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Lost in translation: the motif of cannibalism as reconstructed in the English translations of a Chinese classical novel
Many studies have been conducted in the investigation of narration in the field of translation, but most of these mainly focus on the agent and the...
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A Brief History of Alchemy
The second chapter provides a brief introduction to medieval alchemy and its origins, as well as influential alchemical texts, themes, and ideas....
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Introduction
Only a relatively small number of contemporary readers are familiar with the work of C. H. Sisson (1914–2003) and he is in danger of being remembered...
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Gardening time: Horticulture and meditations on time in Song (960–1279) China
In the boom of botanical engineering during Song dynasty China, technology replaced magic as the new wonder of the era, and the garden became a site...
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The Birth of National Literature from the Spirit of the Classical Canon
Based on Beecroft “ecology of world literature,” the chapter discusses the role of canon formation in the processes of nationalizing and autonomizing...
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Marxism
The relationship between utopia and utopianism (considered both in terms of broader "social imagining" and of literary production) and Marxism...
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Biblical Faith and Radical Politics in The Winter’s Tale
Focusing on the animation/resurrection of Queen Hermione’s statue as Shakespeare’s dramatic adaptation of Ovid’s myth of Pygmalion and allusion to...
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Narrative Structures and Fictional Mad Minds
This chapter focuses on the interrelations between narrative structures and fictional mad minds. It proposes to study mental representation via...
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Retrospective Poe The Master, His Readership, His Legacy
This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and...
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Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism Charmed Life
Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Lifediscusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first...
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Dante and His Circle Education, Script and Image
In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's...
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Lear’s Redemption
In political office and masculinity, Lear suffers overlap** anxieties of impotence. As his daughters suggest: he has failed to know himself. This...
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Bijns, Anna
Though largely unknown to anglophone readers, Anna Bijns is recognized as one of the most important writers to publish in Dutch in the sixteenth...
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The Political Dimension of Literary Criticism
This chapter sums up a threefold meaning of the concept of politics for classical Marxist writers which are intrinsically unified in historical...
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Posthumanism and Trauma
Although trauma studies and critical posthumanism have simultaneously developed, only in the last few years have critics started to see the...
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Posthumanism and Trauma
Although trauma studies and critical posthumanism have simultaneously developed, only in the last few years have critics started to see the...
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Identifying Metric Types with Optimized DFT and Autocorrelation Models
This paper explores the classification of metric types using different feature representations. Using weighted timepoint, DFT, and autocorrelation,...
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Basset, Mary (née Roper; previously Clarke)
Mary Roper Clarke Basset (d. 1572) continued the Catholic humanism of her famous grandfather, Thomas More, by translating two religious works from...
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Emma, Empire, and the Classics
Although her classical influences are often overlooked, Austen followed the English tradition of map** contemporary situations onto ancient Greece...
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The Limits of Sense and Transcendental Melancholy in the Philosophy of Love
This chapter adds another layer to the discussion of critical distance and detachment by examining—in the distinctive framework of the philosophy of...