Dirk Uffelmann
1) Der erniedrigte Christus (Volume I): Metaphern und Metonymien in der russischen Kultur und Literatur
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Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
This three-volume book investigates the Russian transformations of one of the central concepts of Greek Christology, the self-humiliation or kenosis of Christ. The author applies rhetoric (paradox, metaphor, metonymy) as a means to elucidate mechanisms of theological persuasion and to trace the representations of the humiliated Christ and his imitations in various media from liturgy and iconology to everyday practice and literary fiction. The exploration...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Der Band untersucht Figuren der Endlichkeit in der europäischen Romantik. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass Figuren des Letzten - letzte Menschen (J.-B Grainville: Le dernier homme (1805); M. Shelley: The Last Man (1826)), letzte Dinge (I. Kant: Das Ende aller Dinge (1794) - in der Romantik ein spezifisches Endlichkeitsbewusstsein artikulieren. Die einsetzende romantische Reflexion der Endlichkeit, die sich synchron mit den zeitgenössischen...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both...