An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the north American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom’s colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from its present place in a display cabinet in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm? This book is ab…
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
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 liter…
Der Band präsentiert zwei von dem Wiener Zionisten Wolfgang von Weisl verfasste historisch-fiktionale Werke: das Schauspiel Erlöser und den Roman Der Anfang der Wandlung Israels, deren Zentralfiguren, Simon Bar Kochba und der aus Russland nach Palästina eingewanderte Joseph Trumpeldor, als glorifizierte Nationalhelden und Märtyrer bis heute im kollektiven Gedächtnis Israels gegenwärtig si…
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time cir…
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…
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the 18th century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s fut…