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What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciad s and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow shows that literary self-annotations rarely just explain a text. Rather, they multiply meanings and pit different voices against each other. Self-annotations serve to ambiguate the author’s self-presentation as well as the genre, tone, and overall interpretation of a text. The study also examines how notes were employed for ‘social networking’ and how authors used self-annotations to address, and differentiate between, various groups of readerships. Additionally, the volume sheds light on the wider literary and cultural context of self-annotations: How common were they during the long eighteenth century? What conventions governed them? And were they even read? The study hence combines literary analysis with insights into book history and the history of reading.

English & Anglophone. --- Literature and Cultural Studies. --- English literature --- History and criticism.

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"Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, provides unprecedented access to Van Mander's crucially important art treatise. The book sheds light on key terms and critical categories such as schilder, manier, uyt zijn selven doen, welstandt, leven and gheest, and wel schilderen, and both exemplifies and explicates the author's distinctive views on the complementary forms and functions of history and landscape"--

Art History. --- Art Theory. --- Early Modern History. --- History. --- Literature and Cultural Studies. --- Literature, Arts & Science. --- Mander, Carel van, --- Art history --- History of art --- Art theory. --- Painting

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How did the life course, with all its biological, social and cultural aspects, influence the lives, writings and art of the inhabitants of early medieval England? This volume explores how phases of human life such as childhood, puberty, and old age were identified, characterized and related in contemporary sources, as well as how nonhuman life courses were constructed. The multi-disciplinary contributions range from analyses of age vocabulary to studies of medicine, name-giving practices, theology, Old English poetry, and material culture. Combined, these cultural-historical perspectives reveal how the concept and experience of the life course shaped attitudes in early medieval England. Contributors are Jo Appleby, Debby Banham, Darren Barber, Caroline R. Batten, James Chetwood, Katherine Cross, Amy Faulkner, Jacqueline Fay, Elaine Flowers, Daria Izdebska, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Thijs Porck, and Harriet Soper.

Literature and Cultural Studies --- Medieval History --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- Middle Ages --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- History --- Life cycle, Human, in literature. --- English literature --- Medical literature --- History and criticism. --- England --- Social conditions

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Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō (柴田錬三郎, 1917–1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature in the postwar period. This book considers postwar Japanese society through the prism of Shibata’s writing, exploring how the postwar period under SCAP Occupation influenced Shibata’s writing and generated the extraordinary popularity of samurai fiction in the postwar era at large. Through the use of a nihilistic warrior, Nemuri Kyōshirō, and other samurai characters, Shibata Renzaburō addresses important social issues of the day, such as the trauma of defeat, postwar reconstruction, and the attending societal ills and neuroses, while keeping his literature entertaining and easy to read, which ensured its mass appeal in postwar Japan.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Film --- Asian literature --- History --- History of Asia --- etnologie --- TV (televisie) --- cultuur --- film --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- Japan --- Asia --- Oriental literature. --- Ethnology. --- Culture. --- Motion pictures --- Literary form. --- Asian Literature. --- Regional Cultural Studies. --- Literature and Cultural Studies. --- History of Japan. --- Asian Film and TV. --- Literary Genre. --- History. --- Asia. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Shibata, Renzaburō, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino , Flavio A. Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy's most colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino's dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the socio-political context of his age in order to offer a fresh perspective on the evolution of the discipline of religious studies during the 20th century. Demonstrating that scholarship on religion was animated by moments of fear of the apocalypse, it brings de Martino's perspective into conversation with Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz in order to recover an Italian approach that promises to redeem religious studies as a relevant and revitalizing field of research in the contemporary climate of crisis.

Religion --- Anthropology of religion --- Religion and sociology --- Religion historians --- Study and teaching --- History --- De Martino, Ernesto, --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- 27 <092> --- 27 <092> Kerkgeschiedenis--Biografieën --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Biografieën --- 27 <092> Histoire de l'Eglise--Biographies --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Biographies --- Historians of religion --- Religious historians --- Historians --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Martino, Ernesto de, --- Martino, Ernesto de. --- Religion. --- Anthropology of religion. --- Religion and sociology. --- Religion historians. --- Study and teaching. --- 1900-1999 --- Italy --- Italy. --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual History --- Literature and Cultural Studies --- Postcolonial Literature & Culture --- Philosophy --- 19th & 20th Century Philosophy --- Philosophy of Religion --- Religious Studies --- History of Religion