In Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of "e;spiritual conquest"e; in order to demonstrate how it reflected the contribution of religious ministers to a protracted period of social anomie throughout the mission provinces between the 16th-18th centuries.
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.
The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade.
In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices.
This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism, taking into account intersecting factors such as class, culture, confessional stance, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, dis/ability, geography, and historical circumstance.
Early Modern Ecologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.
The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature tracks an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, arguing that the period hosted the birth of a new subset of the human, the eco-self, which melds a deeply introspective turn with an abiding sense of humans' embedment in the world.
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.
As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/ taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse.
Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society's darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period.
As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/ taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse.
Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion.
This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser's long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire.
Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices.
Early Modern Ecologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.
The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch's legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy.
The Fame of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras postumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700.
Lecture d'un classique du theatre de l'age classique, faisant connaitre la vision sociale et morale d'une societe d'autrefois: aspirations, ambitions, rivalites, intrigues personnelles et publiques autour d'un sujet qui demeure d'actualite: la fureur du jeu, ses seductions et ses desordres.
Der Humanist Thomas Morus treibt in seiner Utopia ein humorvolles Spiel, dem eine ernste Botschaft unterliegt, und legt so den Grundstein fur ein neues literarisches Genre.
La rencontre du public theatral polonais de la capitale et la de la province avec les chefs-d'oeuvre de Jean Giraudoux, Jean Anouilh, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett et Eugene Ionesco mis en scene par les meilleurs metteurs en scene polonais reconnus: Edmund Wiercinski, Erwin Axer, Bohdan Korzeniewski, Tadeusz Byrski et les debutants : Jerzy Grotowski, Krystyna Skuszanka, Wojciech Krasowski, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Zygmunt Hubner etait toujours le grand enjeu.
Der Humanist Thomas Morus treibt in seiner Utopia ein humorvolles Spiel, dem eine ernste Botschaft unterliegt, und legt so den Grundstein fur ein neues literarisches Genre.
The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s.
In extending the traditional field of Word and Music Studies to include research on film and other forms of moving visualizations, this volume focuses on innovative discussions of artistic works showing relationships between three individual communicative media.