Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER ROMISCHEN WELT (ANRW) ist ein internationales Gemeinschaftswerk historischer Wissenschaften. Seine Aufgabe besteht darin, alle wichtigen Aspekte der antiken romischen Welt sowie ihres Fortwirkens und Nachlebens in Mittelalter und Neuzeit nach dem gegenwartigen Stand der Forschung in Einzelbeitragen zu behandeln. Das Werk ist in 3 Teile gegliedert:
I. Von den Anfangen Roms bis zum Ausgang der Republik
II. Principat
III. Spatantike
Jeder der drei Teile umfat sechs systematische Rubriken, zwischen denen es vielfache Uberschneidungen gibt: 1. Politische...

With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates...

This volume examines the connection between catastrophe and memory, using examples from German-language, French, Italian, English, North American, Spanish-language and Hungarian literature. The essays seek to explore the theoretical roots of this interrelationship and to illustrate it through exemplary case presentations.

Das Thema Laster im Mittelalter zeichnet sich durch seine Kontinuitat uber das gesamte Mittelalter aus und hat seine Wurzeln in der Spatantike und seine Nachwirkungen in der Neuzeit. Es beruhrt fast alle Bereiche mittelalterlicher Kultur und hat eine unerschopfliche Literatur hervorgebracht. Der Sammelband beruht auf den Ergebnissen des Freiburger Kolloquiums 2006, das sich erstmals mit der langen Tradition der sieben Todsunden und den mittelalterlichen Lasterkatalogen befasste, und vereint die Beitrage namhafter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher...

The volume presents 25 papers on the cultural analysis of narration and narratives. The selection concentrates both on comparative historical narratology and on contemporary narratology as an analysis of consciousness. The authors come from a number of European countries and from North America, and the papers, in German and English, provide exemplary studies from the broad field of research into narrative analysis as a cultural study. The papers all focus on the "homo narrans," the human narrator, whose repertoire is influenced more and more by modern media.

The eight contributions to this collection, written by members of the 'Narratology  research group in Hamburg and by external experts, contain the basic categories of Russian and Czech narratology. These became significant for the development of international narratology or for the further development potential of the theory. The studied concepts include 'fable' and 'subject', 'subject development', 'event' and 'fictional worlds'. The comparative studies explore and discuss Russian composition theory, the author theories of Slavic functionalism, formalistic film and theater concepts...

Is the figure of the intellectual still relevant in and for society in the late 20th and the beginning of the 21st century? The essays of this book from various disciplines explore this question based on the use of the term violence from a perspective of English Studies, German Studies, history and sociology. The focus is on the period between 1968 and the present. Geographically, the essays focus on conflicts in Europe, Latin America as well as South and Central Africa.