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The volume is a tribute to Aza Alibekovna Takho-Godi by the former students, colleagues, and friends to commemorate her 100th birthday. It contains biographical essays on Aza Alibekovna; essays on ancient Greek literature; ancient Greek philosophy; ancient Greek...
This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in...
Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the...
The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be discussed, but it will also show how this influence set in motion a whole...
The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the impact of Theist and Atheist thought on the narratology of four highly...
In the world’s so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family’s stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression becomes known, the...
This book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition.This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied linguistics as well as second language and bilingualism research. The...
Band 89 des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs enthält vor allem zwei thematische Blöcke, die sowohl slawische Kulturen selbst als auch ihre Rezeption auf einer Metaebene umfassen. Zum einen sind dies mehrsprachige Materialien der Tagung «Periodicals in the Slavic World....
This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of theU.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the connection between the genderedness ofmaterial practice and White masculinity concepts in the U.S.-American mainstream.The examination of the construct...
This is the first study to examine the intersections of Indigenous scholarship, theories of New Materialism and Native American fiction regarding the Anthropocene future. The book discusses selected speculative fiction novels by North American Indigenous female writers...
De forma assaz enfática, e muito consciente, o mundo medieval representa-se a simesmo, nas suas múltiplas práticas sociais e estético-culturais, através da figuraçãoanimal. Pela mão de um assinalável conjunto de especialistas, esta obra faz-nos,assim, recuar a um tempo...
This book aims to provide a detailed study of young adult fiction concentrating on Mexican teenage (im)migrants to the United States and their search for identity. In its quest to define young adult (im)migration literature as a genre, the first chapter combines and...
« La vieillesse, c’est ce qui arrive aux gens qui deviennent vieux ; impossible d’enfermer cette pluralité d’expériences dans un concept ou même une notion. » (Simone de Beauvoir, La vieillesse, Livre II, 11). Dans cet ouvrage, des chercheurs de différents horizons...
Ähnlichkeit ermöglicht es, Gleichheit in der Abweichung zu erkennen. Ideengeschichtlich reicht das Denken in Ähnlichkeiten bis in die Antike zurück und hat in jüngerer Zeit vor allem in der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung an Relevanz gewonnen. Der Band konzentriert...
How do people with and without disabilities work together in the artistic process? This volume is a compilation of 14 interviews with directors and producers of European feature films that enriches the understanding of interabled dynamics in creative ventures. It...
This book is concerned with the study of neologisms in Catalan, specifically with the description of their features. It is based on the results of the research project “Neologismes per a l’actualització del diccionari normatiu” (NADIC) (studying neologisms to update the...
With the acceleration of the globalization process over the last decades, the understanding of translations as privileged forms of cultural interference has constantly advanced. However, a translational approach to national cultures is absent from the concerns of...
The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry. It is the first application of Cultural-Linguistic methodology in research on the language and culture of al-Jahiliyya Arabs. Consequently, it is one of...
This volume addresses its reader after Covid, a time when the distinction between“the fantastic” or “the virtual” and “the real” was blurred and what man would havethought to be a part of an American science fiction movie, became a real experience.A viral attack...
The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today.The very limited number of female authors in earlier...
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