Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

This is more than a literary critique -- it is a work of perception, of analysis that reveals a portrait of Kundera the novelist as one of the greatest demystifiers of our time. This significant work deals with all of Milan Kundera's novels up to his most recent work, Slowness, which marks the beginning of a new phase of his writing. It is the first work that studies Kundera as a novelist, rather than a philosopher or intellectual guide, and the only one that diverges from the beaten path in examining and in reflecting on the composition and style of these novels, to discern the...

The present work is a study in the history of an enduring idea that defines the inner life of the mind and also supplied a substratum for the twentieth-century literary imagination and substance for philosophical thinking, producing a unique alliance between philosophy and literature. This special union was forged by a new holistic conception of time which supplemented, and even supplanted, the conventional sense of chronological time. This temporal turn animated the existential insights of Husserl, Heidegger, and Bergson, but it was grounded in nineteenth-century advances in the...

Oft ist vom 'Artusmythos' die Rede, wobei 'Mythos' alltagssprachlich letztlich alles Altertumliche, Bedeutungs- oder Geheimnisvolle bezeichnen kann. Dem steht eine aktuelle geisteswissenschaftliche Diskussion uber den Begriff des 'Mythos' gegenuber. Die Germanistik ubernimmt hierbei meist eine Vorreiterrolle. Der vorliegende Band offnet die Diskussion programmatisch fur den interdisziplinaren Dialog mit den anderen Philologien. Fokussiert auf das Feld der Artusliteratur, fragt der Band danach, welches Verstandnis von 'Mythos' welchen Phanomenen im arthurischen Roman angemessen ist....

This volume contains the records of the international Freiburg Colloquium of the same name which was held by the Medieval Institute of the University of Freiburg from October 19 to 21, 2009. The academic reconstruction of the conception and perception of space in the culture of the Latin Middle Ages requires a differentiated treatment and corresponding competencies - something which can be realized only through an interdisciplinary approach. Each contributor to this volume examines the given theme from the perspective of his or her own specialist field.

In recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology. Scientific intervention into human life through organ transplants, euthanasia, genetic engineering, experiments connected to the genetic code and the genome, and varied other biotechnologies have placed ethical beliefs into question and created ethical dilemmas. These scientific inventions influence our views on birth and death, on the construction of the body and its technical reproducibility, and have problematized the concept of the human...

Das alttestamentliche Jona-Buch hat seit dem antiken Christentum vielfaltig das Interesse auf sich gezogen und zur Produktion von zahlreichen Kommentaren, Predigten, Dichtungen und bildlichen Darstellungen angeregt. Bis hinein in die Gegenwartsliteratur hat die Jona-Erzahlung heterogene Adaptationen provoziert. Ein wichtiger Grund fur solch enorme Wirkung liegt in dem Umstand, dass das Jona-Buch als einziges rein narratives Prophetenbuch des alttestamentlichen Kanon aufgrund seiner luziden Knappheit sowie seines ausgepragten erzahlerischen Spannungsbogens zu immer neuer Interpretation und...