The objective of the work of W. South Coblin has been to collect various materials on Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages into a single list and to arrange this list in a clear and convenient form, wi
Novillo-Corvalan (comparative literature, U. of Kent) explores the literary relationship between Argentine poet and writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882-1
Scholars of Yiddish and Slavic literature, Jewish history and culture, and linguistics, explore translations of work by Solomon Rabinovitch (1859-1916), who wrote as Sholem Aleichem, one of the most p
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fier
Stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel
Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of perception.
Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Ch
In this historical overview, Ruether (feminist theology, Graduate Theological Union, California) describes the US as in possession of a double identity: on one hand, a champion of the values of freedo
McWilliam (theology, U. of Exeter) has made only minor corrections and literature updates to his 2006 PhD dissertation for the University of Exeter. In it, he subjects the sexual imagery used to descr
The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and 'natural' roles. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebre
