The articles in this volume bear witness to the productive energy of the interplay between tradition and modernity, whether in theater, literature, or popular culture. At the same time, they emphasize the importance of cultural intermediaries, including translators. The volume thus illustrates that - despite (or precisely because of) political developments in Turkey and Germany, alike - a multi…
Culture and institutions; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Dutch literature
Il volume raccoglie ventinove studi greci e latini dedicati all’illustre grecista Giuseppina Matino da partecipanti alla Sezione di Scienze dell’Antichità del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. I saggi spaziano dalla lingua e letteratura greca alla lingua e letteratura latina, alla filologia classica, alla papirologia, alla letteratura la…
Lebenskunst hat Konjunktur: Offenbar ist der Traum, das Leben als Gesamtkunstwerk einzurichten, zur ethischen Maxime geworden. Beteiligt ist dabei seit der Antike das Motiv von Selbsterforschung bzw. Selbstbesserung, das über die Frühe Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart wirksam geblieben ist. Tagebücher sind dabei ein notwendiges Begleitmedium gewesen und haben wechselhafte Formen angenommen, die …
The progressive development of literature from the middle of the 17th century to A. S. Pushkin is essentially determined by the sections of the political and intellectual history of Russia. The poet personalities featured in this volume are each classified in the period in which the main weight of their action lies. In the selection of texts balanced all genres, including journalistic and liter…
After 1989, the interest of Czech readers in unconventional, "other" literature, underground and dissidentism, as well as authors of literary modernism and the avant-garde, who did not belong to the official literary canon during socialism, grew. Ladislav Klima, Jakub Demi and also Richard Weiner get into focus. In addition to a series of individual publications since 1996, the long-planned wor…
"Reescribir la violencia supone un acercamiento al conflicto armado en Colombia desde la obra de escritoras que narran las experiencias de víctimas de la guerra. Diarios, autobiografías, historias de vida, entrevistas y narrativa testimonial serán los cauces de expresión más idóneos para la perpetuación de la memoria de mujeres asediadas por la violencia. El presente volumen recoge un an…
From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition.
The interest in aesthetics in philosophy, literary and cultural studies is growing rapidly. The New Aestheticism contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.
The experience of New France and ancient Quebec has led to the writing of travelers, missionaries, scholars, scholars and sages. Some have described this part of the world, its history, its characteristics, its peoples; the others have explained the dimensions of the physical world, of life or of the human experience. Lescarbot and Champlain in Charlevoix, the works of the XVII th and XVIII th …