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Master Narratives of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria
This book traces the establishment of a master narrative of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria and its evolution to the present day, including the attempt at a Marxist counter-narrative, thereby offering a critical analysis of Bulgarian historiographical views.
Cosmodernism
A study of the emerging cultural model of "cosmodernism"
Disability in Science Fiction
In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.
Naturalized Bioethics
Naturalized Bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practiced. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of idealizations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional environments. The essays in this collection examine the variety of embodied experiences of individual people. They situate the bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and explore a number of the many different kinds of power relations that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.
Ernährung und Identität
Nahrungsmittel und Ernährungsgewohnheiten sind stets mit Bedeutung aufgeladen. Im Essen verkörpert sich mehr als eine bloß überlebensnotwendige Handlung: Stattdessen sagt die Bewertung von Lebensmitteln und die Art, wie wir sie zu uns nehmen, nicht nur viel über die Gesellschaft, sondern auch über den konsumierenden Menschen selbst aus. Wer wir sind oder wer wir gerne sein würden, zu welcher Gruppe wir uns zugehörig sehen und wen wir daraus ausschließen, all das kann an der Nahrungsaufnahme abgelesen werden. Dieser interdisziplinäre Band versammelt Beiträge aus so unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie der Musikwissenschaft, der Soziologie, den Gender Studies und verschiedenen Philologien, um die Zusammenhänge von Ernährung und persönlichen sowie kollektiven Identitätskonzepten zu beleuchten.
Romanian Literature as World Literature
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This “intersectional” revisiting of Romanian literature is organized into three parts. Opening with a fresh look at the literary ideology of Romania's “national poet,” Mihai Eminescu, part I dwells primarily on literary-cultural history as process and discipline. Here, the focus is on cross-cultural mimesis, the role of strategic imitation in the production of a distinct literature in modern Romania, and the shortcomings marking traditional literary historiography's handling of these issues. Part II examines the ethno-linguistic and territorial complexity of Romanian literatures or “Romanian literature in the plural.” Part III takes up the trans-systemic rise of Romanian, Jewish Romanian, and Romanian-European avant-garde and modernism, Socialist Realism, exile and émigré literature, and translation.
Fiction and the Languages of Law
Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize. Through an examination of the U.S. Supreme Court’s written output during a recent landmark term, this book exposes many of the parallels between these two special kinds of language use. Focusing on linguistic and rhetorical patterns in the dozens of reasoned opinions issued by the Court between October 2014 and June 2015, the book takes nonlawyer readers on a lively tour of contemporary American legal reasoning and acquaints legal readers with some surprising features of their own thinking and writing habits. It analyzes cases addressing a huge variety of issues, ranging from the rights of dri...
