This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there.

We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices.

My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age.

We are the children of computers in more than one sense, and no critic has done more than N. Katherine Hayles to explain how these technologies define us and our culture. Heady and provocative, My Mother Was a Computer will be judged as her best work yet.

Der vaderen boek gaat over de beoefening van de Middelnederlandse letterkunde, en met name over de geschiedenis ervan. In zeventien bijdragen schetsen moderne specialisten in dit vak leven en werk van een aantal van hun voorgangers. Wie de galerij van deze, chronologisch geordende, geschreven portretten van 'vak-vaders' langsloopt, ziet een beeld opdoemen van het ontstaan, de opkomst en de voortschrijdende professionalisering van de medioneerlandistiek.
De vakbeoefening begint met het verzamelen van oude handschriften met Middelnederlandse teksten. De teksten vindt men aanvankelijk vooral de moeite waard vanwege hun historische en taalkundige betekenis. Maar in de loop van de negentiende eeuw begint men oog te krijgen voor de literaire waarde en de charme ervan. Om de teksten goed te kunnen bestuderen worden omvangrijke projecten aangevat, zoals het Middelnederlandsch woordenboek, maar ook worden in deze periode belangrijke tekstedities gepubliceerd. Met deze werkinstrumenten binnen handbereik komt de tekststudie goed op gang, om in de twintigste eeuw al snel uit te waaieren in een steeds rijker spectrum van specialisaties en benaderingswijzen, van volkskunde tot analytische bibliografie, van retorica tot receptie-esthetica, uitmondend in de cultuurhistorische benadering van de Middelnederlandse letterkunde.

An international guide to women's writing throughout the ages, containing over 5000 fully cross-referenced entries. The essays introduce women's writing by area and period, followed by a comprehensive alphabetical reference section which includes authors, texts and up-to-date bibliographies for further research. The guide ranges from Sappho to Chinese writers post-Tiananmen Square, from South-East Asia to Romania and Bulgaria.

An account of the literary life of one of twentieth-century America's most widely read and most reclusive writers, J.D. Salinger.

Tien beroemde schrijvers van internationale afkomst en betekenis, die worden beschouwd als de (mede)grondleggers van het 'modernisme' in de literatuur, worden behandeld.

Since the nineteenth century, the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin has been a cultural myth, a figure absolutely central to Russian culture, even to "Russianness" itself. In this volume distinguished American Slavists address Pushkin's writings from a multiplicity of contemporary literary perspectives and investigate some of the most puzzling issues in the poet's life and work.

Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.

Wereld in woorden' gaat over de Nederlandse literatuur in de veertiende eeuw. Het vormt een tweeluik met 'Stemmen op schrift' - dat de periode tot 1300 bestreek - en zal verschijnen als deel 2 in de reeks 'Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis' onder auspiciën van de Nederlandse Taalunie. Maar ook als zelfstandig boek, en daar is inhoudelijk ook alle reden toe. De veertiende eeuw was het tijdperk van een gigantische crisis in Europa: de pest, natuurrampen, misoogsten, het schisma in de kerk en allerhande hoog oplopende strijd tussen staten en standen. En tegelijk vertoont de literatuur in deze periode ongekende innovaties: denk alleen al aan de vloed aan teksten over kennis en kunde, het gedurfde werk van Ruusbroec, de abele spelen en de poëzie van Gruuthuse. Zou het kunnen zijn dat te midden van alle woelingen juist extra energie vrijkwam om nieuwe wegen te beproeven? Is het een tijd van "creatieve crisis"?

Groningen Studies in Cultural Change.

Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama.

Virginia Woolf is the most famous twentieth-century woman writer in English. This book explores the relation between her life and her work, and charts the development of the writer who has done the most to alter the common reader's understanding of the relationship between gender and writing. Examining a wide range of novels from throughout her career, this book follows Woolf's progression from the celebration of femininity in her earlier work to her later wariness of the dangers of creating a category of 'the feminine' which might prove restrictive to women. It is argued that there is a shift in Woolf's writing from an interest in the difference of femininity to an interest in femininity as difference in a wider, philosophical sense. The book thus re-reads Woolf as a writer whose work centres on the dichotomy which continues to structure our thinking about sexual difference: between essentialism and constructionism, between the idea of gender as fixed and given and the idea of gender as socially constructed and thus open to change. In placing Woolf's writing within this dichotomy, rather than attempting to read it exclusively from one or the other perspective, this book takes the terms of debate beyond the partiality of earlier feminist accounts of her work.

Illustrated by Feliks Toposlki.

With a preface by W. Somerset Maugham.