At the heart of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm are Saracens: instrumental figures in the driving themes of conquest, loyalty, vassalage, chivalry, love-service and redemption that run through the
Communications scholars explore relationships between communications and religion, linking theories of religion, theories of culture, communication theories, philosophical theories, and media theories
This book examines the relevance of the concepts of space and place to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The core of the book is a series of readings of key Borges texts viewed from the perspective of hu
Bridges and Walls is a first step towards a comparative confrontation between the social-cultural situation of Slovenian emigrants in the past and the current social-cultural situation of various grou
Since translation cannot be approached in isolation from meaning, anything that is said about translation must necessarily be placed in the context of meaning. Accordingly, the first volume of the boo
The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address the relationship between opera and audiovisual technolo
To what extent is philosophy reliant on translation and how does this practice impact on philosophy itself? How should philosophical texts be translated? Is translation inherently philosophical? Can p
The essays presented here pay tribute to Hans Sauer as a specialist on English medieval literature and culture. This book shows what we can safely infer from medieval texts and where we need to be cau
Karl Barth of fered Church Dogmatics III.3 as a ‘radical correction’ of Reformed Orthodoxy’s doctrine of providence. This book assesses this claim and argues that III.3 represents a ‘personalist’ revi
In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented through concealment and spin, the roles display and
Human beings are cultural by nature. The human mind is as much the individual result of exquisite evolutionary engineering, as it is the outcome of an intense synergy with other minds in a densely soc
This collection explores issues of interdisciplinarity, language, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of teaching in a university and how university teaching should ap
Generosity and Gratitude: A Philosophical Psalm gives expression, in free verse, to our common human experience of generosity and gratitude. It opens with rejoicing at the presence of the abundance ch
The era that began with the election of the Thatcher and Reagan governments has been dominated by contemporary forms of neoliberalism-based market fundamentalism, globalization as world economic integ
Peters (education, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) collects ten of his writings, written over the course of the 2000s, offering post-modern critiques of neoliberalism in education. He characterize
This collection of scholarly articles on Queen Elizabeth I examines the development of the monarchy and English identity through her personal writings and construction of political dialogue and court
This study focuses on beliefs about music current in eighteenth-century Germany. Of particular interest are the conceptual metaphors through which major writers (Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Klopstock
The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics. The con
A political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language are viewed broadly with topics ranging widely across
Despite being Ireland’s national and first official language, Irish is marginalised and threatened as a community language. The dominant discourse has long dismissed the Irish language as irrelevant o
This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war, n
The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church’s efforts, during the nineteenth century and the f
This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of the nineteenth century, collecting not only set new ru
Every description of the world we inhabit embodies certain processes of describing. In Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks researchers from the fields of anthropology, architecture and fine art reflect on the
American scholar of Medieval paleography and literary analysis Masi (1939-2004) drew from his graduate courses in Chaucer (Loyola U. Chicago) to explore the 14th-century Middle English poet's portraya
Among the perennial and erroneous views that Jaroszynski hopes to set straight is that old art was a copying of reality, that not until romanticism were artists ascribed creative abilities, and that a
