This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of compo…
"Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fra…
Moves beyond restrictive Anglocentric approaches Features contributions from a spectrum of academics, from early career researchers to key names in the fieldAddresses areas such as translation studies as well as postcolonial studies and world literature
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of national culture and literature,…
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and …
Christianity in China has a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), when Allopen—the first Nestorian missionary—arrived there in 635. In the late sixteenth century, Matteo Ricci together with other Jesuit missionaries commenced the Catholic missions to China. Protestant Christianity in China began with Robert Morrison, of London Missionary Society, who first set foot in Cant…
Prosiding ini adalah kumpulan makalah ilmiah yang dipresentasikan dalam Seminar Nasional Bahasa dan Sastra (SNBS) II dengan tema “Pembentukan Karakter Bangsa melalui Bahasa dan Sastra pada Era Milenial”. Prosiding ini membahas berbagai macam topik yang diulas dalam bentuk hasil penelitian mengenai kebahasaan dan kesastraan dari para peneliti di lingkungan Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbu…
From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real w…
Bunga rampai Narasi Kebangsaan dalam Karya Budaya Indonesia hadir di tengah-tengah kegalauan dan hiruk-pikuk ancaman perpecahan yang kita hadapi. Lunturnya rasa kebangsaan, terutama pada generasi muda, menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi bangsa. Bunga rampai ini hadir istimewa dengan menyajikan keberagaman objek kajian terkait konsep kebangsaan yang termaktub dalam berbagai karya sastra, baik dal…