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The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory: A Comparative Exploration: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, cartea 106

Marko Pajević
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 ian 2024
This edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, such as Hawaiian, Umbundu, Chinese and Khasi, as well as European languages, such as German, Estonian, English, French, Polish and Russian. The book combines ethnolinguistics with history of ideas, literature, folklore, religion and translation, based on the conviction that language and our linguistic concepts give evidence of and shape our ideas about the world and about ourselves.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004524163
ISBN-10: 9004524169
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
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Recenzii

"Brill's dynamic peer-reviewed series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature has since the mid-1990s been publishing monographs and edited collections on a range of subfields within the capacious field of comparative literature. The nearly 100 scholarly monographs published as part of Textxet engage rigorously with theories of literature, world literature, and literature and thought from around the globe, frequently from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Soon to be fully digitized and accessible, Textxet has contributed significantly to the study of comparative literature, broadly conceived, in Europe and North America, and to literature studies more broadly, particularly in the discipline's many emerging subfields. Publishing the work of both established scholars and recent Ph.D.'s, Textxet gives scholars of all generations a platform for sharing their best work, and inspiring vigorous scholarly conversations" --Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA, author of Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care(2020)

Notă biografică

Professor Marko Pajević held positions in leading Universities in France, the UK, Germany and Estonia. He publishes widely on poetics, literature, translation and cultural theory, and developed a poetological anthropology, recently in English: Poetic Thinking. Now (Routledge 2023).

Cuprins

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory, and German Abgrund: The Ambivalence of the Human
Marko Pajević

Part 1 Ancient Cultures



1 Praising God’s Creation in the Abyss: tǝhōm in Biblical and Apocalyptic Literature
Urmas Nõmmik

2 The Origins of the ἄΒυσσος in Greek
Janika Päll

3 The Birth of the Abyss in the Rigveda
Sven Sellmer

4 Before the Creation in Old Norse Mythology—Empty Abyss or Crowded Place
Daniel Sävborg

Part 2 American, African and Asian Cultures



5 Hānau ka Pō: The Abyss in Hawaiian Thought
Michael David Kaulana Ing

6 The Void Against Transparency: Translating the Abyss into Umbundu
Iracema Dulley

7 Abyss, Chaos, and Emptiness. A Journey to the Depths of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition
Lisa Indraccolo

8 The Abyss in the Indigenous Khasi Worldview: The Search for Traditional Models
Margaret Lyngdoh and Laur Järv

Part 3 European Cultures



9 Journey to the North: The Experience of the Abyss in Mythology and Philosophy
Jaanus Sooväli and Hasso Krull

10 An Exploration of the Meaning and Usage of Abyss in English
Violeta Stojicić

11 In Search of Abyssos in Contemporary French Through Lexical Pathways
Arkadiusz Koselak-Marechal

12 The Abyss in Polish
Adam Głaz

13 The Doubling of Bezdna: Notes on the Russian Poetic Concept of Abyss
Roman Leibov