Brill jan 2005 (55 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essays in this volume on the one hand together form an exploration of the Spirit in the New Testament, and on the other hand a demonstration of the spirit of the NT. The focus is largely on the Johannine literature, but there are also exegetical studies in Matthew and Luke. The studies ar…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This groundbreaking study examines the historical development of the Semitic languages from the point of view of grammaticalization, the linguistic process whereby lexical items and constructions lose their lexical meaning and serve grammatical functions. The author first provides an introduc…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This monograph is a corpus-based description of the modal system of epistolary Old Babylonian, one of the best attested Akkadian dialects, using the European structural method. The study strives to match a concrete exponent (i.e., an array of formal features, morphological and syntactic) with…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Literary representations of the body from Africa as well as narrative strategies of writing the body have only recently begun to receive wider critical attention. The reflections on body, sexuality, and gender in African literary texts brought together in this volume do not consider these three term…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar's fiction to contend that the author's texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque. This subversive, postmodern aesthetic privileges extravagant artistic play, flux, and heterog…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the issue of moral realism from a pragmatist point of view, drawing attention to our human practices of ethical evaluation and deliberation. It defends the essentially ungrounded and humanly fundamental place of ethics in our thought and action. Ethics must remain beyond ju…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The twenty-one essays collected in this volume offer a broad range of critical views on the intricate interdependence between verbal and visual representation. Drawing on recent research, scholars from Europe, America and Asia approach the topic from a host of different angles, exploring topi…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance Anthony Mortimer presents a unique anthology of 136 En…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mervyn Peake has been acclaimed as an author of fantasy and as an illustrator, but as yet has received little attention from literary critics. This book is the first to analyse all of Peake's works of fiction, including his two picture story books and novella as well as the Gormenghast series…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft Was it likely to 'encourage the Sword' Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centu…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Divided into four sections: Asian-Western Intersections, Intercultural Memory, Intercultural Perspectives on Women, Genre Studies, and The Intercultural Arts, these essays from diverse hands and multiple perspectives illuminate the intersections, the cross-sections, and the synergies that cha…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Following the warm reception given to The Idea of Education, a volume of papers in this same Rodopi Series, a second conference around similar themes was held at Oxford University and this book is the result. This edited book provides the reader with a fairly representative, coherent and cohe…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains eleven original papers about intentionality. Some explore current problems such as the status of intentional content, the intentionality of perception and emotion, the connections between intentionality and normativity, the relationship between intentionality and consciousn…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, 'morally monstrous-like' crimes an…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern 'gender system' at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the 'public' and 'pri…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amy Ione's Innovation and Visualization is the first in detail account that relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance. Integrated case studies allow Ione to put aside C.P. Snow's 'two culture' framework in fav…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, whi…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fiction is fascinating. All it provides us with is black letters on white pages, yet while we read we do not have the impression that we are merely perceiving abstract characters. Instead, we see the protagonists before our inner eye and hear their voices. Descriptions of sumptuous meals make…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ce volume présente vingt-trois essais consacrés à l'art français et francophone des vingt-cinq dernières années et propose des analyses critiques d'une cinquantaine d'artistes majeurs qui travaillent sur des modes richement variés.The volume offers 23 new critical essays on contemporary Frenc…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edmond de Goncourt's four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers' joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot dev…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents the work of Polish and American philosophers about Poland's transition from Communist domination to democracy. Among their topics are nationalism, liberalism, law and justice, academic freedom, religion, fascism, and anti-Semitism. Beyond their insights into the ongoing sit…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies, regulations, markets, opinions, and technological advances. In these original contributions fif…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Much has been written on Simone de Beauvoir, one of France's leading intellectual figures of the 20th century. The sheer volume of her autobiographical writings testifies to her indefatigable questioning of the nature of existence and her personal and public engagement in the world over the b…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts - prose, poetry, drama - in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary creation for the manner in which it gives hints about the teaching of literary studies in our postco…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Books do not just contain texts: books themselves are cultural artefacts, which convey many meanings in their own right, meanings which interact with the texts they contain. Awareness of the many significances of books as cultural and textual objects reshapes the traditional disciplines of te…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores fictional responses to the changing transport and urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century France, arguing that networks of movement (and an accompanying 'culture of networks') which had become firmly established by the time of the Second Empire constitute a privileged su…