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Nehama Aschkenasy

This careful study of biblical tales about women links them to the ancient Near Eastern image of the "woman at the window," often seen as suggesting women's sexual availability and curiosity, and offers a reinterpretation of this classic myth as a socio-theological statement of women's spatial constriction and their removal from the sphere of history.

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1998
ISBN: 0814326269

Anne Berthelot

This is a survey of the Arthurian legend in the Middle Ages, starting with the Welsh and Latin texts and encompassing French, English and German romances of the 12th to 15 centuries. It features the most famous characters around King Arthur, as well as some less well-known figures, and it offers a panorama of an ever-changing body of tales that still inform the Western imaginary world.

Publisher: Editions du Chêne, October 2004
ISBN: 2842774957

Norma Bouchard

Negotiating Italian Identities explores the dynamic negotiations and formalizations of local, national, and supranational identities in post-war Italian culture. It examines processes of identity-formation in relation to many locations and sites of cultural production (i.e., high and low print culture, media and visual culture, patterns of consumption of the everyday life, ritualized forms of behavior and lifestyles, sites of memory and forgetting, and so on) while investigating the often competing claims of national and supranational communities and organization in relation to diasporic, hybrid, regional, gendered, class, and generational identities.

Daniel Caner

This book provides a new basis for understanding the origins and early problems of Christian monasticism by focusing on the role of ascetic or voluntary poverty in the making of monasticism in the late Roman empire (c.250-450 C.E.). It explains the emergence of "orthodox" monastic practices regarding self-sufficiency and physical withdrawal within the context of competition for apostolic privileges in late Roman cities, and as a response to an earlier ascetic model based on providing lay people with spiritual edification in return for material support.

University of California Press 2002
ISBN:0520233247

Roger Célestin, Eliane DalMolin

A cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid–19th century to one of "decline" or "crisis" in the first few years of the third millennium. The first part (1851 to 1944) explores developments ranging from the transformation of Paris and the appearance of the colonial empire, to the construction of modern French society. The second part follows the crisis of French universalism or of the "French exception" from the end of World War II to the contemporary period in which the "French model" has been increasingly difficult to sustain in the face of globalization, the Americanization of culture, decolonization and multiculturalism, among other developments.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Rosa Helena Chinchilla

Autor:    Chinchilla M., Rosa Helena (Autor)
Título:    La Obra literaria de Manuel Mariano de Iturriaga, S.J. en los reinos de la Nueva España y Guatemala / Rosa Helena Chinchilla M. --
Clasificación:    868.99214 C539
Imp / Ed.:    Guatemala : Universidad Rafael Landívar, c2006.
Descripción:    145 : il. ; 21 cm.
Temas:    Iturriaga, Manuel Mariano de, 1728-1810
Literatura mexicana - Siglo XVIII - Colección de escritos
Poesía mexicana - Siglo XVIII - Colección de escritos

Ana María Díaz-Marcos

This book explores representations of fashion and luxury in Spanish literary texts from the 18th century to the 1920s. The first chapter reviews the concept of “fashion,” its meaning and implications, and provides an overview of the most important theories that have attempted to explain why fashion exists and how it is created. The second chapter focuses on the controversy regarding fashion and luxury during the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on national and patriotic implications of that discussion; it also looks at the gendered aspects of this controversy, in which both males and females were subjected to scrutiny and criticism for their fashionable, effeminate and unpatriotic behavior. The third chapter explores ideas and rhetoric about fashion in 19th century novels by Pérez Galdós and in selected writings by Emilia Pardo Bazán and takes into consideration the feminization of fashion in that period. The fourth chapter addresses representations of fashion and glamour in the works of some of the most important writers on women’s education and examines ideas about finery in two Spanish women writers: Concepción Arenal and Rosario Acuña. The chapter concludes with a close analysis of the work of Carmen de Burgos (1920), a writer, feminist and journalist who celebrated fashion both as art and feminine expression. One of the principal conclusions of this book is that the 19th century marked a change from a culture of luxury to a culture of fashion in a capitalist world where being fashionable no longer meant being able to purchase the most expensive fabrics and embroideries. La edad de seda also proves that philosophers, writers and intellectuals, who for centuries thought they were addressing only the “frivolous” topic of fashion, were in fact dealing with further issues such as the body, sexuality, politics, class, economics, adultery and the morality of their times.

Universidad de Cádiz, 2006
ISBN 8498280702

Anke Finger (author) Anke Finger liefert eine kritische Betrachtung von Gesamtkunstwerk-Projekten innerhalb der ästhetischen Moderne sowie eine Analyse, um die ästhetische Moderne selbst als Gesamtkunstwerk-Projekt zu verstehen. Die Struktur des Bandes folgt der Chronologie von den Ursprüngen in der Romantik bis hin zu heutigen Multimediaexperimenten. Anhand von Einzelbeispielen aus Literatur und Film wird argumentiert, dass das Gesamtkunstwerk-Projekt ebenso wie das der ästhetischen Moderne international war und ist, Netzwerkcharakter hat und häufig sozialpolitische Elemente enthält. Das Gesamtkunstwerk ist stets ein Projekt geblieben, so dass es so, wie es in zahlreichen Dokumenten gefordert oder beschrieben wurde, überhaupt nicht existiert.

Anke Finger (co-editor) In The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork, artists, curators, and scholars from many countries and fields offer new ways of understanding the history and contemporary importance of the idea of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk. The term "Gesamtkunstwerk" was introduced in the romantic period. It describes the desire for and practice of combining various art forms into a whole, such as performances that combine text, visual arts, music, dance, and architecture. Richard Wagner was one of the early theorists of the concept, inspiring many modernist artists; yet, due to his ideological significance for the Third Reich, the concept has frequently been associated with totalitarianism since the Second World War. Nonetheless, artistic practice has continued to incorporate all-inclusive tendencies, even while avoiding the term "total artwork." The contributors to this volume challenge us to think again about the total artwork, daring to suggest that it is alive and well, that it informs current art in ways that are deep, meaningful, contentious, and provocative. The essays come from authors steeped in literary culture, the world of art, philosophy, and music theory. Such diverse perspectives can only stimulate debate in the academy and beyond about the history of the Gesamtkunstwerk and open up paths that may be followed in its future.

Anke Finger (co-author and editor) The first introduction to a key thinker in twentieth-century media philosophy and cultural theory A thorough introduction to Vilém Flusser’s thought, this book reveals his engagement with a wide array of disciplines, from posthuman philosophy, media studies, and history to migrant studies, art, and anthropology. This volume shows how Flusser’s media theory works are just one part of a greater mosaic of writings that bring to the fore cultural and cognitive changes in the twenty-first century. "Flusser is one of our lost gems—the other McLuhan, and dare I say the better. A global citizen writing alternately in German, Portuguese, English, or French, Flusser meditated on words and gestures, translation and doubt, cities and images. He was a master of the essay form. I believe he had the ear of both gods and men. In this important book on Flusser we are introduced for the first time in English to perhaps our greatest media philosopher." — Alexander R. Galloway, New York University

Anke Finger (co-author)

Anke Finger (editor) First English translation of 20th century German philosopher Vilém Flusser’s 1994 book, Von der Freiheit des Migranten. Vilém Flusser was one of the most fascinating and original European thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century. In this volume, a collection of his essays on emigration, nationalism, and information theory, he raises questions about the viability of ideas of national identity in a world whose borders are becoming increasingly arbitrary and permeable. Flusser argues that modern societies are in flux, with traditional linear and literary epistemologies being challenged by global circulatory networks and a growth in visual stimulation. He posits that these changes will radically alter the ways cultures define themselves and deal with each other. Not just theories of globalization, however, Flusser’s ideas about communication and identity have their roots in the Judeo-Christian concept of self-determination and self-realization through the recognition of the other. Vilém Flusser (1920-91) was a German-Jewish philosopher from Prague who fled to Brazil in 1940. In 1963 he was appointed professor of philosophy of communication at São Paulo University; while there he also wrote a daily newspaper column. In 1972, he moved to France, and wrote books in both German and Portuguese, including The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design, Toward a Philosophy of Photography, and From Subject to Project: Becoming Human.

Rae Beth Gordon

Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, café-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" The extraordinary emphasis on nervous pathology in the Parisian café-concert, where the genres of the Epileptic Singer and the Idiot Comic took center stage, and where popular comic monologues and songs included "Man with a Tic" and "I'm Neurasthenic," points to a fascinating intersection between medicine and popular culture. The movements and gestures of these performers were carried over into early cinema, not only in the slapstick comedies of Pathé that inspired the Keystone Kops in the U.S., but in the more sophisticated, vertiginous style of Georges Méliès and Emile Cohl, the French inventor of animated film.The French tradition of comic performance style between 1870 and 1910 nearly exactly duplicates the movements, gestures, tics, grimaces, and speech anomalies found in nineteenth-century hysteria; the characteristics of hysteria became a new aesthetics.

ISBN-10: 0804738939
ISBN-13: 9780804738934
ISBN-10: 0804738947
ISBN-13: 9780804738941

Sara R. Johnson

This book investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. It argues that the authors of the so-called Jewish novels use historical fictions to construct a particular model of Hellenistic Jewish identity through the reinvention of the past. The second half of the book is devoted to a close study of Third Maccabees.

University of California Press, 2004
ISBN 0520233077

Jacqueline Loss, Esther Whitfield

With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the economic upheavals in their society, Cubans face an important, perhaps epochal, moment of cultural change. It is a moment amply and complexly reflected in the fiction collected here, twelve short stories written in Cuba during the past ten years and published in English for the first time with the collaboration of some of today's finest translators.

Nortwestern UP, 2007
ISBN-10: 0810124068
ISBN-13: 978-0810124066

Stuart S. Miller

Stuart S. Miller maintains that recent portrayals of the rabbis of Talmudic Palestine as a small, insular, and uninfluential group fails to explain how they nevertheless evolved into an effective movement. Miller reframes the discussion by focusing on the structure of rabbinic circles and dynamics that enabled the sages to propagate their way of life within the larger milieu of "complex" common Judaism.

Mohr Siebeck, 2006
ISBN: 316148567X
ISBN-13: 9783161485671

Stuart S. Miller

Laurietz Seda

Esta antología es un muestrario de algunas obras de dramaturgos pertenecientes a la segunda etapa de la Nueva Dramaturgia Puertorriqueña. Aquí desfilan los distintos temas, estilos y técnicas que le dan una voz única a los dramaturgos de esta generación que se vio en la necesidad de definirse y autodenominarse como la Nueva Dramaturgia Puertorriqueña. Los dramaturgos seleccionados tienen en común varias características. Todos nacieron en la década del 50, obtienen su madurez dramatúrgica en los años 80 y 90, y en el presente siguen escribiendo y produciendo teatro. Han publicado y estrenado un número considerable de textos dentro y fuera de la Isla, y han sido reconocidos con premios nacionales (e internacionales, algunos de ellos). Son gente de teatro en todas sus funciones porque todos ellos además de ser dramaturgos también han sido directores y en muchos casos actores. Son intelectuales en los que existe una gran preocupación por el oficio de hacer teatro y un enorme deseo de explorar la condición humana. Los autores y textos que se incluyen son Besos de fuego de Roberto Ramos-Perea, Rejum-reja-mujer-rejum de Teresa Marichal, Tabla de náufragos de Jose Luis Ramos Escobar y Luz Celeste de Carlos Canales. Besos de fuego es una obra rica en connotaciones sociales, políticas y culturales que critica el canon teatral, la moralidad vana, la hipocresía social, la academia y los intelectuales que canonizan y se empeñan siempre en estudiar a los mismos autores una y otra vez. El manejo de lo erótico, del lenguaje afrocaribeño, de la temática, del espacio y del tiempo demuestran la madurez autoral de Ramos-Perea, uno de los dramaturgos más importantes que ha cultivado el suelo puertorriqueño en los últimos años. Rejum-reja-mujer-rejum es un monólogo vibrante y desgarrador que presenta el tema del incesto desde la voz interna de la mujer abusada. En Tabla de náufragos encontramos un grupo de hombres fracasados que le buscan sentido a la vida. Y Luz Celeste explora el mundo creativo de un dramaturgo a quien el acto de creación le lleva a adentrase a mundos desconocidos que le llevan a descubrir los placeres, las pasiones y las crueldades a que se enfrenta el ser humano.

Publisher: Editorial Lea, Ateneo Puertorriqueño
1 st edition 2003, 2nd edition 2007
ISBN: 1-881703-52-5

Roger Travis

playthepast.org, a collaboratively edited research blog about Cultural Heritage and games.

Katharina von Hammerstein

This first-time English edition introduces the reader to a little known facet of vibrant Vienna around 1900: A white Austrian man's friendship with a group of Ashanti from the Gold Coast of Africa (the former British colony known today as Ghana) who in 1896 were put on display as living objects in a popular ethnographic exhibit. In light of today's postcolonial approaches to colonial discourses and in the context of current challenges of cultural coexistence in the global society, this book merits new popularity as a representation of encounters between people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Ariadne Press, 2007
ISBN 978-1-57241-155-5 and 1-57241-155-4

Katharina von Hammerstein

»Der vorliegende Tagungsband erzeugt in der Breite seiner Zugriffe auf Sophie Mereau und ihr Werk ein spannendes Gesamtbild biographischer und literarischer Aspekte, welches für die kontextualisierende Betrachtung des breiten Themenfeldes der Literatur von Frauen von entscheidender Bedeutung sein dürfte.«
Dörte Richter, in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik XIX – 3/2009

Dieser interdisziplinär konzipierte Sammelband mit Beiträgen aus der Germanistik, Geschichte, Musikgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte und Geschlechterforschung (aus Deutschland, England, Australien und den USA) perspektiviert Sophie Mereau und ihr Werk neu als Handlungsträger im diskursiven Raum der Literatur um 1800, im Beziehungsgeflecht der in Jena und Weimar konzentrierten Intelligenz und in der Erweiterung weiblicher Handlungs(spiel)räume in Realität und Fiktion.

Der Band umfaßt 18 intertextuell ausgerichtete Einzeluntersuchungen zu den Bereichen Ästhetik und literarische Vernetzung, soziale und berufliche Verflechtung, Poetisierungen von Freiheit, Sexualität, Glück, Erinnerung und Phantasie in unerforschten Werken, Genrefragen in Tagebuch und Briefen sowie Verbindungslinien zu altdeutschen Vorlagen, Kunst und Liedkultur. Aufgrund des fächerübergreifenden Ansatzes setzt der Band vollkommen neue Impulse für die internationale Mereau-Forschung.

Katharina von Hammerstein, Corkhill (eds.)

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Friedemann Weidauer

The Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion about German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his career, exploring aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context.

Friedemann Weidauer

The Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion about German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his career, exploring aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context.

Friedemann Weidauer

The Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion about German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his career, exploring aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context.

Julia Genz, Mirjam Schneider, Sebastian Wogenstein

Times of increasing traditionalism, fundamentalism, and nationalism undoubtedly give rise to one fundamental concept: the border. Borders, both physically and metaphorically, are established to provide orientation, eliminate ambiguity, and control mobility. They conceal complexities, multiple and layered identities, generate polarizing distinctions, and in many cases engender hostility. However, it would be simplistic and narrow to think of borders only in terms of dangerous demarcations. Identifying limits, differentiating and understanding differences are elemental functions in any process of knowledge and construction of identity. "An Grenzen" is a collection of previously unpublished essays and literary texts by internationally renowned writers, exploring various forms of reaching or transgressing limits, crossing borders, focusing on social, political, historical, or semantic distinctions. All contributors participated in the Tübingen Poetics Lectures, coordinated by Jürgen Wertheimer: Amos Oz, Herta Müller, Christoph Ransmayr, Izzat Ghazzawi, Peter Turrini, Dubravka Ugreši?, André Heller, Alissa Walser, Aras Ören, Claudio Magris, Yoko Tawada, Tankred Dorst, and Anna Maria Carpi.

Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2007
ISBN: 9783865250650

Sebastian Wogenstein

In der Reflexion der Moderne spielen häufig Denkfiguren eine wichtige Rolle, die zeitlich und strukturell vor der Moderne verankert sind. Horizonte der Moderne geht mit Tragödie und Judentum zwei Themenkomplexen nach, deren Ursprünge in der Antike liegen und die im Denken von Hermann Cohen und nachfolgend bei Franz Rosenzweig, Ernst Cassirer, Joseph B. Soloveitchik und Emmanuel Lévinas auf unterschiedliche Weise aufgefaßt und zueinander in Beziehung gesetzt werden. Im Spannungsfeld von Ästhetik und Ethik erscheint die Trag&oumaute;die als Ort der Selbstverständigung des Subjekts, während im Zentrum des Blicks auf das Judentum die Verantwortung für den Anderen und der Bezug zur Gemeinschaft stehen. Damit werden die beiden Pole europäischer Kulturkonzeptionen, ästhetische Individualisierung einerseits und politische Ethik andererseits, im Horizont ihrer dyadischen Herkunft betrachtet. Der Band gibt Einblick in einen Diskurs, der angesichts der Krise der Moderne nach deren ideengeschichtlichen Quellen fragt.

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