aarhus university press 2006 aarhus (3 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cultural Text Studies is a series of themed monographs, edited by researchers at the Dept. of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University and associates and friends of the Dept. The purpose of the series is to be a forum for the publication of results of research in the broadly defined area of cultural text. Transatlantic, the present volume, offers interdisciplinary scholarship, bringing together explorations of transatlantic perspectives in arts, literature, history, philosophy and law. In the individual essays the transatlantic perspective opens up comparative aspects of phenomena within these fields, but this perspective also allows for a new type of engagement with the phenomena themselves, which are analysed in new historical, transnational contexts. The volume is itself an expression of a transatlantic exchange. The contributors are all affiliated with either Aalborg University or Brenau University, two small research and educational institutions which have long experimented with transatlantic exchanges of students, faculty and scholarship.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The study of Roman imperial statues has made remarkable strides in the last two decades. Yet the field's understandable focus on extant portraits has made it difficult to generalize accurately. Most notably, bronze was usually the material of choice, but its high scrap value meant that such statues were inevitably melted down, so that almost all surviving statues are of stone. By examining the much larger and more representative body of statue bases, Jakob Munk Højte is here able to situate the statues themselves in context. This volume includes a catalogue of 2,300 known statue bases from nearly 800 sites throughout the Roman Empire. Moreover, since it covers a period of 250 years, it allows for the first time consistent geographic, chronological and commemorative patterns to emerge. Højte finds among other things that imperial portrait statues are connected chiefly with urban centres; that they were raised continuously during a given reign, with a higher concentration a couple years after accession; that a primary purpose was often to advertise a donor's merits; and that they increased sixfold in frequency from Augustus to Hadrian, an increase attributable to community dedications.

orig.wrappers. Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, 256 pp., Series: Dolphin, no. 34. Contains 11 papers. Includes: 'The lukewarm conviction of temporary lodgers': The Anglo-Irish & dimensions of exile in the work of Hubert Butler; Exiles no more: Ethnic leadership & the construction of the myth of Thomas d'Arcy McGee; From reformer to sufferer: the returning exile in Rosa Mulholland's fiction; (Dis)location and its (dis)contents: Translation as exile in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegan's Wake; John Hewitt at Home and in Exile; The Celtic Ray: Representations of diaspora identities in Van Morrison's lyrics; 'Between the dark shore and the light': the exilic subject in Eiléan Ni Chuilleaná in's The Second Voyage; 'Washed up on somebody else's tide': the exile motif in contemporary poetry by women; John Banville's 'Shroud': Exile in simulation; etc.