(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2016, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110378030)
This book seeks to work out literatures active role in shaping visual culture, thus demonstrating its relevance for image studies and emphasizing its participation in visual culture beyond its interaction with visual media....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Aug-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110339017)
The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jul-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110267303)
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. This book offers articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110352511)
Placing the literariness of (Ps)Quintilians oeuvre into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. It is suitable for s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110377613)
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. This book offers articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110377637)
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. This book offers articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110310948)
Anders Cullheds studyexplores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110401882)
Ancient declamation defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. This book contains essays from international scholars, that engages with the multidisciplinary nature of ancient declamation, focusing on the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110376555)
Demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2015, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110359534)
How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This book re-examines the link between German postwar writing and the history of satire, and between literature and theory....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110324341)
Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? In this book, the essays show how literary and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110365481)
This series addresses key contemporary concepts and methods along with substantive issues from the realm of basic research in cultural studies. Its objective is to help shape contemporary discourse about cultural studies and at the same time to enri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110364255)
In the late Middle Ages, a trans-Mediterranean network of holy sites developed, linked to one another by sea routes. In this book, the essays describe the specific sacred geography of the sanctuaries situated along medieval sea routes and examine th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110368925)
Plautine Trends brings together experts on Roman comedy in a collective volume, focusing on key issues of modern Plautine research: Plautuss Greek models vs. interactive innovation, comic staging, metatheatrical aspects, as well as questions of lang...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110338799)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. This volume engages this question and offers new perspectives on the tragic bent of the Book of Job, on its dramatic irony, on Jo...Loe edasi...
Sari: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110363029)
The First World War has remained the subject of prose fiction, drama, and film across nations. This volume provides a comprehensive international survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media. It addresses the role of these...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781614515197)
Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides a comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-pre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781614510390)
Millennium transcends boundaries between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch, the Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. The editorial...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110343403)
In a time of political, epistemic and aesthetic revolutions, early 18th-century Britain saw the emergence of a public discourse of `common sense which had a lasting influence on clichéd concepts of cultural identity....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110365740)
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first centurys advanced economies, which is reflected in cultural production. With a focus on Britain, this book discusses this topic for a wide range of media an...Loe edasi...
Sari: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110342253)
The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While maintaining a broad thematic and methodological scope, the editors are especially keen on studies showing a thorough and critical engage...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110227369)
Explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110362268)
Despite its importance as document for political life in Athens after 402 B C E and the development of Attic oratory, Lysias 21st speech has never been the subject of an extensive scholarly commentary. Focusing on structural, strategic and argument...Loe edasi...
Sari: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110350296)
It investigates discursive acts of remembering that are related to periods of political violence in Argentina to examine how individual and collective remembering work in both institutional settings (e.g....Loe edasi...
Peter Huhn, Jan Christoph Meister, John Pier, Wolf Schmid
Sari: De Gruyter Handbook
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110316469)
Offers a systematic overview of the state of international research in narratology. In this edition, detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate central terms of narratology, present a critical account of the maj...Loe edasi...
Sari: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jul-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110365870)
The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While maintaining a broad thematic and methodological scope, the editors are especially keen on studies showing a thorough and critical engage...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jul-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110343380)
The book takes a look at the abundant disguise scenarios in Elizabethan prose fiction by tracing the interconnections between the Reformation and the literary mode of romance....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jul-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110334081)
Intended as a new hermeneutics to study the whole range of texts that were produced for socially relevant events in ancient Greece and to investigate the dynamics behind their inclusion or exclusion from production, diffusion and transmission, this...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110303452)
Presents the study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110365658)
How do readers experience literary narrative? Drawing on narrative theory, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind, this book offers a principled account of the dynamics underlying readers responses to narrative....Loe edasi...
Sari: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110361643)
Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point-of-view represents a critical component in the research on alternative approaches to well-being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110353242)
A collection of essays that demonstrates how new media and genres as well as unnatural narratives challenge classical forms of narration in ways that call for the development of analytical tools and modelling systems that move beyond classical struc...Loe edasi...
Sari: Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter Inc, ISBN-13: 9781614515456)
Providing a perspective on the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book argues that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle was developed as early as Ur III, and that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last story of this cycle....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2014, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110349863)
Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Senecas work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110259254)
Reevaluates premodern, modern and contemporary conceptions of affects, passions and emotion by analyzing various historical manifestations of the discourse on emotion....Loe edasi...
Sari: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110304091)
This study takes a material object as its starting point: small-scale models of bombed out cities. This study considers these miniature monuments in a deep cultural history that interlaces the 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2014, Kirjastus: R Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783110350722)
In this crucial contribution, Ari Ofengenden disentangles Shlonskys work from Zionist readings and shows how his poetics redeem experiences of political displacement, exile and alienation through a playful enigmatic fusion of Modernist European poet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110334104)
Addresses reactions to Italian Futurism in 16 countries (Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, USA), and in the artistic media of photography, theatre a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110303209)
In todays world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies, but on the web, in computer games or virtual environments.This book gathers twenty-three scholars from ten countries with the aim to expl...Loe edasi...
