T Schmid: 7 books

In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen.

Differences in translation between so-called literal Bible versions make it quite appropriate to re-evaluate what is meant by the label literal. What do different literal Bible translations have in common? How do they differ? How do we account for possible different concepts of literalness? How is...

"Beyond the Burning Sea" by T.B. Schmid and R.Wade Hodges: It has been over two hundred and fifty years since the sky fell and the Young Gods died. On the mainland of Niyah, the city states of Gundlaan strive to form a united nation. On the fringe of their western frontier,...

Between the rising Darkness… An untested ship’s captain continues his perilous journey home aboard the Peregrine’s emergency launch, accompanied by the few surviving crewman of the doomed Seeker ship. He carries a book full of dark secrets, under an oath to deliver it to his homeland before...

Sometimes tales flow down from the mountain peaks like the snow-fed streams that bleed down their boney flanks. Strange beasts. Stranger men. Stories spun in the glow of highlander watch fires to pass the time swell and strengthen - every retelling a new tributary – until the tale becomes a legend....

Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie ist ein Diskussionsforum für die materiale Anwendung kritischer Theorie auf aktuelle Gegenstände und bietet einen Rahmen für Gespräche zwischen den verschiedenen methodologischen Auffassungen heutiger Formen kritischer Theorie. Sie dient als Forum, das einzelne...

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...