco-Handbuch bietet einen Wegweiser in alle Aspekte von Ecos vielfältigem Wirken. Dazu bietet es einerseits Übersichtskapitel zu allen theoretischen und literarischen Schriften Ecos, andererseits systematische Beiträge, die vielfältige Querbezüge aufzeigen, etwa zwischen Geschichte und Gegenwart, Semiotik und Kriminalroman, historischem Erzählen und Postmoderne.

Umfrageforschung in der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Praxis: Eine Analyse zur Qualitätsprüfung demoskopischer Beweismittel in den Fällen irreführender Werbung (Sozialwissenschaft)

by Claudia Gerstenmaier

Werbung ist ein essentielles Mittel im Wettbewerb. Doch kann der Werbetreibende nach dem Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG) zur Unterlassung irreführender Angaben verpflichtet werden. Bei einem Rechtsstreit erlangen demoskopischer Gutachten über das Verständnis von Werbeaussagen prozessentscheidende Bedeutung. Dieses Buch stellt erstmals Prüfkriterien für die Beurteilung der Objektivität und Neutralität demoskopischer Gutachtens in der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Praxis auf.

Umfragen als Anker?: Studien zur Wirkung rezipierter Umfrageergebnisse

by Steven Schuh

Mit Prognosen ist das so eine Sache. Als Doktorand gelangt man zu dieser Einsicht spätestens, wenn der erste anvisierte Abgabetermin für die selbstverständlich noch unvollendete Dissertation verstrichen ist und die eigentlich gut gemeinten Nachf- gen von Freunden und Bekannten diese Fehleinschätzung schmerzvoll spürbar machen. Erst viel später wagt man sich zu fragen, ob es vielleicht nur die letztlich allzu optimistische Prognose gewesen sein könnte, die den Glauben an einen erfo- reichen Abschluss lange Zeit getragen hat und ob es ohne sie vielleicht nie zu d- sem Vorwort gekommen wäre? Über die Fähigkeit von Prognosen, Ergebnisse in ihre Richtung zu beeinfl- sen, lässt sich jedenfalls trefflich spekulieren. Das vorliegende Werk zur Wirkung veröffentlichter Umfrageergebnisse kann dies nicht nur theoretisch dokumentieren, es lädt mit seinen empirischen Einsichten auch dazu ein. Zugleich macht diese Arbeit deutlich, dass wohl kein Politiker ausschließlich dank positiver Prognosen Wahlen gewinnen und keine Dissertation nur wegen ihnen Vollendung finden dü- te. Erfolg hat immer viele Väter. Deshalb möchte ich mich bei all den Menschen bedanken, ohne die es nicht möglich gewesen wäre, meine Dissertation im März 2008 dem Fachbereich 02 – Sozialwissenschaften, Medien und Sport der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz vorzulegen und meine Promotion abzuschließen. Mein erster Dank geht an Professor Dr. Christina Holtz-Bacha, die mich nach Abschluss meines Studiums ermuntert hat zu promovieren und mir jederzeit mit gutem Rat zur Seite stand. Bedanken möchte ich mich auch bei Professor Dr. Axel Mattenklott für sein Engagement als Zweitgutachter.

Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im interdisziplinären Zusammenspiel zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft: Jahrbuch des Instituts für moderne Fremdsprachen an der Naturwissenschaftlich-Technischen Universität Norwegens (NTNU) in Trondheim (ELECTRISCHER PROMETHEUS. Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im interdisziplinären Zusammenspiel zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft)

by Bernd Neumann

In diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen“ und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität gegründeten „Dritten Kultur“ als Zusammenschau von Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft. Dabei wird Kafka als ein Autor ernst genommen, dessen Nähe zu Autoren der Romantik (Kleist etwa als einer seiner „Blutsbrüder“) ihn dazu bestimmte, deren zentrales Interesse an der Elektrizität (in Form des Mesmerismus beispielsweise) zu teilen. Als eine Weiterführung hinein in die neueste Moderne gelangt Kafkas besondere Begegnung mit Einstein und dessen Relativitätstheorie zur Darstellung, deren Einwirkung insbesondere auf Kafkas Spätwerk dargelegt wird. Als moderne Spielform solch „electrisch“- transdisziplinär orientierten literarischen Schreibens wird diesen Ausführungen Botho Strauß` gegenwärtiges Novellenwerk zur Seite gestellt.

Umweltkommunikation im Netzwerk: Perspektiven, Interessen und Strategien im Diskurs um das Wattenmeer (Organisationskommunikation)

by Lisa Marzahl

Lisa Marzahl widmet sich der Frage, wie Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft Umweltdiskurse beeinflussen, indem sie ihre Perspektiven, Interessen und Ziele miteinander ausspielen. In einer Fallstudie zum schleswig-holsteinischen Wattenmeer-Nationalpark zeichnet sie die Netzwerkarbeit und das Ausgleichen von Interessen zwischen Organisationen in diesem speziellen Umweltdiskurs nach und leitet daraus verschiedene Verhältnisse und Beziehungsarten sowie entscheidende Bausteine der Netzwerksteuerung ab, die für eine Zusammenarbeit von politischen Organisationen, Unternehmen sowie Umwelt- und Naturschutzverbänden im Umweltbereich entscheidend sind.

Un Dimanche à la Maison class 1 - MIE

by Par Hanna Khodabocus

"Un Dimanche à la Maison" présente une journée dans la vie de Kevin, un jeune garçon, et de sa famille lors d'un dimanche ordinaire. Le récit débute par les salutations matinales de Kevin à sa mère et sa famille avant de commencer sa journée. Il décrit sa routine quotidienne, partageant ses moments passés avec son frère, sa sœur, son père devant la télévision, et avec son grand-père dans le jardin. Pendant ce temps, sa grand-mère et sa mère se reposent sur la terrasse. Le livre souligne les activités familiales, les interactions et les responsabilités quotidiennes tout en mettant en avant les moments de détente et de partage. À la fin de cette journée, Kevin se prépare pour la rentrée scolaire du lendemain. Ce livre, conçu pour les jeunes lecteurs, offre un aperçu de la vie domestique typique d'une famille, encourageant les enfants à identifier et à comprendre les activités quotidiennes et les relations familiales.

(Un)Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps: Representations of North American Indigeneity in Central Europe

by Sanja Runtić Jana Marešová Klára Kolinská

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture. Employing a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach and drawing on a range of media—from literature, comics, and film to photography, painting, and the performative arts—across different historical and cultural backgrounds, it aims to both contribute innovative scholarship on Indigenous studies in Europe and open a new avenue in the field by focusing on Central European settings that have received little or no critical attention to date. The book’s novelty also comes from its focus on the latest developments in the field, including the “Ravensburger/Winnetou controversy,” which swept across Europe in 2022, echoing the 2017 Canadian debate over Indigenous appropriation and free speech. It seeks to provide a sound reference and lay the groundwork for future scholarship by opening up a conversation on how Indigenous identities have been portrayed in Central European literature and media texts. To this end, it not only addresses generalized expectations about North American Indigenous people underlying (Central) European public discourse and imagination but also questions whether and to what extent some of the ingrained stereotypical views and practices, such as hobbyism, have been challenged in the face of Indigenous resurgence, rapidly changing media and information-sharing realities, and global cultural shifts. The closing interview with Métis playwright, actor, and director Bruce Sinclair underscores one of the book’s key goals—to spark an informed cross-cultural dialogue that will reveal the mechanisms of, as well as the contradictions and tensions inherent in, the politics of Indigenous representation in (Central) European cultural industries and encourage (Central) Europeans to confront their own cultural assumptions and attitudes.

The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics (Literatures of the Americas)

by Ellie D. Hernández Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.

Un-Mapping the Global South (Transdisciplinary Souths)

by Gero Bauer Nicole Hirschfelder Fernando Resende

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.

Un-Mapping the Global South (Transdisciplinary Souths)


This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.

Un Nouveau Patriotisme français, 1750-1770: la France face à la puissance anglaise à l’époque de la guerre de Sept Ans (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment #365)

by Edmond Dziembowski

Le traité de Paris, qui clôt la guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763), confirme la prépondérance acquise pa la Grande-Bretagne sur met et dans les colonies. Depuis le dix-neuvième siècle, la tradition historiographique concluait en l’indifférence de l’opinion française face à ce bouleversement des rapports de force. Ce livre s’attache à corriger ce jugement et montre que l’émergence de la puissance britannique a produit une mutation fondamentale de la culture politique de la France d’Ancien Régime.Tandis que se succèdent les victoires brittaniques, s’affirme en France la renommée patriotique de l’ennemi. La force du sentiment national insulaire est regardée comme l’explication la plus satisfaisante de la montée en puissance de la Grande-Bretagne. Déjà regardée comme un modèle politique, social et culturel par la France des Lumières, Albiondevient alors un modèle de patriotisme digne d’émulation.Ce modèle suscite en France un réveil patriotique qui met en exergue la figure du citoyen dévoué au bien public. Ce nouveau patriotisme se place en porte-à-faux avec les bases de la monarchie française. Au terme du conflit, dans sa tentative de reconquête de l’opinion, la propagande gouvernementale fait face à une sphere publique patriote difficilement malleable. Les Français ont en effet cessé de se regarder comme de simples sujets du monarque pour devenir des citoyens moralement et idéologiquement majeurs.

Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition)

by I. Mackenzie

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.

Unaccustomed as I am...: The Wedding Speech Made Easy

by Michael Parker

All wedding types will be catered for: ­ big, small, religious, second marriage, atheist, straight, same-sex, church, field... All speakers will be addressed:­ bride, groom, father, mother, best woman and literally everyone in between... All eventualities will be planned for: ­ mic failures, drunk guests, missing brides, smashed glasses, weeping FOBs, forgotten words... All of which will be delightfully and wittily illustrated, with a mix of little-known wedding facts and a whole host of inspirational (or not) quotations.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

by Christopher Hitchens

A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature. Instead, Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, and inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens. - Gore Vidal

Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France

by Roger Pearson

What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next century French poetry enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and flowering, perhaps its greatest. But what of the poet's public influence? In 1881 the people of Paris processed for six hours past the home of Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 79th birthday, and in 1885 an estimated two million people witnessed his state funeral. But who or what were they acknowledging? Poetry or republicanism? Or perhaps their own power? For with each Revolution that passed—1789, 1830, 1848—French poets themselves felt increasingly marginalised. This study addresses the first part of this story and focuses on the role and function of the poet during the so-called Romantic Period. Beginning with an account of the literary climate in pre-revolutionary France it then maps the changes in that climate wrought by the events of the 1789 Revolution. It describes the new politico-literary agendas set by Chateaubriand and others on the monarchist Right, and by Staël and others on the liberal Left. Against this background it then analyses in detail the poetic output and public exploits of the three major French poets of the period: Lamartine, Hugo, and Vigny. The Romantic figure of the poet as prophet and magus is habitually dismissed as a cliché. But by focusing on the role of the poet as lawgiver this book reveals the rich and complex terms in which the public function of poetry was debated in post-revolutionary France - and how amidst the centenary celebrations of 1889, as Romanticism gave way to Symbolism, the poet as lawgiver continued to play a central part in that debate.

Unamuno's Theory of the Novel

by C.A. Longhurst

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain's greatest and most controversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, and later Rector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profile in his day, he wrote a large number of philosophical, political and philological essays, as well as poems, plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncratic novels, for which he coined the word nivola, that have attracted the greatest critical attention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become one of the most studied works of Spanish literature, such is the enduring fascination which it has provoked. In this study, C. A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to show that behind Unamuno's fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophical concept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom, identity, finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas on writing and reading and give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceiving fiction.

Unamuno's Theory of the Novel

by C.A. Longhurst

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain's greatest and most controversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, and later Rector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profile in his day, he wrote a large number of philosophical, political and philological essays, as well as poems, plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncratic novels, for which he coined the word nivola, that have attracted the greatest critical attention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become one of the most studied works of Spanish literature, such is the enduring fascination which it has provoked. In this study, C. A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to show that behind Unamuno's fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophical concept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom, identity, finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas on writing and reading and give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceiving fiction.

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