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Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism
This new collection updates, integrates, and contextualizes Richard Sheppard's essays on the historical avant-garde. Sheppard examines responses of modernist writers, artists, and philosophers to a changed sense of reality and human nature. With its combination of previously published and new essays and its perspective on the theoretical avant-garde-modernism debate in the U.S., the volume provides the specialist and the general reader insight into European scholarly discourse on this hotly debated subject.
Temptation Transformed
A "brisk and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation that stood for centuries. How did the apple, unmentioned by the Bible, become the dominant symbol of temptation, sin, and the Fall? Temptation Transformed pursues this mystery across art and religious history, uncovering where, when, and why the forbidden fruit became an apple. Azzan Yadin-Israel reveals that Eden’s fruit, once thought to be a fig or a grape, first appears as an apple in twelfth-century French art. He then traces this image back to its source in medieval storytelling. Though scholars often blame theologians for the apple, accounts of the Fall written in commonly spoken languages—French, German, and English—influenced a broader audience than cloistered Latin commentators. Azzan Yadin-Israel shows that, over time, the words for “fruit” in these languages narrowed until an apple in the Garden became self-evident. A wide-ranging study of early Christian thought, Renaissance art, and medieval languages, Temptation Transformed offers an eye-opening revisionist history of a central religious icon.
Olfaktorik und Entgrenzung
Welche Rolle spielte Olfaktorik (Geruchssinn und Geruch) in der mittelalterlichen (Frauen-)Mystik? Am Beispiel der Niederschrift der Visionen von Agnes Blannbekin durch ihren Beichtvater sucht diese Studie nach einer Antwort. Eine Handschriften- und Kontextanalyse stellt erstmals alle bekannten Textzeugen und Editionen der Visionen zusammen, wobei sichtbar wird, wie fragil das Wissen über die Person der als Wiener Begine bekannten Agnes Blannbekin ist. Die anschließende Untersuchung der Visionen verdeutlicht, dass dem Olfaktorischen im Vergleich zu anderen Sinnen eine herausgehobene Stellung zukommt. Die Verwendung von Olfaktorik ermöglicht eine narrative Entgrenzung in mehreren Bereichen...
