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Scripta in honorem Igor Fisković: zbornik povodom sedamdesetog rođendana
Get PDFThe International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages prepared a Festschrift in honour of one of its founders, Igor Fisković on the occassion of his 70th birthday. The Festschrift includes works addressing the periods that Igor Fisković has dealt with most, thus reflecting the diversity of his interests, ranging from Late Antiquity to contemporary art, with key emphasis on the Late Middle Ages and early modernity. Due to the diversity and the broad period of time the texts are covering, they have been arranged more or less chronologically. The works focus mainly on the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, Fisković’s forte and the topic of some of his best writings. There are also several texts addressing the baroque period, which was not one of the honouree’s interests, but they were written by some of his closest friends and members of the generation of his former students who have had prestigious careers. (from the Foreword)Zbornik je pripredio Međunarodni istraživački centar za kasnu antiku i srednji vijek povodom sedamdesetog rođendana jednog od svojih osnivača Igora Fiskovića. Zbornik obuhvaća radove koje pokrivaju razdoblja kojima se Igor Fisković ponajviše bavio, reflektirajući raznolikost njegovih interesa, od početne kasne antike i suvremene umjetnosti, do ključnoga naglaska na kasnom srednjem vijeku i početku modernog doba. Zbog te raznolikosti i širokog vremenskog razdoblja koje pokrivaju, radovi su poredani manje-više kronološki. Ističe se brojem radova upravo kasnosrednjovjekovno doba i početci modernoga, forte u kojem je Igor Fisković dao svoje ponajbolje radove. Uz njih je i više priloga koji pokrivaju razdoblje baroka, kojim se slavljenik nije bavio, no koji su iz pera njegovih najbliskijih prijatelja i one generacije njegovih bivših studenata koji su danas ostvarili ugledne karijere. (iz Predgovora
Nova post vetera coepit: ikonografija prve kršćanske umjetnosti
Get PDFTrebamo li prvu kršćansku umjetnost 3. i 4. stoljeća promatrati kao zasebnu i zatvorenu cjelinu, izvan korpusa antičke, odnosno, rimske umjetnosti? Smijemo li je izdvojiti iz njezina prirodnog i povijesnog okoliša i pretvoriti je u zasebno razdoblje ili zaseban stil? Ova knjiga nastoji pokazati da okolnosti nastanka kršćanske slike niti izdaleka nisu tako jednostavne kako bi se moglo činiti onima koji njezin početak vide u krugu izolirane i progonjene manjine i u proturječju s tradicionalnim repertoarom antičke umjetnosti. Umjesto toga, upoznat ćemo slojevit svijet bogate prošlosti i vizualnog iskustva, koji prolazi kroz izvanredno velike promjene. Za Edwarda Gibbona, to je „revolucija koja će ostati zauvijek zapamćena i čije posljedice i danas osjećaju svi narodi“. No, moramo biti oprezni prema interpretacija ma koje to razdoblje opisuju kao vrijeme nazadovanja i propadanja, pretvarajući ga u paradigmu dekadencije, odnosno, „trijumf barbarstva i kršćanstva“. Upravo će nam razvitak kršćanske umjetnosti pokazati kako je Rim kroz stoljeća tinjajućeg ili neposrednog sukoba, nerazumijevanja i međusobnog optuživanja između rimske države i kršćana, od „babilonske bludnice“ u Ivanovom Otkrivenju, u djelu sv. Jeronima postao „najsjajnija luč svijeta“ i predvorje Augustinove Božje države. U tom intervalu dogodila se transformacija antičkoga svijeta i rođena je kršćanska Europa.
Suizdavač tiskanog izdanja je Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada.Trebamo li prvu kršćansku umjetnost 3. i 4. stoljeća promatrati kao zasebnu i zatvorenu cjelinu, izvan korpusa antičke, odnosno, rimske umjetnosti? Smijemo li je izdvojiti iz njezina prirodnog i povijesnog okoliša i pretvoriti je u zasebno razdoblje ili zaseban stil? Ova knjiga nastoji pokazati da okolnosti nastanka kršćanske slike niti izdaleka nisu tako jednostavne kako bi se moglo činiti onima koji njezin početak vide u krugu izolirane i progonjene manjine i u proturječju s tradicionalnim repertoarom antičke umjetnosti. Umjesto toga, upoznat ćemo slojevit svijet bogate prošlosti i vizualnog iskustva, koji prolazi kroz izvanredno velike promjene. Za Edwarda Gibbona, to je „revolucija koja će ostati zauvijek zapamćena i čije posljedice i danas osjećaju svi narodi“. No, moramo biti oprezni prema interpretacija ma koje to razdoblje opisuju kao vrijeme nazadovanja i propadanja, pretvarajući ga u paradigmu dekadencije, odnosno, „trijumf barbarstva i kršćanstva“. Upravo će nam razvitak kršćanske umjetnosti pokazati kako je Rim kroz stoljeća tinjajućeg ili neposrednog sukoba, nerazumijevanja i međusobnog optuživanja između rimske države i kršćana, od „babilonske bludnice“ u Ivanovom Otkrivenju, u djelu sv. Jeronima postao „najsjajnija luč svijeta“ i predvorje Augustinove Božje države. U tom intervalu dogodila se transformacija antičkoga svijeta i rođena je kršćanska Europa.
Suizdavač tiskanog izdanja je Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada
Bibliografija hrvatskih književnih časopisa 19. stoljeća: Sv. 3, Književna zabava (1869) - Iskra (1891)
Get PDFU trećem svesku, držeći se kronologije, obrađeno je još 16 časopisa: od "Književne zabave hrvatsko-srbske" (1869.) do obnovljene zadarske "Iskre" (1891.). Uz časopise se nalaze imenska kazala suradnika. Ova je bibliografija rezultat istraživanja i rada na projektu Hrvatska književna periodika 19. stoljeća, br. 130704. Suradnice na bibliografiji bile su mr. sc. Marina Protrka i Suzana Coha
The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas
Get PDFIn preparing this Festschrift, we had in mind a specific inflection of the concept of errancy, one that comes from the rich and layered work of the American scholar and philosopher William V. Spanos, who conceived it as a way of rendering the logos and telos of the American project subject to thorough rethinking and redefinition, both in history and at present. By calling attention to the complementarity of the work of the two scholars, Grgas and Spanos, who both hone their critical skills on the theme of the logic of the American project, we do not so much intend to claim a direct influence but rather wish to highlight the confluence, commingling, and inspiration that working in the humanities may engender. This commonality is featured in the work of Spanos and in the work of Grgas as a dedicated and passionate engagement with the practices and possibilities inscribed in the discipline, which also requires the scholar to move beyond the given and inhabit what Spanos calls a meta-level of thinking. Grgas’s work, located at the intersection of several disciplines within the humanities and social sciences (which is reflected in the principal themes of this Festschrift), reveals precisely such a commitment that has in the course of his long, fruitful and versatile career charted out a scholarly position always in the process of becoming, and never quite stabilized and domesticated.
Grgas’s academic career has been as diverse as the humanistic disciplinary habitus allows: a provocative and popular lecturer, a researcher of tireless intellectual curiosity, a scholar testing the boundaries of disciplines, an enthusiastic and motivating mentor, a thoughtful and sensitive translator, or, as one of the contribution shows, an unobtrusive poet, Grgas has always displayed a remarkable intellectual energy in every aspect of his engagement with the varied and nowadays often embattled debates in the humanities.
However, Grgas’s work as an Americanist, cultural theorist, translator, writer, mentor, and teacher doesn’t merely reflect the exciting, if uncontainable, shifts marking the discipline in the last couple of decades; rather, his intellectual labor has been committed to offering a new way of comprehending this change, its scope, direction, and consequences, so as to create an intense web of connections and interrelations where different disciplines talk to one another, without hastening to provide answers so much as to provoke the right kind of questions. The questioning and questing nature of Grgas’s work has marked his writing from the start, but it has intensified in his later writing as the humanities find themselves facing a whole new set of questions for the new millennium. His sustained effort to bring a new awareness of economic issues to discussions of culture and literature in the recent period has been both timely and critically engaged in its reflection on why this issue is particularly significant at this point in history.
The layout of the Festschrift may be said to loosely reflect and acknowledge Grgas’s scholarly interests that have charted out his career in the field of the humanities.
(from the Editors’ Preface)In preparing this Festschrift, we had in mind a specific inflection of the concept of errancy, one that comes from the rich and layered work of the American scholar and philosopher William V. Spanos, who conceived it as a way of rendering the logos and telos of the American project subject to thorough rethinking and redefinition, both in history and at present. By calling attention to the complementarity of the work of the two scholars, Grgas and Spanos, who both hone their critical skills on the theme of the logic of the American project, we do not so much intend to claim a direct influence but rather wish to highlight the confluence, commingling, and inspiration that working in the humanities may engender. This commonality is featured in the work of Spanos and in the work of Grgas as a dedicated and passionate engagement with the practices and possibilities inscribed in the discipline, which also requires the scholar to move beyond the given and inhabit what Spanos calls a meta-level of thinking. Grgas’s work, located at the intersection of several disciplines within the humanities and social sciences (which is reflected in the principal themes of this Festschrift), reveals precisely such a commitment that has in the course of his long, fruitful and versatile career charted out a scholarly position always in the process of becoming, and never quite stabilized and domesticated.
Grgas’s academic career has been as diverse as the humanistic disciplinary habitus allows: a provocative and popular lecturer, a researcher of tireless intellectual curiosity, a scholar testing the boundaries of disciplines, an enthusiastic and motivating mentor, a thoughtful and sensitive translator, or, as one of the contribution shows, an unobtrusive poet, Grgas has always displayed a remarkable intellectual energy in every aspect of his engagement with the varied and nowadays often embattled debates in the humanities.
However, Grgas’s work as an Americanist, cultural theorist, translator, writer, mentor, and teacher doesn’t merely reflect the exciting, if uncontainable, shifts marking the discipline in the last couple of decades; rather, his intellectual labor has been committed to offering a new way of comprehending this change, its scope, direction, and consequences, so as to create an intense web of connections and interrelations where different disciplines talk to one another, without hastening to provide answers so much as to provoke the right kind of questions. The questioning and questing nature of Grgas’s work has marked his writing from the start, but it has intensified in his later writing as the humanities find themselves facing a whole new set of questions for the new millennium. His sustained effort to bring a new awareness of economic issues to discussions of culture and literature in the recent period has been both timely and critically engaged in its reflection on why this issue is particularly significant at this point in history.
The layout of the Festschrift may be said to loosely reflect and acknowledge Grgas’s scholarly interests that have charted out his career in the field of the humanities.
(from the Editors’ Preface
Children and English as a foreign language
Get PDFIt is not often that there is a need to publish a book made up of chapters selected from three previously published books. The Croatian national research project Investigating learning and acquisition of foreign languages at an early school age (led by Mirjana Vilke) and its sequel Investigating learning and acquisition of foreign languages in primary school (led by Yvonne Vrhovac), with their unique experimental longitudinal design and involving four foreign languages, caught attention of the international audience from the very start. The interest has continued to this day.With the growing importance of English as a modern lingua franca teaching English to young learners has spread to practically all parts of the world. This global change, combined with a lack of systematic studies into early language learning in the formal setting, has made findings such as those of the Croatian research highly valuable.The three volumes describing early learning and teaching of English as a foreign language to Croatian young learners from which the chapters in this book were selected – all called Children and foreign languages – were published in 1993, 1995 and 2001, respectively. What is quite unique to the three volumes, and to the present book, is that they offer an in-depth view into early teaching and learning of English from two perspectives: the researchers’ perspective and the teachers’ perspective. It is not often that there is a need to publish a book made up of chapters selected from three previously published books. The Croatian national research project Investigating learning and acquisition of foreign languages at an early school age (led by Mirjana Vilke) and its sequel Investigating learning and acquisition of foreign languages in primary school (led by Yvonne Vrhovac), with their unique experimental longitudinal design and involving four foreign languages, caught attention of the international audience from the very start. The interest has continued to this day.With the growing importance of English as a modern lingua franca teaching English to young learners has spread to practically all parts of the world. This global change, combined with a lack of systematic studies into early language learning in the formal setting, has made findings such as those of the Croatian research highly valuable.The three volumes describing early learning and teaching of English as a foreign language to Croatian young learners from which the chapters in this book were selected – all called Children and foreign languages – were published in 1993, 1995 and 2001, respectively. What is quite unique to the three volumes, and to the present book, is that they offer an in-depth view into early teaching and learning of English from two perspectives: the researchers’ perspective and the teachers’ perspective. 
CROVALLEX: valencijski leksikon glagola hrvatskoga jezika
No full textEksperimentima na CROVALLEX leksikonu opisanima u knjizi otvorena su neka nova područja istraživanja i mogućnost konstrukcije valencijskih leksikona koji prelaze međujezične barijere i olakšavaju računalnu obradu jezika koji ne posjeduju dovoljan broj računalno podržanih jezičnih resursa. Prva inačica CROVALLEX leksikona sadrži 1739 glagola s 5118 valencijskih okvira (što je u prosjeku 3 valencijska okvira po glagolu) te 180 sintaktičko-semantičkih klasa (točnije, 72 klase s još dvije razine potpodjele). Pri njegovom stvaranju vodilo se računa o čitljivosti i dostupnosti, lakoj orijentaciji i razumljivosti. Druga inačica CROVALLEX-a sadrži 6129 glagolskih lema grupiranih u sinskupove na čijem se sustavnom opisu i dalje radi. Osnovni ciljevi izrade ovog leksikona su svakako unapređivanje opće jezične kulture te upotrebnog općejezičnog standarda hrvatskoga jezika kroz intuitivni pristup širokom rasponu informacija rječničkog tipa. Sam leksikon CROVALLEX (2008) dostupan je na poveznici http://theta.ffzg.hr/crovallex
Intelektualac danas: zbornik radova s međunarodnog skupa Desničini susreti 2013.
No full textIntelektualac danas. Zbornik radova s Desničinih susreta 2013.deseti je svezak Biblioteke Desničini susreti Centra za komparativnohistorijske i interkulturne studije Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Objavljuju ga zajednički Centar i Plejada d.o.o. Zbornik sadržava 14 članaka nastalih na temelju priopćenja s međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa, koji je na temu "Intelektualac danas" održan u Zadru i Islamu Grčkom 20.-22. rujna 2013.Intelektualac danas. Zbornik radova s Desničinih susreta 2013.deseti je svezak Biblioteke Desničini susreti Centra za komparativnohistorijske i interkulturne studije Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Objavljuju ga zajednički Centar i Plejada d.o.o. Zbornik sadržava 14 članaka nastalih na temelju priopćenja s međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa, koji je na temu "Intelektualac danas" održan u Zadru i Islamu Grčkom 20.-22. rujna 2013
Intelektualci i rat 1939. – 1947.: zbornik radova s međunarodnog skupa Desničini susreti 2012. Dio 1.
No full textDvosveščani zbornik sadrži 33 članka autora iz Hrvatske te Češke, Italije, Njemačke, Poljske, Slovenije i Srbije, koji su nastali na temelju priopćenja s međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa "Desničini susreti 2012.: Intelektualci i rat 1939.–1947." Zbornici Desničini susreti od ovog sveska sadržavaju i opširniji, kritički artikulirani urednički predgovor. Nastavljajući raspravu na istu temu, započetu na Desničinim susretima 2011., autori na odabranim primjerima pokazuju različite odnose intelektualaca navedenog razdoblja prema ratu i ideologijama, kako protivnika tako i njihovih zagovornika. U nekim se tekstovima ujedno propituje i legtitimnost korištenja samog pojma intelektualac u navedenom razdoblju i promjene u njegovom značenju. Zbog svog komparativnog pristupa kao i predmeta istraživačkih interesa i pristupa koji dosada nisu bili kritički reflektirani, zbornik doprinosi kritičkom vrednovanju intelektualne baštine razdoblja 1939.–1947. godine te razumijevanju onih vrijednosti koje su i danas aktualne. Autori članaka su renomirani povjesničari, teoretičari književnosti, književni kritičari, antropolozi, etnolozi i znanstvenici srodnih disciplina, ali i mladi istraživači doktorandi iz Hrvatske te Bosne i Hercegovine, Češke, Italije, Njemačke, Poljske, Slovenije i Srbije. Svaki je članak pojedinačno recenziralo dvoje recenzenata, u pravilu jedan iz Hrvatske i jedan iz inozemstva.Dvosveščani zbornik sadrži 33 članka autora iz Hrvatske te Češke, Italije, Njemačke, Poljske, Slovenije i Srbije, koji su nastali na temelju priopćenja s međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa "Desničini susreti 2012.: Intelektualci i rat 1939.–1947." Zbornici Desničini susreti od ovog sveska sadržavaju i opširniji, kritički artikulirani urednički predgovor. Nastavljajući raspravu na istu temu, započetu na Desničinim susretima 2011., autori na odabranim primjerima pokazuju različite odnose intelektualaca navedenog razdoblja prema ratu i ideologijama, kako protivnika tako i njihovih zagovornika. U nekim se tekstovima ujedno propituje i legtitimnost korištenja samog pojma intelektualac u navedenom razdoblju i promjene u njegovom značenju. Zbog svog komparativnog pristupa kao i predmeta istraživačkih interesa i pristupa koji dosada nisu bili kritički reflektirani, zbornik doprinosi kritičkom vrednovanju intelektualne baštine razdoblja 1939.–1947. godine te razumijevanju onih vrijednosti koje su i danas aktualne. Autori članaka su renomirani povjesničari, teoretičari književnosti, književni kritičari, antropolozi, etnolozi i znanstvenici srodnih disciplina, ali i mladi istraživači doktorandi iz Hrvatske te Bosne i Hercegovine, Češke, Italije, Njemačke, Poljske, Slovenije i Srbije. Svaki je članak pojedinačno recenziralo dvoje recenzenata, u pravilu jedan iz Hrvatske i jedan iz inozemstva
Morfosintaxis de la lengua española: (teoria y práctica)
Get PDFEl objetivo de este libro es el de facilitar el estudio y la comprensión de las estructuras morfosintácticas de la lengua española. Está dirigido a los estudiantes universitarios del español que empiezan a dedicarse al estudio exhaustivo de la gramática y abarca el programa de estudio para las asignaturas Español 1 y Español 2 que se imparten durante los primeros dos semestres.
El libro está dividido en diez unidades que siguen el orden tradicional de la clasificación de las clases de palabras. En cada unidad se exponen teóricamente las características básicas de las estructuras morfosintácticas de cada una de las clases de palabras y, como refuerzo, siguen diferentes tipos de ejercicios prácticos para asimilar mejor la teoría. En Unidad 4, que se ocupa del verbo, el esquema es diferente: a base de ejercicios prácticos, los estudiantes deben determinar estructuras morfosintácticas y reglas del uso.
Con este manual, que es resultado de más de veinte años de enseñar el español, no pretendemos sustituir ninguno de los libros de gramática que los estudiantes tienen que consultar. Nuestra intención es ayudar a los estudiantes a comprender y a asimilar las estructuras gramaticales haciendo prácticas.El objetivo de este libro es el de facilitar el estudio y la comprensión de las estructuras morfosintácticas de la lengua española. Está dirigido a los estudiantes universitarios del español que empiezan a dedicarse al estudio exhaustivo de la gramática y abarca el programa de estudio para las asignaturas Español 1 y Español 2 que se imparten durante los primeros dos semestres.
El libro está dividido en diez unidades que siguen el orden tradicional de la clasificación de las clases de palabras. En cada unidad se exponen teóricamente las características básicas de las estructuras morfosintácticas de cada una de las clases de palabras y, como refuerzo, siguen diferentes tipos de ejercicios prácticos para asimilar mejor la teoría. En Unidad 4, que se ocupa del verbo, el esquema es diferente: a base de ejercicios prácticos, los estudiantes deben determinar estructuras morfosintácticas y reglas del uso.
Con este manual, que es resultado de más de veinte años de enseñar el español, no pretendemos sustituir ninguno de los libros de gramática que los estudiantes tienen que consultar. Nuestra intención es ayudar a los estudiantes a comprender y a asimilar las estructuras gramaticales haciendo prácticas
The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas
Get PDFIn preparing this Festschrift, we had in mind a specific inflection of the concept of errancy, one that comes from the rich and layered work of the American scholar and philosopher William V. Spanos, who conceived it as a way of rendering the logos and telos of the American project subject to thorough rethinking and redefinition, both in history and at present. By calling attention to the complementarity of the work of the two scholars, Grgas and Spanos, who both hone their critical skills on the theme of the logic of the American project, we do not so much intend to claim a direct influence but rather wish to highlight the confluence, commingling, and inspiration that working in the humanities may engender. This commonality is featured in the work of Spanos and in the work of Grgas as a dedicated and passionate engagement with the practices and possibilities inscribed in the discipline, which also requires the scholar to move beyond the given and inhabit what Spanos calls a meta-level of thinking. Grgas’s work, located at the intersection of several disciplines within the humanities and social sciences (which is reflected in the principal themes of this Festschrift), reveals precisely such a commitment that has in the course of his long, fruitful and versatile career charted out a scholarly position always in the process of becoming, and never quite stabilized and domesticated.
Grgas’s academic career has been as diverse as the humanistic disciplinary habitus allows: a provocative and popular lecturer, a researcher of tireless intellectual curiosity, a scholar testing the boundaries of disciplines, an enthusiastic and motivating mentor, a thoughtful and sensitive translator, or, as one of the contribution shows, an unobtrusive poet, Grgas has always displayed a remarkable intellectual energy in every aspect of his engagement with the varied and nowadays often embattled debates in the humanities.
However, Grgas’s work as an Americanist, cultural theorist, translator, writer, mentor, and teacher doesn’t merely reflect the exciting, if uncontainable, shifts marking the discipline in the last couple of decades; rather, his intellectual labor has been committed to offering a new way of comprehending this change, its scope, direction, and consequences, so as to create an intense web of connections and interrelations where different disciplines talk to one another, without hastening to provide answers so much as to provoke the right kind of questions. The questioning and questing nature of Grgas’s work has marked his writing from the start, but it has intensified in his later writing as the humanities find themselves facing a whole new set of questions for the new millennium. His sustained effort to bring a new awareness of economic issues to discussions of culture and literature in the recent period has been both timely and critically engaged in its reflection on why this issue is particularly significant at this point in history.
The layout of the Festschrift may be said to loosely reflect and acknowledge Grgas’s scholarly interests that have charted out his career in the field of the humanities.
(from the Editors’ Preface)In preparing this Festschrift, we had in mind a specific inflection of the concept of errancy, one that comes from the rich and layered work of the American scholar and philosopher William V. Spanos, who conceived it as a way of rendering the logos and telos of the American project subject to thorough rethinking and redefinition, both in history and at present. By calling attention to the complementarity of the work of the two scholars, Grgas and Spanos, who both hone their critical skills on the theme of the logic of the American project, we do not so much intend to claim a direct influence but rather wish to highlight the confluence, commingling, and inspiration that working in the humanities may engender. This commonality is featured in the work of Spanos and in the work of Grgas as a dedicated and passionate engagement with the practices and possibilities inscribed in the discipline, which also requires the scholar to move beyond the given and inhabit what Spanos calls a meta-level of thinking. Grgas’s work, located at the intersection of several disciplines within the humanities and social sciences (which is reflected in the principal themes of this Festschrift), reveals precisely such a commitment that has in the course of his long, fruitful and versatile career charted out a scholarly position always in the process of becoming, and never quite stabilized and domesticated.
Grgas’s academic career has been as diverse as the humanistic disciplinary habitus allows: a provocative and popular lecturer, a researcher of tireless intellectual curiosity, a scholar testing the boundaries of disciplines, an enthusiastic and motivating mentor, a thoughtful and sensitive translator, or, as one of the contribution shows, an unobtrusive poet, Grgas has always displayed a remarkable intellectual energy in every aspect of his engagement with the varied and nowadays often embattled debates in the humanities.
However, Grgas’s work as an Americanist, cultural theorist, translator, writer, mentor, and teacher doesn’t merely reflect the exciting, if uncontainable, shifts marking the discipline in the last couple of decades; rather, his intellectual labor has been committed to offering a new way of comprehending this change, its scope, direction, and consequences, so as to create an intense web of connections and interrelations where different disciplines talk to one another, without hastening to provide answers so much as to provoke the right kind of questions. The questioning and questing nature of Grgas’s work has marked his writing from the start, but it has intensified in his later writing as the humanities find themselves facing a whole new set of questions for the new millennium. His sustained effort to bring a new awareness of economic issues to discussions of culture and literature in the recent period has been both timely and critically engaged in its reflection on why this issue is particularly significant at this point in history.
The layout of the Festschrift may be said to loosely reflect and acknowledge Grgas’s scholarly interests that have charted out his career in the field of the humanities.
(from the Editors’ Preface