Product Description: Originally published in 1920, this book contains a selection of passages from Rabelais. Detailed notes and a biography of Rabelais are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Rabelais and French Renaissance literature.

Product Description: Aus dem fruhen 14. Jahrhundert sind nur wenige theoretische Medizinexte des Altfranzosischen bekannt. Dieses Buch widmet sich mit einer Teiledition und Ubersetzung sowie historischen, dialektologischen und quellenkundlichen Studien einem anonymen Fiebertraktat, der nach 1300 in Ostfrankreich in hebraischer Graphie geschrieben wurde...read more

Product Description: Zweifellos steht das Thema Familie im Zentrum der Isländersagas. Dennoch wurden die dargestellten familiären Beziehungen bislang nicht umfassend erforscht. Dies ist gerade angesichts des ideologischen Missbrauchs der Texte zu Zeiten des Nationalsozialismus ein Defizit...read more

Since the late 1960s, when he introduced Theodor Adorno’s work on literature and cultural critique to an English-speaking public, Samuel Weber has stimulated the discovery of new and unexpected links within a broad spectrum of humanistic disciplines, including critical theory and psychoanalysis, media studies and literary analysis, continental philosophy and theater studies. The international group of scholars who contribute to Points of Departure demonstrate the persistent fecundity of Weber’s work. Centered around his essay on the Ghost of Hamlet, as reflected in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt, the volume is broadly divided into explorations of the nature of spectrality, on the one hand, and the dynamics of reading, on the other. Each of the twelve essays thus takes its point of departure from “Weber’s singular path between languages, cultures, and traditions”—to quote Jacques Derrida, whose fictive “interview with a passing journalist” is published here for the first time.

In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, along with August Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis—can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. In each example, an outsider figure is responsible for the disruption experienced by the family. Kuzmic deftly argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations during this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Šenoa and Sienkiewicz, from Croatia and Poland, respectively, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Ultimately, Kuzmic’s study enhances our understanding of not only these five novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally.