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Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy, by 1900 the microscope rivaled the railway and telegraph as an emblem of modernity and enjoyed an astonishing diversity of applications. This technology could drive scientific debates on subjects like cell theory, vitalism, and bacteriology; guide workers in classrooms, laboratories, and businesses; and inspire a personal hobby or a mass entertainment. Victorian microscopy productively cuts across the ostensibly separate domains of science, religion, commerce, art, education, entertainment, and domestic life. Writing Embodiment reads nineteenth-century microscopy across scientific, literary, religious, and popular texts. It argues that Victorian microscopists saw their vision and cognition as fully embodied experiences, the images emerging through a material entanglement of bodies (observer, instrument, apparatus, object) in a dynamic, unstable system. These ideas echo the work of physiological psychologists, who proposed mind as a system of embodied, distributed, and dynamic processes shaped by automatic or unconscious reflex action, attention, mental training, and fatigue. Striving to regulate this complex system, microscopists circulated tropes of embodiment through the varied forms of nineteenth-century print culture. They adapted existing concepts (such as beauty, the sublime, natural theology, and fairylands), or coined new phrases (such as many-sided comprehension), to promote favored forms of embodiment and enculturate microscopy as a difficult but valuable pursuit. Beautiful Mechanism draws on important work in book history and periodical studies by emphasizing the circulation of these tropes in intermedial conversations across diverse print forms. Victorians understood wonder and skepticism not as incommensurate approaches to scientific observation but rather as complementary forms of embodiment. Romantic tropes of wonder solicit affective flows from observer to wriggling animalcule and back; while skeptical, realist tropes offer to train the reader's eye, hand, body, and judgment and to formalize microscopical practice. Microscopical narratives may manipulate wonder and skepticism in productive tension or create virtual storyspaces that enlist the reader in virtual witnessing. These tropes shape every level of microscopical interest and proficiency. By analyzing their use and circulation, Writing Embodiment illuminates wider patterns of Victorian thought on embodiment, scientific practice, and community.

This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), including his play, Irene, with detailed, wide-ranging commentary. It has been expertly edited with attention to the extant manuscripts and all relevant printings.The volume includes the entirety of Johnson's verse in all its generic diversity: including satire, ode, elegy, verse drama, and verse prayer. The poems are presented in their original spelling and punctuation with extensive commentary on their literary background—biblical, classical, and modern—as well as careful explanation of unusual words, allusions to historical figures, and references to contemporary events that appear in the poems. Proceeding chronologically, this edition also situates Johnson's verse in the context of his life from his early days in Lichfield to his career as an author in London. Unlike all earlier editions, the present offering provides full translations of all the Latin and Greek poems on which Johnson based so much of his English verse. Correspondingly, it provides the English poems which some of his Latin verse translates. Neither in the presentation of the verse nor in the commentary does this edition assume a command of foreign languages: it aims to be useful for all students of Samuel Johnson's poetry.

As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts. Cogitosus's Life of Brigit, Muirchú's and Tírechán's accounts of Saint Patrick, and Adomnán's Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland that has endured to this day. How did the writers accomplish this through their literary choices? The authors of Irish saints'Lives used the literary form of hagiography (Christian biography), miracle stories, and an elaborate rhetorical style to present the words and actions of their subjects. These Lives created a narrative of early Irish history that supported the political/ecclesiastical elites by showing that their power derived from the actions of their patron saints.

This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O'Donoghue's extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.

L'Orient méditerranéen subit des troubles majeurs au tournant du XIIIe et du XIIe siècles avant notre ère. Les palais mycéniens, l'empire hittite et de nombreuses cités-états disparaissent sous les coups de boutoir des Peuples de la Mer. Seuls les Égyptiens parviennent à les arrêter. Parmi ces peuples, les ancêtres des Grecs Doriens, des Italiques, des Arméniens et des Phrygiens semblent partager la maîtrise de la réduction du fer terrestre.Comprendre cette révolution majeure, qui fait basculer l'Orient méditerranéen de l'Âge du Bronze à celui du Fer, passe par une analyse pluridisciplinaire : linguistique, archéo-métallurgique, historique et mythologique.

The Latin Bern Aenigmata (Riddles) are believed to be written in Northern Italy around 700 AD. The collection consists of 64 short poems about objects from everyday life, plants and animals, and cosmological topics – ranging from an earthenware cooking pot to the movements of the heavenly bodies – that are transformed into enigmatic miniatures. The bilingual edition is supplemented by a detailed commentary and introduction that discusses the probable date and origin of this fascinating collection as well as its unique position within the late antique and early medieval riddle tradition.

Tra 1771 e 1775 Giulio Perini pubblica alcune traduzioni da opere di Salomon Gessner e Christoph Martin Wieland. Si tratta di testimonianze assai precoci circa quell'accensione di interesse per la letteratura tedesca che nell'ultimo quarto del Settecento determina il superamento definitivo del pregiudizio che vedeva nella Germania una nazione incline unicamente alla produzione di opere filosofiche e giuridiche. Perini destina queste sue versioni al festeggiamento dei matrimoni di Alba e Chiara Corner, le due figlie di Andrea Giulio Corner, il patrizio veneziano sostenitore di artisti e letterati che lo aveva accolto all'indomani del suo trasferimento da Roma. Di Gessner, Perini volge il poemetto Der erste Schiffer, mentre di Wieland i racconti in versi Selim, Balsora, Der Unzufriedne e Zemin und Gulhindy. Le traduzioni di Perini sono qui accompagnate da due discorsi tenuti nel 1783 e nel 1786 in occasione di adunanze della Reale Accademia Fiorentina.

Central to any reappraisal of Southey's mid to late career, is'Roderick'. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey's wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees'expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware. These essays present a cross-section of recent research by students, colleagues, and friends; the breadth of subjects explored demonstrates the pertinence of Nees'distinctive approach and methodology centering human agency and creativity. The contributions follow three main threads: Establishing Identity, Patronage and Politics, and Beyond the Canon. Some authors draw upon Nees'systematic analysis of iconographic idiosyncrasies and ornamental schemes, whether adorning manuscripts or monumental edifices, which elucidates their unique visual and material characteristics. Others apply a Neesian engagement with the complex dynamics of cultural exchange, visual manifestations of political ambitions and ideologies, and selective mining of the classical past. Ultimately, this collection aims to illustrate the impact of Nees'transformative scholarship, and to celebrate his legacy in the field of medieval art history.

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old English medical texts for the modern world.Here the medieval text is read as an example of technical writing (i.e., intended to convey instructions/information), not as literature. The audience it was originally aimed at would know how to diagnose and treat medical conditions and knew or was learning how to follow its instructions. For that reason, while working on the translation, specialists in relevant fields were asked to shed light on its terse wording, for example, herbalists and physicians. Unlike many current studies, this work discusses the Herbarium and other medical texts in Old English as part of a tradition developed throughout early-medieval Europe associated with monasteries and their libraries.The book is intended for scholars in cross-cultural fields; that is, with roots in one field and branches in several, such as nineteenth-century or medieval studies, for historians of herbalism, medicine, pharmacy, botany, and of the Western Middle Ages, broadly and inclusively defined, and for readers interested in the history of herbalism and medicine.

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional government of the Roman Republic evolved to include a leading role for Augustus. Peace at home was balanced with wars of expansion and consolidation on the frontiers. Literature and the arts flourished. A building boom transformed the city of Rome. Augustus was at the center of it all, and thus the lifetime of Augustus and the life of Augustus himself have attracted keen interest from antiquity up to the present day. In his biography of Augustus, the early second century CE author C. Suetonius Tranquillus offers not only a survey of the major political, military and civic accomplishments of his subject, but also includes such diverse topics as Augustus's family lineage, spouses, personal appearance, leisure activities, intellectual pursuits and style of living. We find in the Life of Augustus a detailed biography of a leading figure at a pivotal historical moment, as well as the material for political, social, and cultural history that offers a wide range of approaches to the Augustan age. This volume provides a comprehensive edition of Suetonius's Life of Augustus for readers of Latin at the intermediate and advanced levels. The complete Latin text is presented, accompanied on the same page by a running vocabulary, grammatical support, and historical notes to aid comprehension, making this volume ideally suited for use on its own. An introduction to Suetonius and his style of biographical writing provides context for interpreting the text.

An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted to the use of spoken or written charms to ensure health or fend off danger. Hindley draws on an unprecedented archive of more than a thousand such charms from medieval England—more than twice the number gathered, transcribed, and edited in previous studies and including many texts still unknown to specialists on this topic. Focusing on charms from 1100 to 1350 CE as well as previously unstudied texts in Latin, French, and English, Hindley addresses important questions of how people thought about language, belief, and power. She describes seven hundred years of dynamic, shifting cultural landscapes, where multiple languages, alphabets, and modes of transmission gained and lost their protective and healing power. Where previous scholarship has bemoaned a lack of continuity in the English charms, Hindley finds surprising links between languages and eras, all without losing sight of the extraordinary variety of the medieval charm tradition: a continuous, deeply rooted part of the English Middle Ages.

This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their present limitations as interpretive tools. In the process, Afro-Hispanic, Afro-Portuguese, and Mahjaris are rendered visible as national actors and transnational citizens.

'Este libro presenta un recorrido histórico de los médicos escritores y los escritores médicos, desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. Los autores, Rosselli-Cock y Rodríguez de los Ríos, presentan, entre otros, obras de los ingleses Thomas Brown y del abuelo de Charles Darwin, Erasmus; del francés Jean-Paul Marat, protagonista en la Revolución francesa; del austriaco Sigmund Freud, del ruso Antón Chéjov y del escocés Archibald Joseph Cronin. Entre los médicos escritores de América Latina, examinan, por ejemplo, al argentino Baldomero Fernández Moreno o al brasileño João Guimarães Rosa. La segunda parte del libro, dedicada a los médicos escritores colombianos de los siglos XIX y XX, presenta a los médicos César Uribe Piedrahita, Luis López de Mesa, Luis María Murillo Sarmiento, José Félix Patiño Restrepo, Liborio Zerda y Manuel Zapata Olivella, entre muchos otros.'

Der Band nimmt literarische Konfigurationen in den Blick, die zwischen anthropologischer Perspektive, religiöser Funktion und ästhetischer Erfahrung stehen. Die 19 internationalen und interdisziplinären Beiträge erschließen das Neben- und Ineinander von Kulten und Künsten in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, indem sie Fragerichtungen der (Kultur- und Sozial-)Anthropologie, der Religionssoziologie und der Poetologie überblenden. An vier „Schnittpunkten“ eröffnen sie neue Lektüren vormoderner Literatur: „Religiöse Praxis zwischen sozialer Form und ästhetischer Gestaltung“, „Poetologische Reflexion und rhetorische Figur – Narrative Konstruktionen von Augenscheinlichkeit, Wahrheit und Wahrscheinlichkeit in Text und Bild“, „Intertextuelle und intermediale Transformationen – Diskurse, Figuren, Strukturen und Logiken“ sowie „Individuum und Körper, Herrschaft und Gemeinschaft – Anthropologische Perspektiven“.Der Schwerpunkt der Studien liegt in der germanistischen Mediävistik. Die Beiträge gehen dabei immer wieder über das spezifisch fachwissenschaftliche Interesse hinaus: so im interdisziplinären Anschluss an andere Philologien, die Geschichtswissenschaft und die Kunstgeschichte, im Aufgreifen europäischer Perspektiven und im Ausblick auf eine Geschichte der Rezeption. Im Fokus stehen dabei sowohl volkssprachliche als auch lateinische Werke.

Wenngleich die Alexandreis des Walter von Châtillon unbestritten zu den wichtigsten lateinischen Epen des Mittelalters gehört, fristet sie ungeachtet einiger hervorragender Einzelbeiträge ein bedauerliches Schattendasein in der lateinischen Philologie. Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt mit einer textnahen Prosaübersetzung und einem ausführlichen Kommentar den Versuch, die Alexandreis in ihrer Gesamtheit zu interpretieren und sie neben Fachwissenschaftler/-innen und Studierenden der lateinischen Philologie auch einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Insbesondere soll gezeigt werden, dass das Verständnis der Alexandreis insgesamt neben ihrer außerordentlichen Vielschichtigkeit untrennbar mit der Einsicht in die mehrfach spiegelbildlich angeordnete Rahmenstruktur des Epos verbunden ist. Damit lassen sich, ausgehend von der am Ende des fünften Buchs implementierten zentralen Forderung Walters, einen alexanderhaften Anführer für den Kampf gegen die muslimischen Feinde zu finden, auch in der Forschung bisher umstrittene Fragen wie beispielsweise zur moralischen Bewertung Alexanders des Großen durch den christlichen Autor oder zur Bedeutung der Aristoteles-Rede für das Gesamtwerk einer befriedigenden Klärung zuführen.

Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede's description of Cædmon's production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.

«Teseo: Los problemas literarios» (1938) es un ensayo de Eduardo Dieste donde el autor aborda diferentes temas literarios como la imaginación y el estilo, la figura del verso y obras de teatro y novelas como «Teatro del mar» de Eugene G. OʼNeill o «Crónica de un crimen» de J. Zavala Muniz. Además, incluye una comedia para cine de Eduardo y Rafael Diste: «Promesa del viejo y de la doncella».-

Texte du milieu du XIIe siècle (1150-1155), le Roman de Brut de Wace fait le récit mythique des rois qui régnèrent sur la Bretagne depuis Brutus, descendant d'Enée, jusqu'à Cadvalladr, alors que l'île est envahie par les Saxons. Adaptation en vers d'une mythographie antérieure, l'Histoire des rois de Bretagne de Geoffroy de Monmouth (1137), le Roman de Brut présente une poétique de la répétition qui tend à l'ajout de certains éléments, absents du texte d'origine de Geoffroy, et qui convie ainsi des textes plus anciens, latins et celtiques. Cette esthétique de la répétition porte des conséquences sur l'origine du poème épique, sa composition, et son appartenance générique. A travers une étude stylistique de la sociologie de la classe de la « grande chevalerie anglo-normande », Alex Delusier met en avant la formation du romanesque arthurien au milieu du XIIe siècle, alors qu'émergent les « romans antiques ».

Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Ppeninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers composed their works allows readers to focus on various aspects of this period and to highlight the different ways the vanquished remembered Carolingian rule in Italy. The ‘'memories''of these authors are organized by topic, ranging from the origin of the Lombards to the conflicts that broke out among the Carolingians after Louis II died in 875. Besides presenting the English translation and the original Latin text of the excerpts from the Italian Carolingian historical works, the volume also contains the English translations of the same events recorded in Frankish and papal narrative texts. In this way it is possible to compare different memories about the same episode or topic. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the Lombards and Carolingians, as well as all those interested in medieval Europe.

Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but rewriting, including continuation, translation, and adaptation, lies at the heart of literary traditions in all vernaculars. This book explores both the interdisciplinarity of rewriting and Taylor's remarkable contribution to its study. The rewriting and reinterpretation of narratives across chronological, social and/or linguistic boundaries represents not only a crucial feature of text transmission, but also a locus of cultural exchange. Taylor has shown that the adaptation of material to conform to the expectations, values, or literary tastes of a different audience can reveal important information regarding the acculturation and reception of medieval texts. In recent years, numerous scholars across disciplines have thus turned to this field of enquiry. This collection of studies dedicated to the rewriting of medieval French literature from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries by Taylor's friends, colleagues, and former students offers not only a fitting tribute to Taylor's career, but also a timely consolidation of the very latest research in the field, which will be vital for all scholars of medieval rewriting. With contributions from Jessica Taylor, Keith Busby, Leah Tether, Logan E. Whalen, Mireille Séguy, Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Ad Putter, Anne Salamon, Patrick Moran, Nathalie Koble, Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Richard Trachsler, Carol J. Chase, Maria Colombo Timelli, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Joan Tasker-Grimbert, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Michelle Szkilnik, Thomas Hinton, Elizabeth Archibald.

Why do we love wizards? Where do these magical figures come from? Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary YA adaptations. By exploring the link between Merlin and Harry Potter, or Morgan le Fay and Sabrina, readers will see how the wizard offers spaces of hope and transformation for young readers. In particular, this book examines how wizards think differently, and how this difference can resonate with both LGBTQ and neurodivergent readers, who've been told they don't fit in.

Alla fine del I secolo d.C., durante il regno degli imperatori della dinastia flavia (69-96 d.C.), i Punica rivisitano un evento antico e “inattuale”, legato alla fase più gloriosa dell'espansione politico-militare della res publica romana nel Mediterraneo: la vittoria contro Cartagine e Annibale. Ma l'intenzione di Silio Italico non è soltanto quella di offrire una nostalgica rievocazione del passato, all'insegna del gusto per l'erudizione antiquaria. Le virtù morali e civili che il popolo romano e i suoi più illustri rappresentanti avevano dimostrato nella circostanza sono, infatti, le stesse che hanno favorito la rinascita di Roma dopo la crisi dell'età neroniana e che potranno garantire un futuro stabile all'impero. Allo stesso modo, mentre – attraverso il grande “filtro” dell'Eneide – si collegano all'opera di fondatori della letteratura romana quali Nevio ed Ennio, i Punica di Silio Italico indicano una possibile nuova strada all'epica celebrativa di argomento nazionale.

Achevé entre 1184 et 1190 en Thuringe, aussitôt admiré et imité, l'Eneas de Heinrich von Veldeke est aujourd'hui un classique du Moyen Âge européen. Ce volume suit l'évolution de la légende depuis l'Énéide de Virgile, analyse les spécificités de la version allemande par rapport au Roman d'Énéas ; il recense les références à l'oeuvre de Veldeke et édite les documents relatifs à la dynastie homonyme.

La lucha contra la corrupción, la injusticia, inequidad, y demás problemas políticos y sociales que azotan al país, han sido los protagonistas en las crónicas de Juan Gossain, las cuáles se publican en el periódico El Tiempo. A través del análisis, la investigación y entrevistas, el autor escribe sobre los temas y casos actuales, en donde lo primordial es hablar con la verdad. Es por esto que nace la necesidad de agrupar los textos más relevantes y recientes, para así asegurar que el paso del tiempo no los deje en el olvido, pues todos los temas tratados en este libro han afectado a la sociedad colombiana casi desde los tiempos de la colonia, como ocurre con el caso de la corrupción. En este libro contiene un texto inédito, en el que Gossain condensará el espíritu de cada una de las partes que le siguen. Luego, encontraremos tres secciones de crónicas: la primera, Crónicas históricas sobre la corrupción, en donde encontramos todas las crónicas alusivas a este tema; la segunda, Bandidos modernos y actualidad, en donde refrescaremos la memoria con los casos más mediáticos que se han presentado en los últimos años en el país, y, por último, la sección Luz de esperanza, que será la encargada de devolvernos la fe en nuestros congéneres.

The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois's double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–⁠led revolt in Brazil's “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-⁠Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Bellezza e utilità. Cosa si può chiedere di più a una lingua? Le opere d'arte, che siano fatte di linee e di colori o che siano fatte d'inchiostro e di parole, devono produrre bellezza. Di qui il titolo La grande bellezza dell'italiano, di qui l'organizzazione del libro in sale, come accade nelle mostre e nei musei. In ciascuna è esposto il magnifico italiano di Pietro Bembo, Ludovico Ariosto e Niccolò Machiavelli. Ascoltando il suono delle loro parole, che echeggia da una parete all'altra, rincorrendo il ritmo dei loro versi, che scivola sul marmo dei pavimenti, ammirando la forma delle loro frasi, che adorna volte, colonne e soffitti, compiamo un atto d'amore per la nostra lingua. E lanciamo al tempo stesso un atto di accusa nei confronti di chi la sta progressivamente trasformando in una lingua violenta, rozza, insultante. In una parola: brutta.

Revistas literarias mexicanas modernas es una serie publicada por el Fondo de Cultura Económica con el propósito de poner nuevamente en circulación, en ediciones facsimilares, las principales revistas literarias aparecidas en México en la primera mitad del siglo xx. De esta manera el curioso lector y el estudioso de nuestras letras tendrán a su alcance este sector de la literatura nacional de acceso tan difícil y de tanto interés documental. Con el objeto de facilitar su consulta, cada revista va precedida por una presentación y una ficha descriptiva, y cada volumen va provisto de un índice de autores.

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about fleas, worms and vegetables to the sophisticated puzzles composed by literary figures from Schiller, Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau and Cervantes to Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book traces the history of riddles from their origins in antiquity through the golden age of the Renaissance, to their decline into the nursery and the first few signs of their modern revival, and draws together all the strands of the riddling art. Dictionary of Riddles received a Special Commendation in Reference Review's Best Specialist Reference Books of 1990 Awards.

Wenn E.R. Curtius von einer,Pest des Petrarkismus‘ spricht, hat er damit insofern Recht, als der Petrarkismus mit dem amor hereos auf einer (Geistes-)Krankheit beruht, die der Unerreichbarkeit des Liebesobjekts geschuldet ist und unbehandelt zum Tode führen kann. Zur Epidemie wird der amor hereos aber erst als Dichtung; denn diese Dichtung, die ihr phantasmatisches Objekt stets verfehlen muß, konstituiert nichts Geringeres als das abendländische Subjekt. Pathologisch ist das Subjekt im Abendland, weil es sich von dem transzendentalen Liebesgott Christus abkehrt und der inneren Repräsentation eines gleichermaßen irdischen wie entzogenen Liebesobjekts zuwendet. Es erwächst aus einer Verschränkung von erotischem Phantasma, Sprache und Begehren, und eben diese Verschränkung stiftet eine Gattung, die es den Dichtern der Renaissance erlauben wird, sich als Gründungsväter einer Nationalkultur zu imaginieren, die entweder – wie in Italien – des politischen Korrelats ermangelt oder aber – wie in Spanien und Frankreich – das noch nackte corpus politicum erst bekleiden soll. Zugleich bietet der Petrarkismus aber auch die Matrix für Subjektivitätsentwürfe, die den Diskursen über die phänomenalen Körper widersprechen und als weiblicher oder homoerotischer Petrarkismus in der Sprache des Anderen sagen, was genaugenommen unaussprechlich ist.

Published in 1988: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria is about a prince of the kingdom of Cambria (pre-Saxon Wales) who after surviving an attempted assassination by his uncle, fights as a young Knight in the cause of royal justice.

Thurn liefert eine Studie über die Rezeption volkssprachlicher Dichtung durch die neulateinische Dichtung des späten 15. und 16. Jh.s unter Einbeziehung volkssprachlicher Texte des: Deutschen, Italienischen, Spanischen, Katalanischen, Französischen, Ungarischen und Englischen. Die Studie weist auf das Desiderat hin, volkssprachliche Literatur zur Beschreibung der humanistischen Dichtung einzubeziehen. Allerdings war die Bedeutung volkssprachlicher Dichtung für die regionale Entstehung lateinischer Poesie hoch und prägte diese regional unterschiedlich. Es stand der jeweilige lateinische Text in engem Zusammenhang mit dem volkssprachlichen Texten, die zur Entstehungszeit intensiv rezipiert wurden oder erst entstanden waren.

Der Diebstahl ist nicht nur eines der häufigsten Verbrechen überhaupt, sondern er ist eine Tat mit großer Geschichte: Schon Eva eignete sich den Apfel im Paradies auf diese Weise an, der listige Prometheus stahl das Feuer der Götter, der heilige Augustinus beschreibt sich in seiner Autobiografie als einen Dieb, und Jean-Jacques Rousseau folgte ihm darin mit seiner ebenfalls äußerst einflussreichen Autobiografie nach. Immer wieder stehen Diebe in der Literatur und in den Mythen für Neuanfänge und für Emanzipation: Wo gestohlen wird, geschieht eine kleine Rebellion, und es wird eine Ungerechtigkeit ausgeglichen. Während die Mechanismen der ›Gabe‹ im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert intensiv studiert wurden, hat der Diebstahl in den Kulturwissenschaften bisher keine Beachtung gefunden. Andreas Gehrlach zeichnet anhand zahlreicher Beispiele die westliche Kulturgeschichte des Diebstahls von der Antike bis in die postmoderne Philosophie nach.

Revistas literarias mexicanas modernas es una serie publicada por el Fondo de Cultura Económica con el propósito de poner nuevamente en circulación, en ediciones facsimilares, las principales revistas literarias aparecidas en México en la primera mitad del siglo xx. De esta manera el curioso lector y el estudioso de nuestras letras tendrán a su alcance este sector de la literatura nacional de acceso tan difícil y de tanto interés documental. Con el objeto de facilitar su consulta, cada revista va precedida por una presentación y una ficha descriptiva, y cada volumen va provisto de un índice de autores.

Revistas literarias mexicanas modernas es una serie publicada por el Fondo de Cultura Económica con el propósito de poner nuevamente en circulación, en ediciones facsimilares, las principales revistas literarias aparecidas en México en la primera mitad del siglo xx. De esta manera el curioso lector y el estudioso de nuestras letras tendrán a su alcance este sector de la literatura nacional de acceso tan difícil y de tanto interés documental. Con el objeto de facilitar su consulta, cada revista va precedida por una presentación y una ficha descriptiva, y cada volumen va provisto de un índice de autores.

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures. Moreover, objects, images and words can also travel and connect people from different worlds through books. The volume thus brings together new scholarship focused on the interrelationship of travel, space, time, and individuality, which also includes, of course, women's movement through the larger world, whether in concrete terms or through proxy travel via readings. Travel here is also examined with respect to craftsmen's activities at various sites, artists'employment for many different projects all over Europe and elsewhere, and in terms of metaphysical experiences (catabasis).

Abbiamo una memoria organica, registrata, custodita ed elaborata dal nostro cervello, e sin dalle origini l'uomo si è affidato a una memoria minerale, incidendo pietre o tavolette d'argilla – sino alla memoria di silicio dei nostri computer attuali. Accanto a queste due memorie si è sviluppata una memoria vegetale, dai papiri sino alla carta di stracci e alla carta tratta dal legno che si usa ai giorni nostri. Ed esempio principe di memoria vegetale è il libro, l'amore del quale si chiama bibliofilia. Che cosa vuole dire collezionare libri, antichi o in ogni caso di pregio? Il bibliofilo vive un piacere solitario perché, se raccogliesse porcellane cinesi, le terrebbe nel soggiorno e i visitatori ne rimarrebbero estasiati, mentre non sa mai per chi tirar fuori da scaffali segreti i propri esemplari più preziosi. I non bibliofili non capiscono perché un libercolo secentesco in dodicesimo, dai fogli arrossati, possa rappresentare l'orgoglio di chi è l'unico ad averne l'ultima copia ancora in circolazione. E se apprezzano un incunabolo dalle pagine ancora bianche e crocchianti, splendidamente miniato o rubricato, ne sfogliano alcune pagine ma non sono sensibili alla storia che quel libro narra, talora attraverso i suoi pochi segni di usura o le annotazioni manoscritte a margine, di pari antichità. Gli scritti di questo libro sono usciti in varie occasioni e dedicati ai bibliofili. Ma, tranne forse il saggio sulla Hanau 1609 (ormai entrato in tutte le bibliografie specializzate, e la cui lettura richiede gusto antiquario, passione filologica e profondo amore per il libro antico), gli altri sono stati scritti anche per sedurre, o almeno liberare da tanti complessi, anche i non bibliofili, o i bibliofili futuri, o i bibliofili che s'ignorano. I quali saranno trascinati dalle visitazioni di classici come Kircher, dagli elenchi di bibliofili folli, di ladri compulsivi di libri o di biblioclasti (coloro che i libri li distruggono, li bruciano, li censurano), da una serie di variazioni fantascientifiche sui libri di ieri e di domani, e da tante altre esplorazioni vagabonde di sterminate biblioteche vere o immaginarie. Umberto Eco

These chapters on Old English Literature are intended to fill the gap between Professor Thomas's valuable, but all too brief account in his English Literature before Chaucer, and longer works, such as those of Stopford Brooke and the Chapters in the first volume of the Cambridge History of English Literature. My primary object has, of course, been to make the works themselves known to my readers, but I have also tried to trace the development of prose and poetry during the period, showing in the poetry the modifications of the original Germanic character brought about by later influences of all kinds, and noting those forms or features which lead on to Middle English. In dealing with the many unsettled questions, I have given only the views which seem to me most important. Had I wished to do more, it would obviously have been impossible in the space which I have allowed myself; but references to other works are added for a student who may wish to make a more thorough investigation of such points for himself.

Published in 1984: The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur is an exciting adventure story of the training, testing, and recognition of knighthood in King Arthur's court. The setting is the historical world of the fifth century: Rome, Jerusalem, Britannia. Atleast one copy of the story circulated in England, apparently influencing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Faerie Queene, Book 1.

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.

Un libro de ensayo que indaga entre la relación entre historia y literatura en el marco del Caribe. El libro acude principalmente a la obra García Márquez, de Fuenmayor y Marvel Moreno. Reflexiones sobre la forma que toma la historia en la ficción, hechas por uno de los principales historiadores colombianos. Enfocado sus estudios en el Caribe colombiano, Eduardo Posada Carbó es un referente de los estudios literarios y de la historia. Su preocupación por el Caribe lo ha llevado a conectar las manifestaciones culturales, la producción artística, la historia literaria y social. El libro es una apuesta del autor por reunir cinco ensayos que presentan sus principales tesis sobre historia y literatura y su expresión en el Caribe colombiano.

Aus den Schatzkammern der europäischen Bibliotheken in einer einmaligen Sammlung zusammen getragen. Die Emblembücher, die einst den europäischen Buchmarkt förmlich überfluteten, unterlagen dem Schicksal der Gebrauchsliteratur. Was an Originalen erhalten blieb, gehört zu den kostbaren Schätzen weniger Sammler oder Bibliotheken und erreicht im Antiquariatshandel Liebhaberpreise. Mit den'Emblemata'wird der Zugang zu diesen für das Verständnis der frühen Neuzeit und des Barock außerordentlich wichtigen Quellen neu erschlossen. Dem Kunst- und Literaturhistoriker, dem klassischen Philologen, der am Nachleben der Antike interessiert ist, und dem Mediävisten wird eine Fülle von schwer zugänglichem Material vorgelegt. Auch für die Sozialforschung, die Religions- und Philosophiegeschichte, für Soziologie, Rhetorik, Psychologie und Pädagogik ist der Band ein Quellenwerk ersten Ranges. Da die lateinischen, französischen und niederländischen Texte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts oft schwer verständlich, mitunter von den Autoren selbst absichtlich dunkel gehalten sind, werden den Originalen durchweg deutsche Übersetzungen des Inscriptio und Subscriptio nachgestellt. Die Embleme sind nach acht, teilweise weiter untergliederten Seinsbereichen angeordnet. Dadurch erscheint das einzelne Sinnbild an dem ihm eigenen Ort und in dem ihm zugehörigen Umkreis innerhalb des emblematischen Bilderkosmos.

While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest in bathing (hot and cold), swimming, and good personal hygiene. Medical activities grew over time, but even early medieval monks were already great experts in treating the sick. The contributions examine literary, medical, historical texts and images and probe the information we can glean from them. The interdisciplinary approach of this volume makes it possible to view this large field in a complex and diversified manner, taking into account both early medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, water, bathing, and health. Such a cultural-historical perspective creates a most valuable bridge connecting literary and scientific documents under the umbrella of the history of mentality and history of everyday life. The volume does not aim at idealizing the past, but it definitely intends to deconstruct modern myths about the'dirty'and'unhealthy'Middle Ages and early modern age.

Este libro es el resultado de textos escritos en diferentes momentos, a partir de 1984. El Pacífico colombiano y sus variables históricas, sociales y culturales en relación con el mundo son el eje central de cada escrito. En el libro se incluyen ensayos, relatos y crónicas apoyados en la literatura, la historia y la etnografía; el resultado es una mirada desde diferentes ángulos hacia una región cultural y biodiversa.

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English poetry was written down, and the Icelanders recording the mythology associated with the script were at some remove from the centres of runic practice in medieval Scandinavia. Both literary cultures thus inherited knowledge of the runic system and the traditions associated with it, but viewed this literate past from the vantage point of a developed manuscript culture. There has, as yet, been no comprehensive study of poetic responses to this scriptural heritage, which include episodes in such canonical texts as Beowulf, the Old English riddles and the poems of the Poetic Edda. By analysing the inflection of the script through shared literary traditions, this study enhances our understanding of the burgeoning of literary self-awareness in early medieval vernacular poetry and the construction of cultural memory, and furthers our understanding of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and Norse textual cultures. The introduction sets out in detail the rationale for examining runes in poetry as a literary motif and surveys the relevant critical debates. The body of the volume is comprised of five linked case studies of runes in poetry, viewing these representations through the paradigm of scriptural reconstruction and the validation of contemporary literary, historical and religious sensibilities.

In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal's satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist's art. The enduring attraction of Juvenal's satires is twofold: they not only introduce the character of the “angry satirist” but also offer vivid descriptions of everyday life in Rome at the height of the Empire. In Larmour's interpretation, these two elements are inextricably linked. The Arena of Satire presents the satirist as flaneur traversing the streets of Rome in search of its authentic core—those distinctly Roman virtues that have disappeared amid the corruption of the age. What the vengeful, punishing satirist does to his victims, as Larmour shows, echoes what the Roman state did to outcasts and criminals in the arena of the Colosseum. The fact that the arena was the most prominent building in the city and is mentioned frequently by Juvenal makes it an ideal lens through which to examine the spectacular and punishing characteristics of Roman satire. And the fact that Juvenal undertakes his search for the uncorrupted, authentic Rome within the very buildings and landmarks that make up the actual, corrupt Rome of his day gives his sixteen satires their uniquely paradoxical and contradictory nature. Larmour's exploration of “the arena of satire” guides us through Juvenal's search for the true Rome, winding from one poem to the next. He combines close readings of passages from individual satires with discussions of Juvenal's representation of Roman space and topography, the nature of the “arena” experience, and the network of connections among the satirist, the gladiator, and the editor—or producer—of Colosseum entertainments. The Arena of Satire also offers a new definition of “Juvenalian satire” as a particular form arising from the intersection of the body and the urban landscape—a form whose defining features survive in the works of several later satirists, from Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh to contemporary writers such as Russian novelist Victor Pelevin and Irish dramatist Martin McDonagh.

Este libro ofrece una introducción breve y general a la teoría narrativa de Barbara Dancygier (2008 y 2012). Su posición se inscribe en los estudios de la semántica cognitiva y, en particular, en uno de sus campos de acción más recientes, la narratología cognitiva. El libro también se remonta a las premisas fundacionales de la semántica cognitiva, describe ciertas herramientas metodológicas desarrolladas en lingüística cognitiva, y se detiene especialmente en la teoría de la integración conceptual de Gilles Fauconnier y Mark Turner (2002), piedra angular del principal mecanismo de interpretación que postula Dancygier: el Punto-de-vista narrativo. Siendo un mecanismo cognitivo, el concepto trata más bien de operaciones y funciones que se llevan a cabo en la mente. En el modelo teórico de la Focalización, la construcción del significado está en el nivel del lenguaje, mientras que para este enfoque se ubica en el nivel de la cognición la significación a los textos literarios.