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Classical Posthumanism
Posthumanist approaches to Graeco-Roman literature and culture are increasingly relevant in the field of classics. Although Posthumanism is generally...
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Classical Posthumanism
Posthumanist approaches to Graeco-Roman literature and culture are increasingly relevant in the field of classics. Although Posthumanism is generally...
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A3 Reclusive Openness: A Black American Classical Pianist in Europe
This chapter or track addresses the life and writings of African-American classical pianist Eugene Haynes, notably his friendship with the Danish...
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Edward Lamburn and a Classical Education
Richmal’s father Edward Lamburn was a lasting influence on her life. He offered her his knowledge of classical literature and language, and a...
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“The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Classical World
A cursory glance at Poe's writings illustrates the part played by the classical world in his writing. He spoke of Helen, Diana, Pallas Athena, Monos...
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Mountains, meaning, mediation: Petrarch’s ‘Ascent to Mont Ventoux’ (1336) and the ecological imagination of classical Chinese poetry
Petrarch’s ascent of the highest mountain in Provence on April 26, 1336 CE, has been interpreted as a turning point in European environmental...
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On metaphor of diseases in the classical Chinese novel Liaozhai Zhiyi
Diseases in literary works are by no means just a simple physiological or medical phenomenon. Rather, they should be understood as metaphors that...
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Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature
Nezami (Nizami) Ganjavi (533/1139–599/1203), one of the greatest Persian poets and thinkers, lived in the city of Ganja in a region, which until 1918...
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Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature Afterlives of the Nightingale’s Song
Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of...
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Resources for Creativity from Chinese Classical Culture: A Discussion on the Creative Thinking and Creation Pattern of “Old Tales Retold” and Revelations on the Development of Creative Writing
This research aims to explore the relationship between the creative thinking of “Old Tales Retold” 故事新編 and nurturing the writing of creative works...
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From Passive Matter to Embodied Affects: Gendering Emotions in the Classical Tradition
This chapter aims to provide the philosophical underpinnings of the Stoic, or Stoic-inflected, lineage of emotion history that extends through the...
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Nezami, the Persian Wordsmith: Sakhon in Classical Persian Poetry
The single verse above can support many of the points I am trying to make in this book. That of all the things he can wish, hope, or pray for, Nezami...
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Coexistence of Classical Chinese and Vernacular Chinese in Fiction Writing
This chapter focuses on the stylistics of fictions. In the twentieth century, the stylistics of fictions became an issue of general concern for...
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Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature Demystifying the Mystic
This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the...
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From a political order to a knowledge structure: the influence of western library science on Chinese classical literary system
The classical Chinese literary system owns no independent status because of its affiliation to catalogue books under the dual pressure from politics...
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“Far from Variation or Quick Change”: Classical and New Translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Hungary
The writing of this paper has primarily been driven by the fact that many new sonnet translations have been born in the last 30 years in Hungary. The...
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Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution
How Plutarch inspired Charlotte Corday to murder—neo paganism in the French Revolution—revolutionary suicide, and how Montesquieu prepared the way...
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Brodkey, Harold: Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Der mit einer Vielzahl von Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnete Autor der 1988 erschienenen Kurzgeschichtensammlung – ab den 1960er Jahren regelmäßiger...
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C. H. Sisson Reconsidered
This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The...
