Brandt (U. of Siegen, Germany) looks at what was going on with bodies in the US during the decade and a half after World War II. Among his perspectives are television, consumerism, and the dialectics
Keck explores women's intellectual and aesthetic achievement in rewriting classical myth, and argues that myth itself is "logos" with as much potential to subvert as to confirm dominant cultural i
From a May 2013 classics conference in Berlin, 12 revised papers explore the concepts and uses of political space in Hellenistic and Roman literature. Among their topics are the geopolitics of imag
Anthropologists tackle some of the facets of fieldwork that they usually face before, during, or after research in a particular region of the Pacific. Among their topics are the Coral Gardens are
In 18 papers from an international and transdisciplinary conference held in Hamburg during October 2014, junior and established scholars explore the Holocaust from the perspectives of material cult
Contributors in Germany examine literary tastes, literary value, and literary markets in historical perspective, with a focus on academic and institutional contexts of reading. They look at how a p
