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Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works (Transforming Literary Studies)
April 2019
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition.
Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts
January 2019
This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience.
Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
August 2018
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M.
Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds
August 2018
When did European modes of political thought diverge from those that existed in other world regions?
Projecting Nature: Agostino Scilla’s Seventeenth-Century Fossil Drawings
August 2018
In 1670 the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla (1629–1700) devised an entirely new way of depicting fossils when he wrote and illustrated his Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (1670–1671), which...
Authenticity, Complaint, and the Russianness of American Jewish Literature
July 2018
Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and their critics embraced the notion that their work displayed an affinity to Russian and Yiddish literature, especially to the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
April 2018
We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology.
Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes
April 2018
Word embeddings are a powerful machine-learning framework that represents each English word by a vector.
The German-Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts)
February 2018
In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany — the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as...
The Litsevoi Svod as Graphic Novel Narrativity in Iconographic Style
January 2018
In Orhan Pamuk’s brilliant novel about seeing and beauty, My Name Is Red, miniaturists at the Sultan’s court exemplify historical tensions in 16th-century Ottoman artistic culture.
Josep Pla: Seeing the World in the Form of Articles
June 2017
Josep Pla is Catalonia’s foremost twentieth-century prose writer.
Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project
April 2017
What can a big data approach bring to the study of the early modern Republic of Letters? This is the question we asked ourselves in our collaborative project Mapping the Republic of Letters.
Beyond Reason: Wagner Contra Nietzsche
November 2016
Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen,...
Jewish Argument Style among Russian Revolutionaries
November 2016
Jewish speech was heard in Russian revolutionary contexts as characterized by emphatic tones, rhetorical questions, an argumentative stance, and sarcasm, all performative elements of Jewish English...
Edgar Salin and Social Theory in the Circle around Stefan George.
October 2016
Trying to extract political messages from poetry when political statements are not immediately self-evident can lead one quickly to speculative and even contradictory results.
The French Enlightenment Network
September 2016
“What was the Enlightenment” is a question scholars have been asking since the eighteenth century, but far less often has it been asked who the Enlightenment was.
How economic, humanitarian, and religious concerns shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers
September 2016
What types of asylum seekers are Europeans willing to accept?
Closeness before the law: purity, prayer, and al-Tulaytuli's Mukhtasar
July 2016
The present study focuses on the intersection between Islamic jurisprudence, poetics, and manuscript culture in the secret Muslim communities (moriscos) of sixteenth-century Aragon.
Closeness and manuscript culture
July 2016
Why devote a special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies to closeness and manuscript culture?
Muslim and Jewish women: Historical and cultural contexts
July 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of...
Mythographer of Paradoxes: How Friedrich Kittler’s Legacy Matters
June 2016
Friedrich Kittler’s farewell words of 15 July 2011, delivered at the original building of the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he had taught...
The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
June 2016
Relying on diversity measures computed at the apartment block level under conditions of exogenous allocation of public housing in France, this paper identifies the effects of ethnic diversity on...
Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy
June 2016
This chapter aims to locate Machado’s place in the development of literature—more specifically, realism in Brazil.
Byron, Gandhi and the Thompsons: the Making of British Social History and Unmaking of Indian History
April 2016
This paper explores the influence of the Indian nationalist movement on the formation of British social history by highlighting the intellectual and social bonds between key nationalists and the...
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