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Written in the Flesh
Presents a history of sexual desire - a provocative chronicle of the changing nature of what people yearn to do sexually. This work demonstrates that desire is hardwired into the brain, expressing itself in remarkably similar ways in men and women, adolescent and adult, and in gays, lesbians, and straights alike.
Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient
This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings.
Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire
Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period. A supplementary Volume 5 of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook will be published in June 2019.
Rätselbücher
Die erste gedruckte deutsche Rätselsammlung, das sog. »Straßburger Rätselbuch«, gehört mit 39 erhaltenen Ausgaben und einer 280 Jahre währenden Druckgeschichte (um 1510–1789) zu den besonders erfolgreichen volkssprachlichen weltlichen Büchern der Frühen Neuzeit. Die in der Sammlung enthaltenen Rätsel und Scherzfragen, die verschiedenen Titelholzschnitte sowie die sonstige Mitüberlieferung geben Auskunft über die vor allem in Bürgertum und Adel zu suchende Zielgruppe des Buches. Bereits 1535 veranlasst dessen Beliebtheit den Prediger Johann Behem, als Gegenpublikation ein »Christliches Ratbüchlein für die Kinder« zu konzipieren, welches eine eigene erfolgreiche Tradition de...
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