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This open access book presents an innovative method of musical analysis based on C. G. Jung's theory of archetypes to examine the creative process of Franz Schubert. Departing from Jung's thesis that creative people have special access to psychic archetypal structures...
The book develops the concept of world citizenship education, drawing on German and Japanese traditions of educational thought to offer new perspectives on cosmopolitanism and global citizenship. It argues that education must prepare future generations for international...
This book offers the first multidisciplinary perspective on the formation and practices of fandoms before the term 'fan' was borrowed from the world of sport to describe enthusiastic filmgoers in the 1910s. The focus is on nineteenth-century theatre, opera and...
This open-access volume explores translations of catechisms produced during the Early Modern period (1450–1800), a type of text now increasingly recognized as pivotal for understanding cultural translation. Bringing together case studies from across Europe’s...
In times of global crisis and uncertainty, narrative literary works serve not only as sources of pleasure but also as catalysts for social and political transformation. Across the American hemisphere, spanning languages, cultures, and national borders, recent utopian...
The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally...
Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in...
The book revolves around narrative as an intriguing, as well as intricate object of analysis and demonstrates how theoretically sound and empirically founded narrative research can look like. Migration is imbued, motivated, and shaped by imagination. Based on the...
Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined? “Reading for Democracy” addresses this question in a series of essays, with topics ranging from ‘reading as a political practice’ to ‘the relational aesthetics of literary engagement’, from ‘the...
Early modern transnational relations and personal encounters were influenced by interactions between Japan and the regions that had become connected to it through expanding global trade and missionary networks. Translation activities linked to Christian missionary...
As the first monograph to specifically focus on the positive evaluation of belief (doxa) as a crucial concept in Plato’s epistemology, this work contributes significantly to scholarly research by offering a fresh perspective that deepens our understanding of...
The Mayajala-sutra is a unique Buddhist sutra which is contained in the newly discovered manuscript of the Sanskrit Buddhist canonical collection called the Dirgha-agama (The Long Collection).The discovery of this Sanskrit manuscript in the 1990s was a major development...
The book explores written language across communication device types. Challenging the current norm of a "device-neutral" approach, it argues that the physical device (smartphone, computer) plays a complex role in language use, similar to other contextual factors. A...
This book examines whether masculine plural role nouns in French trigger a male-specific interpretation. By closely replicating the French sample of an experiment run by Gygax et al. in 2008, Experiment 1 suggests that stereotypically male, neutral and female masculine...
This open-access volume explores how digital resources and methods can be usefully employed for research on early modern translation. The volume focuses mainly on digital resources, and features a number of chapters on translation-specific resources written by members...
This book seeks to navigate between the optimism that has arisen from the promise of the potential of machine learning (ML) in healthcare, and the lack of clarity about what realistic risks and benefits we can foresee. Its main aim is to develop a relational,...
This book aims to contribute to an understanding of the processes in which law and literature combine in conceptualizing Europe.This can take place with regard to important national and local issues of wider significance, or in the establishment of connections between...
How do books dazzle, disgust, or delight audiences? What entices readers to track characters’ trials and tribulations? Why do stories echo across the ages with their intensity? Books with vibrant, somatic elements prompt us to identify with protagonists who fall...
Along with a renewed interest in the empirical foundations of linguistics, the increasing accessibility of large-scale corpora has sparked a surge of corpus-linguistic work on the grammar of natural languages. Corpus-based methods enhance our knowledge and understanding...
This book explores liminal spaces and states in New York City literature after 2000. The concept of “liminality” refers to a transitional state where people, places, or ideas exist between two clearly defined conditions. In this ambiguous “in-between...
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