{"product_id":"the-abyss-as-a-concept-for-cultural-theory-a-comparative-exploration-9789004524163","title":"The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory: A Comparative Exploration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210852655447,"sku":"9789004524163","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-abyss-as-a-concept-for-cultural-theory-a-comparative-exploration-9789004524163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}