Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisLa publication en 1812 du premier volume des Contes des freres Jakob (1785-1863) et Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) s'inscrit dans un mouvement de redecouverte de la culture populaire , particulierement sensible en Allemagne depuis l'edition par Johann Gottfried Herder de son recueil de chants populaires (1778-1779).
Truffles are hypogeous ectomycorrhizal ascomycetous edible mushrooms distributed worldwide in terrestrial ecosystems, including deserts, as non-timber forest products.
While the science of yogurt is nearly as old as the origin of mankind, there have been rapid changes in yogurt development since the turn of the 19th century, fueled by continuing developments in biological sciences.
This is the first study on the development of Italian ethnic identity in North America (United States and Canada) from a gender perspective and based on memoir.
Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Neurodegeneration brings together researchers from a variety of fields to compare normal aging and disease-related neurodegeneration in terms of susceptibility to and effects of oxidative stress.
The Russian intelligentsia is the historic phenomenon of an educated opposition, and it has provoked a substantial body of Russian and Western publications.
Magic, and especially performance magic, has been a part of crime fiction since its inception: both art forms surged in popularity in Western Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and influenced each other in profound ways.
Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle's, John Lydgate's and John Gower's works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching.
Characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, metabolic syndrome is associated with the risks of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.
Das Buch untersucht den Literaturpreis Adelbert-von-Chamisso (1985-2017), eine der einflussreichsten sowie kontroversesten Auszeichnungen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, deren kulturpolitische Tragweite weit uber den Literaturbereich hinausreicht.
This book comprehensively accounts the current understanding of genetic mechanisms of obesity by analyzing obesity phenotypes and genotypes and, gene polymorphisms and mutations, and current results from animal model research and genetic studies in human models.
Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffith Show through the frame of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on its cultural significance in the Southern Appalachians.
This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English.
Prose thoughts by the Chinese writer Ma Jianfu, in which he lists a group of prose excerpts that reflect his affiliation to his faith and the customs of the towns that include the Chinese Hui nationality, in which he talks about his observations, impressions, and diaries in very sweet literary prose.
Prose thoughts by the Chinese writer Sha Yixin, in which he lists a group of prose excerpts that reflect his personal formation and feelings towards his nationality, in which he talks about his observations, impressions, and diaries in very sweet literary prose.
In the first book-length study of Paula Meehan, one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literary landscape and beyond.
The book presents an analysis of the "e;Belt and Road"e; initiative, but from the perspective of the global cultural economy, as it explains the relationship between the economy and culture, how culture drives the course of the economy, and the necessity of China's attention to the cultural link that supports the commercial and economic goal.
Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can be used in qualitative research and creative writing.
A traves de cuatro ensayos escritos por Fidel Sepulveda Llanos, este libro explora la relevancia y el legado de tres figuras iconicas de la cultura chilena: Nicanor, Violeta y Roberto Parra.
Originally published in 1930, the main focus of this book is the study of the man and the homes for children which he founded but against a backdrop of the unparalleled era of social reform, in which children were finally recognized as social assets of incalculable worth.
Evodio Escalante, reconocido crítico literario e investigador de la literatura mexicana, presenta seis ensayos en los que se develan los símbolos literarios de José Revueltas y sus fuentes más trascendentes.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
