Publications
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Social Media and Social Order
(2022)
This book addresses the relationship between social media and social order at multiple scales and sites, from city neighborhoods to national politics, to how the data harvested by transnational corporations influence lives ...
Inszenierte Geschichte = Staging History
(2021)
Anniversaries and jubilees play a central role in the "doing" of history. They qualitatively and quantitatively expand the group of people who consume and produce "history," while different history media correspond and ...
Raum und Interieurs in Thomas Manns Erzählwerk
(2018)
The 19th century was, in Walter Benjamin’s diagnosis, “addicted to dwelling.” That era’s sense of space – what August Schmarsow called its Raumgefühl – shaped the narratives of Thomas Mann. This study examines Mann’s ...
Theater im Gespräch
(2018)
Conversation in the theatrical break is traditionally associated with the ideal of a public which, inspired by the previous stage experience, rhetorically skillfully communicates about aesthetic and socio-political issues. ...
Affektpoetiken des New Hollywood
(2016)
How do spectators become emotionally involved in cinema? Starting from this question, the book suggests an original view about a critical period in United States film history. In a detailed analysis of individual films, ...
Der hagiographische Topos
(2012)
This is the first systematic study of literary formulae (topoi) in Greek medieval lives of the saints. Thomas Pratsch compiles a comprehensive systematic catalogue of the topoi and in his evaluation of them provides new ...
Theaternarratologie
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism
(2023)
Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos’ scholarly and scribal activity by ...
Die Mosaiken der Acheiropoietos-Basilika in Thessaloniki
(2012)
The volume examinesfurther questions on the early Byzantine mosaics in the metropolis, and in particular their problematic chronology. A number of mosaics from the entire Mediterranean, which have to date received little ...
Kreativität im Schnittpunkt der Observanzen/Creatività e osservanza
(2023)
Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship ...
Democratic State and Democratic Society
(2019)
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy ...
Magnetic Hybrid-Materials
(2021)
Externally tunable properties allow for new applications of suspensions of micro- and nanoparticles in sensors and actuators in technical and medical applications. By means of easy to generate and control magnetic fields, ...
Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages
(2020)
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions ...
Paul on the Human Vocation
(2021)
This book offers a new explanation for Paul’s puzzling use of λογικὴ λατρεία (Rom 12.1). Based on a detailed investigation of ancient philosophical parallels, it argues that Paul here alludes to discourse on the role of ...
Der Berliner „jüdische Salon“ um 1800
(2012-07-30)
Anhand neuer Quellen werden die Berliner 'jüdischen Salons' um 1800 als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz präsentiert. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahrs 1794/95 beleuchtet eine ...
Rhapsodic Objects
(2021)
Circulation and imitation of cultural products are key factors in shaping the material world.The contributions explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impacted the production and consumption ...
Quantitative Ansätze in den Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften
(2018)
Since the beginning of the 19th century, quantitative techniques have been used in literary and human sciences to describe, analyze and interpret texts. Such approaches were underrepresented until the end of the 20th ...
Medieval Translatio
(2024)
The volume focuses on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning, from linguistic aspects to the transfer of culture and knowledge. Examples from Latin, English, Slavic, and Scandinavian philologies demonstrate the ...
Staatliche Grenzen
(2019)
State borders are a central topos of political debates in Europe, in which liberal, national-conservative, populist and openly racist positions are articulated. What functions do they have? What effects and contradictions ...