Boeken Hoogleraar Slavische Talen en Culturen

The Power of Love and Guilt

This monograph sheds light on the mother and woman as portrayed in the works of Ivan Cankar. Through the figure of the mother, he reveals also his delicate and subtle relation to weaker individuals in general; the figure of woman in his works reveals his complicated, often two-fold, internally contradictory relation to love and sexuality.

Literary & Cultural Theory-The Language of Polish Modernism

The author compares explicit statements on language by Polish Modernist writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs and illuminates their implicitly self-reflexive texts.

Gramática De La Lengua Zapoteca...

Gramática De La Lengua Zapoteca...

Stereotypes In Literatures And Cultures

Imaginative representations of different cultures are one of the major stumbling blocks to understanding, deepening the gap between people as they are passed from one text to another, especially in periods of historical transition. This book presents articles to an attempt to understand the core of confirmed or standardized social norms.

Enseñar deleitando / Plaire et instruire

Veinte profesores de siete universidades suizas proponen su propia lectura del principio horaciano de enseñar deleitando a través de un mosaico de textos que difieren en la lengua, en el género y hasta en el alfabeto. Los artículos versan sobre las curiosas y amenas enseñanzas de los eximios maestros y de sus cofrades más humildes, …

Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe- East Central European Cemeteries

Cemeteries in East Central Europe; Ethnic, Linguistic, and Narrative Aspects of Sepulchral Culture and the Commemoration of the Dead in Borderlands; Bleiburška Tragedija; Hlučín Region; Medzev; Upper Lusatia; Danube Swabians; Southeastern Banat; Realms of Memory; Culture of Remembrance; Monuments

Folk-ballads of Southern Europe

Eastern European Studies in Musicology-The Kolbergs of Eastern Europe

This book draws attention to the reception of Oskar Kolberg’s folklorist’s work outside of Poland. It also presents the work of other scholars active in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day and reflects on how Kolberg’s work is being continued by scholars today and how the musical repertoire that he recorded …

Modernity in Question- Between an Animal and a Machine

The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanisław Lem. It contains an analysis of one of his early works, The Dialogues, as well as of his essay, Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. Moreover, various social theories, which can be linked with the project of autoevolution, are presented.