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  1. Die Inschriften des Stadtgottesackers in Halle an der Saale (1550–1700) : Quellen zum Bürgertum einer Stadt in der frühen Neuzeit
    Contributor: Krüger, Klaus (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Between 1557 and 1590, the Stadtgottesacker in Halle, a prototype of a Protestant burial ground outside the city walls, was expanded into an architectural unity that in form and completeness has no parallel north of the Alps. The volume contains all... more

     

    Between 1557 and 1590, the Stadtgottesacker in Halle, a prototype of a Protestant burial ground outside the city walls, was expanded into an architectural unity that in form and completeness has no parallel north of the Alps. The volume contains all the inscriptions prior to 1700 on tombs and on 90 burial vaults, edited and translated in their entirety, along with notes on coats of arms and referenced persons.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Krüger, Klaus (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110700145; 9783050064208; 9783110700213
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Medieval history
    Other subjects: Funerary monuments; inscriptions; sepulchral culture; Halle (Saale)
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (560 p.)
  2. Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain : From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote
    Author: Triplette, Stacey
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the... more

     

    The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a notorious appeal for female audiences, and the early modern authors who borrowed from it varied in their reactions to its large cast of literate female characters. Don Quixote and other works that situate women as readers carry the influence of Amadís forward into the modern novel. When early modern authors read chivalric romance, they also read gender, harnessing the female characters of the source text to a variety of political and aesthetic purposes.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789048536641; 9789462985490
    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: chivalry, romance, Don Quixote, Amadís de Gaula, gender, translation
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (281 p.)
  3. Die Poesie der Dinge : Ziele und Strategien der Wissensvermittlung im lateinischen Lehrgedicht der Frühen Neuzeit
    Contributor: Markevičiūtė, Ramunė (Publisher); Roling, Bernd (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Distillation flasks, sugar cane mills, and the brain – the scientific revolution created a spectacular range of themes, even in a traditional genre such as didactic poetry. In this volume, internationally renowned researchers in Latin didactic poetry... more

     

    Distillation flasks, sugar cane mills, and the brain – the scientific revolution created a spectacular range of themes, even in a traditional genre such as didactic poetry. In this volume, internationally renowned researchers in Latin didactic poetry examine the many facets of early modern scientific poetry and offer insights on these previously neglected texts.

     
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  4. Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans: Inszenierungen rhetorischer Streitkultur in der Reformationszeit
    Author: Lundström, Kerstin
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Stockholm University Press, Stockholm, Sweden

    Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans. Inszenierungen rhetorischer Streitkultur in der Reformationszeit” is a study of pamphlets written as a reaction to, and attempt for, expansion of the Lutheran and Zwinglian Reformation. Melchior Hoffman’s... more

     

    Polemik in den Schriften Melchior Hoffmans. Inszenierungen rhetorischer Streitkultur in der Reformationszeit” is a study of pamphlets written as a reaction to, and attempt for, expansion of the Lutheran and Zwinglian Reformation. Melchior Hoffman’s work has, so far, almost solely been investigated by historians of religion and thus focused merely on religious topics and argumentation, and rather seldomly on the literary aspects of his pamphlets – such as rhetorics, argumentation strategies and text compilation. In order to close this gap of research on Melchior Hoffman and – in the sense of a New Historicism approach – give him as a non-canonical author more attention, this book focuses on the literary qualities of the texts. It is thus the first full-length study on Melchior Hoffman by a literary scholar. Not only has little been written on Melchior Hoffman, but also about lay writers in the Reformation at all. Thus, the book delivers new perspectives within the field of Reformation pamphlet writers. Theoretical significance is an integral part of the study, with a focus on developing a new theoretical concept for analyzing polemic texts. The innovative approach combines post-modern theories like (constructivist) Cultural Studies, and Performativity concepts with Communication Analyses and Classical Rhetorics. By doing so, it provides a unique approach to texts from the 16th century, which can easily and reasonably be applied to polemical texts of the 21st century as well as to even older texts than Hoffman’s.

    The book has been written in the research field of German Literature, but will be of great interest for both literary scholars and historians (of religion or culture). Als ‚radikaler Reformator‘ geriet Melchior Hoffman immer wieder in Konflikte mit Vertretern der lutherischen und zwinglischen Reformation. Die Auseinandersetzungen über die ‚wahre Lehre Gottes‘ schlugen sich dabei in unterschiedlichen Textsorten und formen nieder: Hoffman stritt in polemischen Einzelschriften, Schriftwechseln sowie einem Reformationsdialog und polemisierte sogar in Bibelkommentaren und Traktaten. Diese Schriften Hoffmans werden hier erstmals unter literaturwissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten behandelt. Sie werden als Orte der Performanz einer rhetorischen Streitkultur verstanden, die typisch für die Reformationszeit und generell für religiöse Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Theologie und Laienfrömmigkeit sind: In der schriftlichen Inszenierung des Streits manifestiert sich die komplexe kulturelle Wechselwirkung zwischen den rhetorischen Normen und Traditionen auf der einen und der individuellen Auseinandersetzung mit ihnen auf der anderen Seite. Das textuelle In-Szene-Setzen ist somit als performative Handlung zu verstehen, die Polemik selbst als deren grundlegendes inszenatorisches Prinzip.

    Kerstin Lundström untersucht Hoffmans Polemik mittels einer Kombination aus Rhetorikanalyse und modernen Methoden der Kommunikations- und Performativitätsanalyse. Das Ergebnis ist die Identifizierung unterschiedlicher Konstellationen der Rede, die maßgeblich mit der sprachlichen Ausgestaltung zusammenwirken. Der Fokus liegt insbesondere darauf, wie die einzelnen Bausteine von Hoffmans vielschichtiger Polemik – auf Text- und auf Kontextebene – ineinander greifen und ihre performative Wirkmächtigkeit entfalten.

     
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  5. Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
    Author: Bloom, Gina
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the... more

     

    Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780472073818; 9780472053810
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: Media
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (305 p.)
  6. The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness
    Contributor: Boyle, Jen (Publisher); Kao, Wan-Chuan (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered... more

     

    Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde within the context of consumer culture. But if cuteness can get under the skin, what kinds of surfaces does it best infiltrate, particularly in the framework of historical forms, events, and objects that traditionally have been read as emergences around “big” aesthetics of formal symmetries, high affects, and resemblances? The Retrofuturism of Cuteness seeks to undo the temporal strictures surrounding aesthetic and affective categories, to displace a strict focus on commodification and cuteness, and to interrogate how cuteness as a minor aesthetics can refocus our perceptions and readings of both premodern and modern media, literature, and culture. Taking seriously the retro and the futuristic temporalities of cuteness, this volume puts in conversation projects that have unearthed remnants of a “cult of cute”—positioned historically and critically in between transitions into secularization, capitalist frameworks of commodification, and the enchantment of objects—and those that have investigated the uncanny haunting of earlier aesthetics in future-oriented modes of cuteness.

     
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    Contributor: Boyle, Jen (Publisher); Kao, Wan-Chuan (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781947447295
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: cuteness; William Shakespeare; Renaissance literature; Bollywood; Second Life; cultural studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  7. Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene
    Author: Dionne, Craig
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare’s tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being — from that of participating in the flourish of... more

     

    Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare’s tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being — from that of participating in the flourish of aristocratic prodigality and circumstance, to that of survival and pondering one’s interdependence with a denuded world. Dionne frames the thematic arc of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the fall of a king as a tableaux of our post-sustainable condition. For Dionne, Lear’s progress on the heath works as a parable of flat ontology. At the center of Dionne’s analysis of rhetoric and prodigality in the tragedy is the argument that adages and proverbs, working as embodied forms of speech, offer insight into a nonhuman, fragmentary mode of consciousness. The Renaissance fascination with memory and proverbs provides an opportunity to reflect on the human as an instance of such enmeshed being where the habit of articulating memorized patterns of speech works on a somatic level. Dionne theorizes how mnemonic memory functions as a potentially empowering mode of consciousness inherited by our evolutionary history as a species, revealing how our minds work as imprinted machines to recall past prohibitions and useful affective scripts to aid in our interaction with the environment. The proverb is that linguistic inscription that defines the equivalent of human-animal imprinting, where the past is etched upon collective memory within ‘adagential” being that lives on through the generations as autonomic cues for survival.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: posthumanism; William Shakespeare; literary criticism; anthropocene
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (202 p.)
  8. What Literature Knows : Forays into Literary Knowledge Production
    Contributor: Kley, Antje (Publisher); Merten, Kai (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically... more

     

    This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss literature as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic means of exploration to establish an independent and sometimes dissident archive. The worlds that imaginary texts project are shown to open up alternative perspectives to be reckoned with in the academic articulation and public discussion of issues in economics and the sciences, identity formation and wellbeing, legal rationale and political decision-making.

     
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    Contributor: Kley, Antje (Publisher); Merten, Kai (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; History of ideas
    Other subjects: Literature: history and criticism; Language teaching and learning; Literary theory; Psychology; Anthropology; Social and cultural anthropology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (342 p.)
  9. Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
    Author: McMurran Helen, Mary; Conway, Alison
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press

    Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel... more

     

    Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors. Informed by contemporary currents such as new materialism, cognitive studies, media theory, and post-secularism, their essays demonstrate the volatility of the core ideas opened up by materialism and the possibilities of an aesthetic vitalism of form. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442650114; 9781487511418
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: Literature
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  10. New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day : Repertoires of Representation
    Contributor: Kaal, Harm (Publisher); Slootjes, Daniëlle (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Brill

    This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people which is shaped by... more

     

    This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people which is shaped by self-representation and representative claims. Readership: All scholars and students interested in the phenomenon of political representation, from antiquity to the present day.

     
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    Contributor: Kaal, Harm (Publisher); Slootjes, Daniëlle (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004291966
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)
  11. Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe : Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture
    Contributor: Päll, Janika (Publisher); Volt, Ivo (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to... more

     

    The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to know and use Greek, because he is not, cannot and will not be a barbarian: barbaros ou pelomai, as Julius Caesar Scaliger claimed in his verses in 1600. Wreaths (stephanoi) have been the symbols of the cult of Muses from ancient times. After the love for Greek Muses had been revived by Renaissance Humanist poets and scholars, it has remained with us both in poetic activity and in scholarship. The Hellenostephanos volume presents a collection of papers by scholars who study Humanist Greek, aspiring towards another revival of Hellenism, and trying to avoid being barbarians. The volume includes papers by Christian Gastgeber, Gita Bērziņa, Janika Päll, Charalampos Minaoglou, Erkki Sironen, Kaspar Kolk, Tua Korhonen, Johanna Akujärvi, Bartosz Awianowicz, Jean-Marie Flamand, Walther Ludwig, Alessandra Lukinovich, Martin Steinrück, Tomas Veteikis, Grigory Vorobyev, Vlado Rezar, Pieta van Beek, and Antoine Haaker.

     
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  12. As If: Essays in As You Like It
    Author: West, William N.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a play without a theme. Instead, it repeatedly poses one question in a variety of forms: What if the world were other than it is? As You Like It is a set of experiments in which its characters conditionally change an... more

     

    Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a play without a theme. Instead, it repeatedly poses one question in a variety of forms: What if the world were other than it is? As You Like It is a set of experiments in which its characters conditionally change an aspect of their world and see what comes of it: what if I were not a girl but a man? What if I were not a duke, but someone like Robin Hood? What if I were a deer? “What would you say to me now an [that is, “if”] I were your very, very Rosalind?” (4.1.64-65). “Much virtue in ‘if’,” as one of its characters declares near the play’s end; ‘if’ is virtual. It releases force even if the force is not that of what is the case. Change one thing in the world, the play asks, and how else does everything change? In As You Like It, unlike Shakespeare’s other plays, the characters themselves are both experiment and experimenters. They assert something about the world that they know is not the case, and their fictions let them explore what would happen if it were—and not only if it were, but something, not otherwise apparent, about how it is now. What is as you like it? What is it that you, or anyone, really likes or wants? The characters of As You Like It stand in ‘if’ as at a hinge of thought and action, conscious that they desire something, not wholly capable of getting it, not even able to say what it is. Their awareness that the world could be different than it is, is a step towards making it something that they wish it to be, and towards learning what that would be.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: William Shakespeare; Early Modern studies; As You Like It; cultural studies; experimentation; literary studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (136 p.)
  13. Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe
    Contributor: Besamusca, Bart (Publisher); Willaert, Frank (Publisher); de Bruijn, Elisabeth (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in Western Europe. The essays in this volume address developments in the history of early printed narrative texts as well as publication strategies in a number of... more

     

    The shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in Western Europe. The essays in this volume address developments in the history of early printed narrative texts as well as publication strategies in a number of vernacular languages. Topics covered include the selection of texts that made it into print, stages in their printed history, textual adaptations, the use of woodcuts and the development of title pages.

     
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    Contributor: Besamusca, Bart (Publisher); Willaert, Frank (Publisher); de Bruijn, Elisabeth (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110563016; 9783110563108; 9783110563009
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: History of printing early printing houses narrative literature media history cross-linguistic research
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (395 p.)
  14. Familial Feeling : Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel
    Author: Haschemi Yekani, Elahe
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative... more

     

    This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as Defoe, Sterne, Austen, and Dickens, are framed as entangled tonalities. Via their engagement with discourses on slavery, abolition, and imperialism, these texts shaped an understanding of national belonging as a form of familial feeling. This study thus complicates the “rise of the novel” framework and British middle-class identity formation from a transnational perspective combining approaches in narrative studies with postcolonial and queer theory.

     
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  15. Fictionalizing heterodoxy Various uses of knowledge in the Spanish world from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán
    Author: Gernert, Folke
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and... more

     

    The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110628777; 9783110628722; 9783110628784
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Science: general issues
    Other subjects: Literature and Science; History of Knowledge; Dissent; Siglo de Oro; Picaresque
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (206 p.)
  16. Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
    Author: Bloemendal, Jan; van Dixhoorn, Arjan; Strietman, Elsa
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden-Boston

    In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin... more

     

    In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale. This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other traces of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making. The cases presented in this volume bring the Dutch and Latin literary cultures of the Low Countries in the focus of international debates on the history of public opinion.

     
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  17. Ethos und Pathos der Geisteswissenschaften: Konfigurationen der wissenschaftlichen Persona seit 1750
    Contributor: Klausnitzer, Ralf (Publisher); Spoerhase, Carlos (Publisher); Werle, Dirk (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    Epistemology; Ethos of scholarship more

     

    Epistemology; Ethos of scholarship

     
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    Contributor: Klausnitzer, Ralf (Publisher); Spoerhase, Carlos (Publisher); Werle, Dirk (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110375008
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    Subjects: Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: Epistemology; Ethos of scholarship
  18. Journey of a book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things : Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things
    Author: Keen, Elizabeth
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  ANU Press, Canberra

    De proprietatibus rerum, ‘On the properties of things’, has long been referred to by scholars as a medieval encyclopedia, but evidence suggests that it has been many things to many people. The sheer number of extant manuscript copies and printed... more

     

    De proprietatibus rerum, ‘On the properties of things’, has long been referred to by scholars as a medieval encyclopedia, but evidence suggests that it has been many things to many people. The sheer number of extant manuscript copies and printed editions, along with translations, adaptations, and mentions in poems and sermons, testify to its continuous significance for Europeans of all estates and different walks of life, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. While first compiled soon after the time of St Francis by a humble continental friar to meet the needs of his expanding religious brotherhood, by 1600 English men of letters had claimed Bartholomew as a noble compatriot and national treasure. What was it about the work that propelled it through a progression of medieval cultures and into an exalted position in the world of English letters? This reception history traces evidence for the journey of ‘Properties’ over four centuries of social, political and religious change.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: history; dictionaries; encyclopedias; Bartholomew the Apostle; England; Franciscans
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (199 p.)
  19. Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance : An anthology
    Contributor: Chaudhuri, Sukanta (Publisher)
    Published: 20160420
    Publisher:  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,... more

     

    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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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Chaudhuri, Sukanta (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: Literature; Pastoral; Poetry; English Renaissance; Philip Sidney; Edmund Spenser; Robert Herrick; Michael Drayton; Ben Jonson; Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge
  20. A Companion to the Cavendishes
    Contributor: Hopkins, Lisa (Publisher); Rutter, Tom (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Arc Humanities Press

    “The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural... more

     

    “The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discusses the writings of individuals including William and Margaret Cavendish, and William's daughters Jane and Elizabeth; family members' work and patronage in other media such as music, architecture, and the visual arts; their participation in contemporary developments in politics, philosophy, and horsemanship; and the networks in which they moved both in England and in continental Europe. It also covers the work of less well-known family members such as the poet and biographer George Cavendish and the composer Michael Cavendish. This volume combines path-breaking scholarship with discussion of existing research, making it an invaluable resource for all those interested in this fascinating and diverse group of men and women.”

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Hopkins, Lisa (Publisher); Rutter, Tom (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
    Other subjects: literary culture; aristocratic life; women’s writing; closet drama; iconography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (416 p.)
  21. Chapter „Von Aalschwanzspekulanten bis Abendrotlicht“ : Buchstäbliche Materialität und Pathos im Häufigkeitswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache von Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding
    Author: Bernhart, Toni
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and why different forms of... more

     

    This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and why different forms of scientific ethos have developed since the mid-18th century. The studies also illuminate associated styles of rhetorical argumentation.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Klausnitzer, Ralf (Publisher); Spoerhase, Carlos (Publisher); Werle, Dirk (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110374995; 9783110386257
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    Parent title: Ethos und Pathos der Geisteswissenschaften: Konfigurationen der wissenschaftlichen Persona seit 1750
    Subjects: Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: Epistemology; Ethos of scholarship
  22. Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
    Author: Atkin, Lara; Comyn, Sarah; Fermanis, Porscha; Garvey, Nathan
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Cham

    This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new... more

     

    This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.

     
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  23. Juigchen in den adel der menschelijke natuur. Het verhevene in de Nederlanden (1770-1830)
    Author: Christophe, Madelein
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    A storm at sea, hanging cliffs, volcano eruptions at night, threatening thunderclouds over a desolate mountain landscape: all these phenomena incite both fear and pleasure, astonishment and fascination. We call them sublime, after the feeling of the... more

     

    A storm at sea, hanging cliffs, volcano eruptions at night, threatening thunderclouds over a desolate mountain landscape: all these phenomena incite both fear and pleasure, astonishment and fascination. We call them sublime, after the feeling of the sublime. In the eighteenth century the sublime became the exciting alternative to the beautiful. The concept has ancient roots, but branches out into French, British, German, and Dutch cultures. Stemming originally from rhetoric, in the course of the eighteenth century it became an aesthetic, philosophical and literary concept. In this study the history of the sublime is told for the first time in Dutch. This book focuses on Dutch contributions on the sublime, in the light of the international history of the concept of the sublime. From the earliest translations to the original ideas of Johannes Kinker and Willem Bilderdijk: the Dutch sublime reflects both the entwinement with the European Enlightenment and the specific nature of Dutch culture in the long eighteenth century. Een storm op zee, overhangende kliffen, nachtelijke vulkaanuitbarstingen, dreigende donderwolken boven een woest berglandschap: al deze verschijnselen boezemen tegelijk angst en genot, ontzetting en fascinatie in. We noemen ze subliem, naar het verheven gevoel dat ze oproepen. Het sublieme gold in de achttiende eeuw als het spannende alternatief voor het schone. Het begrip heeft antieke wortels, maar ook Franse, Engelse, Duitse, en Nederlandse vertakkingen. Oorspronkelijk een begrip uit de retorica groeide het in de achttiende eeuw uit tot een esthetisch, filosofisch en literair concept. In deze studie wordt voor het eerst de geschiedenis van het verhevene in het Nederlands verteld. Centraal in dit boek staan een aantal Nederlandse bijdragen over het verhevene, die hier worden gelezen in het kader van de internationale begripsgeschiedenis van het sublieme. Van de vroegste vertalingen tot de eigenzinnige ideeën van Johannes Kinker en Willem Bilderdijk: in het Nederlandse verhevene wordt zowel de verbondenheid met de Europese Verlichting als het bijzondere van de eigen cultuur in de lange achttiende eeuw weerspiegeld.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Belgium; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Netherlands; Dutch; Flemish; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
    Other subjects: eighteenth century; the sublime; low countries
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (411 p.)
  24. Volksschauspiele Genese einer kulturgeschichtlichen Formation
    Author: Bernhart, Toni
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Many types of works are characterized as folk plays: the peasant play, the passion play, the knightly drama, the tradition play, the mass festival, the anti-folk play, and the social drama. This book reconstructs the development of the folk play from... more

     

    Many types of works are characterized as folk plays: the peasant play, the passion play, the knightly drama, the tradition play, the mass festival, the anti-folk play, and the social drama. This book reconstructs the development of the folk play from the 18th century until today and puts into context the various forms it has taken. Textual examples from Johann Gottfried Herder to Elfriede Jelinek serve as illustration.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110606089; 9783110603439; 9783110605624
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: Folk plays; folk piece; folk theater
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (388 p.)
  25. Spectatoriale Geschlechterkonstruktionen: Geschlechtsspezifische Wissens- und Welterzeugung in den französisch- und spanischsprachigen Moralischen Wochenschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts
    Author: Völkl, Yvonne
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

    The study sheds light on the development of modern gender discourses and constructions through the literary-journalistic genre of the Spectators. It offers insight into the stereotypical gender discourses of the emerging bourgeois culture in the 18th... more

     

    The study sheds light on the development of modern gender discourses and constructions through the literary-journalistic genre of the Spectators. It offers insight into the stereotypical gender discourses of the emerging bourgeois culture in the 18th century as well as into local particularities within the French- and Spanish-speaking context of the time. Die Studie gibt Aufschluss über die Entstehung der modernen Geschlechterdiskurse und konstruktionen anhand der literarisch-journalistischen Gattung der Moralischen Wochenschriften. Sie bietet einen Einblick in die stereotypen Geschlechterdiskurse der entstehenden bürgerlichen Kultur im 18. Jahrhundert sowie in lokale Besonderheiten innerhalb des französisch- und spanischsprachigen Kontextes der Zeit.

     
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