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Serie: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 64

Inhalt: Kabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not extensively covered America, despite America's centrality in modern and contemporary formations. There exist scattered treatments, but no inclusive expositions. This volume most certainly fills the gap. It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the 'Other'; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah.

Anmerkung: Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America -- Brian Ogren -- Part 1: Kabbalah in Colonial America -- 2 "They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles": Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination -- Michael Hoberman -- 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity -- Brian Ogren -- Part 2: Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends -- 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson's Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America -- Clémence Boulouque -- 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America -- Boaz Huss -- 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist , and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor -- Vadim Putzu -- Part 3: The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface -- 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America-Max Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859) -- Peter Lanchidi -- 8 Isidor Kalisch's Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy -- Jonathan D. Sarna -- Part 4: Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars -- 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America -- Eliyahu Stern -- 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism -- Moshe Idel -- Part 5: The Post-War Counterculture -- 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg's Relation to Kabbalah -- Yaakov Ariel -- 12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast -- Pinchas Giller -- 13 Aryeh Kaplan's Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy -- Alan Brill -- Part 6: Liberal American Denominationalism -- 14 American Reform Judaism's Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner's Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics -- Dana Evan Kaplan -- 15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah -- Daniel Horwitz -- Part 7: Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the 'Other' -- 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism -- Ariel Evan Mayse -- 17 "The Lower Half of the Globe": Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Vision for Judaism's American Era -- Philip Wexler and Eli Rubin -- 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner's Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology -- Elliot R. Wolfson -- Part 8: Contemporary American Ritual and Thought -- 19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach -- Jody Myers -- 20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos -- Marla Segol -- 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America -- Ron Margolin.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Kabbalah in America: Ancient Lore in the New World, Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020 ISBN 9789004428133

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ISBN: 9789004653634

Serie: Language and Computers ; 19

Inhalt: The twenty papers of this volume - published to honour Gunnel Tottie - are of interest to everyone concerned with the study of the English language. The collection is a convincing argument for an approach to language studies based on the analysis of computerized corpora. Though this is not an introduction to the field but a series of highly specialized studies, readers get a good overview of the work being done at present in English computer corpus studies. English corpus linguistics, though basically concerned with the study of varieties of English, goes far beyond the simple ordering and counting of large numbers of examples but is deeply concerned with linguistic theory - based on real language data. The volume includes sections on corpora of written and spoken present-day English, historical corpora, contrastive corpora, and on the application of corpus studies to teaching purposes.

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Weitere Ausg.: Print version: From Ælfric to the New York Times : Studies in English Corpus Linguistics. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1997. ISBN 9789042002197

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xii, 342 pages)

ISBN: 9789004282261

Serie: Historical materialism book series, v. 80

Inhalt: Marxism in a Lost Century retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of Paul Mattick. An adolescent during the German revolutions that followed World War I, he was also a recent émigré to the United States during the 1930s Great Depression, when the unemployed groups in which he participated were among the most dynamic manifestations of social unrest. Three biographical themes receive special attention -- the self-taught nature of left-wing activity, Mattick's experiences with publishing, and the nexus of men, politics, and friendship. Mattick found a wide audience during the 1960s because of his emphasis on the economy's dysfunctional aspects and his advocacy of workplace councils-a popularity mirrored in the cyclical nature of the global economy.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Children at Work and War -- 3 Young Radicals -- 4 Between Berlin and Cologne -- 5 New Worlds -- 6 Chicago in the Depression -- 7 The Unemployed Movement -- 8 The Independent Left -- 9 International Council Correspondence -- 10 Towards War -- 11 End of an Era -- 12 The War Years -- 13 New York City -- 14 Quiet Times -- 15 Rekindling -- 16 Reception -- 17 Winding Down -- Archives -- Works Cited -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9789004227798

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Biography. ; History.

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004332874

Serie: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 33

Inhalt: Judaism and Christianity are both religions of history and remembrance and rely on calendars and accurate chronologies to recall and reenact the signal events in their histories. The import of dividing the day and night, of knowing the moment of Sabbath and Lord's Day, of properly timing Passover and Easter cannot be overstated. Throughout the history of both religions, these issues were central to worship and practice of religion and had far-reaching effects from messianism to prophecy. But their very centrality meant they were issues of controversy and debate. Roger Beckwith looks carefully at the Jewish and Christian records concerning calendar and chronology, compares, contrasts, and challenges rival solutions to these complex questions. His breath of research - from the ancient Near East to Qumran, from Josephus and Philo to the Maccabean writings, and from the points of view of Paul and Jesus to the Fathers of the church - and his focus on the more controversial issues of dating make Calendar and Chronology an essential book for any serious scholar of history, liturgy, worship, and interpretation. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- The Day: its Divisions and its Limits in Biblical Times -- The Sabbath and Sunday -- Easter and Whitsun: the Origin of the Church's Earliest Annual Festivals -- The Date of Christmas and the Courses of the Priests -- The Perpetual Calendar of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Qumran Psalter: the Courses of the Levites and the Use of the Psalms at Qumran -- Judaism Between the Testaments: the Stages of its Religious Development -- The Year of the Messiah: Jewish and Early Christian Chronologies, and Their Eschatological Consequences -- The Date of the Crucifixion: the Misuse of Calendars and Astronomy to Determine the Chronology of the Pass -- A Time, Times and Half a Time: the Revelation of the Prophet John and the Three-and-a-Half Times -- Indexes -- Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums by Martin Hengel , Peter Schäfer , Pieter W. van der Horst , Martin Goodman , Daniël R. Schwartz and Cilliers Breytenbach.

Weitere Ausg.: Online version: Beckwith, Roger T. Calendar and chronology, Jewish and Christian. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; History.

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages)

ISBN: 9789042027138

Serie: Cross/cultures ; 114

Inhalt: How do individuals, who are part of a community, respond to the stranger as a stranger: id est without simply positioning this outsider in opposition to the community in which they are located? How may individuals receive something unknown and therefore surprising into their world without compromising it by identifying it in the terms of that world? In this study, Mike Marais traces the various ways in which Coetzee's fiction, from Dusklands through to Slow Man , repeatedly poses such questions of hospitality. It is shown that the form of ethical action staged in Coetzee's writing is grounded not in the individual's willed and rational achievement, but in his or her invasion and possession by the strangeness of the stranger. This ethic of hospitality, Marais argues, has a strong aesthetic dimension: for Coetzee, the writer is inspired to write by being acted upon by a force from beyond the phenomenal world. The writer is a secretary of the invisible. She or he is responsible to and for the invisible. Marais maintains that this understanding of writing as an involuntary response to that which exceeds history is evident from the first in Coetzee's fiction. In readings of the novels of the apartheid era, he traces this writer's rueful, ironic awareness of the limited, even incidental, form of political engagement that may emanate from such an aesthetic. He then goes on to argue that if it is the writer's obligation to render visible the invisible, writing must be a task that can never be completed. What is more, such writing is thus bound to be iterative in form. With this in mind, he traces the structural similarities between Coetzee's writing of the apartheid period and his post-apartheid and Australian writing, arguing that the later texts are self-reflexively aware of their endlessly repetitive nature. These contentions are developed incrementally through close readings of the individual novels that focus on recurring metaphors of hospitality - visitor, the stranger, the house, the castaway, the invisible, the dream, and the child.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- Hospitality in the Early Fiction -- A Goatseye View of the Stone Desert : Life and Times of Michael K -- A Child Waiting to Be Born : Foe -- From the Standpoint of Redemption : Age of Iron -- The Writing of a Madman : The Master of Petersburg -- The Task of the Imagination : Disgrace -- A Slow Story? : Slow Man -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Marais, Mike. Secretary of the invisible. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009 ISBN 9789042027121

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Umfang: 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)

ISBN: 9789004246508

Serie: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 1

Anmerkung: Includes index. , Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: The Life of Isaac La Peyrère -- Chapter Three: The History of the Pre-Adamite Theory from Ancient Times to La Peyrère -- Chapter Four: Biblical Criticism and Interpretation in La Peyrère -- Chapter Five: French Nationalist Messianism up to La Peyrère -- Chapter Six: La Peyrère's Heretical Theological Theories -- Chapter Seven: The Influence of La Peyrère's Biblical Criticism -- Chapter Eight: The Influence of La Peyrère's French Oriented Messianism -- Chapter Nine: The Pre-Adamite Theory in the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Conflicts of Polygenetic and Monogenetic Theories -- Chapter Ten: Pre-Adamism and Racism -- Chapter Eleven: La Peyrère's Legacy in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Online version: Popkin, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1923-2005. Isaac La Peyrère (1596-1676) Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1987

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ISBN: 9789004277007

Serie: Internationale forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 190

Inhalt: This study offers a comprehensive overview of Indian writing in English in the 21st century. Through ten exemplary analyses in which canonical authors stand next to less well-known and diasporic ones Christoph Senft provides deep insights into India's complex literary world and develops an argumentative framework in which narrative texts are interpreted as transmodern re-readings of history, historicity and memory. Reconciling different postmodern and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the interpretation and construction of literature and history, Senft substitutes traditional, Eurocentric and universalistic views on past and present by decolonial and pluralistic practices. He thus helps to better understand the entanglements of colonial politics and cultural production, not only on the subcontinent.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Stories, Histories, Theories -- History between Secularism and Speculation: In Times of Siege (2003) -- Microcosms of Modernity: Sea of Poppies (2008) -- The Personal as Global: Shalimar the Clown (2005) -- The Future of the Past: The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001) -- Historical Imagination beyond Memory and Ideology: Solo (2009) -- Disclosing Suppression, Narrating Neglect: The Point of Return (2002) -- Writing the Unspeakable: Fireproof (2006) -- Deconstructing Colonial Epistemologies: The Thing about Thugs (2010) -- Urban Imaginaries of Past and Present: Maximum City (2004) -- Songs of Faith and Devotion: The Music Room (2007) -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Senft, Christoph, 1981- author. Contemporary Indian writing in English between global fiction and transmodern historiography Leiden ; New York : Brill Rodopi, 2016 ISBN 9789004309067

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ISBN: 9789004334007

Serie: Language and computers ; no. 44

Originaltitel: Times (London, England)

Inhalt: This work is a corpus-based study of the language of English up-market ("quality") newspaper editorials, covering the period 1900-1993. CENE, the Corpus of English Newspaper Editorials, was compiled for the purposes of this study and comprises editorials from the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Times chosen to represent periods at ten-year intervals. The language of the editorials was investigated with regard to features that previous research had proved to be markers of such types of discourse as might be of interest to an investigation of the development of the language of newspaper editorials. To begin with, sets of features associated with the empirically defined dimensions of linguistic variation presented in Biber (1988) were compared across decades and newspapers; these dimensions included personal involvement and information density, narrative discourse, argumentative discourse, abstract discourse, and explicit reference. However, since the study showed that the features within each set often developed in diverging directions, the old sets were broken up and new ones formed on the basis of change and continuity as well as of shared linguistic/stylistic functions, specific for newspaper editorials, among the features involved. It then became apparent that, during the 20th century, the language of the editorials developed towards greater information density and lexical specificity and diversity but at the same time towards greater informality, in so far as the use of conversational features increased. The narrative quality of the editorials at the beginning of the century gradually decreased whereas their reporting and argumentative functions remained the same over the years. When the features were compared across the newspapers analyzed, a clear distinction was noticed between The Times and the Guardian. The language of the Guardian was the most informal and the most narrative while that of The Times was the least so. The information density was the highest in The Times and the lowest in the Guardian. In these respects, the Daily Telegraph took an intermediate position. The editorials of the Guardian were more argumentative than those of both the Daily Telegraph and The Times. As regards lexical specificity and diversity as well as sentence complexity, the Daily Telegraph scored the highest and The Times the lowest while the results obtained for the Guardian were in between the two.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Methodological considerations -- Features marking personal involvement -- Features marking information density -- Features marking 'narrative' discourse -- Features marking argumentative discourse -- Features marking abstract discourse -- Features marking explicit reference -- Towards a description of the modern English up-market editorial -- Summary, conclusions, and discussion -- References -- Appendix.

Weitere Ausg.: Online version: Westin, Ingrid. Language change in English newspaper editorials. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2002

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Umfang: 1 online resource (477 pages)

ISBN: 9789401203975

Serie: Costerus, new ser., 167

Inhalt: Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the "Confessio Amantis" will appeal to all those who value a bit of integration of Chaucer and Gower studies. It develops the unusual theme that the Canterbury Tales were signally influenced by John Gower's Confessio Amantis , resulting in a set-up which is entirely different from the one announced in the General Prologue . Lindeboom seeks to show that this results from Gower's call, at the end of his first redaction of the Confessio , for a work similar to his - a testament of love . Much of the argument centres upon the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, who are shown to follow Gower's lead by both engaging in confessing to all the Seven Deadly Sins while preaching a typically fourteenth-century sermon at the same time. While not beyond speculation at times, the author offers his readers a well-documented and tantalizing glimpse of Chaucer turning away from his original concept for the Canterbury Tales and realigning them along lines far closer to Gower.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chaucer's Changing Design of the Canterbury Tales -- Towards Composing a Testament of Love -- The Sergeant and Man of Law as Gower -- The Testament of Love -- Confession, Sin and the Wife of Bath -- The Pardoner's Confession of Sin -- The Wife of Bath's Sermon -- The Pardoner's Double Sermon -- Conclusion -- Reference.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Lindeboom, B.W. (Benjamin Willem). Venus' owne clerk. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 9789042021501

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9042021500

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789042028135

Serie: Cross/cultures, 121

Inhalt: In the New Literatures in English, nature has long been a paramount issue: the environmental devastation caused by colonialism has left its legacy, with particularly disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the world. At the same time, social and cultural transformations have altered representations of nature in postcolonial cultures and literatures. It is this shift of emphasis towards the ecological that is addressed by this volume. A fast-expanding field, ecocriticism covers a wide range of theories and areas of interest, particularly the relationship between literature and other 'texts' and the environment. Rather than adopting a rigid agenda, the interpretations presented involve ecocritical perspectives that can be applied most fruitfully to literary and non-literary texts. Some are more general, 'holistic' approaches: literature and other cultural forms are a 'living organism', part of an intellectual ecosystem, implemented and sustained by the interactions between the natural world, both human and non-human, and its cultural representations. 'Nature' itself is a new interpretative category in line with other paradigms such as race, class, gender, and identity. A wide range of genres are covered, from novels or films in which nature features as the main topic or 'protagonist' to those with an ecocritical agenda, as in dystopian literature. Other concerns are: nature as a cultural construct; 'gendered' natures; and the city/country dichotomy. The texts treated challenge traditional Western dualisms (human/animal, man/nature, woman/man). While such global phenomena as media ('old' or 'new'), tourism, and catastrophes permeate many of these texts, there is also a dual focus on nature as the inexplicable, elusive 'Other' and the need for human agency and global responsibility.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- , Dialogism as a Solution for the Present Obstacles to an Ecological Culture / , Green Fields: Ecocriticism in South Africa / , Ecocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities / , Utopian Ecology: Technology and Social Organization in Relation to Nature and Freedom / , Emplotting an Ecosystem: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and the Question of Form in Ecocriticism / , Refugees, Settlers, and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide / , Sea of Transformation: Re-Writing Australianness in the Light of Whaling / , Tracking the Tassie Tiger: Extinction and Ethics in Julia Leigh's The Hunter / , Asset or Home?: Ecopolitical Ethics in Patricia Grace's Potiki / , Imaginary Restraints: Michael Crummey's River Thieves and the Beothuk of Newfoundland / , The Human and the Non-Human World in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and The Whale Caller / , "Castaways in the Very Heart of the City": Island and Metropolis in J.M. Coetzee's Foe / , When Trees Become Kings: Nature as a Decolonizing Force in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness / , Towards a Postcolonial Environment?: Nature, 'Native', and Nation in Scottish Representations of the Oil Industry / , The Medium is ... the Monster?: Global Aftermathematics in Canadian Articulations of Frankenstein / , Reading as an Animal: Ecocriticism and Darwinism in Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan / , Faustian Dreams and Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / , Science as Deconstruction of Natural Identity: Arthur Conan Doyle's "When the World Screamed" and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / , Ecocatastrophes in Recent American (Non-)Fictional Texts and Films / , Framing Disaster: Images of Nature, Media, and Representational Strategies in Hollywood Disaster Movies / , F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Ice Palace": Climate, Culture, and Stereotypes / , Sex and the City?: Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright, and Bernardine Evaristo / , Travel as Transgression: Claude McKay's Banana Bottom, J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K, and Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album / , Global Minds and Local Mentalities: 'Topographies of Terror' in Salman Rushdie's Fury and Shalimar the Clown / , Notes on Contributors.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Local natures, global responsibilities. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042028128

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Conference papers and proceedings. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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