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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The 18th century witnessed diverse interactions between literature and natural science. Literary texts developed scientific themes, while scientific discourse employed literary techniques. Using representative case studies, this volume examines paradigms and transitions in the history of science (mechanics, geography, botany, chemistry/alchemy) and ways of writing and communicating (the Muses' Almanac, didactic poetry, encyclopedias, etc.).
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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
Origins have shaped contemporary literature. This volume is the first to take this into account from a cross-genre and intermedial perspective. It examines narratives of pluralized origins, the intersectional dissolution of their form-aesthetic boundaries leading to experiences of multidimensional vulnerability, attempts at upward class mobility, utopian consciousness, and dreams of the potential to be different.
Plurale Herkunftserzählungen prägen...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is frequently obscured by formal conventions of genre, imagery, rhetoric, prosody, to name but a few. The volume collects essays exploring such configurations between literature and observation from Europe to China. How, contributors...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Europa kann neu gedacht werden: nicht von den Grenzen und Leitdifferenzen her, sondern von den Übergängen. Die aus vier Kontinenten stammenden Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger befassen sich mit der Frage, inwiefern die Fähigkeit, ästhetische, sprachliche und kulturelle Übergänge angesichts hoher Heterogenität hervorzubringen, Europa am ehesten ausmacht. Von Fatou Diome bis Yoko Tawada, von mehrsprachigen Räumen wie Siebenbürgen bis zur Mährischen...