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Author : Catherine E. Rigby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813922755
Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, this text compares English and German literary models of romanticism.
Author : Frans Theuws,Mayke B. de Jong,Carine Van Rhijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004117341
Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.
Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554735
This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of 'holiness', Meri depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths. Critical readings of a wide range of contemporary sources - travel writing, geographical works, pilgrimage guides, legal writings, historical sources, hagiography, and biography - reveal a vibrant religious culture in which the veneration of saints and pilgrimage to tombs and shrines were fundamental.
Author : Richard McClelland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783111150536
The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically with the alpine environment, whether as visitors through the well-established leisure industry, as enthusiasts of extreme sports, or as residents who feel the acute end of social and environmental change. Taking a transnational view of Alpine space, the volume demonstrates that the Alps are not geographically peripheral to the nation-state but are a vibrant locus of modern cultural production. As The Draw of the Alps attests, the Alps are nothing less than a crucible in which understandings of what it means to be human have been forged.
Author : Stuart Cooke,Peter Denney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350121652
Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry – the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges, Romanticism, globalisation, avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation, including science fiction, poetry, colonial natural history and oral narrative.
Author : Greg Garrard
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199742929
The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism explores a range of critical perspectives used to analyze literature, film, and the visual arts in relation to the natural environment. Since the publication of field-defining works by Lawrence Buell, Jonathan Bate, and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm in the 1990s, ecocriticism has become a conventional paradigm for critical analysis alongside queer theory, deconstruction, and postcolonial studies. The field includes numerous approaches, genres, movements, and media, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The contributors come from around the globe and, similarly, the literature and media covered originate from several countries and continents. Taken together, the essays consider how literary and other cultural productions have engaged with the natural environment to investigate climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, the nature of "humanity," and more. Featuring thirty-four original chapters, the volume is organized into three major areas. The first, History, addresses topics such as the Renaissance pastoral, Romantic poetry, the modernist novel, and postmodern transgenic art. The second, Theory, considers how traditional critical theories have expanded to include environmental perspectives. Included in this section are essays on queer theory, science studies, deconstruction, and postcolonialism. Genre, the final major section, explores the specific artforms that have animated the field over the past decade, including nature writing, children's literature, animated films, and digital media. A short section entitled Views from Here concludes the handbook by zeroing in on the various transnational perspectives informing the continued dissemination and globalization of the field.
Author : Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571139276
Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on environmentalism.
Author : Asko Nivala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351797283
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I The Golden Age and Primitivism -- 1 The Savages -- 2 Prometheus and Orpheus -- 3 Atlantis -- PART II The Blossoming and Decline of Culture -- 4 The Age of Blossoming in Athens -- 5 Alexandria -- PART III The Problem of a National Golden Age -- 6 The Roman Model: Golden Age as a Modern Disease -- 7 From Classicism to Romanticism -- PART IV Kingdom of God -- 8 German Tradition of Chiliasm -- 9 From Eschatology to Kairology -- 10 The Gospel of Nature -- 11 Medievalism as the Externalisation of the Golden Age -- Conclusion -- Index
Author : Rochelle Tobias
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474454186
This collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders what Friedrich Hölderlin's work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin's 'harmonious opposition'.
Author : Hannu Salmi,Asko Nivala,Jukka Sarjala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317307211
The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions have vital importance to the understanding of this formative period of modern Europe. The chapters of this volume concentrate on the following themes: What were the sites of culture, civilization and Bildung and how were these sites employed in defining these concepts? What kind of borders did this process of definition and its inherent spatial imagination produce? What were the connecting routes between the supposed centers and peripheries? What were the strategies of envisioning, negotiating and transforming cultural territories in early nineteenth-century Europe? This book adds new perspectives on ways of approaching spatiality in history by investigating, for example: the decisive role of the French revolution, the persistent interest in classical civilization and its sites, emerging urbanism and the culture of the cities, the changing constellations between centers and peripheries and the colonial extensions, or transfigurations, of culture. It also pays attention to the spatiality of culture as a metaphor, but simultaneously emphasizes the production of space in an era of technological innovation and change.
Author : Ahmad Khan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009115346
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, many defining features of classical Sunni Islam began to take shape. Among these was the formation of medieval Sunnism around the belief in the unimpeachable orthodoxy of four eponymous founders and their schools of law. In this original study, Ahmad Khan explores the history and cultural memory of one of these eponymous founders, Abū Ḥanīfa. Showing how Abū Ḥanīfa evolved from being the object of intense religious exclusion to a pillar of Sunni orthodoxy, Khan examines the concepts of orthodoxy and heresy, and outlines their changing meanings over the course of four centuries. He demonstrates that orthodoxy and heresy were neither fixed theological categories, nor pious fictions, but instead were impacted by everything from law and politics, to society and culture. This book illuminates the significant yet often neglected transformations in Islamic social, political and religious thought during this vibrant period.
Author : Matthew P. Canepa
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520379206
The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia’s cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.
Author : Gary Backhaus,John Murungi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 0739105760
This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars who give a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place.
Author : Daphna Ephrat,Ethel Sara Wolper,Paulo G. Pinto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004444270
Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes explores the creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the material and imaginary spheres of spiritual domination and sanctity that surrounded Sufi saints and became central to religious authority, Islamic piety, and the belief in the miraculous.
Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520259867
What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, & what motivated them to change those rituals? Clifford Ando explores the answers to these questions, pursuing a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.
