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Does thinking differ in western and non-western cultures. Read the results as a team of philosophers, psychologists, theologians, anthropologists and narrativises grapple with the question

This collection of essays comprises cultural analyses of practices of eremitism and reclusiveness in the USA, which are inseparably linked to the American ideals of individualism and freedom. Covering a time frame from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the essays study cultural products such as novels, poems, plays, songs, paintings, television shows, films, and social media, which represent the costs and benefits of deliberate withdrawal and involuntary isolation from society. Thus, t...

Childhood (Detstvo) appeared in 1852 and was Lev Tolstoy's first published work. Together with Boyhood (Otrochestvo) and Youth (Iunost') it forms a trilogy which, though fictional, is deeply rooted in Tolstoy's autobiography. As the first-person narrator grows out of childish innocence, he develops a growing awareness of the degree of deception inherent in adult behaviour and the extent to which he himself is increasingly capable of deception. Remarkable in its own right for its clear-sighted po...

The Return of Pytheas is a study of poetry and poems through and across two language traditions - Greek and English. While the main focus is recent and contemporary, exchanges reach back as far as Aeschylus and the Iliad. The book thus investigates Christopher Logue's long and extraordinary engagement with Homer, as well as the more sporadic and varied influences of Greek landscape and culture since the 1960s on English poets such as Richard Berengarten, Sebastian Barker, Kelvin Corcoran and Pet...

Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as well as recent scholarship on national identities, this volume offers a rigorous examination of the idea of Polishness. Offering a diversity of case studies and methodological-theoretical approaches, it demonstrates a profound connection between national and transnational processes and places the Polish case in a broader context. This broader context stretches from a larger Eastern European one, a usual frame of comparison, to the...

Das Buch ist den historischen Aspekten des Problems Islam und Demokratie gewidmet und versucht die Bedeutung der Aserbaidschanischen Demokratischen Republik (1918-1920) fur die Klarung dieses Themas darzustellen. Dieses Staatsgebilde, nur de facto von der Entente anerkannt, entstand nach dem bolschewistischen Umsturz 1917 in Russland und am Ende (1918) des Ersten Weltkrieges. Die Republik entwickelte sich wahrend des Burgerkrieges im benachbarten Russland gleichzeitig und in schwierigen Wechselb...

This is a collection of new essays by leading Western specialists on Russian drama and theatre during the first three decades of this century. At this time Russian directors and dramatists were at the forefront of world theatrical experiments, and many of the problems which they faced have since taken on wider significance throughout the world of theatre. The collection is edited by two lecturers in Russian, both of whom have previously published books on Soviet literature.

Covering a wide range of magazine work by women, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. The common thread running through the chapters is the question of how women negotiated the relationship between their public and private selves. Quite often, that relationship turns out to be one of tension and contrast. In order to generate an income, women...

Paru en 1885, Germinal, le roman de d'Emile Zola, occupe toujours le devant de la scene litteraire et sociale. Entre viol de la nature et nostalgie d'une poesie champetre, quelle est l'evolution artistique de la mine dans la litterature francaise avant Germinal ? Quel sens proposent les textes precurseurs du roman ? Sont-ils evocateurs nostalgiques d'un monde terrible et fraternel ? Que nous revele la construction du roman, sa genese, les moments cles tant de l'enonciation que de l'enonce ? Quel...

The Novel in Russia examines the Russian sensibility as it is revealed in prose fiction, the dominant mode of Russian literature. It explores how, in the work of Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol, narrative art forsakes poetry for prose, and considers in turn six authors from the great age of prose realism: Goncharov, Turgenev, Leskov, Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Dostoevsky. The book provides an account of Chekhov and Gorky, appraises 'decadent' prose, the earlier Soviet writing, the school of So...

Band 17 des Jahrbuchs SYMBOLON dokumentiert die Vortrage aus verschiedenen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, die bei den Jahrestagungen der Gesellschaft 2003 in Gauting bei Munchen und 2004 in Kassel gehalten wurden. Die Themenkreise umfassten einmal "Symbolik und Religion" (Sufismus, Islam, griechische Antike, Chassidismus, Christentum), zum anderen "Symbolik der Wandlung - Wandel der Symbole" (Religionsgeschichte, Sakramententheologie, Symbolik der Strohbaren, Koerpersymbolik, Philosophie, Symbolik de...

In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of...