Approaches to the Medieval Self: Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500 9783110655582, 9783110655551

Approaches to the Medieval Self: Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500 3110655551, 9783110655551, 9783110655582

The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span o

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Approaches to the Medieval Self: Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500 9783110655582, 9783110655551

The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span o

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Architectural Representation in Medieval Textual and Material Culture 9781802700008, 9781802700763

Exploring architectural remnants of the past—from castles and cathedrals to village churches—and the work of writers, il

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The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture 9780226632759

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronologic

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The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda 9781442681705

Probing the activity of textual self-recovery among the debris of history and fantasy, visuality and desire, and culture

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Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self 9780812206944

In Textual Mirrors, Dina Stein draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to closely examine midrashic ta

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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations 9781501763205

Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and literature of

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Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture and Spaces 1443857068, 9781443857062

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The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan 9780824837556

This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of

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Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture 0857854356, 9780857854353

We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisu

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