The essays in this volume explore the manifestations of the body in Italian society from the 14th through the 17th centuries.
The Theater of Truth argues that 17th-century baroque and 20th-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex.
Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression.
Heidegger’s interpretations of the poetry of Hölderlin are central to Heidegger’s later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hölderlin’s poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements […]
A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the 20th century.
How much can we know about sensory experience in the Middle Ages? These essays examine the psychological, rhetorical, and philological complexities of sensory perception from the classical period to the late Middle Ages.
This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the “talking picture” so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally renowned director.
The application paradigm of literary studies, in which one spices up a text with fashionable theory, represents the bankrupt extreme of theoretical tendencies, while the denigration of theory in the name of historical accuracy at times covers for a simple and lamentable lack of anything interesting to say.
In this insightful study, Rochelle Tobias goes a long way to dispelling the obscurity that has surrounded the poet Paul Celan and his work.