Tracing Paradigms: One Hundred Years of Neophilologus

Tracing Paradigms: One Hundred Years of Neophilologus
Author: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319335855

This volume brings together a selection of pivotal articles published in the hundred years since the launch of the journal Neophilologus. Each article is accompanied by an up-to-date commentary written by former and current editors of the journal. The commentaries position the articles within the history of the journal in particular and within the field of Modern Language Studies in general. As such, this book not only outlines the history of a scholarly journal, but also the history of an entire field. Over the course of its first one hundred years, 1916 to 2016, Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature has developed from a modest quarterly set up by a group of young and ambitious Dutch professors as a platform for their own publications to one of the leading international journals in Modern Language Studies. Although Neophilologus has remained broad in scope, multilingual and multidisciplinary, it has witnessed dramatic changes in its long-standing history: paradigm shifts, the rise and fall of literary theories, methods and sub-disciplines, as has the field of Modern Language Studies itself.

Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts

Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts
Author: Ursula Lenker
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110630966

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.

Towards a 'Natural' Narratology

Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
Author: Monika Fludernik
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134802595

In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest oral study to contemporary experimental fiction. She uses these examples to prove that recent literature, far from heralding the final collapse of narrative, represents the epitome of a centuries long developmental process.

Old Age in Early Medieval England

Old Age in Early Medieval England
Author: Thijs Porck
Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-06-18
Genre: Aging
ISBN: 9781783276349

First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.

Textual Dynamics of the Professions

Textual Dynamics of the Professions
Author: Charles Bazerman
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780299125943

Textual Dynamics of the Professions is a collection of fifteen essays examining the real effects of text on professional practices--in academic, scientific, and business settings. Charles Bazerman and James Paradis describe textual dynamics as an interaction in which professional texts and discourses are constructed by, and in turn construct, social practices. In the burgeoning field of discourse theory, this anthology stands apart in its treatment of a wide range of professional texts, including case studies, student papers, medieval letters, and product instructions, and in the inclusion of authors from a variety of disciplines. Invaluable to the new pedagogical field of "writing across the curriculum," Textual Dynamics of the Professions is also a significant intervention into the studies of rhetoric, writing theory, and the sociology of knowledge.

Demonic History

Demonic History
Author: Kirk Wetters
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810129760

In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century. Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.

Love as Passion

Love as Passion
Author: Niklas Luhmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780804732536

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Handbook of Brewing

Handbook of Brewing
Author: Hans Michael Eßlinger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2009-04-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3527623493

This comprehensive reference combines the technological know-how from five centuries of industrial-scale brewing to meet the needs of a global economy. The editor and authors draw on the expertise gained in the world's most competitive beer market (Germany), where many of the current technologies were first introduced. Following a look at the history of beer brewing, the book goes on to discuss raw materials, fermentation, maturation and storage, filtration and stabilization, special production methods and beermix beverages. Further chapters investigate the properties and quality of beer, flavor stability, analysis and quality control, microbiology and certification, as well as physiology and toxicology. Such modern aspects as automation, energy and environmental protection are also considered. Regional processes and specialties are addressed throughout the entire book, making this a truly global resource on brewing.