Joseph Heatly Dulles Allen, Jr. began his career at the University of Illinois as an instructor of French in 1939. From 1943-1946, he taught French and Spanish at the Naval Academy during WWII. After the war, he became an associate professor of…
“Elmer Antonsen was Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and of Linguistics at the University of Illinois where he served sequentially as head of two departments, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of…
Leonard Bloomfield was a leading scholar of American structuralist linguistics. He was an instructor of German at the University of Illinois from 1910 to 1913 and then an Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German from 1913 to 1921.…
“For Flom, the study of Old Norse and Old English was part of the same case. He was often preoccupied with details that few others cared about; e.g. In 1915 he wrote an article about how the letter Y was written in Norse documents. He compared solar…
“Peter first arrived in this country in New York, after a difficult escape from Nazi-occupied France with his mother, Henia Hajdu. His father, Paul Hajdu, died as a prisoner of war, having enlisted in the French army. After high school in California…
Henry Kahne was born in Berlin, Germany (1902) studying Literaturewissenschaft specializing in Romance linguistics. Renée, née Toole of Irish ancestry, born in Cephalonia, Ionian Island met Henry in 1927 while they were both phd students. She greatly…
"A warm and generous teacher, Munakata Kiyohiko was also a thoughtful and insightful scholar whose few but immaculately researched books and articles have been much admired by his peers and will long remain influential contributions to the study of…
Career of 38 years at the University of Illinois. He came as an English instructor in 1916, which was interrupted by WWI, when he served as a second lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces. (1917-1919). He was appointed full Professor of…
After earning a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Edwim Carter Rae began teaching at the University of Illinois in 1939. After a long stay abroad, he received his doctorate in 1943 on "Gothic Architecture in Ireland."
Gertrude Schoepperle graduated from Wellesley in 1903, and in 1909 took the Ph.D. degree at Radcliffe. Her undergraduate life had brought a sharp awakening of mental powers, which ripened steadily as she swept on from university to university, from…
Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German)…
This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and…
Odd that fiction would be yet another invention claimed for modernity. Yes, that's the way modernity's game is played; and still I marvel that our modernist colleagues never seem tired of playing it, or insisting on the ontology of their favorite…
Drawing on approaches from literary studies, history, linguistics, and art history, and ranging from Late Antiquity to the sixteenth century, this collection views 'translation' broadly as the adaptation and transmission of cultural inheritance. The…
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have…
The Tria sunt, named for its opening words, was a widely used and highly ambitious book composed in England in the late fourteenth century during a revival of interest in the art of poetry and prose.
Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation -- through language norms, plays and spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images -- both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu.
The Donatio Constantini (ca. 8th CE) is one the most important forgeries in all the western world, arguably the most important in all of human history. Purportedly written in the fourth century, the document’s guarantee was left unquestioned for…
Cheng Weishi Lun (Chinese: 成唯識論; pinyin: Chéng Wéishì Lùn) or Discourse on the Perfection of Consciousness-only, is a comprehensive discourse on the central teachings of Yogacara framed around Vasubandhu's seminal Yogacara work,…
"A wood library sounds as if it should be a collection of books on the topic of wood. In fact, it is a collection of wood. How can we “know” with wood? …. Because they are comprehensive collections of wood specimens, wood libraries are of significant…