Title: "... that I wished myself a horse" :
Authors: "...that I wished myself a horse": the Horse as Representative of Cultural Change in Systems of Thought (Conference); Fielitz, Sonja,
Date: 2015
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter,
Physical description: 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: Introduction / Sonja Fielitz, ed. -- Authors at texts. Shakespeare and the horse / Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells -- Equestrian sports and their social space in Medieval Ireland / Erich Poppe -- Marlowe's horses: vehicles of desire and change / Roy Eriksen -- Swift horsing around: or, The madness of reason / Herman Josef Real -- "A dialogue between two horses" -- A seventeenth-century verse satire and its contexts / Kirsten Juhas -- On the wings of Pegasus: Sissy Jupe and National Velvet / Francesca Orestano -- Writing/riding on non-anthropocentric horses / Susanne Peters -- The different faces of War Horse -- Media change and cultural implications / Anja Müller -- The horse as symbol of social change in Canadian literature: re-reading Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man / Martin Kuester -- Aesthetics. Equestrian ballet as a representative of cultural change in Europe, c. 1500-1700 / Barbara Ravelhofer -- Theory meets practice: the dimension of 'presence' in freestyle dressage / Sonja Fielitz -- Neoclassical poetics and the art of horsemanship / Rolf Lessenich -- Linguistics. Accompanying HORSE(s) through time. The depiction of horses from a corpus-linguistic perspective / Rolf Kreyer -- Making Horse Sense: phraseology and metaphore as the basis for equine cultural models in English / Christoph Schubert.
Notes: International conference proceedings. "...the conference "...that I wished myself a horse": The Horse as Representative of Cultural Change in Systems of Thought held at the University of Vechta, Germany, from 14 to 16 November 2013 took place"--Page 8.
Subject headings (LCSH): Animals, Mythical, in literature--Congresses.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses; European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism--Congresses.; Horses in literature--Congresses.; Horses--Social aspects--Congresses.; Horses--Social aspects--History--Congresses.