The eighteenth-century chapbook– a cheap, mass-produced, and widespread print form of between eight and thirty-two pages– usually functioned as the printed repository for an oral, collective, and popular-cultural body of texts. ...read more
Holly Brown‘s PhD project demonstrates how a genealogy of statelessness can be used as a framework to consider previously unexplored links between pre- and post-9/11 American literature. Analysing the way ...read more
This project seeks to challenge the traditional view on silence in Latin literature written during and just after the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (ca. 81-105). Scholarship on this ...read more
In a majority of food studies, visual arts are used as documentary evidence for the analysis of culinary history. Although these valuable studies show a lot of scientific interest in the ...read more
The thesis addresses the way in which Philostratos, writing in the early third century C.E., fashions a new version of the Trojan War in the central part of his dialogue, ...read more
This research project examines the textual history and literary characteristics of the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 (Collection of the Patriarchal Hall , K.1503), i.e., the earliest extant Chán history (chánshǐ 禪史), or "lamp ...read more