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From Insular Territory to Global Terrains of Consciousness: The Case of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures
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No full textThe Introduction provides an overview of the most recent development in spatial studies and develops the notion of 'scape' as a new conceptualiztion of spatiality as a material environment that enables human actions as well as inter-actions with objects and non-human agents in that environment
Women and the Country House: Enlightenment Critiques of Property Law and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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No full textThe Introduction makes a case for reuniting memory studies and affect studies: like twins separated at birth, these two vibrant fields of in the study of Renaissance literature and culture have existed alongside each other, in spite of their conceptual entanglement, since antiquity. An overview of recent developments in contemporary theorizations of memory and affect is followed by an investigation of how they might be connected in the historical frameworks of early modern faculty psychology, Galenic humoralism, and, to use a modern term, distributed cognition
Tele-pathos
No full textTaking inspiration from Elizabeth Bronfen’s trajectory in crossmapping the gestures of the cultural imaginary, the essay concentrates on the linkages between mourning and hysteria. Against the background also of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, we investigate the particular case of the studies of death and lamentation presented by Italian anthropologist Ernesto de Martino who, beginning in the 1950s, studied the funerary rituals of Southern Italy as incarnations of pathos formulas that recur from the most ancient times and in the most varied formats. The expressive resources of the specifically female mourners were documented in de Martino’s own figurative “Atlas”, and they form a poetic repertoire of bodily poses and movements that at one and the same time evoke the resistance of the hysteric to her alienation and recall the iconography of the Hollywood diva
Vom Recht der Frau zu Frauenrechten im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts
No full textDie Frage nach den Rechten der Frau ist auch im 18. Jahrhundert nicht notwendig mit der feministischen Perspektive auf Frauenrechte, im Sinne einer Zuschreibung subjektiver Rechte, und damit auf eine juristische Egalität der Geschlechter verbunden. Vielmehr bedienen sich die verschiedensten Disziplinen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung der Gesetze auch dazu, die Ungleichheit, ja die Unterdrückung und Versklavung der Frau in Familie, Gesellschaft und Staat zu legitimieren, aufrechtzuerhalten oder gar zu verstärken
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Space / Film:Place and the eco-cinematic sublime in five films of King Lear
No full textIn forcing a delusional king to fold away his map and painfully traverse his domains on foot, Shakespeare’s King Lear offers an uncanny parable for the transformation of spatial studies by the environmental humanities. While spatial criticism has exposed certain ideologies lurking within assumptions about space as an intellectual construct prior to experience (as Immanuel Kant postulated) and generated path-breaking studies on Shakespeare, there is a growing consensus that the spatial turn could pivot even further to encompass the wider ecologies of our imperilled planet. As deftly outlined in the introduction to this volume, recent work in the field has emphasized the interplay between the subjective innerwelt and external umwelt to account for the shaping agency of the non-human. In a welcome move in this direction, Andrew Bozio has performed an incisive phenomenological reading of King Lear as anatomizing the mutually constitutive relationship between the embodied mind and its environment. In documenting the characters’ corporeal and mental sensitivity to the cold, wind and rain, the storm scene demonstrates the power of the biophysical world to co-construct our reality (and not simply vice versa). The hypothermic Lear’s descent into madness and the blindness of Gloucester, who may have already needed spectacles (1.2.36) and who continues to ‘see [the world] feelingly’ (4.6.145), can, therefore, be understood less as a nightmarish free fall into nothingness or a metaphysical void than ‘a weakening or attenuation of embodied location’...
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