There have been many iterations of the Joan of Arc story: “testimonies,” books, and films have attempted to capture the drama of one of history’s most famous gender warriors.
To this day, many Czech writers refer to the work Němcovás as a model for their own artistic work.
How do contemporary Dutch-language poets view their neighbouring countries, South and Central Europe and Indonesia? This collection of research articles explores modern travel poetry, a genre which to this day has hardly been paid any attention.
Victor J. Vitanza (author of Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing) continues to rethink the problem of sexual violence in cinema and how rape is often represented in “chaste” ways, in the form of a Chaste Cinematics.
In this work an attempt is made to describe formism in terms of Tytuz Czyżewski's poetry as an independent poetic approach.
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada’s most costly natural disasters in a …
This volume of Lage Landen Studies has a twofold purpose: on the one hand we want to pay attention to the scholarly work on the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom, in particular to his poetry in translation which has hardly received any academic attention yet, and on the other hand we would like to contribute to trends in Translation Studies which focus on agency, subjectivity, intention, translators …
Before the fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the guts of sacrificial animals on the temple floor, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Alberta’s past sacrifices (reading the entrails), the author believes we might dimly see an apparition of Alberta’s future. This controversial book vividly portrays the history of land and life in Alberta …
In this collection of poetry, Charles Noble further reins in an already tight form – haiku – only to let loose a “logopoeic” poetry
Dansk samtidslyrik er det første bind i en serie, der beskæftiger sig med samtidslyrik mellem genrer, kunstarter og medier i en dansk, en nordisk og en global kontekst.