Studies in European Cultural Transition: Studies in European Cultural Transition
About the Book Series
The European dimension of research in the humanities has come into sharp focus over recent years, producing scholarship which ranges across disciplines and national boundaries. Until now there has been no major channel for such work. This series aims to provide one, and to unite the fields of cultural studies and traditional scholarship. It will publish the most exciting new writing in areas such as European history and literature, art history, archaeology, language and translation studies, political, cultural and gay studies, music, psychology, sociology and philosophy. The emphasis will be explicitly European and interdisciplinary, concentrating attention on the relativity of cultural perspectives, with a particular interest in issues of cultural transition.
Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Daryl W. Palmer
November 15, 2016
This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of ...
Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim
November 11, 2016
Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the ...
Authority, State and National Character: The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Helmut Kuzmics, Roland Axtmann
November 30, 2016
This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. Drawing on the concepts and theories of Norbert Elias on the Civilizing Process, it sets out to pin down...
Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775–1793: Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française
1st Edition
By Gregory S. Brown
October 26, 2016
The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the achievements, and the failures of the first professional association for creative writers in European history. Founded by the well-known playwright Pierre-Augustin ...
The Poetics of Transubstantiation: From Theology to Metaphor
1st Edition
By Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini
September 09, 2016
The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favoring an interartistic and comparative perspective, a wide range of critical approaches, from the ...
Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
1st Edition
By Michael J. Sosulski
May 28, 2007
In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? ...
Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips
1st Edition
By Laurance Grove
November 28, 2005
This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. It moves beyond the issue of defining the emblematic genre to examine the ways in which emblems - and their modern counterparts - interact with...
The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy
1st Edition
By Verna A. Foster
February 20, 2004
Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame (serious drama ...
The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism
1st Edition
By Justin Clemens
August 11, 2003
Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that ...
Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Ouditt
April 02, 2002
This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributions to this volume give due attention to the twentieth century migratory phenomena, theorised by Edward Said, Julia Kristeva and Salman Rushdie...
Translating Travel: Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation
1st Edition
By Loredana Polezzi
December 21, 2001
Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture. The volume takes as its starting point the marginal position of contemporary Italian travel ...
Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature: Selected Essays by Klaus Garber
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Reinhart
December 20, 2000
The most prolific historian of early modern German literature in the twentieth century, Klaus Garber has largely remained unknown to English-language scholars. The seven essays selected here are translated into English for the first time and represent the ’essence’ of Garber’s work. Central to ...