CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY Book: Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
The most authoritative and accurate critical edition available
More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY. Book: Auschwitz and after - Charlotte Delbo
In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, as they were preparing to distribute anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY Book: Austerlitz (Duits) - W.G. Sebald
Jacques Austerlitz heißt der rätselhafte Fremde, den der Erzähler einst in einer dunklen Bahnhofshalle kennen lernte. Als der Zufall die beiden Männer wieder zusammenführt, enthüllt sich Schritt für Schritt die Lebensgeschichte dieses schwermütigen Wanderers. Austerlitz, der...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY Book: Austerlitz (Engels) - W.G. Sebald
In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Throughout his life...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY. Book: The nature of blood - Caryl Phillips
An unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain and necessity of human memory
A novel about personal crisis and momentous social conflict, Caryl Phillips sixth novel tells the inextricably linked stories of a young Jewish...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY Book: Memory in culture - Astrid Erll
This is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the 'social frameworks of memory'? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the 'memory of art'? How do Pierre Nora's...
CURSUS: CULTUURKRITIEK EN LITERATUURTHEORIE Boek: The Norton anthology of theory and criticism - Vincent B. Leitch
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day. Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism,...
CURSUS: POËZIE-ANALYSE Boek: Op poëtische wijze - Ernst van Aplhen
Voor de niet-geoefende poëzielezer is een gedicht vaak een moeilijk te doorgronden geheel. Het ontbreekt de lezer soms aan bekendheid met het instrumentarium van de dichter en met de effecten die met dit instrumentarium beoogd worden. "Op poëtische wijze" wil deze barrières...
CURSUS: ACTUELE LITERATUUR Boek: Street fighting years - Tariq Ali
In this new edition of his sixties' memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that moves between London, Paris and Berlin, as well as Vietnam and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, John...
CURSUS: ACTUELE LITERATUUR Boek: Diary of a very bad year - Anoniem
A first book by the creators of the popular website and semi-annual print journal features provocative interviews with an anonymous hedge fund manager on the global economic crisis, in a volume framed by narrative vignettes on major contributing factors.
