Download or read book Expressionism Reassessed written by Shulamith Behr and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Expressionism reassesed focuses on the multi-disciplinary development of Expressionism, setting it in a cultural, political, and historical context. The international team of specialists cover painting, music, theatre, sculpture, film opera, architecture, and dance." -- Back cover.

Download or read book Language Text Subject written by Malcolm Kevin Read and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central concern of this radically innovative study is to offer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of a transcendental subject and its corresponding insistence on the autonomy of the literary text. Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism to modernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of post-structuralist thinking and brings Kristeva, Foucault, Althusser, Eagleton, and other important theorists to bear on a field hardly touched by such approaches. Chapters 1 and 2, dealing with Garcilaso de la Vega and Calderonian drama, respectively, argue the need to relate cultural development to the transition from medieval organicism to bourgeois animism. Chapters 3 and 4, which treat the Enlightenment figures Martín Sarmiento and Jovellanos, show how rationalism presupposes a binding of the body (of language). Chapters 5 and 6 argue that the neo-idealist view of language in modern linguistics and literature posits an overdetermined subject, which is a symptom of and a reaction to the reification of capitalism. Read's study not only provides new readings of canonic texts but also brings under critical scrutiny some of the assumptions about the human subject and the role of writing and literature that are implicit in the construction of the field of Hispanism itself. Language, Text, Subject is recommended for scholars and students of literary theory and Spanish literature, culture, and linguistics.

Download or read book Trends in Romance Linguistics and Philology Romance comparative and historical linguistics written by Rebecca Posner and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature written by Linda Lomperis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.

Download or read book On Germanic Linguistics written by Irmengard Rauch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Download or read book Renaissance Culture in Context written by Jean R. Brink and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have led us to assume that national traditions were defining in a way that they may not have been during the Renaissance, when Latin remained an international language. This collection interrogates the historical importance of national traditions, many of which depend upon geographical boundaries that took their shape only after the emergence of the nation state in the modern period. Each of the essays in this collection makes a distinctive contribution to a particular discipline and national culture. Taken together, they interrogate divisions between historiography and the fine arts, literature and the history of ideas as well as the boundaries between national traditions. The essays in this volume offer a compelling and persuasivejustification for an interdisdiplinary and international approach to the study of Renaissance culture.

Download or read book Letters and Society in Fifteenth century Spain written by A. D. Deyermond and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Latin and the Romance Languages in the Middle Ages written by Roger Wright and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important interdisciplinary conference held at Rutgers University in 1989. Eighteen internationally known specialists in linguistics, history, philology, Latin, and Romance languages tackle the difficult question of how and when Latin evolved into the Romance languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. The result is a stimulating and open exchange that offers the most up-to-date and accessible coverage of the topic. Contributors are Paul M. Lloyd, Tore Janson, J&ózsef Herman, Alberto Varvaro, Thomas D. Cravens, Harm Pinkster, John N. Green, Roger Wright, Marc Van Uytfanghe, Rosamond McKitterick, Katrien Heene, Michel Banniard, Birte Stengaard, Carmen Pensado, Thomas J. Walsh, Robert Blake, Ant&ónio Emiliano, and Marcel Danesi.

Download or read book War Culture and Society in Renaissance Venice written by John Rigby Hale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the majority of these essays are about wars fought against Venice's enemies or on the building and defence of Venetian and other fortifications, there are also essays on other aspects of Venetian life and art: on Giorgione's earliest work; on the career of a Venetian pope; on the building of the Ca' d'Oro; and on the Diarii of Marino Sanuto.

Download or read book Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics written by Christiane Laeufer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nineteenth edition of LSRL proceedings contains a selection of papers on variety of Romance idioms and includes current topics in established areas of study. The phonology papers focus mostly on syllabic and higher-level prosodic structure. The morphology section deals primarily with compounding. The syntax contributions principally treat infinitival clauses, extraction phenomena, and binding. While synchronic data serve as the point of departure in most of the studies, historical perspectives are also considered in each major section. Included in the volume are two invited contributions, by Violeta Demonte (on linking and case with prepositional verbs) and Shana Poplack (on variation in the form and function of the subjunctive in Canadian French).

Download or read book Dear Sister written by Karen Cherewatuk and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre explores women's contributions to letter writing in Western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent the first attempt to chart medieval women's achievements in epistolarity, and the contributors to this volume situate the women writers in a solidly historical context and employ a variety of feminist approaches. Both religious and secular writers are discussed, including Radegund, Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, Catherine of Siena, the women of the Paston family, Christine de Pizan, and Maria de Hout.

Download or read book Women Writers in Twentieth century Spain and Spanish America written by Catherine Davies and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the contributers are Clara Janes, Each study suggests detailed readings of selected texts. Some of the writers discussed are recognized as key figures in the Hispanic canon (Carmen Laforet, Rosario Castellanos, Carmen Conde, Merce Rodoreda, Juana de Ibarbourou). Others are less well-known (Maria Luisa Bombal, Idea Vilarino, Dora Alonso, Gioconda Belli, Julie Sopetran, Tina Diaz) but important to an understanding of women as producers of textual meaning. Among the contributers are Clara Janes, Monserrat Ordonez and Mirta Yanez. What emerges are the multiple subversive strategies used by women writing in Spanish and Catalan to enable self-representation and to challenge hegemonic discourse.

Download or read book The Celtic Connection written by Glanville Price and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Editor points out, the Celtic identity is not one of race - the genetic links, if they are there at all, just cannot be proved - but it is of a common linguistic and cultural heritage. The Celtic Connection focuses on the similarities and differences in language across the Celtic nations and contributes to the resurgence of interest in the Celtic identity which is increasingly being supported by official bodies, both national and international.

Download or read book Libertinage and the Art of Writing 2 written by David Lee Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Feminist Readings on Spanish and Latin American Literature written by Lisa P. Condé and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays presented here were selected from papers given at a conference held in June 1990 at the University of London. The conference included coverage of feminist readings of male and female writers, both Spanish and Latin-American, from the Golden Age to the late-20th century. The essays represent the British contribution to the ongoing debate on the interaction between feminism and hispanism. Writers examined include Calderon, Galdos, Valle-Inclan, Unamuno, Pardo Bazan, Rosa Chacel, Alfonsina Storni, Bombal, Luisa Valenzuela, and others.

Download or read book Humour and History written by Keith Cameron and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle felt that laughter was a distinctive trait of humanity and one that distinguished humans from the animals. On the other hand, the very existence of human beings could be considered a 'joke'. This title offers an insight into the role humour has played in various European cultures throughout their history.

Download or read book Le chemin royal de la croix compos en Latin Traduction nouvelle written by Benedictus van Haeften and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: