Humankinds : : The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies /

Humankinds : : The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies / / ed. by Andreas Höfele, Stephan Laqué.

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Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American scholarship almost exclusively assoc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Assmann, Aleida,
Boecker, Bettina,
Cummings, Brian,
Döring, Tobias,
Herbrechter, Stefan,
Höfele, Andreas,
Laqué, Stephan,
Lobsien, Verena Olejniczak,
Pfisterer, Ulrich,
Ruge, Enno,
Wild, Markus,
Wilson, Richard,
Yachnin, Paul,
Zwierlein, Cornel,
HerausgeberIn:
Höfele, Andreas,
Laqué, Stephan,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Pluralisierung & Autorität , 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Literary Sites of the Human
  • Liminal Anthropology in Shakespeare’s Plays
  • The Space of the Human and the Place of the Poet: Excursions into English Topographical Poetry
  • Religious Beings
  • Among the Fairies: Religion and the Anthropology of Ritual in Shakespeare
  • Golding’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Puritan Anthropology
  • Negotiating the Foreign
  • When Golden times convents: Shakespeare’s Eastern Promise
  • “Cony Caught by Walking Mort”: Indigenous Exoticism in the Literature of Roguery
  • Renaissance Anthropologies of Security: Shipwreck, Barbary fear and the Meaning of ‘Insurance’
  • Human and Non-Human
  • Shakespeare’s Public Animals
  • “Fellow-brethren and compeers”: Montaigne’s Rapprochement Between Man and Animal
  • Animal Art /Human Art: Imagined Borderlines in the Renaissance
  • Thinking the Human
  • “Now they’re substances and men”: The Masque of Lethe and the Recovery of Humankind
  • Shakespeare Ever After: Posthumanism and Shakespeare
  • Index

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