Publications
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Multimodale Interaktionsanalyse
(2023)
How do Brazilians in Germany experience the integration process? This volume investigates this question using a method that analyzes conversations multimodally – i.e., by incorporating gestures – and sets them in relation ...
Restoration as Fabrication of Origins
(2023)
This publication aims to clarify the relationships between material restoration and politics in Italian Renaissance art by focusing on the question of origin as a foothold for political, patrimonial, and cultural identity. ...
Frauensatiren der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
Bossy broads, lustful virgins, and pseudo-scholarly ladies can be found everywhere in early modern satiric writings. By taking up misogynist traditions/tropes, they prove to have been a significant transgeneric phenomenon ...
Death in Jewish Life
(2014-08-28)
This volume examines in inter-disciplinary perspective the degree to which the medieval Ashkenazi were innovative in the area of communal activity surrounding burial and mourning customs. The topics cover liturgical poetry ...
TransArea
(2016-07-11)
The future of area studies lies in opening out into TransArea studies, which tie together area-connected competencies with transdisciplinary research practices. It is one of the loftiest and most urgent duties of philology ...
Rhetoric and Drama
(2017)
In this preface, a synopsis of the conference preceding this volume is followed by a concise description of the DramaNet project; after an outline of various ties between rhetoric and drama, including copious references ...
Periphere Räume in der Amerikanistik
(2019)
This volume addresses the notion of the periphery as a concept in cultural studies and the discursive and narrative dimensions of peripheral spaces. Peripheral spaces are defined as those spaces that are controlled and ...
Ort und Zeit
(2020)
Like any story, the story of film doesn’t just unfold in time it is also linked to the locations in which it is inscribed. The filmic poetics that governed this process at different points in the history of cinema are the ...
The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust
(2014-06-01)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
Erzählte Ordnungen – Ordnungen des Erzählens
(2021)
By unfurling worlds, narratives also create orders. In addition, their narration has to be structured in an orderly way, so the concept of "order" can be applied to literary texts in two ways: as the order(s) of narration ...
Connected Histories
(2024)
In the spring of 2022, the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies invited to the first international EHRI-AT conference “#connectedhistories: ...
A new companion to the Romance languages
(2024)
This companion offers a balanced overview of the core subjects of Romance linguistics. It provides a basic canon as well as access to specialised areas of research by means of references to the latest handbooks and ...
The Phonology of Maaloula Aramaic
(2024)
The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to previously unaddressed problems at the descriptive, methodological and ...
Iridescent Kuwait
(2021)
Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait ...
École de Paris global
(2024)
It is a frequently told story that Paris was the world center of art at the beginning of the 20th century. This book asks what contribution exhibitions between 1921 and 1946 made to the development and dissemination of ...
Umstrittene Vergangenheit
(2009)
The struggle with the Donatists in North Africa dominated Augustine`s term of office as bishop. In order to disprove their views, in his writings not only did he employ theological arguments, he also referred to events ...
Neues aus Wissenschaft und Lehre
(2010)
Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, ...
Ǧawāhir al-Akhbār wa-Mulaḥ Al-Ashʿār
(2024)
Ǧawāhir al-Akhbār wa-Mulaḥ al-Ashʿār, Gems of the Tales and Anecdotes of poetry, by Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAqāma Al-Yamanī, contains tales from the pre-Islamic, early Islamic, and Abbasid periods. The work contains ...
Optically Induced Nanostructures
(2015)
Nanostructuring of materials is a task at the heart of many modern disciplines in mechanical engineering, as well as optics, electronics, and the life sciences. This book includes an introduction to the relevant nonlinear ...
Die Tragödie Europas
(2023)
The time between the Hitler-Stalin pact of 23 August 1939 and Germany`s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 remains a controversial period in European historiography. This volume presents the still multivalent ...