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  1. The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry : Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form
    Autor*in: Ruderman, D.B.
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to... mehr

     

    This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood confers on 19th-century poetry and culture, this book draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink familiar concepts such as immortality, the sublime, and the death drive as well as forms and genres such as the pastoral, the ode, and the ballad. Ruderman establishes that infancy emerges as a unique structure of feeling simultaneously with new theories of lyric poetry at the end of the eighteenth century. He then explores the intertwining of poetic experimentation and infancy in Wordsworth, Anna Barbauld, Blake, Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Sara Coleridge, Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, and Augusta Webster. Each chapter addresses andanalyzes a specific moment in a writers’ work, moments of tenderness or mourning, birth or death, physical or mental illness, when infancy is analogized, eulogized, or theorized. Moving between canonical and archival materials, and combining textual and inter-textual reading, metrical and prosodic analysis, and post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the book shows how poetic engagements with infancy anticipate psychoanalytic and phenomenological (i.e. modern) ways of being in the world. Ultimately, Rudermansuggests that it is not so much that we return to infancy as that infancy returns (obsessively, compulsively) in us. This book shows how by tracking changing attitudes towards the idea of infancy, one might also map the emotional, political, and aesthetic terrain of nineteenth-century culture. It will be of interest to scholars in the areas of British romanticism and Victorianism, as well as 19th-century American literature and culture, histories of childhood, and representations of the child from art historical, cultural studies, and literary perspectives. "D. B. Ruderman’s The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form is an interesting contribution to this field, and it manages to bring a new perspective to our understanding of Romantic-era and Victorian representations of infancy and childhood. …a supremely exciting book that will be a key work for generations of readers of nineteenth-century poetry." Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London Victorian Studies (59.4)

     
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  2. Shakespeare and Hospitality : Ethics, Politics, and Exchange
    Beteiligt: Lupton, Julia Reinhard (Hrsg.); Goldstein, David (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2016

    This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their... mehr

     

    This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering—the collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the core ethical, political, theological, and ecological questions of Shakespeare's time and our own. By reading Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with contemporary theory as well as early modern texts and objects—including almanacs, recipe books, husbandry manuals, and religious tracts — this book reimagines Shakespeare's playworld as one charged with the risks of hosting (rape and seduction, war and betrayal, enchantment and disenchantment) and the limits of generosity (how much can or should one give the guest, with what attitude or comportment, and under what circumstances?). This substantial volume maps the terrain of Shakespearean hospitality in its rich complexity, demonstrating the importance of historical, rhetorical, and phenomenological approaches to this diverse subject.

     
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    Beteiligt: Lupton, Julia Reinhard (Hrsg.); Goldstein, David (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315757346
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literary studies: general; Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: Community; Drama; Food Studies; Hospitality; Hosting; Literature; Research; Shakespeare
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (278 p.)
  3. Middlebrow Cinema
    Beteiligt: Faulkner, Sally (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    "Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally... mehr

     

    "Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally against shifting concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’, and considers its deployment in connection with text, audience and institution.

    In exploring the concept of the middlebrow, this book recovers films that were widely meaningful to contemporary audiences, yet sometimes overlooked by critics interested in popular and arthouse extremes. It also addresses the question of socially-mobile audiences, who might express their aspirations through film-watching; and traces the cultural consequences of the movement of films across borders and between institutions.

    The first study of its kind, the volume comprises 11 original essays that test the purchase of the term ‘middlebrow’ across cultures, including those of Europe, Asia and the Americas, from the 1930s to the present day. Middlebrow Cinema brings into view a popular and aspirational - and thus especially relevant and dynamic - area of film and film culture. Ideal for students and researchers in this area, this book:

    Remaps ‘Popular’ and ‘arthouse’ approaches

    Explores British, Chinese, French, Indian, Mexican, Spanish ‘national’ cinemas alongside Continental, Hollywood, Queer, Transnational cinemas

    Analyses Biopic, Heritage, Historical Film, Melodrama, Musical, Sex Comedy genres."

     
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    Beteiligt: Faulkner, Sally (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315630564
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    Schlagworte: Media studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: bullets; costume; culture; faulkner; film; fly; french; heritage; sally; taste
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (238 p.)
  4. DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
    Autor*in: Pooch, Melanie U.
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native... mehr

     

    Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon. Thus, she contributes to a global, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspectival understanding of literature, culture, and society.

     
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    Quelle: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Schlagworte: Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  5. Roman Charity : Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture
    Autor*in: Gisela Sperling, Jutta
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    »Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock... mehr

     

    »Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839432846; 9783837632842
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    Schlagworte: Theory of art
    Weitere Schlagworte: early modern history; patriarchy; visual culture; fine arts; cultural history; queer studies; queer theory; visual studies; gender; art; art history; image; Caravaggio; Cimon; Roman Charity
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (430 p.)
  6. Berättelser om det förbjudna: Begär mellan kvinnor i svensk litteratur 1900–1935
    Beteiligt: Borgström, Eva (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Kriterium, Gothenburg, Sweden

    "Same-sex love was forbidden by law until 1944, and in culture it continued to be taboo, but it has always existed there. The prohibition created tensions which art and literature could play with. Narratives about forbidden love show this through... mehr

     

    "Same-sex love was forbidden by law until 1944, and in culture it continued to be taboo, but it has always existed there. The prohibition created tensions which art and literature could play with. Narratives about forbidden love show this through well-known authors such as Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Maria Sandel, Karin Boye and Frida Stéenhoff, and less well-known ones like Gertrud Almqvist, Margareta Suber, Lydia Wahlström and the pseudonym Elsa Gille. The book investigates literary narratives about women’s love for women and the ideas about the forbidden contained in them. What strategies did the authors use to get round the ban on the mention of the topic? Are there any utopian visions of how everything could be arranged in a different and better way? And how does the literature relate to other theories about same-sex love? Berättelser om det förbjudna: Begär mellan kvinnor i svensk litteratur 1900–1935 (“Stories of the Forbidden: Desire between Women in Swedish Literature 1900–1935”) is a free-standing continuation of Kärlekshistoria: Begär mellan kvinnor i 1800-talets litteratur (“Love Story: Desire between Women in Nineteenth-century Literature”, 2008). Together the books span over 100 years of Swedish literary history, making them the most comprehensive study available in the field in Sweden and Scandinavia.

    Eva Borgström is associate professor of comparative literature and lecturer at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg. She has formerly worked at the National Secretariat for Gender Research and the Department of Gender Studies. Samkönad kärlek var fram till 1944 förbjuden enligt lag och i kulturen var den tabuerad längre än så, men den har ändå alltid funnits där. Förbudet skapade spänningar som konsten och litteraturen kunde spela med. Berättelser om det förbjudna visar detta genom välkända författare som Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Maria Sandel, Karin Boye och Frida Stéenhoff, liksom mindre kända som Gertrud Almqvist, Margareta Suber, Lydia Wahlström och pseudonymen Elsa Gille. Boken undersöker skönlitterära berättelser om kvinnors kärlek till kvinnor och de föreställningar om det förbjudna som finns i dem. Vilka strategier använde författarna för att komma runt yttrandeförbudet? Finns det några utopier om hur allt skulle kunna ordnas på ett annat och bättre sätt? Och hur förhåller sig litteraturen till andra teorier i tiden om samkönad kärlek? Berättelser om det förbjudna. Begär mellan kvinnor i svensk litteratur 1900–1935 är en fristående fortsättning på Kärlekshistoria. Begär mellan kvinnor i 1800-talets litteratur (2008). Tillsammans spänner böckerna över 100 år av svensk litteraturhistoria och utgör därmed den hittills mest omfattande studie på området som finns i Sverige och Norden.

    Eva Borgström är docent i litteraturvetenskap och lektor vid Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion vid Göteborgs universitet. Tidigare har hon bland annat arbetat på Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning och Institutionen för genusvetenskap. "

     
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    Beteiligt: Borgström, Eva (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Schwedisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789170616976
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    Schlagworte: Literature: history & criticism; Gender studies, gender groups
    Weitere Schlagworte: women's rights; karin boye; swedish literature; maria sandel; frida stéenhof; agnes von krusenstjerna; sexology; lesbian studies; gertrud almqvist; margareta suber; lydia wahlström; elsa gille
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (306 p.)
  7. Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy : Volume 2
    Beteiligt: Webb, Heather (Hrsg.); Corbett, George (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    "Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno... mehr

     

    "Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante."

     
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    Beteiligt: Webb, Heather (Hrsg.); Corbett, George (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies; Poetry
    Weitere Schlagworte: commedia; italian literature; vertical readings; dante alighieri; purgatorio; paradiso; comparative; inferno; italian poetry; Divine Comedy; Florence; God; Virgil
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (304 p.)
  8. Verdi in Victorian London
    Autor*in: Zicari, Massimo
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    "Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them?... mehr

     

    "Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi’s operas, in spite of their alleged worthlessness?

    Massimo Zicari’s Verdi in Victorian London reconstructs the reception of Verdi’s operas in London from 1844, when a first critical account was published in the pages of The Athenaeum, to 1901, when Verdi’s death received extensive tribute in The Musical Times. In the 1840s, certain London journalists were positively hostile towards the most talked-about representative of Italian opera, only to change their tune in the years to come. The supercilious critic of The Athenaeum, Henry Fothergill Chorley, declared that Verdi’s melodies were worn, hackneyed and meaningless, his harmonies and progressions crude, his orchestration noisy. The scribes of The Times, The Musical World, The Illustrated London News, and The Musical Times all contributed to the critical hubbub.

    Yet by the 1850s, Victorian critics, however grudging, could neither deny nor ignore the popularity of Verdi’s operas. Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, moreover, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualized and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. Nostalgic commentators began to lament the sad state of the Land of Song, referring to the now departed ""palmy days of Italian opera."" Zicari charts this entire cultural constellation.

    Verdi in Victorian London is required reading for both academics and opera aficionados. Music specialists will value a historical reconstruction that stems from a large body of first-hand source material, while Verdi lovers and Italian opera addicts will enjoy vivid analysis free from technical jargon. For students, scholars and plain readers alike, this book is an illuminating addition to the study of music reception."

     
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    Schlagworte: Music
    Weitere Schlagworte: nineteenth century; giuseppe verdi; music reception; victorian london; italian opera; Italy; La traviata; Richard Wagner; The Times
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (360 p.)
  9. The Chatter of the Visible : Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany
    Autor*in: McBride, Patrizia C.
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  University of Michigan Press

    Patrizia McBride's study, The Chatter of the Visible, examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been... mehr

     

    Patrizia McBride's study, The Chatter of the Visible, examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBride offers an historicized re-appraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it; a means for thinking in narrative textures exceeding constraints imposed by "flat" print media (especially the novel and other literary genres). According to McBride, a close engagement with montage procedures going back to Cubism reveals explicit inquiry into the status of objects as complex signifying entities whose material qualities are inextricably bound up with linguistic dynamics. She focuses on allegory as the appropriate tool for reading Weimar-era photo montage, focusing on the ways allegorical work in montage compositions foregrounds the moment of incorporation by purposefully exposing the pasted-in nature of the inserted materials. This moment of construction, argues McBride, produces a chattering of forms that propels the distinctive experimentation of Weimar-era montage [and its experimental focus] on the ways in which perception interacts with physical forms in shaping the contours of the material world. McBride's contribution to the conversation around Weimar-era montage is in her situation of the form of the work as a discursive practice in its own right, which affords humans a new way to negotiate temporality; as a particular mode of thinking that productively relates the particular to the universal; or as a culturally specific form of cognition.

     
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    Schlagworte: The arts: general issues
    Weitere Schlagworte: Art
  10. Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696–1801
    Autor*in: Fawcett, Julia H.
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  University of Michigan Press

    How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first... mehr

     

    How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange and spectacular self-representations.

     

    They include the enormous wig that actor Colley Cibber donned in his comic role as Lord Foppington— and that later reappeared on the head of Cibber's cross-dressing daughter, Charlotte Charke. They include the black page of Tristram Shandy, a memorial to the parson Yorick (and author Laurence Sterne), a page so full of ink that it cannot be read. And they include the puffs and prologues that David Garrick used to heighten his publicity while protecting his privacy; the epistolary autobiography, modeled on the sentimental novel, of Garrick's protégé George Anne Bellamy; and the elliptical poems and portraits of the poet, actress, and royal courtesan Mary Robinson, a.k.a. Perdita.Linking all of these representations is a quality that Fawcett terms "over-expression," the unique quality that allows celebrities to meet their spectators' demands for disclosure without giving themselves away. Like a spotlight so brilliant it is blinding, these exaggerated but illegible self-representations suggest a new way of understanding some of the key aspects of celebrity culture, both in the eighteenth century and today. They also challenge divides between theatrical character and novelistic character in eighteenth-century studies, or between performance studies and literary studies today. The book provides an indispensable history for scholars and students in celebrity studies, performance studies, and autobiography— and for anyone curious about the origins of the eighteenth-century self.

     
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    Schlagworte: Theatre studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Performing Arts
  11. Medieval Decorated Ironwork in England
    Autor*in: Geddes, Jane
    Erschienen: 1999
    Verlag:  Society of Antiquaries of London, London

    This monograph traces the development of the designs and techniques used in the production of ironwork in England from roughly AD 1050 to AD 1500. Found mostly on church doors, chests and tombs, in the form of hinges, handles, knockers or grilles the... mehr

     

    This monograph traces the development of the designs and techniques used in the production of ironwork in England from roughly AD 1050 to AD 1500. Found mostly on church doors, chests and tombs, in the form of hinges, handles, knockers or grilles the ironwork of this period is a virtually unexplored aspect of medieval art, and has proved to be a rich source of evidence for design and craft skills.

     
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    ISBN: 9780854312733
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    Schlagworte: Archaeology by period / region; Medieval European archaeology; History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400; Decorative wood & metalwork
    Weitere Schlagworte: Medieval; doors; chests; ironwork
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (426 p.)
  12. Roman Brooches in Britain : A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection
    Autor*in: Bayley, Justine; Butcher, Sarnia
    Erschienen: 2004
    Verlag:  Society of Antiquaries of London, London

    This work presents the first major analysis of brooches from Roman sites in Britain since the pioneering work of M R Hull in the 1950s and 1960s and is the first to study the material using metallurgical analysis in addition to traditional... mehr

     

    This work presents the first major analysis of brooches from Roman sites in Britain since the pioneering work of M R Hull in the 1950s and 1960s and is the first to study the material using metallurgical analysis in addition to traditional typological methods. The analytical data for the brooches is available via the Archaeology Data Service: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/68fiche/index.cfm

     
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    ISBN: 9780854312795
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    Schlagworte: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Precious metal, precious stones & jewellery: artworks & design; Ancient Rome
    Weitere Schlagworte: Great Britain; Antiquities; Roman; Brooches; Decoration and ornament; Metallurgy in archaeology
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (312 p.)
  13. Monuments of Merv : Traditional Buildings of the Karakum
    Autor*in: Herrmann, Georgina
    Erschienen: 1999
    Verlag:  Society of Antiquaries of London, London

    Archaeological research and ancient records have been combined in this work to provide a comprehensive account of the buildings of Merv, an oasis city in the middle of the Turkmenistani desert. Founded in the sixth century BC, Merv was a key staging... mehr

     

    Archaeological research and ancient records have been combined in this work to provide a comprehensive account of the buildings of Merv, an oasis city in the middle of the Turkmenistani desert. Founded in the sixth century BC, Merv was a key staging post along the Central Asian trade routes linking Europe and India, and its buildings - palaces, pavilions, gardens and towers springing from the sand - impressed all who visited it. Although eroded by time and weather, enough remains of these buildings to illustrate the evolution of architectural styles in the early medieval and Seljuk eras (7th to 13th cents AD), a period during which the Islamic world developed its own unique range of building types and decorative motifs. This book examines in detail each of the surviving buildings of Merv, discussing their form and function – from palaces to ice-houses, from fortified watch-towers to libraries and dovecotes. Details of doors, windows, corridors and stairways, monumental entrances, rooms, domes and vaults, niches, wall decoration and flooring are described and illustrated in great detail. The book will serve as a major resource for scholars of Islamic architecture.

     
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    ISBN: 9780854312757
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    Schlagworte: Archaeology by period / region; Architectural structure & design; Central Asia
    Weitere Schlagworte: Archaeology; Merv; Central Asia; Buildings; Islamic architecture
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (244 p.)
  14. Early Incised Slabs and Brasses from the London Marblers
    Autor*in: Badham, Sally; Norris, Malcolm
    Erschienen: 1999
    Verlag:  Society of Antiquaries of London, London

    Although the objective of the Monumental Brass Society is to promote the study both of monumental brasses and of incised slabs, research on the two media has proceeded along separate and largely independent lines. This is the first work to combine... mehr

     

    Although the objective of the Monumental Brass Society is to promote the study both of monumental brasses and of incised slabs, research on the two media has proceeded along separate and largely independent lines. This is the first work to combine the stylistic analysis of monumental brasses with incised slabs. Like brasses, incised slabs are susceptible to stylistic analysis to identify workshop groupings. This book identifies existing and recorded Purbeck marble incised slabs from the pre-Black Death London workshops and compares their designs with those of contemporary brasses. The result is a fuller picture than has previously been available of the operations of the London marblers before the Black Death. It suggests that in the late thirteenth century production was on a larger scale than previously believed, and evidence is outlined for the existence of multiple workshops producing brasses and incised slabs in London for much of the period covered by this study.

     
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    ISBN: 9780854312726
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    Schlagworte: History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400; Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
    Weitere Schlagworte: Fine arts; Art history; Brasses; Slabs; London
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (182 p.)
  15. Metaphysical Conflict. A Study of the Major Novels of Ivan Turgenev
    Autor*in: Woodward, James B.
    Erschienen: 1990
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Written between 1855 and 1862, the four novels "Rudin", "A Nest o f the Gentry", "On the Eve" and "Fathers and Sons" are generally recognised as Turgenev's most notable contribution to Russian and world literature. Are they primarily social... mehr

     

    Written between 1855 and 1862, the four novels "Rudin", "A Nest o f the Gentry", "On the Eve" and "Fathers and Sons" are generally recognised as Turgenev's most notable contribution to Russian and world literature. Are they primarily social chronicles, as Turgenev suggested, or are they rather to be seen as celebrations of life, of the beauty of love and youthful idealism? Are they paens to the nobility of the human spirit or ironic comments on human folly? The same questions are addressed in the present study, but the question with which it is principally concerned is that of the novels' essential character.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: altruism; Conflict; egoistic will; Ivan; Major; Metaphysical; natural law; Novels; philosophy and literature; Schopenauer; Study; Turgenev; Woodward
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (186 p.)
  16. Life, Courage, Ice : A Semiological Essay on the Old Russian Biography of Aleksandr Nevskij
    Autor*in: Waszink, Paul M.
    Erschienen: 1990
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und... mehr

     

    In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Aleksandr; Biography; C.S. Pierce; Courage; deictic function; Essay; interpretation of art and literature; Life; Nevskij; old russian literature; Russian; Semiological; semiotics; Waszink; Wittgenstein
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (166 p.)
  17. Ending Slavery : Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania
    Autor*in: Ruf, Urs Peter
    Erschienen: 1999
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    »Ending Slavery« offers insights into the »how« of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics... mehr

     

    »Ending Slavery« offers insights into the »how« of practices of slavery that persist in parts of Mauritania up to the present day. It brings to the light the gendered structures of Moorish slavery, and examines their impact on strategies and tactics designed to bring this institution to an end. Underlying this study is empirical data gathered during two periods of field research in rural central Mauritania. The analysis of life histories of slaves and freed slaves, but also of tributaries and free Moors plays a key role in the book.

     
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    ISBN: 9783839400494; 9783933127495
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    Schlagworte: Cultural studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Islam; Violence; Gender; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (436 p.)
  18. Mixtec Evangelicals
    Autor*in: O'Connor, Mary I.
    Erschienen: 20160901
    Verlag:  University Press of Colorado, Boulder

    MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic... mehr

     

    MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions. O’Connor demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that are at the center of traditional village life. Home communities have responded in a number of ways—ranging from expulsion of converts to partial acceptance and adjustments within the village.

     
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    ISBN: 9781607324249; 9781607325642
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    Schlagworte: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: Anthropology; Catholic Church; Mexico; Mixtec; Modernity; San Juan; Puerto Rico; United States; Village
  19. Fact and Fiction
    Autor*in: Lehleiter, Christine
    Erschienen: 20160101
    Verlag:  University of Toronto Press

    "Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and... mehr

     

    "Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction’s twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin’s poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and Goethe’s Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two."

     
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    ISBN: 9781487511401
    Schlagworte: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Charles Darwin; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Johann Gottfried Herder; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  20. The Evaluation of Ideological Trends in Recent Soviet Literary Scholarship
    Autor*in: Mondry, Henrietta
    Erschienen: 1990
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Since the publication of formerly forbidden und unpublished texts constitutes the main trend of Glasnost', this study has as ist aim the isolation of main trends in the process of the re-evaluation of the cultural heritage of the past by Soviet... mehr

     

    Since the publication of formerly forbidden und unpublished texts constitutes the main trend of Glasnost', this study has as ist aim the isolation of main trends in the process of the re-evaluation of the cultural heritage of the past by Soviet literary scholarship. The analysed authors will be divided into four main groups: 1. Accepted 19th century classics (e.g. Goncharov); 2. Formerly forbidden 20th century writers (e.g. Zamiatin); 3. Formerly forbidden 19th century writers (e.g. Rozanov and Leontiev); 4. Hagiographic classics of the 20th century Soviet period (e.g. Gorkij).

     
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Evaluation; Glasnost; Ideological; Literary; Mondry; Perestroika; Recent; Russian literature; Scholarship; Sovie; Soviet; Soviet literature; the Lenin-Plekhanov Formula; Trends
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (138 p.)
  21. Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance : An anthology
    Beteiligt: Chaudhuri, Sukanta (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 20160420
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press, Manchester

    Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry,... mehr

     

    Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry, with 277 pieces spanning two centuries. Spenser, Sidney, Jonson and Drayton are amply represented alongside their many contemporaries. There is a wide range of pastoral lyrics, weightier allusive pieces, and translations from classical and vernacular pastoral poetry; also, more unusually, pastoral ballads and poems set in all kinds of prose works. Each piece has been freshly edited from the original sources, with full apparatus and commentary. This book will be complemented by a second volume, to be published in 2017, which includes a book-length introduction, textual notes and analytic indices.

     
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    Beteiligt: Chaudhuri, Sukanta (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Pastoral; Poetry; English Renaissance; Philip Sidney; Edmund Spenser; Robert Herrick; Michael Drayton; Ben Jonson; Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge
  22. The Russian Journey of Karel Havlíček Borovský
    Autor*in: Heim, Michael Henry
    Erschienen: 1979
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Little is known of Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821-56) outside Czechoslovakia, but his fellow Czechs revere him. He is one of their nineteenth-century culture heroes - satirist of great finesse and a shrewd but always humane journalist and politician.... mehr

     

    Little is known of Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821-56) outside Czechoslovakia, but his fellow Czechs revere him. He is one of their nineteenth-century culture heroes - satirist of great finesse and a shrewd but always humane journalist and politician. The Russian journey proved to be the turning point in Havlíček's life.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Borovský; Havlíček; Heim; Journey; Karel; Reiseführer; Russian; Russland; Slavische Sprachwissenschaft; Tschechische Republik
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (194 p.)
  23. Disrupted Idylls : Nature, Equality, and the Feminine in Sentimentalist Russian Women’s Writing (Mariia Pospelova, Mariia Bolotnikova, and Anna Naumova) – With translations by Emily Lygo
    Autor*in: Stohler, Ursula
    Erschienen: 20160429
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18<UP>th</UP>- and early-19<UP>th</UP>-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied... mehr

     

    The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18<UP>th</UP>- and early-19<UP>th</UP>-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular were fettered by a culture of feminisation strongly influenced by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As Sentimentalism and its aesthetics began to give way to Romantic ideals, some provincial Russian women writers saw an opportunity to claim social equality, and to challenge traditional concepts of authorship and a view of women as mute and passive.

     
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  24. Developing and Assessing Academic and Professional Writing Skills
    Beteiligt: Göpferich, Susanne (Hrsg.); Neumann, Imke (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 20160311
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Academic literacy used to be considered a complex set of skills that develop automatically as a by-product of academic socialization. Since the Bologna Reform with its shorter degree programmes, however, it has been realized that these skills need to... mehr

     

    Academic literacy used to be considered a complex set of skills that develop automatically as a by-product of academic socialization. Since the Bologna Reform with its shorter degree programmes, however, it has been realized that these skills need to be fostered actively. Simultaneously, writing skills development at all levels of education has been faced with the challenge of increasingly multilingual and multicultural groups of pupils and students. This book addresses the questions of how both academic and professional writing skills can be fostered under these conditions and how the development of writing skills can be measured.

     
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  25. Molière et le théâtre arabe : Réception moliéresque et identités nationales arabes
    Autor*in: Langone, Angela Daiana
    Erschienen: 20160115
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Molière, often considered the ‘godfather of Arab theatre’, was first introduced to the Arab world in 1847 by Marun Naqqaš and his adaptation of The Miser. Since then, Molière has never ceased to influence Arab dramaturgy. Discussing a series of plays... mehr

     

    Molière, often considered the ‘godfather of Arab theatre’, was first introduced to the Arab world in 1847 by Marun Naqqaš and his adaptation of The Miser. Since then, Molière has never ceased to influence Arab dramaturgy. Discussing a series of plays by authors from Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, this study aims at defining Molière’s role in the development of a national Arab theatre.

     
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    Beteiligt: Ette, Ottmar (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Französisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110436846; 9783110434453
    Schlagworte: Plays, playscripts
    Weitere Schlagworte: Modern Languages and Linguistics; arab theater; Molière; arabic world