Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: cultures, beliefs, traditions, ages, vol, middle, european, social, control, artistic, creation, obscenity
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 9004109285
ISBN-13: 9789004109285

This volume contains nearly 20 essays on obscenity in medieval culture. They represent an attempt to probe the natures, origins and consequences of obscenity in medieval literature, art, theatre and law. Although a core is devoted to obscenity in medieval French literature (where the fabliaux have elicited more previous attempts to come to terms with obscenity than has any other type of medieval literature), other contributions to the volume explore manifestations of obscenity in other cultures and languages.

Author: Jan Ziolkowski
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: philology
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0271025891
ISBN-13: 9780271025896

As the Byzantinist Ihor Sevcenko once observed, "Philology is constituting and interpreting the texts that have come down to us. It is a narrow thing, but without it nothing else is possible." This definition accords with Saussure’s succinct description of the mission of philology: "especially to correct, interpret, and comment upon the texts." Philology is not just a grand etymological or lexicographical enterprise. It also involves restoring to works as much of their original life and nuances as we can manage. To read the written records of bygone civilizations correctly requires knowl

Author: Eric Ziolkowski
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Keywords: essays, honor, anthony, comparison, west, religion, east, literature
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2005-01-05
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0874138698
ISBN-13: 9780874138696

This book pays critical homage to the eminent comparatist of Chinese and Western literature and religion, Anthony C. Yu of The University of Chicago. Broadly comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume consists of an introductory essay on Yu’s scholarly career, and thirteen additional essays on topics such as literary texts and traditions of varying provenance and periods, ranging from ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, to China from the classical to modern periods. The disciplines and areas of research

Author: Thad Ziolkowski
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: wave
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802140017
ISBN-13: 9780802140012

Evocative and quietly mesmerizing, Thad Ziolkowski’s On a Wave is a poignant look back at adolescence, a memoir of his surfing years that Time magazine called "a sun-bleached 1960s period piece—a wistful, white-collar daydream." As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. In the meager cold waves, he contemplates how he could have possibly become a semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man when for a few shining years of his boyhood, he was invincible. His lapsed love

Author: Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: religious, belief, lost, surrogates, faith, secular, modes
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226983633
ISBN-13: 9780226983639

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion’s place in the minds of many writers and poets.Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse ma

Authors:Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: hundred, years, fifteen, first, tradition, virgilian
Number of Pages: 1128
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0300108222
ISBN-13: 9780300108224

This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet’s own lifetime to the year 1500. Unprecedented in scope, the book presents a vast compendium of materials that illuminate how poets, teachers, students, and common folk responded to Virgil and his poetry. The volume offers a brief commentary on each text, many of which are translated into English for the first time.The book begins with a chronological survey of Virgil’s influence upon writers from Augustan Rome to Renaissance Italy. There follow detailed revie

Authors:Nader Engheta, Richard W Ziolkowski,
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Keywords: explorations, engineering, physics, metamaterials, electromagnetic
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2006-07-11
List price: $148.50
ISBN-10: 0471761028
ISBN-13: 9780471761020

Leading experts explore the exotic properties and exciting applications of electromagnetic metamaterials Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations gives readers a clearly written, richly illustrated introduction to the most recent research developments in the area of electromagnetic metamaterials. It explores the fundamental physics, the designs, and the engineering aspects, and points to a myriad of exciting potential applications. The editors, acknowledged leaders in the field of metamaterials, have invited a group of leading researchers to present both their own findings an