englischIacopo Sannazaro’s ‘Arcadia’ (1504) was the first pastoral novel in European literature and it has had an unparalleled impact. The list of writers outside Italy who were inspired by Sannazaro’s novel includes Garcilaso, Montemayor, Cervantes, Sidney, d’Urfé and Opitz, a list that can be [...]

englischHeroism is usually associated with great deeds, and heroes are regarded as superior and powerful individuals who take action. This opinion has dominated Western tradition since ancient times. At the same, the ability to bide one’s time was and is equally classed as a heroic quality because [...]

englischThis book contains the lectures given at the second international conference on ancient and fragmentarily preserved drama called The Forgotten Theatre, which was held in Turin in 2018. All these contributions have been reworked according to the discussions at the conference and previously [...]

englischBy combining the perspectives of discourse, media and literary history, this book shows that awareness of the category of individuality, and therefore the emergence of modern case law thinking, was only generated at the end of the 18th century through the publication of collections of cases [...]

Nach diversen Ausrufungen eines Zeitalters des ›Postheroismus‹ scheint antikes Heldentum doppelt irrelevant geworden zu sein: zum einen wegen der zunehmenden Fragwürdigkeit von Heldentum allgemein, zum anderen wegen der historischen Distanz der Antike. Dieser Band zeigt demgegenüber die [...]

englischDenis Diderot’s development as a writer is characterised by his permanent endeavour to surpass his own technical achievements. This incessant search for constantly new styles of writing is not only an expression of his impressive artistic finesse, but also a constitutive element of his [...]

Das Hofmannsthal-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das wichtigste Organ der Hofmannsthal-Forschung. Es bietet neben der Veröffentlichung bisher unpublizierter Briefwechsel Beiträge namhafter Wissenschaftler zur europäischen Kultur der Moderne: Inhalt: • »(E)in ganz wunderbarer mich tief rührender Mensch: [...]