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The Poetry of Li He
(2023)
Li He (790-816) gained his early renown particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of lost song traditions from ancient times. The poet's premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later ...
Chapter On a theorem of Erdős and Simonovits on graphs not containing the cube
(2013)
Turán graph problem; bipartite extremal graphs; cube graph
Chapter Udug
(2014)
Assyriology; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East
Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
(2013)
This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete ...
Language, Migration and Multilingualism in the Age of Digital Humanities
(2023)
The digital turn has far-reaching implications for linguistic research, from data collection and analysis to storage infrastructure. It also brings about profound changes in epistemological and ethical practices as well ...
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
(2021)
During the 13th century, the Franciscan school became prominent among the first universities such as Oxford and Paris and other European centres of learning. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some ...
Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies
(2015)
Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language ...
Imaginationen
(2019)
In the 18th century, the power of the imagination, which had previously been regarded as problematic, experienced a radical upsurge in esteem. In the modern era, imagination has been viewed as an essential moment in processes ...
Nationalism in a Transnational Age
(2021)
Nationalism was declared to be dead too early. A post-national age was announced, in which transnational alliances like the European Union were supposed to become more important, but we are witnessing the rise of strong ...
African Data Protection Laws
(2024)
This volume documents the results of the "African Data Protection Laws: Regulation, Practice, and Policy" conference held in Accra, Ghana in September 2022. The contributions combine multidisciplinary perspectives on current ...
Computational Drama Analysis
(2024)
Work on drama has always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies. The explicit structure of plays lends itself to formal analysis and has already been explored before the age of computers. ...
Chapter 44 A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures
(2013)
This chapter argues for a composite utterances approach to research on body, language, and communication. It argues that to understand meaning we need to begin with the utterance or speech act as the unit of analysis. From ...
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
(2023)
The De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assembly showcases the state of the art of Citizens’asembly and opens new perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and new thinking about deliberative participatory processes.
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses: Innen- und Außenansichten unseres muslimischen Nachbarn
(2009)
Islam; the Orient and Islam
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume I: Commentaria I-III
(2016)
This two-volume monograph offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based ...
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 ...
Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings
(2013)
In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the ...
Manual der Koloproktologie
(2024)
This is the standard textbook for every medical or surgical coloproctologist from the German Society for Coloproctology. In two volumes, it covers the full anatomy of the colon from the ileocecal valve to the anus. Each ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 2 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...