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Encyclopedia of the Essay
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy
This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In reimagining the nexus points where the embodied self and world intersect, the texts surveyed in this book not only shed light on issues such as authority, desire, fetishism, gender, patriarchy, politics, religion, sexuality, subjectivity, violence, and war during a period of unprecedented change, but also explore the c...
Beyond Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism influences virtually all established historical writing. With the rise of Prussia and, by extension, Europe, eurocentrism became the dominant paradigm for world history. Employing the approaches of Gramsci and Foucault, Peter Gran proposes a reconceptualization of world history. He challenges the traditional convention of relying on totalitarian or democratic functions of a particular state to explain and understand relationships of authority and resistance in a number of national contexts. Gran maintains that there is no single developmental model but diverse forms of hegemony that emerged out of the political crisis following the penetration of capitalism into each nation. In making comparisons between seemingly disparate and distinctive nations and by questioning established canons of comparative inquiry, Gran encourages people to recognize the similarities between the West and non-West nations.
The Poem of Fernán González
Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on hist...
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD)
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is a condition that causes significant economic losses in cattle farms. This book on BRD is divided into five chapters, in which important aspects such as epidemiology, predisposing factors, main pathogens involved, diagnosis, prophylaxis and treatment are addressed. A comprenhensive review to have at hand for all the bovine veterinary surgeons.
Leopardis Dichten und Denken der Natur
Die Natur fordert den Menschen seit jeher heraus. Doch seit der Romantik gewinnt die Beschäftigung mit der Natur an Bedeutung, und heute ist sie von immenser Aktualität. Vom Lateinischen nasci abgeleitet, bezeichnet natura >, also das nicht vom Menschen Geschaffene. Es umfasst die belebte und unbelebte Natur in gleicher Weise wie Naturerscheinungen, die sich dem Einfluss des Menschen entziehen. Die Natur weist dabei nicht nur einen Bezug zum Leben auf; vielmehr erscheint Natur uberhaupt als Voraussetzung oder Grund fur jede Form von Existenz. Zudem meint die Natur das Wesen, d.h. die Beschaffenheit der Dinge ebenso wie das Wesen des Menschen. All diese Momente des Natur-Begriffs reflektiert Leopardis Werk. Denn den Ausgangspunkt seines Denkens bildet die schonungslose Ergrundung des Wesens der Dinge und der Existenz des Menschen im Wissen um Kontingenz und Grundlosigkeit. Dieser Gestus, der Natur des Zufalls wie auch der Zufälligkeit der Natur entgegenzutreten, bedingt die Originalität und Aktualität seines Werkes, denen dieser Band nachgeht.
