"Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses invo…
Die Zerstörung der baskischen Stadt Gernika am 26. April 1937 gilt als das Symbol für die Grausamkeit des Krieges. Diese Bedeutung verdankt er letztlich einem einzigen Kunstwerk, nämlich Picassos Bild "Guernica."
Etudes consacrées à l'écriture du voyage chez les femmes écrivains du XVIIIe au XXe siècle. Mise en lumière du regard qu'elles portent sur les pays et sociétés visités, de la façon dont elles accèdent à une nouvelle forme de respect et de dignité et enfin de la démarche émancipa…
"First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley's monster in her novel Frankenstein, a frightening charact…
How did the 'flat' characters of 18th-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-19th? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Horne argues that this shift can be better understood by looking to the discipline of history.
Enemy - Stranger - Neighbour: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture' is dedicated to artistic renderings of the Recuay people in Moche art, in all available and preserved media. The Moche and the Recuay were the creators of the two main cultures of northern Peru in the Early I…
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible …
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible …
Die 6. Auflage des Standardwerkes ist gegenüber den beiden Vorauflagen (hier zuletzt in 4. Auflage vorgestellt: BA 1/93) vor allem um Aktualisierungen der Einzelartikel einschliesslich der Literaturverweise erweitert. Nach wie vor als unerlässliches Hilfsmittel zur vergleichende…
