Reformation und recht : ein beitrag zur kontroverse um die kulturwirkungen der reformation / / herausgegeben von Christoph Strohm

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910261131703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tübingen, Germany : , : Mohr Siebeck, , 2017
• ISBN: 3-16-155464-7
• Edizione: [1. Aufl.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
• Disciplina: 349.4
• Soggetti: Law - Europe - History; Reformation - Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The law's cultural and especially its religious contexts present a fresh challenge to a globalised world. Did the Reformation's demand for the abolition of canonical law have particular consequences for legal development? Various answers are given to this question. It has been the objective of recent confessionalization research to highlight the uniformity of confessions and their cultural effects. There is great concern that, as happened a hundred years ago, Protestantism is once again being awarded a special proximity to modernity. The authors of this volume discuss the consequences the Reformation had for the development of various branches of the law. In the sense of a comparative analysis, Catholic law is also investigated for the connection between law and morality.

After-dinner conversation [[electronic resource] ] : the diary of a decadent / / by José Asunción Silva ; translated with an introduction and notes by Kelly Washbourne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777576103321
• Autore: Silva José Asunción <1865-1896.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-292-79681-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 260 p
• Collana: Texas Pan American literature in translation series
• Altri autori (Persone): WashbourneR. Kelly
• Disciplina: 863/.64
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260).
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION -- “AN ART BOTH NERVOUS AND NEW” -- After-Dinner Conversation TRANSLATION OF De sobremesa -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Sommario/riassunto: Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is also cited as the continent's first psychological novel and an outstanding example of modernista fiction and the Decadent sensibility. Semi-autobiographical and more important for style than plot, After-Dinner Conversation is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who undertakes a quest to find his beloved Helen, a vision whom his fevered imagination sees as his salvation. Along the way, he struggles with irreconcilable urges and temptations that pull him in every direction while he endures an environment indifferent or hostile to spiritual and intellectual pursuits, as did the modernista writers themselves. Kelly Washbourne's excellent translation preserves Silva's lush prose and experimental style. In the introduction, one of the most wide-ranging in Silva criticism, Washbourne places the life and work of Silva in their literary and historical contexts, including an extended discussion of ; how After-Dinner Conversation fits within Spanish American modernismo and the Decadent movement. Washbourne's perceptive comments and notes also make the novel accessible to general readers, who will find the work surprisingly fresh more than a century after its composition.