European category: 23182 books
Death of a Holy Land
Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of Orly Castel-Bloom, Michal Govrin, Zeruya Shalev, and Yoram Kaniuk, the book argues for a new understanding...
Trasjanka und Suržyk gemischte weißrussisch-russische und ukrainisch-russische Rede
Sprachlicher Inzest in Weißrussland und der Ukraine?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Weißrussland und die Ukraine gelten als zweisprachig. Millionen von Menschen in beiden Ländern sprechen aber oft weder Weißrussisch bzw. Ukrainisch noch Russisch in Reinform. Vielmehr praktizieren sie eine gemischte weißrussisch-russische bzw. ukrainisch-russische Rede. Diese Mischungen aus genetisch...
The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry
Reference, Trauma, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian...
Self Impression
Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valéry, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and...
Against Power
For an Overhaul of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command...
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology
The Humanist Tradition in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
by Cyprien Robert
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
“ Depuis le tragique dénouement de l’insurrection de Cracovie, la propagande russe a pris une extension formidable. Il n’est plus question que de ses progrès et de ses intrigues sur tous les points du monde slave. Partout cette propagande, se décorant elle-même du nom de panslavisme, promet...
Canti
Poems / A Bilingual Edition
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways....
Motivation in War
The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance...
by Simon MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European...
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances...