By Scott Cook (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form, incorporating the past several … Continued
By Rebecca L. Walkowitz (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques that treat translation as … Continued
Edited by F. Edward Cranz (NHC Fellow, 1981–82), Paul Oskar Kristeller, Virginia Brown, and Robert A. Kaster The Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has become an indispensable research tool for scholars interested in the history of the classical tradition in the West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
By John Monfasani (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek émigrés to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done. This new volume by John Monfasani gathers together fourteen studies filling in some of the gaps in our knowledge. The philosophers George … Continued
By Gregory Maertz (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe's authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history … Continued
By Elizabeth K. Helsinger (NHC Fellow, 1997–98; 2007–08) Focusing on two of the most influential figures in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, this book explores new ways of considering art and literature together. Elizabeth Helsinger traces the unusually close relationship between the poetry and poetics of two poet-artists and their contemporary practice … Continued
By Todd W. Reeser (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how … Continued
Edited by Lydia H. Liu (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions … Continued
By Scott Cook (NHC Fellow, 2005–06)
It can be daunting to think about how to make students feel engaged when reading a poem that is almost three thousand years old. Emily Wilson will discuss ways to enable students to recognize the central relevance of the Odyssey’s themes for contemporary cultural themes and questions, such as cultural difference, migration, gender, class, violence, … Continued