Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually.
The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy.
Der Band bachelor-wissen Italienische Literaturwissenschaft richtet sich speziell an die Studierenden und Lehrenden in den literaturwissenschaftlichen Modulen der italienzentrierten Bachelor-Studiengange.
In ihren Portraits von Industrielandschaften setzten Wolfgang Hilbig und Wolfgang Mattheuer auf ein ganz ähnliches Verfahren: eine Verkehrung romantischer Modi der Natur- und Landschaftsdarstellung.
Mit der Frage nach literarischen Darstellungen des Heidnischen konzentrierte sich die Germanistik lange Zeit vor allem auf zwei favorisierte Themen- bzw.
Nicola Mesarite è protagonista di un momento di rottura per Bisanzio: il crollo dell’impero nelle mani dell’esercito della Quarta crociata (1204) e l’insediamento di un regime latino a Costantinopoli.
Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period.
Die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Eva Horn nimmt das Klima in ihrer Imaginations- und Wissensgeschichte aus einer sinnlichen, kulturellen und historischen Perspektive in den Blick.
In this book, critic Muhammad Mandour did not limit himself to critical articles on the novels or collections of Al-Hakim, Bishr Fares, Ali Mahmoud Taha, Mahmoud Taymour, and Taha Hussein, but rather, in each hadith, he addressed a general issue such as myths and their use as material for poetry or stories, the art of style, realistic literature, the problem of reality in the story.
A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian children's literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children's Literature examines a myriad of motifs and popular culture and the evolution of national identity and consciousness among young Palestinians.
Suzie, femme de soixante ans, sportive confirmée, habituée à arpenter les divers chemins de grande randonnée, rapporte, dans ce récit narré à la première personne, son expérience sur une partie du GR5, entre Modane et Saint-Paul-en-Ubaye.
Parmi les milliards de personnes sur la planète, seule une centaine est porteuse du syndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford, plus communément appelé « progéria ».
Food allergy has increased over the past two decades, with a larger number of patients presenting a myriad of related symptoms and illnesses to physicians and allied health professionals.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is perhaps the most relevant classic of Russian literature for our time, whose works are gladly filmed by leading directors.
This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain.
Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic.
During the 1960's and 1970's, the eruption of theory was presented as an epistemic break, reorganizing the field of questioning both prospectively and retrospectively.
