Der durchgehend englischsprachige Sammelband versammelt Beiträge international renommierter Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler (u. a. von Peter Burke, Carlo Ginzburg, Jan und Aleida Assmann), die sich mit dem Phänomen des Kulturtransfers in der europäischen Renaissance-Literat…
"This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"--
"This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"--
"This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"--
Introduction: Fools, from Popular Culture to Disability Studies -- Section 1. Law -- The Legal Discourse of 'Idiocy' on the Stage and Page -- 'A fool and his money are soon parted': the Fool and Property -- 'An you knew my properties somebody would ha' me': the Fool as a Ward --…
"This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"--
"This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation of fool characters in early modern English literature"--
"Frame, Glass, Verse shows how an earlier understanding of poetic language has been obscured by a modern idea of framing that has structured our apprehension of works of art, concepts, and even historical periods. Kalas presents archival research in the history of frames, mirror…
In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought-from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection"--Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas explores …
