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Review Essay: Classen, Albrecht, ed. \u3ci\u3eEroticism and Love in the Middle Ages\u3c/i\u3e
Full text linkClassen, Albrecht, ed. Eroticism and Love in the Middle Ages. Revised and expanded 3d edition. American Heritage Custom Publishing Group, New York, 1995. 500 pp
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Jens Walther’s Abstieg vom Zauberberg (1997): A Literary Reflection on the World of Publishing in the Postmodern World
No full textThe world of book publishing is currently undergoing a major paradigm shift, but this was already fully under way in the 1990s. In the German novel Abstieg vom Zauberberg, published in 1997 by an anonymous author under the pseudonym Jens Walther, we are given an excellent insider view of the concrete situation within literary publishing houses and how they operate behind the scene and in public to secure the best possible titles and to fend off manuscripts that appear to be trivial literature. The author proves to be highly educated in the history of German and western literature at large and also demonstrates great expertise regarding book fairs, book reviews, and book prizes, framing all this by a somewhat twisted love story involving a young author, Anna Becker, and two men, first the young Johannes Rieger, then his father Helmut Rieger, both representing the fictional publishing house Engsfeld.12 month embargo; published online: 23 January 2020This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
History of Early Modern Society and Everyday Life as Reflected in the Works of the Bestseller Author Johannes Pauli (1522)
Full text linkHistorians would be well advised to take a closer look at the didactic and entertaining tales published by Johannes Pauli in 1522, a collection that quickly emerged as a true best- and longseller, being popular far into the eighteenth and even nineteenth centuries. Although he was a Franciscan writing during the early years of the Protestant Reformation, Pauli did not support Luther and his companions. Nevertheless, in many respects, he pursued similar ideas, criticizing, ridiculing, and commenting on the shortcomings and foibles of his contemporaries. For historians, his narratives, almost 700 in total, prove to be highly valuable since they reflect on the infinite kaleidoscope of human life conditions, with all the problems people tend to face or reveal. This study is the first probe into Schimpf und Ernst as a source for many different scholars in the field of Early Modern Studies, addressing the various social classes, the genders, economic and religious conflicts, war, justice, crime, fools, entertainment, truth, virtues and vices. Here we encounter a most valuable literary mirror of social, intellectual, religious, gender, economic, and political conditions in the early sixteenth century. Although Pauli drew heavily from classical and medieval sources, his selection and adaptation transformed these many prose tales into specific comments about ordinary conditions in human life
Revitalisierung des Rittertums : Nostalgie als literarische Strategie in den Volksbüchern
No full textOn the basis of some Volksbücher, the author demonstrates how identity models of chivalric derivation enjoy a continuous hegemony, also in view of the radical transformations that interested European society in the mid-15th century. The privileged reference to the feudal/manorial environment fulfils a defensive function with regard to the overwhelming character of such transformations and to the turmoil that the political and territorial safety was experiencing because of the conflicts with the Ottoman Empire. The Volksbuch becomes the object of a conservative projection aimed at minimising the impact of economic and social changes, the effects of which extend throughout the 18th century and utterly influence the reception of this genre
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