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 …
her influence on young Canadian writers today.
The book contains the vocabulary of the main liturgical texts of the Byzantine rite, d. H. Hesperinos, the Orthros, the liturgies and the Gospels; the remaining Old and New Testament writings are taken into account, as far as they are used on Sundays and higher festivals. This "basic vocabulary" should now make it possible to easily translate such texts in modern (Russian) church Slavic spellin…
Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as it might have appeared in unprocessed form to a reader sometime shortly after Euripides’ death. The second processes the drama into the reduced but much more distinct form of modern print translati…
The current media landscape is often attributed a tendency to disclosure and openness. Social network sites blur the boundaries between the private and the public, platforms such as WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks publish secret material, while file-sharing networks and open-content licenses make previously proprietary content publicly accessible. These developments are intertwined with, at first sight…
In the series Slavonic Contributions Slavic dissertations of German-speaking countries as well as occasionally also American, English and Russian are published. In addition, the series provides a forum for anthologies and monographs of established scientists.
Since ancient Greek-Latin and Judeo-Christian antiquity and also in a constant return to these two traditions the people of Europe have created a great treasure trove of poems. These poems have expressed and shaped the eras of their history. While myth, epic and novel have told the great stories of the world and of the gods, peoples and heroes, the poem created the ego-telling voice at an early…
Like no other novel, the "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes has fascinated readers time and again for four centuries. Written in Spain in the early 17th century, which at that time played a major role in shaping the destiny of Europe, the novel soon became the epitome of Spanish literature and culture. From Madrid he started affecting the rest of Europe and inspired thinkers, poets, artists, …
In her early diaries the art historian Erica Tietze-Conrat discribes her eventfull life in Vienna in the 1920ies, were she had been in touch with all the important art circles of the time.. In 1937 and 1938 her journals give an interesting view of the networks between museumstafs, art dealers, art scholars and artists just before the outbreak of World War II.