Archiv für Januar 2013

New Books across the Disciplines

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/43/1/191?rss=1

Taking the Measure of Global Space

Euclidean geometry instructs us to think of space in visual terms as points, lines, and shapes, but a more adventurous geometry would take into account the subjectivity of the perceiver. When we try out that approach on Shakespeare and his contemporar…

Experiencing the Space and Place of Early Modern Theater

This essay introduces and assesses the importance of philosophical, geographical, and anthropological understandings of „space“ and „place“ for literary and dramatic scholars. In the process, it asks its own questions about the political use and contr…

Making Room, Affording Hospitality: Environments of Entertainment in Romeo and Juliet

This essay uses the concept of affordances, borrowed from design theory and environmental psychology, in order to map the use of space in act 1, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet. Hospitality provides a socio-symbolic script for objects and persons in actio…

Revolver Revue | 89 (2012)

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/revolver/issue/2013-01-15.html

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik | 1/2013

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/blatter/issue/2013-01-15.html

Rana Mitter, Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/48/1/226?rss=1

Shelley Baranowski, Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/48/1/205?rss=1

Bernd Schafer, The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/48/1/223?rss=1

Vera Tolz, Russia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/48/1/203?rss=1