At the end of the nineteenth century, three prominent Scandinavian authors struggled with the classical themes of myth and religion and the modern concepts of Freud and Darwin. The reconciliation of t
Lying at the heart of this volume is the web's enticing appeal, but as yet essentially unrealized potential, as the ultimate corpus around which text-based studies of English can be shaped. Key words
Ten essays which give an account of many aspects of ancient Egyptian demonology. Topics include the multiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identity in the Egyptian formation of the demonic, night
Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and vio
Adapting critical approaches and concepts from New Literacy Studies, historical sociolinguistics, and close reading, Amsler analyses how late medieval writing and literacies in Latin, English, and Fre
Editors and translators Nicholson and Grenier-Winter present students, academics, and general-interest readers with a collection of selected, French and modern English translations of poems written by
Historians, art historians, and economists examine markets for art, chiefly paintings, in late-Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. They cover material culture and paintings, rules and market practice
Editors Birkle and Heil present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic essays and articles that collectively examine the intersection of medicine and literature in the U.S.
Editors Freitag and Reed present students, educators, and general-interest readers with a collection of academic articles and essays that investigate how to the read and teach poetry primarily focused
In three years of meetings and workshops in Scandinavia, scholars of politics and other social sciences and of philosophy collaborated in the Global Security and Legal Order research project. That eff
Scholars of language, literature, and culture, almost all from Portugal or Brazil but one from Macao and another from the US, examine female slavery, literature and female voices, and cultural behavio
Animism is an important part of many religions - from Shinto, Hinduism and Buddhism to Paganism and a range of indigenous religions - which connects the spiritual and material and holds that humans mi
Local and regional conferences were held across Europe and North America to mark the centennial of French philosopher, novelist, and playwright Jean Paul Sartre's (1905-80) birth, and 14 of the papers
The anthropology of consciousness is a transdisciplinary exploration of such matters as altered states of consciousness, healing, spirituality and religious practice, death and dying, and shamanism. I
Through analysis of a case study of Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean painted plaster and questions concerning the direction of technological and iconographic transfer, Brysbaert (archaeolog
Editing and translating team Fein, Raybin, and Ziolkowski present students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with the third volume of their complete translation of the English medi
Scholars of religion, politics, and Iran survey religious communities besides mainstream Islamic in Kurdistan, covering Ahl-e Haqq (Yaresan/Kaka'i), Yezidis, Alevis, Sufi orders and Shabak, Jews, and
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion - always
Looking past conventional histories and their focus on European activities and institutions, Braukamper (U. of Gottingen) analyzes and interprets the oral traditions by which the Hadiyya, an illiterat
Because of their architectural value and function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction, bathhouses have always played a prominent role for civilizations in Anatolia and its neighboring reg
German scholars of American studies, and US and European scholars of various arts, humanities, and social sciences, consider 19th-century religious interventions in the US; evangelicalism since the Co
Ubiquitous in all forms of medieval art from Early Christian and Byzantine mosaics through manuscript illuminations and church sculpture and stained glass, the small, symbolic building donors often ho
North American and Australian contributors do not contrast ancient and modern approaches to the Iliad and Odyssey here, or even necessarily distinguish between them, but combine methods across tempora
Scholars and advanced students of Semitic linguistics and related disciplines present eight papers on such topics as re-analysis and new roots: an Akkadian perspective, the morphosyntax of nominal ant
What epistemological differences exist between printed and online newspapers and how can these differences be investigated? What impact do online newspapers have on the way news is constructed and int
"This volume examines the economic history of Rome in the Republican and Imperial periods. It considers evidence from archaeological and literary sources, and it offers an updated modern economic anal
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