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Pompeii in the Public Imagination from Its Rediscovery to Today
A collection of essays exploring the different ways in which the ruined city of Pompeii has been a major source of inspiration to Western imaginations. Creative and popular, as well as scholarly approaches are covered, including an interview with the novelist Robert Harris, and the volume is fully illustrated, with several images in full colour.
Cultural Perspectives on Aging
Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of ‘age’ and ‘ageing’ have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any e...
Modernist Mysteries: Persephone
Here, Levitz demonstrates how a group of collaboratoring artists - Igor Stravinsky, Ida Rubenstein, Jacques Copeau, André Gide and others - used the myth of Perséphone to perform and articulate their most deeply held beliefs about four topics significant to modernism: religion, sexuality, death, and historical memory in art.
Songs on the Death of Children
German poet Friedrich Ruckert's (1788-1866) youngest children died of scarlet fever, the pandemic of his age. Over a six month period in 1834, he wrote hundreds of laments that were published posthumously in the classic poetry collection Kindertotenlieder. Here in English for the first time, these evocative modern translations by a fellow bereaved father reveal "an honest grappling with grief" (The Christian Century). Each poem is accompanied by insights into the bereaved, along with personal anecdotes, historical and cultural information, the latest research on grief, and discussions of literary and biblical allusions.
Narrative Factuality
The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well as in its narratological, stylistic, philosophical, and rhetorical dimensions. At a time when the notion of truth has come under attack, it is imperative to reaffirm the commitment to facts of certain types of narrative, and to examine critically the foundations of this commitment. But because it takes a background for a figure to emerge clearly, this book will also explore nonfactual types of narratives, thereby providing insights into the nature of narrative fiction that could not be reached from the narrowly literary perspective of early narratology.
Alter und Selbstbeschränkung
Die gegenwärtige Diskussion zum Thema „Alter“ wird von zwei sich widersprechenden Perspektiven geprägt: Einerseits wird die Lebensphase des Alterns aufgrund körperlicher Beschwerden und geistigem Abbau als defizitär wahrgenommen. Andererseits wird das aktive Altern und die potentielle Innovationskraft alternder Menschen betont. Dieser Widerspruch lässt sich lösen, indem man ein differenzierteres Bildes von Alter und Älterwerden mit dem Gedanken der „Selbstbeschränkung“ verbindet, der Ideen wie Verzicht, Askese, Selbstbescheidung und Genügsamkeit, aber auch Selbstkultivierung und Selbsterziehung zusammenfasst. Die Autoren dieses Bandes setzen sich mit dem Zusammenspiel von „Alter und Selbstbeschränkung“ auseinander und verknüpfen dabei eine historisch-anthropologische mit einer gegenwartsorientierten Perspektive.
Alterstopoi
Menschliches Altern unterliegt immer der kulturellen Interpretation. Der kontinuierliche biologische Prozess von Reifung und Abbau der physischen und psychischen Kraft wird so in der Vorstellung der Lebensalter erst erkennbar und bedeutsam. Topoi wie beispielsweise diejenigen vom einfältigen Kind oder dem grauhaarigen Weisen erschließen dabei als habituelle Verstehens- und Denkmuster das soziale und kulturelle Wissen von den Lebensstufen in Tradition und Wandel. Die Alterstopoi offenbaren in ihrer Wiederholbarkeit bei historisch je unterschiedlicher Diskursivierung ein Argumentationspotenzial, das konventionelle Alterszuschreibungen weiterdenkt und umkodiert. Dies wird am Beispiel von Text...
Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe
In the `Decade of Healthy Ageing’ (UN/WHO), this collection of essays contains interdisciplinary contributions by authors from African and European cultures who address questions about the situation of old people in the past and present, comparing the situation of men and women and focussing on their protection and care within society. While at first glance it appears that the phenomena in the `young’ African countries are completely different from those in European countries, there is a certain convergence between the continents. The challenges of migration, globalisation and the climate crisis are triggering social transformation processes that are weakening older traditions. The focus is on the dissolution of the extended family and the associated loss of the stabilising function within the framework of the so-called intergenerational contract. This development triggers crises. However, new models for organising old age are also developing. Old people are finding new ways to organise their lives.
Francesco Petrarca in Deutschland
Der Band versammelt 36 Beiträge eines internationalen transdisziplinären Kolloquiums, das anlässlich des 700. Geburtstags von Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) im Jahre 2004 an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg/Breisgau stattfand. Erstmals wird umfassend die immense Wirkung bestimmt, die Petrarca und sein Werk auf die Literatur, Kunst und Musik in Deutschland vom neulateinischen Humanismus bis zur Gegenwartslyrik ausübten.
