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The Farm Novel in North America
Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine. From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, some of the most famous works of American, English Canadian, and French Canadian literature belongto the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of the genre in North America from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to its apogee in French Canada around the middleof the twentieth. Through surveys and selected detailed analyses of a...
Augustine and Manichaean Christianity
Based on several newly discovered texts, Augustine and Manichaean Christianity provides groundbreaking discussions of the relationship between the most influential church father of the West and the religion of his formative years. Augustine’s connection with Manichaean Christians was not only intense, but also enduring. This book unearths the essential background of writings such as Augustine’s Confessiones, De ordine and De vera religione, and discloses many a hidden Manichaean source of his powerful concepts of memory and the vision of God. Contributions by, among others, Iain Gardner, Therese Fuhrer, Jason BeDuhn, Majella Franzmann, Josef Lössl, Annemaré Kotzé and Nils Arne Pedersen.
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.
Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies
Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory gathers an international team of contributors from two continents whose innovative scholarship demonstrates a regard for comics and graphic novels as works of art in their own right. The contributions serve as models for further research that will continue to define the relationship between comics and other traditional “high art” forms, such as literature and the visual arts. Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies is the first English-language anthology that focuses exclusively on the graphic texts of German-speaking countries. In its breadth, this book functions as an important resource in a li...
Symbolism 14
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas...
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Translatio
Ce volume est le fruit du colloque international "Translatio : Transmédialité et Transculturalité" qui a eu lieu au Centre de recherches ibéro-américaines et francophones de l'Université de Leipzig du 29 juin au 3 juillet 2011, avec l'objectif de promouvoir le dialogue transdisciplinaire et transculturel concernant le domaine de recherches sur la traduction culturelle, la translatio et les stratégies médiales, et de soumettre des théories et des champs de recherche actuels à un examen scientifique critique.
Comiczeichnen. Figurationen einer ästhetischen Praxis
Comiczeichnen ist eine kreative Praxis, in der hochspezialisierte körperlich-zeichnerische und intellektuell-kreative Fähigkeiten und Techniken zusammenspielen. Die Comicgeschichte hat immer wieder einzigartige Zeugnisse dieser Kulturtechnik hinterlassen: Skizzen, Studien, Skripte, getuschte Originalseiten und natürlich digitale Daten. Wie aber sind diese Spuren der ästhetischen Produktion zu lesen? Und wie können kreative Praxisprozesse überhaupt beschrieben werden? Damit beschäftigt sich die Comicentwurfsforschung, deren Aufgaben und Herausforderungen im vorliegenden Band erstmals skizziert werden. Darüber hinaus untersucht das Buch verschiedene Figurationen des Comiczeichnens, an ...
Symbolism 2020
This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been variously rendered in symbolic terms? How do symbols and symbolic reference shape our ideas of the future? To what extent are symbols constitutive of futures, and to what extent do they restrain communication about what is possible and the imagination of fundamental change? Moreover, how have symbolic practices shaped not only artistic representations of the future, but also scientific attempts at forecasting and modelling it? What, then, is the relevance of symbolism for negotiations of the future in cultural and academic production? In essays ranging from literary and film studies to the philosophy of art and ecological modelling, the volume seeks to lay groundwork in theorizing and historicising ‘symbols of the future’ as much as ‘the future of symbolism’.
