Tracing Paradigms: One Hundred Years of Neophilologus
Tracing Paradigms: One Hundred Years of Neophilologus

Author: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3319335855

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This volume brings together a selection of pivotal articles published in the hundred years since the launch of the journal Neophilologus. Each article is accompanied by an up-to-date commentary written by former and current editors of the journal. The commentaries position the articles within the history of the journal in particular and within the field of Modern Language Studies in general. As such, this book not only outlines the history of a scholarly journal, but also the history of an entire field. Over the course of its first one hundred years, 1916 to 2016, Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature has developed from a modest quarterly set up by a group of young and ambitious Dutch professors as a platform for their own publications to one of the leading international journals in Modern Language Studies. Although Neophilologus has remained broad in scope, multilingual and multidisciplinary, it has witnessed dramatic changes in its long-standing history: paradigm shifts, the rise and fall of literary theories, methods and sub-disciplines, as has the field of Modern Language Studies itself.

An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville
An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville

Author: Ernest Brehaut

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-10-27

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13:

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In 'An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville', Ernest Brehaut delves into the life and work of Isidore of Seville, a prominent figure in early medieval scholarship. Brehaut meticulously explores Isidore's contributions as an encyclopedist, focusing on his most famous work, the 'Etymologiae'. The book provides a thorough analysis of Isidore's literary style and the historical context in which he wrote, shedding light on his influence on later scholars and the preservation of knowledge in the dark ages. Brehaut's scholarly approach offers a deep understanding of Isidore's significance in the intellectual history of the early medieval period. By examining Isidore's work in detail, Brehaut demonstrates the importance of studying the writings of lesser-known figures in shaping our understanding of the past. 'An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville' is a must-read for those interested in medieval scholarship, intellectual history, and the preservation of knowledge in challenging times.

Defending Their Own in the Cold
Defending Their Own in the Cold

Author: Marc Zimmerman

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0252093496

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Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book presents East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic, and literary performance. Working within the theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies, Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Defending Their Own in the Cold examines various dimensions of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro, visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar, as well as Nuyorican dancer turned Midwest poet Carmen Pursifull. The book includes a comprehensive chapter on the development of U.S. Puerto Rican literature and a pioneering essay on Chicago Puerto Rican writing. A final essay considers Cuban cultural attitudes towards Puerto Ricans in a testimonial narrative by Miguel Barnet and reaches conclusions about the past and future of U.S. Puerto Rican culture. Zimmerman offers his own "semi-outsider" point of reference as a Jewish American Latin Americanist who grew up near New York City, matured in California, went on to work with and teach Latinos in the Midwest, and eventually married a woman from a Puerto Rican family with island and U.S. roots.

Staging Doubt
Staging Doubt

Author: Leonie Pawlita

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 311066058X

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This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating detailed readings to plays by Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou, Desfontaines, and Cervantes. While all the plays employ similar dramatic devices for "putting skepticism on stage", the study explores how these dramas, however, give different "answers" to the challenges posed by skepticism in relation to their respective historico-cultural and "ideological" contexts.