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.
In Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhert presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding generations of vital cultural memory and inspiration.
Originalia:- Baydak, Alexandra: Nominationsprinzipien der selkupischen Behausung fur Tote- Burkova, Svetlana: Markers of the inchoative meaning in Tundra Nenets- Khanina, Olesya Andrey Shluinsky: Choice of case in cross-reference markers: Forest Enets non-finite forms- Klumpp, Gerson: On Kai Donner's phonograph records of Kamas- Knuppel, Michael: Die Einbeziehung samojedischer "e;Befunde"e; in die jukagirischen Studien- Koponen, Eino: Beitrage zur uralischen Wortbildungslehre mit besonderer Berucksichtigung des Samischen- Kryukova, Elena: Typologische Parallelen des Ketischen und Selkupischen unter arealem Aspekt- Mus, Nikolett: The Typology of Northern Samoyedic Words- Volzhanina, Elena: The nomadic way of life and the preservation of the native language among Nenetses of the Yamal at the turn of the 21st century- Wratil, Melanie: The distribution and reference of subject and object personal pronouns in NganasanForschungsberichte:- Dobzhanskaya, Oksana: Die Geschichte der musikethnologischen Forschung bei den samojedischen Volkern- Khakimulina, Olga: Ethnographische Museumssammlungen von Taimyr bei der Bildung der ethnokulturellen Umgebung in der RegionDiskussion und Kritik:- Blokland, Rogier: Rezension Eberhard Winkler: Udmurtische Grammatik.
