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Görtschacher, Wolfgang

Essays on Audience Perception in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
1996 3-7052-0090-9
Review of essays by noted scholars of this genre. Titles include- Synonymic Bodies: The Audiences in Measure for Measure (Daniel R. Bender) "Hear Me Good Friends": Re-Writing the Play in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra (Michael J. Collins) The Star-Crossed Lovers: A Reading of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (A. M. Phaghis) Chapman and Marlowe's Hero and Leander: A Formalist Match (Don McDermott) "The Fort of Chastity" : Feminine Identity in Some English Renaissance History Plays (Elias Mustafa Khalaf) Gender as Polemic (Alex Barnes)

Modern War on Stage and Screen/der Moderne Krieg Auf Der BÜhne
1996 0-7734-4205-7
Essays by European and American scholars from the fifth Salzburg conference on the influence of war on art and literature. Topics include an analysis of the filming of the Agincourt battle in both Olivier's and Branagh's Henry V; the First World War in Irish Drama; Arthur Kopit's Indians and the Vietnam War; the fall of France on the stage; David Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers; Atrocities in Vietnam War movies; Vietnam in the Genre film; the Berlin stage 1936-33; Resistance drama; Representations of WWII in British TV comedy; Three WWI plays by Women; American POWs in WWII; WWI in Truffaut's Jules et Jim; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Sam Shepard's States of Shock and the Gulf War;The Genealogy of the Woman Commissar in Soviet Culture; and others.

Narrative Strategies in Early English Fiction
1995 0-7734-4214-6
Topics include Aphra Behn, Gascoigne, Lyly's Euphues, Marguerite de Navarre, Sidney's New Arcadia, Lodge's Rosalynde; Greene's Menaphon; Flaubert; Nashe, Milton's Comus; Bunyan's The Holy War; Marana's Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy; and more.

Trends in English and American Studies Literature and the Imagination Essays in Honour of James Lester Hogg
1996 0-7734-8747-6
This volume contains 32 essays which deal with modern trends in criticism in American and English literary and linguistic studies.