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• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Theodor Storm
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Agatha Christie
• Conclusion.

"This book is a collection of insightful essays which discuss heroic endeavors to save endangered heirs and estates by searching devotedly for the truth in various criminal and civil situations. This book focuses especially on important works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Agatha Christie, while also discussing works by other important European authors. In each of these literary masterpieces the landowner or heir is emotionally and physically endangered and his or her house and estate imperiled by one or more individuals from within his or her own family or from within the sphere of influence of the family. In these works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Agatha Christie there is a valiant attempt by such individuals as Sherlock Holmes, Mary Lennox, the narrator of Aquis submersus, Hercule Poirot, and others to save the landowners and heirs who are endangered and the estates which are threatened by thoroughly investigating their situations and by searching meticulously for the truth. These protagonists share and exemplify the "passion for getting at the truth" (220) which Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts declares is the primary motivating force and inspiration for his criminal investigations"-- Provided by publisher.

Die Funktionen des Eigennamens sind im literarischen Text grundsätzlich anders gewichtet als im alltagssprachlichen Diskurs: Die literarische Figur oder der literarische Raum werden durch die Namensnennung erst konstituiert. Dabei werden all die im Namen enthaltenen Konnotationen und Assoziationen, Ambiguitäten und Ambivalenzen aktualisiert, die in der alltagssprachlichen Rede möglichst unterdrückt werden. Ausgehend von diesen literatur- und sprachtheoretischen Voraussetzungen wird der literarische Name aus pragmalinguistischer, kognitivistischer, tiefenpsychologischer sowie translationswissenschaftlicher Sicht fokussiert, wobei nicht nur Personennamen, sondern auch Orts- und Strassennamen Beachtung finden. Theoretische, grundsätzliche Kapitel wechseln sich mit konkreten Analysen ab. Hierbei überwiegt zwar die deutschsprachige Literatur, doch werden auch Beispiele aus der angloamerikanischen, französischen, niederländischen, spanischen und italienischen Literatur einbezogen

• Les objets du corps héroïque
• "Ses gants et son livret pour faire testament"
• Le récit de la mort de Jane Grey dans l'Histoire des Martyrs de Jean Crespin et les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné
• Les joyaux de la reine
• Le bouclier de Satan dans Paradise Lost (1674), objet d'incertitude
• Héroïne ou martyre ?
• Approches de la femme à l'épée
• L'héroïne : constructions de genre
• Camille, Judith, martyre. Réflexions sur les représentations de Marie de Lorraine entre 1548 et 1560
• Le corps héroïque féminin dans le récit de la captivité des princesses dans The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia de Sir Philip Sidney
• Corps héroïques, corps de saintes dans The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia de Sir Philip Sidney (1590) et The Countess of Montgomery's Urania de Lady Mary Wroth (1621)
• Courasche, ou La Vagabonde Courage de Grimmelshausen. Gender-crossing, politique et écriture
• Les objets de la guerre et le corps féminin de l'héroïsme dans The Lady Errant de William Cartwright et Bell in Campo de Margaret Cavendish
• L'anatomie du corps héroïque
• Des composantes à la décomposition du corps héroïque dans Coriolan de William Shakespeare
• Engagement corporel des héroïnes du peuple dans la comedia lopesque. De la défense individuelle à la réaction collective (Peribdnez et Fuente Ovejuna)
• Les armes font-elles le héros ? L'identité guerrière en question dans The Faerie Queene d'Edmund Spenser (1590)
• Charles r, du héros guerrier à sa féminisation ?
• "Yet was his sword or armour all his glass." Marvell et l'héroïsme narcissique.

"Cet ouvrage porte sur les métamorphoses du héros et de son éthos dans la littérature et les arts de la première modernité (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), vues par le prisme de la représentation du corps et des objets héroïques. Pensée à partir des Îles britanniques, cette anatomie du héros est replacée dans le contexte européen avec des études sur la France, l'Italie, l'Espagne et l'Allemagne. Là où la statuaire grecque mettait le héros sublimement à nu et où l'épopée chrétienne en faisait un guerrier ou un martyr démonstratif, l'héroïsme moderne se joue sur une scène plus immatérielle et intime, où le symptôme prend le pas sur les armes et blessures glorieuses, et vient se nicher jusque dans les objets du quotidien, tels que gants, luth ou livre."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface Environmental Reading: Premodern Literature in Its Places Introduction
• Oecologies: Engaging the World, from Here
• 1. The Love of Life: Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Close to Home
• 2. Backyard
• 3. Bold Riparian Schemes: Imagining Water and the Hydrosocial Cycle across Time and Space
• 4. Distemperature in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 5. Biodynamic Viticulture, Natural Wine, and the Premodern
• 6. Sustainability
• 7. Consuming Debt
• 8. Failure
• 9. A Singular World: The Perils and Possibilities of the Bird's Eye View
• 10. Liquids and Solids: Indigeneity as Capricious Matter in William Colenso's Colonial Encounters
• 11. Ruined Medievalism
• 12. Tangled History: Nature, Nation, and Canadian Neomedievalism
• Afterword: Environmentalism, Eco-Cosmopolitanism, and Premodern Thought.
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Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism, " a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea's possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity's responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars.
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• Frank Lestringant : une vie, une oeuvre
• Voyages
• Le Brésil de Frank Lestringant
• L'invention capucine du sauvage
• Détournement joyeux de l'Indonésie portugaise et des Antilles espagnoles : les Letres des ysles é- terres nouvellement trouvées (c. 1536)
• Le meuble doré de la cosmographie ou comment Thevet sauva ses curiosités
• L'intertexte virgilien dans les Singularités de la France Antarctique (1557) d'André Thevet
• Lisières d'un nouveau monde : l'inscription du littoral américain dans les récits de Colomb et Vespucci ou le choix des échelles
• Mythologiques. Parler des Sept Cités en Nouvelle-Espagne
• La rébellion du cacique Enriquillo et sa réinvention par François de Belleforest
• D'un souvenir à l'autre. Le parcours du chapitre "Des Cannibales"
• Le plaisir du voyage. En Nouvelle-France et aux Antilles (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
• Duels de plume et rivalités de pouvoir en Nouvelle-France. Autour des premiers missionnaires récollets et jésuites (1625-1637)
• Les images d'Amérindiens dans les Historite Canadensis de François Du Creux
• Le corsaire et l'astronome
• En passant par l'Italie. Reliques, ruines et vides sur la route du Grand voyage
• Poétique et politique d'une étape de voyage : le sonnet 133 sur Venise dans Les Regrets de Joachim Du Bellay
• Le Journal du voyage de Montaigne est-il un journal de voyage ?
• Espaces
• "Cosmopolite" ? La redécouverte d'un concept antique dans la France du XVIe siècle
• La ligne et le corps. Passages de l'équateur de Jean de Léry à Miguel de. Cervantès
• Une maladie nouvelle au miroir d'un nouveau monde : l'unité du genre humain selon la Syphilis de Fracastor
• Les lieux du diable
• La cosmographie du diable : démonologie et géographie à la Renaissance
• Adeline Lionetto Représenter "l'eau informe et multiforme". La mer et ses créatures dans quelques fêtes de cour françaises de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle
• Seuils de l'espace -- seuils de pouvoir : les détroits dans la pensée cosmographique
• Anton Francesco Doni et Gabriel Chappuys, cosmographes des Enfers, entre Venise et Lyon. I Mondi
• Cartographie satirique : la rhétorique de l'espace dans la guerre picrocholine (Gargantua,-chap. 33)
• Un insulaire-systétnatique ? Singularités lexicales de l'Île Sonnante
• La peste terrestre anthropomorphe à la Renaissance : l'exemple du Pantagruel de Rabelais
• Géographie, politique et religion aux portes de Rome : Jean Du Bellay et les Marais pontins (1548-1560)
• Du jardin d'Eutrapel au jardin d'Olivier de Serres
• Espace et sociabilité du voisinage chez quelques conteurs français du XVIe siècle
• Banderoles fluviales : "Les Fers" (1615) en vue du Théâtre François (1594)
• Religions
• Aux premiers temps de la guerre de Smalkalde, une affaire de poison ou les débuts de la fin de Babylone
• Allégorie satirique et allégorie heuristique. Rabelais et les combats religieux de son temps
• Le jeu des allégories dans L'homme justifié par Foy
• Du Livre des martyrs de Crespin (1554) aux Poemata de Bèze (1597), l'étonnant destin d'une silve de Jean Tagaut
• Autour du purgatoire. L'écroulement de la forteresse de Bernardino Ochino à Jean-Baptiste Trento
• Guerres civiles avec spectateur. Le Printemps d'Yver entre Ronsard et Montaigne

• Sancerre en Europe : les traductions de l'Histoire memorable de Jean de Léry
• La tragédie "Valois" entre France et Angleterre. La mise en scène de l'assassinat politique
• "Monstres veuz de nostre temps" : rendre témoignage en situation de guerre (Ronsard, Thevet, Montaigne)
• L'échafaud de l'Histoire : Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné et le Théâtre de l'Antéchrist de Nicolas Vignier
• Le rire et le tragique dans Les Aventures du baron de Faeneste d'Agrippa d'Aubigné
• Mort à crédit : être au cachot dans le martyrologe huguenot
• Penser le martyre sous le régime de l'Édit de Nantes. L'exemple du Triomphe de l'Église sous la croix ou la gloire des Martyrs de Charles Drelincourt
• Charles IX, de Chénier à Chéreau : l'homme blessé du romantisme
• Ecritures
• Vanitas. Voyages de Folengo et Montaigne vers le vide
• "Deuil ou plaisir". Sur le troisième chapitre de Pantagruel (1532)
• Espaces de l'exil, espace de l'écriture : amour, amitié et desiderium chez Muret expatrié
• Images captieuses de l'Hercule Gaulois
• L'atlas anatomique d'Eustorg de Beaulieu
• "Une Muse perfette" : Jacques Grévin entre poésie, science et religion
• La table ronde des parents spirituels. Au sujet de la Conversation de Lucien, Érasme et Rabelais dans les Champs-Élysées de Voltaire
• Octave de Musset, ou la vengeance en travesti
• D'une plume de fer
• Lointains échos d'un "barde priapique". Samuel Beckett se souvient de Ronsard
• Les locutions latines dans Astérix.

"Explorateur curieux et audacieux, Frank Lestringant n'a cessé, dans son oeuvre au long cours et à large envergure, d'ouvrir des horizons nouveaux sur la littérature de la Renaissance, quitte à bousculer une critique parfois sédentaire, voire frileuse dans ses sujets et ses méthodes. Affectionnant les espaces de plein vent, où l'Europe du XVIe siècle cherche à étendre sa puissance par-delà les mers, fasciné par les scènes sanglantes de l'histoire, celle qui se joue dans les feux et les fers d'une France déchirée, il nous mène d'île en île, d'un texte à l'autre, sur les traces de ses auteurs de prédilection. Le volume que lui offrent ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis, spécialistes de littérature française ou comparée, d'histoire ou de géographie, entend rendre hommage à la richesse et à la diversité de son oeuvre critique, ainsi qu'à son énergie sans pareille au service des études seiziémistes. Rassemblés autour des quatre centres d'intérêt majeurs de la recherche de Frank Lestringant - les récits de voyage, la cosmographie, la littérature des religions, les pratiques d'écriture -, ces mélanges sont autant de témoignages d'amitié, d'admiration et de reconnaissance."--Page 4 of cover.

• Lukic, Forrester and Farago: Introduction: Transnational Literatures and Cultures in/and Translation
• 1. From Transnational to Translational Susan Stanford Friedman: Translational Migrations: Novel Homelands in Monica Ali's Brick Lane Eleonora Federici and Vita Fortunati: Theorizing Women's Transnational Literatures: Shaping New Female Identities in Europe through Writing and Translation Azade Seyhan: Crossing Borders in Perilous Zones: Labors of Transport and Translation in Women Writers of Exile Sonia Fernandez Hoyos and Adelina Sanchez Espinosa: Zygmunt Bauman's Liquidity and Transnational Women's Literature: Nancy Huston as a Case Study Jasmina Lukic: Travelling Theory as Theory in Translation: Transnational and Transgenerational Perspectives
• 2. Reading Across Borders Grace Ledbetter: Translation into Dance: Adaptation and Transnational Hellenism in Balanchine's Apollo. Agnes Gyoerke: Stories from Elsewhere: Walking as a Transnational Practice in Doris Lessing's Fiction. Vera Eliasova: The Mobile Imagination in European Women's Writing of Modernism and its Contemporary Resonances Madalina Nicolaescu: Romanian Women's Success Stories as Transnational Migrants Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru: From Travelling Memoir to Nomadic Narrative in Kapka Kassabova's Street without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story Dejan Ilic: Through the Looking-glass: About recurring motifs and devices in the prose of Dubravka Ugresic
• 3. Transnational in Translation Michael Kandel: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Sibelan Forrester: Translating Folktales: From National to Transnational Ellen Elias-Bursac: Rivalry and Consecration: Croatian and Serbian Writers In Conflict and Translation Kathrin Hellerstein: China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch's Travel Poems and Journals Index.
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In an era of increased mobility and globalisation, a fast growing body of writing originates from authors who live in-between languages and cultures. In response to this challenge, transnational perspective offers a new approach to the growing body of cultural texts with an emphasis on experiences of migration, transculturation, bilingualism and (cultural) translation. The introductory analysis and the fifteen essays in this collection critically interrogate complex relations between transnational and translation studies, bringing to this dialogue a much needed gender perspective. Divided into three parts (From Transnational to Translational; Reading Across Borders and Transnational in Translation), they address a range of issues relevant for this debate, from theoretical problems to practical questions of literary criticism and translation, understood as an act of cultural interpretation. The volume mostly deals with contemporary literary and cultural production, but also with classical texts and modernist literature. Its particular quality is a strong (although not exclusive) focus on Central and East European literatures, and more generally on women writers. Its interdisciplinary, transnational and intercultural perspective makes it relevant across disciplinary boundaries, from literary and translation studies to gender studies, cultural studies and migration studies.
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• Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment
• 1. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression
• 2. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten's London Peepshow
• 3. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt's Individual
• 4. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre
• 5. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Moli re
• 6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Cl ves
• 7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant
• Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made.
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Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that 'person, ' as early moderns understood this concept, was an 'experimental' phenomenon-at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. Person so conceived was discovered to be a four-dimensional creature: a composite of mind or 'inner' personality; of the body and outward appearance; of social relationship; and of time. Through a series of case studies keyed to a wide variety of social and cultural contexts, including theatre, the early novel, the art of portraiture, pictorial experiments in vision and perception, theory of knowledge, and the new experimental science of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the book examines the manifold shapes person assumed as an expression of the social, natural, and aesthetic 'experiments' or experiences to which it found itself subjected as a function of the mere contingent fact of just having them.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction International Law Literary Approaches to International World Order A Dual History of International Law and European Literature
• 1. The Old World Order Dissolving Universal Laws in Flux: (Neoscholastic Jurisprudence) Cosmic Order Disturbed: (Camoes's Os Lusiadas, Reason of State) The Beginnings of Public International Law: (Gentili, Suarez, Grotius)
• 2. The Poetics of International Legal Order Treaty and Allegory in the Renaissance The Founding Narratives of International Legal Personality: (Grotius, Hobbes, Leibniz) The Founding Narratives of International Society: (Grotius, Leibniz) Spectacles of International Order The Drama of International Society
• 3. International Order as Tragedy The Renaissance of Tragedy and the Problem of International Order The Sovereign Will and the Tragic Form: (Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Shakespeare's King John) A Tragicomic Intermezzo: The Shapes of World Order in Shakespeare's Romances The Tragedy of Reason of State: (Lohenstein) The Tragedy of Marriage Alliance: (Corneille) International Order Through Tragic Experience
• 4. International Order as Romance The Romance Form and World Order: (The Greek Romance, Barclay's Argenis) The Crisis of Political Romance in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: (Herbert) The Apotheosis and Extinction of Political Romance: (Anton Ulrich, Leibniz)
• 5. The Divergence Between International Law and Literature around 1700 The Depersonalization of the State: (Gryphius, Milton) The Birth of the Private Individual: (Milton, Racine) International Law as a Field of Expert Knowledge Literature and the Private Individual
• 6. The Novel and International Order in the Eighteenth Century The Fictional Construction of Society: Ius Naturae et Gentium The Fictional Construction of Society: Poetics of the Novel Transnational Commercial World Order: (Defoe) Sentimental World Order: (Gellert, Sterne) Cosmopolitan World Order: (Wieland, Goethe, Kant) Epilogue Notes References Index.
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In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions. Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts-some highly canonical (Camoes, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering-engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period-its so-called classical age-in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved.
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• Introduction
• The old world order dissolving
• The poetics of international legal order
• International order as tragedy
• International order as romance
• The divergence between international law and literature around 1700
• The novel and international order in the eighteenth century
• Epilogue.

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions. Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts-some highly canonical (Camoes, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering-engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period-its so-called classical age-in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved.
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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction. Forgery's ValhallaWalter Stephens and Earle A. Havens
• 1. Hoax and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic Reflections on the Bibliotheca FictivaArthur Freeman2. Babelic Confusion: Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca FictivaEarle A. Havens3. Forgery, Misattribution, and a Case of Secondary Pseudonymity: Aethicus Ister's Cosmographia and Its Early Modern MultiplicationsFrederic Clark4. Marvelous History: Authority and Credibility in Medieval Histories of TroyE. R. Truitt5. Forging Relations between East and West: The Invented Letters of Sultan Mehmed IIJames K. Coleman6. Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical FigureShana D. O'Connell7. Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His InformationAnthony Grafton8. Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo's First Master CriticWalter Stephens9. Inventing Gallic Antiquities in Renaissance FranceRichard Cooper10. Material and Textual Forgery in the Lead Books of GranadaA. Katie Harris11. Melchior Inchofer, S.J., and the Letter of the Virgin Mary to the Citizens of MessinaIngrid D. Rowland12. "Make Way for the Ghost!" Forgery, Patriotic Mythology, and the Living DeadKate E. Tunstall13. England's Ireland, Ireland's England: William Henry Ireland's National OffenseJack Lynch ContributorsIndex.
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Forgery is an eternal problem. In literature and the writing of history, suspiciously attributed texts can be uniquely revealing when subjected to a nuanced critique. False and spurious writings impinge on social and political realities to a degree rarely confronted by the biographical criticism of yesteryear. They deserve a more critical reading of the sort far more often bestowed on canonical works of poetry and prose fiction. The first comprehensive treatment of literary and historiographical forgery to appear in a quarter of a century, Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 goes well beyond questions of authorship, spotlighting the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was a literary tradition in its own right, with distinctive connections to politics, Greek and Roman classics, religion, philosophy, and modern literature. The thirteen essays draw immediate inspiration from Johns Hopkins University's acquisition of the Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world's premier research collection dedicated exclusively to the subject of literary forgery, which consists of several thousand rare books and unique manuscript materials from the early modern period and beyond. The early modern explosion in forgery of all kinds-particularly in the kindred documentary fields of literary and archaeological falsification-was the most visible symptom of a dramatic shift in attitudes toward historical evidence and in the relation of texts to contemporary society. The authors capture the impact of this evolution within many fundamental cultural transformations, including the rise of print, changing tastes and fortunes of the literary marketplace, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. Contributors: Frederic Clark, James Coleman, Richard Cooper, Arthur Freeman, Anthony Grafton, A. Katie Harris, Earle A. Havens, Jack Lynch, Shana D. O'Connell, Ingrid Rowland, Walter Stephens, Elly Truitt, Kate Tunstall.
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• List of Figures; Acknowledgements and Dedication; Introduction: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance; PART I. THE GENDERING OF REVENGE;
• 1. Why are the Erinyes Female? or, What is so Feminine about Revenge?;
• 2. Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama; PART II. F RIENDS AND FAMILY
• 'REVENGING HOME';
• 3. Vengeance and Male Devotion in Laxdæla saga and Njáls saga;
• 4. 'Now I am Medea': Gender, Identity and the Birth of Revenge in Seneca's Medea;
• 5. The Avenging Daughter in King Lear;
• 6. 'Brother Unkind': Annabella's Heart in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

• PART III. WOMEN'S WEAPONS;
• 7. Cursing-Prayers and Female Vengeance in the Ancient Greek World;
• 8. 'The Power of Our Mouths': Gossip as a Female Mode of Revenge;
• 9. 'Women's Weapons': Education and Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage; PART IV. WOMEN TRANSMOGRIFIED;
• 10. The Vengeful Lioness in Greek Tragedy: A Posthumanist Perspective;
• 11. 'She's Turned Fury': Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays; PART V. LAMENTATION, GENDER ROLES AND VENGEANCE;
• 12. A Phrygian Tale of Love and Revenge: Oenone Paridi (Ovid Heroides 5);
• 13. Lament and Vengeance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure.

• 14. What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?;
• 15. 'Nursed in Blood': Masculinity and Grief in Marston's Antonio's Revenge;
• 16. Outfacing Vengeance: Heroic Dying in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Ford's The Broken Heart; List of Contributors; Index.

Revenge and Gender from Classical to Renaissance Literature' looks at a range of literary and historical texts to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of revenge and thereby establishing some of the key paradigms for the way that the relationship between revenge and gender has been configured.The collection brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy, and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate. It demonstrates that revenge acts frequently cross-question the very cultural and literary tropes they seem to reinforce since they disrupt as well as affirm conventional cultural constructions about how gender roles shape displays of passion and ideas of agency.
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• 1. Introduction: The sense of early modern writing Part I: Sense's reading
• 2. Rhetoric, in more than one sense
• 3. Is there an early modern aesthetic?
• 4. Poetry's defences Part II: Reading's senses
• 5. To sign: Sir Thomas More
• 6. Swansongs
• 7. To hear with eyes
• 8. Blind faith Epilogue
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In The sense of Early Modern writing, Mark Robson pursues the relation between the concept of the 'early modern' and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic, philosophical aesthetics and early modern rhetoric and poetics. The book therefore questions the status of what we now think of as literary texts in a period prior to the emergence of literature as a category. In this way, Robson argues for an attention to the classical notion of aisthesis, that is, for the crucial dimension of perception and response in reading and thinking -- and its rhetorical determination -- to be taken into account. Robson's theoretically-informed approach, drawing in particular on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, fundamentally challenges the idea that critical theory is of little relevance in the reading of early modern texts. The sense of Early Modern writing includes readings of both familiar and unfamiliar texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, Hester Pulter and others, and considers topics such as ears, eyes, tongues, hands and voices, in order to ask: How should we read early modern texts? The book will therefore be of interest to all students and researchers in early modern or Renaissance studies, as well as to those thinking through the theories and histories of literature, aesthetics and rhetoric. -- .
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• Acknowledgments Prologue: Imagine Sisyphus
• Part 1: Lost Worlds
• 1 The Algerian
• 2 A Salesman Called Schoenzeit
• 3 Becoming Boell
• 4 Beckett Climbs the Mount of Joy
• 5 A Farewell to Vienna
• 6 A Thin Slice of Bois de Boulogne
• Part 2: Models of Daring
• 7 Caligula and the Moon
• 8 On Meeting Joyce
• 9 Musil Traverses "Park Nietzsche"
• 10 Sartre in Berlin and Bouville
• 11 Norwegian Light
• Part 3: Land, Stock, and Fringe
• 12 Bohemian and Bauer
• 13 The Grimace of Celine
• 14 Simone Weil and Franz Kafka: A Forceful Parallel
• 15 Ernst Junger's World of Fire
• 16 Thomas Mann and Some Afterthoughts
• Bibliography Index.
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In Interbellum Literature historian Cor Hermans presents a panorama of modernist writing in the ominous period 1918-1940. The book offers, in full scope, an engaging synthesis of the most stimulating ideas and tendencies in the novels and plays of a wide circle of writers from France (Proust, Gide, Camus, Celine, Tzara, Aragon, Simone Weil), England and Ireland (Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Joyce, Beckett), the USA (Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, O'Neill, Hemingway), Austria-Hungary (Musil, Broch, Kafka, Zweig, Roth), and Germany (Hesse, Junger, Boell, Thomas Mann). Caught between world wars, they nevertheless succeeded in creating some of the best literature ever. They created a philosophy as well, rejecting bourgeois 'mechanical' society, designing escape routes from the nihilism of the times.
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• Introduction Part I: Babylon as Political Metaphor Chapter One: The Political Image of Babylon in Antiquity Chapter Two: Political Babylon in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Chapter Three: Political Babylon from the Great Schism to the Present Part II: Babylon as Degenerate Archetype Chapter Four: The Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy: The Cursed Race Chapter Five: The Post-Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy and the Cursed Race Archetype Part III: Babylon as Sublime Topos Chapter Six: City of Ruins Chapter Seven: Babylon and the Coordinates of Romance Conclusion.
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Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon's remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the "Left Behind" series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime. Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon's significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture.
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• VOLUME I
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• I: PARIS TO BEARN
• II: CALAIS TO LONDON
• III: ST ANDREWS TO FINISTERE
• IV: BASEL TO DANZIG
• V: AVIGNON TO NAPLES
• VOLUME II
• VI: PALERMO TO TUNIS
• VII: CAIRO TO CONSTANTINOPLE
• VIII: MOUNT ATHOS TO MUSCOVY
• IX: VENICE TO PRAGUE
• X: NATIONS OF EUROPE, 1414-1418.
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes: the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented 'ground zero' experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then as now, and disputes over whom truly 'belongs' on European soil are explored, if not solved, through writing. A war that would last for a century convulsed much of western Europe. Divisions between Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianities endured, and in 1378 the West divided again between popes of Avignon and Rome. Arabic literary cultures linked Fes and Granada to Jerusalem and Damascus; Persian and Turkish writings began to flourish south and west of Constantinople; Jewish intellectuals treasured Arabic texts as well as Hebrew writings; Armenian colophons proved unique. From 1414-18 western nations gathered to heal their papal schism while also exchanging literary, humanist, and musical ideas; visitors from the East hoped for commitment to wider European peace. Freed from nation state historiography, as bequeathed by the nineteenth century, these 82 chapters freshly assess the free movement of European literature in all its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power.
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"This study analyzes representative texts in which the master-servant relationship is a structurally determining theme. The analysis is undertaken from the perspective of ideological history and is based on a model of interdependent rule in literature that transcends epochs and genres. It reveals the ways that 18th to 20th century literature participated in contemporary theoretical discourses on rule."-- Provided by publisher.

• Table of Contents; Introduction; Representing the Self in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Recollecting the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Re-creating the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Today; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Emerging Scholars; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; List of Contributors

Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past celebrates the various ways in which the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are adapted, recollected, and represented in our own day and age. Most of the chapters fit broadly into one of three categories: namely, the representation of the self in medieval and early modern history and literature; the recollection and utilization of the past in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; and the role of the medieval and the early modern in our own society. Overall, the contributions to this volume bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction to Noh Lessons
• 1. Ezra Pound as Noh Student
• 2. Theater in the "Deep": W. B. Yeats's At the Hawk's Well
• 3. Ito Michio's Hawk Tours in Modern Dance and Theater
• 4. Pedagogical Intermission: A Lesson Plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions
• 5. Noh Circles in Twentieth-Century Japanese Performance
• 6. Trouble with Titles and Directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/Pas Coda Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and Western artists influenced one another. Preston's critical work was profoundly shaped by her own training in noh performance technique under a professional actor in Tokyo, who taught her to kneel, bow, chant, and submit to the teachings of a conservative tradition. This encounter challenged Preston's assumptions about effective teaching, particularly her inclinations to emphasize Western ideas of innovation and subversion and to overlook the complex ranges of agency experienced by teachers and students. It also inspired new perspectives regarding the generative relationship between Western writers and Japanese performers. Pound, Yeats, Brecht, and others are often criticized for their orientalist tendencies and misappropriation of noh, but Preston's analysis and her journey reflect a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.
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• Introduction: The Marketplace of Mercury
• Part One: Petrarch and Italian Poetry
• 1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus
• 2. Making Petrarch Matter: The Parts and Labor of Textual Revision
• 3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge: Gaspara Stampa's Entrepreneurial Poetics
• 4. Incommensurate Gifts: Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision
• Part Two: Pierre De Ronsard and Pleiade Aesthetics
• 1. Polished to Perfection: Ronsard's Investment in Les Amours
• 2. Ronsard Furieux: Interest in Ariosto
• 3. Passions and Privations: Writing Sonnets like a Pro in Les Amours de Marie
• 4. The Smirched Muse: Commercializing Sonnets pour Helene Part Three: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics
• 1. To Possess Is Not to Own: The Cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man
• 2. Polish and Skill: Will's Interest and Self-Interest in Sonnets 61-99
• 3. Owning Up to Furor: The "Poets' War" and Its Aftermath in Sonnets 100-126
• 4. Shakespeare as Professional: The Economy of Revision in Sonnets 1-60 Conclusion: Mercurial Economies.
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The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets-as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy. Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and technique. Their polarities harbor economic consequences, the first privileging the poet's divinely endowed talent, rewarded by the autocratic largess of patrons, the other emphasizing the poet's acquired skill and hard work. Petrarch was the first to exploit the tensions between these polarities, followed by his poetic successors. These include Gaspara Stampa in the emergent salon society of Venice, Michelangelo Buonarroti in the "gift" economy of Medici Florence and papal Rome, Pierre de Ronsard and the poets of his Pleiade brigade in the fluctuant Valois court, and William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the commercial world of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. As Kennedy shows, the poetic practices of revision and redaction by Petrarch and his successors exemplify the transition from a premodern economy of patronage to an early modern economy dominated by unstable market forces.
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• Gothic and romantic: an historical overview / Dale Townshend and Angela Wright
• Graveyard writing and the rise of the Gothic / Vincent Quinn
• Gothic romance / Deborah Russell
• The gothic stage: visions of instability, performances of anxiety / Diego Saglia
• Gothic poetry and first-generation romanticism / Joel Faflak
• Gothic and second-generation romanticism: Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley / Jerrold E. Hogle
• Political gothic fiction / Robert Miles
• Shorter gothic fictions: ballads and chapbooks, tales and fragments / Douglass H. Thomson and Diane Long Hoeveler
• Oriental gothic / Peter J. Kitson
• Gothic parody / Natalie Neill
• Gothic borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales / Meiko O'Halloran
• Gothic travels / Mark Bennett
• The romantic and the gothic in Europe: the elementary spirits in France and Germany as a vehicle for the transmission and development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835 / Victor Sage
• American gothic passages / Carol Margaret Davison
• Gothic and the language of terror / Jane Hodson
• Gothic science / Andrew Smith
• Gender and sexuality in gothic romanticism / Patrick R. O'Malley
• Gothic forms of time: architecture, romanticism, medievalism / Tom Duggett
• Gothic theology / Alison Milbank.

Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a wide-range of Romantic-era literary texts, from the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of the 1740s, through to the 'belated' Gothic fictions of the late 1820s. Self-consciously breaching, like Hume and Gamer before it, the critical divide between what literary history has subsequently differentiated as the 'Gothic' and the 'Romantic: this collection of 17 newly commissioned chapters seeks to draw attention to what G. R. Thompson in 1947 termed 'dark Romanticism: that is, that prominent strain in late 18th and early 19th-century British, American and European literature in which the distinction between the popular, low-cultural reaches of the Gothic and the 'High' Romantic aesthetics of more canonical figures is all but erased.
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• Ambivalence, confusion, and narrative fluidity
• Diodorus Siculus's narrative of Semiramis
• Manipulating the sight and site of royal bodies
• Viewing the royal body
• Semiramis as viewer
• Conclusion.

• Introduction
• Exposing the Protagonist: The Theory of Romantic Irony
• The Antagonist Speaks: Romantic Shakespeare, Grotesque Irony
• Revolutionary Catharsis: Shakespearean Negotiations in A.W. Schlegel, Stendhal and Hugo
• "Abnormal Specimens": The Shakespearean Grotesque in Baudelaire
• Conclusion: The Fates of the Grotesque.

This seminal book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. There are currently no book-length studies exploring the drama of the Romantic grotesque, a category that accentuates multiplicity and hybridity. The post-Kantian philosophy backing Friedrich Schlegel's Romantic irony provides the most decisive rationalisation of this plurality through theatrical play, and forms the theoretical framework for this study. Poetry and philosophy are merged in Schlegel's attempt to create Romantic modernity out of this self-conscious blurring of inherited perspectives and genres - a mixing and transgressing of past demarcations that simultaneously create the condition of the Romantic grotesque. The other writers examined in this book include A. W. Schlegel, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, and Baudelaire. The primary question is: how is the grotesque used to re-evaluate notions of aesthetic beauty? An answer emerges from a study of those thinkers in Schlegel's tradition who evolve a modern, ironic regard for conventional literary proprieties. Furthermore, how does the grotesque rewrite ideas of poetic subjectivity and expression? Here, Back and Forth foregrounds the enormous importance of Shakespeare as the literary example supporting the new theories. Shakespearean drama, which crosses aesthetic borders, legitimises the grotesque while reflecting the blood and gore of a post-Revolutionary Europe. Consequently, in reviewing hybrid texts like the Schlegelian fragments, Stendhal's Racine et Shakespeare, Hugo's Preface de Cromwell, and Baudelaire's De L'Essence du Rire, this book uses theories of continental Romanticism to reposition the significance of a vitally radical English aesthetic. Through this, Back and Forth claims that the Romantic revisioning of the Shakespearean grotesque helps create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity that are crucial to the larger projects of European Romanticism, and the ideas of modernity emerging from them.
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• Cover; Table of contents; Preface; The Importance of Literature and Cultural Transfer -Redefining Minority and Migrant Cultures; Part I Borders/Nation/Language, case Denmark/Germany; Germans making Danes. Germans and the German Language in Copenhagen and the Construction of Danish Culture 1750-1880; Language as cultural metaphor: The creation of a national identity in the German-Danish border area; Part II Cultural Transfer, Language Frontiers, Across Borders; The Discovery of Finland. Patterns in Cultural Transfer.

• Against all odds. Sally Salminen's Katrina and the possibilities of cultural transferPart III Minor Languages and Literary History/Within Borders; The rise, dispersal and stabilisation of New Norwegian literature; Towards a Monolingual Canon. Faroese and Danish on the Faroe Islands; Part IV Literary History/Within Borders/Without Borders; Anticolonial and Postcolonial De-/Constructions of the Nation Ethnonational Mobilisation in Meänmaa; Cultural Transmission. Diaspora Writing from the Balkans; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index.

• Table of Contents Cesar Dominguez. "Introduction"
• Part 1. Challenging Postnationalism/Cosmopolitanism Helena Buescu. "Europe between Old and New: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered" Cesar Dominguez. "Local Rooms with a Cosmopolitan View? Novels in/on the Limits of European Convergence" Sibylle Baumbach. "Rooting "New European Literature": A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism" Maria DiBattista. "Native Cosmopolitans"
• Part 2. What's New in European Literature? Susana Araujo. "European Security, European Identity? Fictions of Terror and Transnationality" Soren Frank. "Globalization, Migration literature, and the New Europe" Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. "Towards a New Europe? On Emergent and Transcultural Literary Histories"
• Part 3. Test Cases on Postnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the New Europe John Crosetti. "Europeanization, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Cases in the Crime Fiction of Poe, Gadda and Simenon" Birgit Mara Kaiser. "The Spaces of Transnational Literature: Or, Where on Earth Are We with Emine Sevgi OEzdamar's Der Hof im Spiegel?" Dorothy Odartey-Wellington. "Postnational or Postcolonial? Reading Immigrant Writing in Postnational Europe: The Case of Equatorial Guinea and Spain" Margarida Esteves Pereira. "A Transnational and Transcultural Perspective: Transcending the "Englishness" of English Literature" Aysegul Turan. "How to Become a "Rudeboy": Identity Formation and Transformation in Londonstani".
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In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the German historical context in which this key concept was formulated in the first place, postnationalism is considered to be an adaptation of Kantian cosmopolitanism to the conditions of the modern world. This collection of essays is the first to systematically and comparatively explore the links between postnationalism and cosmopolitanism within the context of the "New Europe". Contributors: Susana Araujo, Sibylle Baumbach, Helena Buescu, John Crosetti, Maria DiBattista, Cesar Dominguez, Soren Frank, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, Maria Esteves Pereira, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Aysegul Turan.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Writing Publics (Publics and Nation);
• 1. States, Nations, and Publics: The Politics of Language Reform in Renaissance England;
• 2. Translating the Law: Sir Edward Coke and the Formation of a Juristic Public;
• 3. Apocalyptics and Apologetics: Richard Helgerson on Elizabethan England's Religious Identity and the Formation of the Public Sphere; Part II: Forming Social Identities and Publics;
• 4. Perverse Delights: Cross Channel Trash Talk and Identity Publics;
• 5. Making Public the Private.

• 6. Public and Private Intercourse in Dutch Genre Scenes: Soldiers and Enigmatic Women / Painters and Enigmatic Paintings7. Sonnets from Carthage, Ballads from Prison: Entertainment and Public Making in Early Modern Spain; Part III: Networks and Publics;
• 8. Forms of Nationhood and Forms of Publics: Geography and Its Publics in Early Modern England;
• 9. "The Land Speaks": John Shrimpton's Antiquities of Verulam and St. Albans and the Making of Verulamium;
• 10. Collectors, Consumers, and the Making of a Seventeenth-Century English Ballad Public: From Networks to Spheres.

• 11. Forms of Internationality: The Album Amicorum and the Popularity of John Owen (1564-1622)Part IV: Theatrical Publicity;
• 12. The Voice of Caesar's Wounds: The Politics of Martyrdom in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar;
• 13. Shakespeare's Pains to Please;
• 14. The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Early Modern Stage; Afterword: Richard Helgerson and Making Publics; About the Contributors; Index; Back Cover.

• Preface-- Part I. Opening Perspectives:
• 1. Romance and history: designing the times Jon Whitman-- Part II. The Matter of Rome (and Realms to the East): Approaches to Antiquity:
• 2. Fearful histories: the past contained in the romances of antiquity Christopher Baswell--
• 3. Troy and Rome, two narrative presentations of history in the thirteenth century: the Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains Catherine Croizy-Naquet-- Part III. The Matter of Britain: Social and Spiritual Drives:
• 4. Inescapable history: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Robert W. Hanning--
• 5. Gottfried, Wolfram, and the Angevins: history, genealogy, and fiction in the Tristan and Parzival romances Adrian Stevens--
• 6. Fictional history as ideology: functions of the grail legend from Robert de Boron to the Roman de Perceforest Friedrich Wolfzettel--
• 7. The prose Brut, Hardyng's Chronicle, and the alliterative Morte Arthure: the end of the story Edward Donald Kennedy--
• 8. Arthur in transition: Malory's Morte Darthur Helen Cooper-- Part IV. The Matters of France and Italy: Acts of Recollection and Invention:
• 9. The Chanson de geste as a construction of memory Jean-Pierre Martin--
• 10. Ruggiero's story: the making of a dynastic hero Riccardo Bruscagli--
• 11. Temporality and narrative structure in European romance from the late fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century Marco Praloran-- Part V. Matters of Fabulation and Fact: Shifting Registers:
• 12. The disparagement of chivalric romance for its lack of historicity in sixteenth-century Italian poetics Daniel Javitch--
• 13. Romance and history in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata David Quint--
• 14. The thinking of history in Spenserian romance Gordon Teskey--
• 15. La Cava: romance and history in Corral and Cervantes Marina S. Brownlee-- Part VI. Closing Reference Points:
• 16. Afterword and afterward: romance, history, time Jon Whitman-- Select bibliography.
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To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly explored in the expansive literary genre of romance. This collective study, edited by Jon Whitman, is the first systematic investigation of that formative process during more than four hundred years. While concentrating on changing configurations of romance itself, the volume examines a number of important related reference points, from epic to chronicle to critical theory. Recalling but qualifying conventional approaches to the three 'matters' of Rome, Britain, and France, the far-reaching inquiry engages major works in a variety of idioms, including Latin, French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish. With contributions from a range of internationally distinguished scholars, this unique volume offers a carefully coordinated framework for enriching not only the reading of romance, but also the understanding of changing attitudes toward the temporal process at large.
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• Abbreviations Introduction: Dancing Around the Well
• 1. In the Beginning there was Chaos
• 2. A Gem in its Setting
• 3. Words Frozen and Thawed
• 4. Rhapsody in Prose
• 5. The Mosaic of Speech
• 6. The Universal Library
• 7. In a Roman Mirror Conclusion: Emptying the Well Bibliography Index locorum communium Index rerum Index nominum Index Erasmianus.
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This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech.
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• Acknowledgments Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality Part I: Theory and History
• 1. Histories of Cross-Cultural Encounter, Orientalism, and the Politics of Sexuality
• 2. Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, and Hamams: A Textual and Visual History of Tropes Part II: Geographies of Desire
• 3. Empire of 'Excesse, ' City of Dreams: Homoerotic Imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman World
• 4. Epic Ambitions and Epicurean Appetites: Egyptian Stories I
• 5. Colonialism and Its Aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian Stories II Part III: Modes and Genres
• 6. Queer Modernism and Middle Eastern Poetic Genres: Appropriations, Forgeries, and Hoaxes
• 7. Looking Backward: Homoeroticism in Miniaturist Painting and Orientalist Art
• 8. Looking Again: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Visual Cultures Notes Index.
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One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose. Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres and their European imitators, or unlocking the homoerotic encoding in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable study models an ethics of crosscultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. A contribution to studies in visual culture as well as literary and social history, The Homoerotics of Orientalism draws on primary sources ranging from untranslated Middle Eastern manuscripts and European belles-lettres to miniature paintings and photographic erotica that are presented here for the first time.
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• How to do the sexuality of history
• Mapping sapphic modernity, 1565-1630
• Fearful symmetries: the sapphic and the state, 1630-1749
• The political economy of same-sex desire, 1630-1765
• Rereading the "rise" of the novel: sapphic genealogies, 1680-1815
• Sapphic sects and the rites of revolution, 1775-1800
• "Sisters in love": irregular families, romantic elegies, 1788-1830
• Coda: we have always been modern.

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth - and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court records, in passionate verse, in the rising novel, and in cross-dressed flirtations on the English and Spanish stage, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and pundits were placing sapphic relations before the public eye. In The Sexuality of History, Susan S. Lanser demonstrates how intimacies between women became harbingers of the modern, bringing the sapphic into the mainstream of some of the most significant events in Western Europe. Ideas about female same-sex relations became a focal point for intellectual and cultural contests between authority and liberty, power and difference, desire and duty, mobility and change, and order and governance. Lanser explores the ways in which a historically specific interest in lesbians intersected with, and stimulated, systemic concerns that would seem to have little to do with sexuality. Departing from the prevailing trend of queer reading, whereby scholars ferret out hidden content in "closeted" texts, Lanser situates overtly erotic representations within wider spheres of interest. The Sexuality of History shows that just as we can understand sexuality by studying the past, so too can we understand the past by studying sexuality.
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• Sascha Bru and Dirk de Geest: What Modernism Was and Is: By Way of an Introduction Hans Bertens: Towards Modernism Peter Liebregts: "The World Is a Fine Adventurous Place": Graham Greene in the 1930s Sjef Houppermans: Sorties or Entrenchment: Roussel, Crevel and Aragon between Avant-garde and Arriere-garde Jacqueline Bel: Intellectual Scepticism versus Avant-garde Bragging: Modernism in Dutch Literature Geert Buelens: "The Final Catholic": Paul van Ostaijen, and the Catholic Reveil around the First World War Koen Rymenants, Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten: Arriere-garde Perspectives on the History of Modern Literature: The Case of the Netherlands (1880-1940) Arthur Langeveld: How Modernism Disappeared from Fedor Gladkov's Cement between 1924 and 1958 Otto Boele: Biocosmism and the Russian Avant-garde: A Literary Cul-de-sac or the Road to Immortality? Paulo de Medeiros: Ten Times Pessoa Hero Hokwerda: Modernism in Greek Literature (1910-1940) Jan Baetens: Fun Home: Ithaca, Pennsylvania Peter Verstraten: A Modernist "Attempt at Cinema": The "Impurity" of Pierrot le Fou Peter de Voogd: Modernism and the Art of Printing: transition and Carolus Verhulst Marcel Cobussen: The (Post)Modern Music of Edgard Varese Notes on Contributors Index.
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This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as "middlebrow, " "arri re-garde, " and to some extent even "avant-garde, " were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.
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• Introduction / Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks
• Hussies, matrons, and others in Carolingian chronicles / Jinty Nelson
• Women in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle before AD 800 / Ben Snook
• Representing authority in an early Medieval chronicle: submission, rebellion and the limits of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Ryan Lavelle
• Monastic authority and the landscape in the Ecclesiastical History of orderic vitalis / Leonie V. Hicks
• The enthroned king in La estoire de seint Aedward le rei (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.
• 3. 59) / Judith Collard
• Images of Queen Melisende / Sarah Lambert
• Perspicax ingenium mihi collatum est: strategies of authority in chronicles written by women / Graeme Dunphy
• The language of authority? The source texts for the dual chronicles of the 'Anonymous of Béthune' (fl. c. 1220) and the evolution of old French prose historiography / Gregory Fedorenko
• Clerc, chevalier, aucteur: the authorial personae of French Medieval historians (12th-15th centuries) / Christian Bratu
• The shadow of Dido: an interpretation of the Trojan episodes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Juliana Dresvina
• "What you hear is the truth": authorization strategies in late Medieval Swedish rhymed chronicles / Margaretha Nordquist
• "Ung dressoir de cinq degrez": Mary of Burgundy and the construction of the image of the female ruler / Olga Karaskova
• Staging the court: auto-iconicity and female authority around a 1478 Burgundian Baptism / Noa Turel
• Questionable authority: female sovereigns and their consorts in Medieval and Renaissance chronicles / Elena Woodacre.

This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each of them specialists in the field, this study spans full across the compass of medieval and early modern Europe, from England and Scandinavia, to Byzantium and the Crusader Kingdoms; embraces a variety of media and methods; and touches evidence from diverse branches of learning such as language and literature, history and art, to name just a few. This is an important collection which will be of the highest utility for students and scholars of language, literature, and history for many years to come.
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• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations Chapter One The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance Chapter Two Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea Chapter Three Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney's Greek Arcadia Chapter Four Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes' Persiles Chapter Five Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay's Argenis Chapter Six "We are all picturd in that Piece": Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the "Tottering" Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Conclusions Works Cited.
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The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these tales reveal their identities and desires in their responses to the 'verbal pictures' of romance. Elizabeth B. Bearden illuminates how 'verbal pictures' enliven characterization in English, Spanish, and Neolatin romances from 1552 to 1621. She notes the capacity for change among characters - such as cross-dressed Amazons, shepherdish princesses, and white Mauritanians - who traverse transnational cultural and aesthetic environments. Engaging and rigorous, The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the 'other, ' as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.
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• Table of contents; list of images; editors' preface; introduction; part i; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; part ii; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; part iii; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; part iv; chapter ten; chapter eleven; chapter twelve; chapter thirteen; contributors; index.

The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image is an interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays relating to the study of European Avant-Garde movements between 1900 and 1940. The essays cover both literary and artistic subjects, across geographical, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. Various aspects of the English, Irish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish avant-gardes are explored, examining both diverse literary genres such as prose, poetry and drama, and specific avant-garde movements such as Futurism and Surrealism. The volume includes a lengthy introductory essay by Prof. John J. White, Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's College London. Avant-garde studies can be enhanced and developed through dialogue with other disciplines, such as translation, gender, exile and comparative studies. Thus, the volume is divided into four sections: Representations of the Body; Translating the Avant-Garde, Identity and Exile; and Comparative Perspectives and the Legacy of the Avant-Garde.
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• Introduction; Part I. Games for Example;
• 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air;
• 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal;
• 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens;
• 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf;
• 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli;
• 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz;
• 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival.

• Part II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies;
• 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg;
• 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert's Epistolary Fiction;
• 11. "Improbable Probability": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon;
• 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics, and Experimentation-Lambert.

• 13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities, " or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution, "" providing a history of the re.

• Tasso's silent lyre
• The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
• Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
• Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
• Milton's lament
• Epic opera
• Coda: The singer withdraws.

This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period's writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song-from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas-and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch's wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe's epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity.
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• Introduction. Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: A Significant Domain Ignored For Too Long by Modern Research?
• Reforming the Monastic Landscape: Peter Damian's Design for Personal and Communal Devotion
• Women's Place and Women's Space in the Medieval Village
• "Gebrochen bluomen unde gras": Medieval Ecological Consciousness in Selected Poems by Walther von der Vogelweide
• Utopian Space in the Countryside: Love and Marriage between a Knight and a Peasant Girl in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich, Anonymous, "Dis ist von dem Heselin, " Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, and Late Medieval Popular Poetry
• Rural Space and Agricultural Space in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart
• Moor, Court, and River in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
• Rural Space and Transgressive Space in Bérenger au lonc cul
• Life on the Manor and in Rural Space: Answering the Challenges of Social Decay in William Langland's Piers Plowman
• Landscape of Luxuries: Mahaut d'Artois's (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin
• Hunting or Gardening: Parks and Royal Rural Space
• The Significance of Rural Space in Guillaume de Palerne
• The Forest as Locus of Transition and Transformation in the Epic Romance Berte as grans piés
• Juan Manuel's Libro de la caza (1325?)
• Hunting as Salvation in Gaston Phébus's Livre de la chasse (1387-1389)
• Rural Space in Late Medieval Books of Hours: Book Illustrations as a Looking Glass Into Medieval Mentality and Mirrors of Ecocriticism
• The Tame Wilderness of Princes: Images of Nature in Exemplars of Books of Hours and in the Livre du Coeur d'amour épris of King René of Anjou
• Marshy Spaces in the Middle English Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: Physical and Spiritual Territory
• Peasant Authors and Peasant Haters: Matazone da Caligano and the Ambiguity of the Satira del villano in High and Late Medieval Italy
• "Lazarus and Abraham, our Jews of Eggenburg": Jews in the Austrian Countryside in the Fourteenth Century
• Small Town, Big Business: A Wealthy Jewish Moneylender in the Austrian Countryside
• Usos rerum rusticarum: Malae consuetudines, male usos lege and Peasant Rebellion as Resistance or Adaptation to Legal Change
• Village People: The Presence of the Rural in Late Medieval French Comedies
• Uprooted Trees and Slaughtered Peasants: The Savaging of Rural Space in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532)
• Representations of the Plowman and the Prostitute in Puritan and AntiPuritan Satire: Or the Rhetoric of Plainness and the Reformation of the Popular in the Harvey Nashe Quarrel
• The Poet in Exile: Robert Herrick and the "loathed Country life"
• Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition
• "The free Enjoyment of the Earth": Gerrard Winstanley on Land Reform.

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.
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• Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Text and Image in Modern European Culture; Part One: Cross-Cultural Networks; The Myth of Psyche in the Work of D'Annunzio and Burne-Jones; The Symbolist Context of the Siren Motif in Moreau's Painting and Bryusov's Poetry; Images of Paris in the Work of Brassaï and Miller; Part Two: Ekphrasis and Beyond; The Reciprocation of the Image in Two Poems by Rilke; Photography and Painting in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu; Photography in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu; Part Three: Text and Design.

• Text and Image in Fashion Periodicals of the Second French EmpireArchitecture and Utopia in Scheerbart's Rakkóx der Billionär; Part Four: Hybrid Texts; Word and Image in Apollinaire's "Lettre-Océan"; Text-Image Relations in French and Spanish Surrealist Literary Reviews from the 1920s and 1930s; How to Read a Poetic Photo-Text; Part Five: Multimedia Encounters; Constructivist and Futurist Multimedia Experiments in Russian Poetry; Science and Symptom from Mallarmé to the Digital Poet; Part Six: Thematic Bibliography; Bibliography for the Study of Text and Image in Modern European Culture.

Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies (avant-garde experiments, digital poetry). The discussion encompasses pivotal fin de siecle, modernist, and postmodernist works and movements in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. A selected bibliography of work published in the field is also included. The volume will appeal to scholars of comparative literature, art history, and visual studies, and includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars.
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• Notes on the Editors List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction LIEKE STELLING AND TODD M. RICHARDSON
• PART ONE - AUTHENTICITY La Confession Catholique du Sieur de Sancy: The Swan Song of the Zealous Protestants MATHILDE BERNARD 'The Conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic Diplomatic Literature, 1530-1532 FEDERICO ZULIANI `Thy Very Essence is Mutability': Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, 1558-1642 LIEKE STELLING Turning Persia: The Prospect of Conversion in Safavid Iran CHLOE HOUSTON
• Narrating Conversion and Subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands E. NATALIE ROTHMAN
• PART TWO - AGENCY `Most necessarily to be knowne': The Conversion Narratives of Samuel Smith PHILIP MAJOR Converting England: Mysticism, Nationalism, and Symbolism in the Poetry of John Donne JAYME M. YEO Conversion in James Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland (1640) ALISON SEARLE Salutary Reading: Conversion and Calvinist Humanism in Constantijn Huygens' Ooghentroost LISE GOSSEYE
• PART THREE - IMITATION Between Conversion and Apostasy: Moriens's Struggle and the Fate of the Soul JOHN R. DECKER The Sermons of a Rabbi Converted to Christianity: Between Synagogue and Church SHULAMIT FURSTENBERG-LEVI Parabolic Analogy and Spiritual Discernment in Jeronimo Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia of 1595 WALTER S. MELION Sight and insight: Paul as a Model of Conversion in Rhetoricians' Drama BART RAMAKERS Rhetorics of the Pulpit XANDER VAN ECK
• Bibliography Index Nominum.
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The religious upheavals of the early modern period and the fierce debate they unleashed about true devotion gave conversion an unprecedented urgency. With their rich variety of emotive, aesthetic and rhetoric means of expression, literature and the visual arts proved particularly well-adapted means to address, explore and represent the complex nature of conversion. At the same time, many artists and authors experimented with the notion that the expressive character of their work could cultivate a sensory experience for the viewer that enacted conversion. Indeed, focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe's most pressing religious issues, this volume demonstrates that conversion cannot be separated from the creative and spiritual ways in which it was given meaning. Contributors include Mathilde Bernard, John R. Decker, Xander van Eck, Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi, Lise Gosseye, Chloe Houston, Philip Major, Walter Melion, Bart Ramakers, E. Natalie Rothman, Alison Searle, Lieke Stelling, Jayme Yeo, and Federico Zuliani.
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• Contents: Preface-- Introduction: the emergence of discourses: early modern friendship, Daniel T. Lochman and Maritere LA(3)pez-- Part I Conventional Discourses Re-Imagined: Bound by likeness: Vives and Erasmus on marriage and friendship, Constance M. Furey-- Triangulating humanist friendship: More, Giles, Erasmus and the making of the Utopia, Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski-- Friendship's passion: love-fellowship in Sidney's New Arcadia, Daniel T. Lochman. Part II Alternative Discourses: Friendship in the Margins: GuzmA!n de Alfarache's 'other self': the limits of friendship in Spanish picaresque fiction, Donald Gilbert-SantamarA-a-- The courtesan's gift: reciprocity and friendship in the letters of Camilla Pisana and Tullia D'Aragona, Maritere LA(3)pez-- The 'single lyfe' of Isabella Whitney: love, friendship and the single woman writer, Allison Johnson-- 'Friendship multiplyed': Royalist and Republican friendship in Katherine Philips's coterie, Penelope Anderson. Part III Friendship in Ethics and Politics: 'My foule, faulce brest': friendship and betrayal in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh-- The friendship of the wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Marc D. Schachter-- 'To plainness is honour bound': deceptive friendship in King Lear, Wendy Olmstead-- Politics and friendship in William Cartwright's The Lady-Errant, Christopher Marlow-- Milton against servitude: classical friendship, tyranny, and the law of nature, Gregory Chaplin-- From civic friendship to communities of believers: Anabaptist challenges to Lutheran and Calvinist discourses, Thomas Heilke-- Afterword, Lorna Hutson-- Works cited-- Index.
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Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.
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