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Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture
Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both...
Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies
Strange as it may seem, Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote, Marc Forster’s film Stranger than Fiction, Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pere Borrell del Caso’s painting “Escaping Criticism” reproduced on the cover of the present volume and Mozart’s sextet “A Musical Joke” all share one common feature: they include a meta-dimension. Metaization – the movement from a first cognitive, referential or communicative level to a higher one on which first-level phenomena self-reflexively become objects of reflection, reference and communication in their own right – is in fact a common feature not only of human thought and language but also of the arts and media in gene...
The Literature of the Arminian Controversy
The Literature of The Arminian Controversy: Religion, Politics and the Stage focuses on the turbulent dawn of Dutch Golden Age literature, when the debate over the theology of Arminius divided the Republics literary world, acting as a catalyst for literary and cultural change and innovation. The book traces the impact of disputed ideas on grace and predestination in satirical literature, poetry and plays, and analyses the theological and political works of the period as literature, focussing on the rhetoric, tropes and metaphors of politico-religious controversy. Taking into account a wide array of sources, ranging from theological treatises to broadsides and libel poetry, it offers a deeper contextualisation of some of the most canonical works of the period, such as the writings of Grotius, Coornhert, and Joost van den Vondel, the Republics greatest tragic poet, and reconsiders the relationship between literature and intellectual history.
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Kritikon Litterarum
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300 Jahre "Robinson Crusoe"
The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His novel was a huge success right away and was soon followed by bootlegs and translations. With the robinsonade, an independent genre of adventure literature was born. These contributions examine the novel within the context of bookselling history, provide new interpretations, and shed light on its multifaceted adaptation history up into the twenty-first century.
Theater im Aufbruch
In der Schwellenepoche der frühen Neuzeit bildet das Drama die dominante Gattung. Aufgrund seiner schnellen Produktionsweise und seiner Stellung zwischen Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit, zwischen städtischer ‘Unterhaltungsindustrie’ und höfischer Repräsentation, ist das Drama von allen Textsorten am ehesten in der Lage, die sozialen, religiösen und politischen Spannungen des Zeitalters zu verhandeln. Dieser Sammelband bietet einen Überblick über Spielarten des englischen, französischen, spanischen und deutschen Dramas in der Frühen Neuzeit, vom geistlichen Spiel des Mittelalters bis zur Auseinandersetzung mit den Klassikern der europäischen Renaissance in der Romantik.
Stellvertretung
Was heißt es, für andere zu sprechen? Was, wenn für einen gesprochen wird? Gegenwärtige Krisen geben der Frage nach dem Sprechen und Handeln für andere eine neue Dringlichkeit. Wie tritt man für diejenigen ein, deren Stimme nicht gehört wird? Für Staatenlose, künftige Generationen, nichtmenschliche Akteure, Umwelten? Die Frage nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Repräsentation stellt sich vor diesem Hintergrund neu und kann durch die hier einspringende Technik der Stellvertretung anders gewendet werden. Dabei erweist sich diese Technik nicht als bloße Ausnahme für vermeintliche Grenzfälle. Vielmehr wohnt der Stellvertretung, wie dieses Buch zeigt, einem jeden Sprechen und Ha...
Meyer, Paul Georg
Since 1969 (Vol.1 1968) the German Association of University Teachers of English has published the series of English and American Studies in German founded by Professor Werner Habicht. In these, scholars from the German-speaking world present in English their research in English and American Studies. The summaries report on university publications (doctoral and professorial theses), stand-alone book publications and collected volumes advancing the discipline (Festschriften, yearbooks, conference proceedings).
