Books
Poesia epica e scrittura femminile nel Seicento: “L’Enrico” di Lucrezia Marinelli | |
Serge Doubrovsky ou l'écriture d'une survie | |
Sacred Eloquence: Giambattista Tiepolo and the Rhetoric of the Altarpiece Art critics and historians have appreciated Giambattista Tiepolo for the facility of his brush and the brilliance of his colors. They have had problems in acknowledging that Tiepolo is also a deeply religious painter. The difficulties stem from the interpretive framework. Tiepolo's religious canvases cannot be understood when viewed through a Renaissance lens. He occupies a particular position in the history of art: firmly embedded in the eighteenth century, he is one of the last great painters of the classical tradition, and, at the same time, one of the precursors of modernity. | |
Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods in its history. Wedged between homogenizing growth and a long tradition of rebellious nonconformity, many Austinites feel that they are in the midst of a "battle for the city's soul." This book explores the complex and eccentric history of the "Keep Austin Weird" movement. What began as a whimsical grassroots expression of city pride in 2000... |
Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain This book is an account of the life and work of Thomas Hare (1806–1891) as a political theorist within the context of the history of party politics in Victorian Britain. It focuses on his principle of personal representation and its association with proportional representation, in opposition to the principle of virtual representation. By linking this debate to contemporary arguments over parliamentary reform, the book demonstrates the relation between political theory and party politics... | |
Myths and counter-myths of America: New World Allegories in the 20th-Century Italian Literature and Film Italian fantasies of America’s apocalyptic Otherness continue to function along the same culturally-defensive lines evidenced in more distant eras, from 1492 to 1929 to 2001. What is the theoretical cause of this historically resilient attraction-repulsion dynamic? Yesterday, like today, Italian literary and cinematic representations of America’s “imminent collapse” seem to serve as metaphoric and didactic means for “redeeming” the integrity of Italian identity... | |
Jüdische Identität bei Heinrich Graetz (Jewish Identity in Life and Works of Heinrich Graetz). The book deals with the outstanding, multi-volume History of the Jews from Biblical times to the 19th century by Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891). The study is an interdisciplinary examination of the significance and meaning of Jewish identity for this first professional historian of Judaism against the background of the literary, cultural, and intellectual history of his time... | |
Euroland and the World Economy: Global Player or Global Drag? Professor Terzi recently stated, “Ordinary discussions of global growth prospects often begin with blaming the U.S. for its excessive external deficit and China for its artificially low currency and the consequent massive flow of exports to the West. While these two players are blamed for sending the global economy astray, little attention is being paid to the role of European economies... | |
Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal Through Politics, Home, and the Body. This interdisciplinary collection explores the complex ways motherhood is experienced by studying the concrete and imaginary spaces mothers inhabit. The authors examine locations for birth, negotiations of domesticity, institutional framings of the mother's world, and maternal metaphors in art and popular culture. Using conceptions of space as a common lens... | |
The Travel Narratives of Ella Maillart:(En)Gendering the Quest Bestsellers in the 1930’s and 40’s, the travel narratives of Ella Maillart once received widespread attention. In fact, both French- and English-speaking readers eagerly consumed Maillart’s accounts of her extensive travels in Asia. Until recently, however, these fascinating accounts seemed to have been forgotten. Today, Sara Steinert Borella rediscovers Maillart for the contemporary reader... | |
| | Graph Dynamics Study of "graph operators" or "graph-valued functions" such as the line graph, the clique graph, the complement, and powers, raises several immediate questions: Which graphs are fixed under the operator? Which graphs appear as images of graphs? What happens if the operator is iterated? Over the last 30 years these questions have been answered and methods developed for particular operators in literally hundreds of papers on the subject. Nowhere, however, could one find a comprehensive treatment or a unification of terminology, questions, and methods... |
