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Minor Universality / Universalité mineure
(2023)
In times of relativism – marked by the critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other, this volume tracks the development and relevance ...
Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
(2022)
Kanashi is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the West Himalayish subbranch of this language family. It is spoken by fewer than 2,000 individuals in one single village (Malana in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, ...
Situating Scandinavian Poetry in the Computational Network Environment
(2023)
This book investigates how Scandinavian poetry works in the context of digital media from a historical and theoretical perspective. How do digital media intervene in poetic form? How do they remediate older forms of poetry? ...
Decor-Räume in pompejanischen Stadthäusern
(2020)
The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end of the 2nd century BCE and the early Imperial period. For the first time, individual decor phenomena are not only considered ...
Die Welt im Dorf
(2024)
It was not just in the major trade centers but also in the expanse of the "Hinterland" that the foreign and the exotic made themselves felt in the age of Enlightenment – be it in the form of missionaries from China, galley ...
A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja – Critical Edition
(2019)
A hitherto unpublished scripture of Buddhist dharani literature, the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja has been recently discovered in five Nepalese manuscripts. This rare Sanskrit text from around the fifth century focuses on the ...
Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls
(2020)
What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience`s emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
(2023)
Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography with various discussions on issues like slave agency, slavery and law, slavery and capitalism, slave families, demography of slavery, ...
Sakrale Schriftbilder
(2024)
The pictoriality of writing has been a major research topic for some years now. This reflects the fact that writing is not just read but always seen as well, that letters are not just written but can also be carved, ...
The Patient Griselda Myth
(2019)
The Patient Griselda myth tells the story of a marquis who is reluctant to get married, but, under pressure from his subjects, agrees to take a wife and chooses a poor young country girl for her virtues. Once married, he ...
China’s capitalist transformation
(2024)
This book provides a rare account of China’s market reform in the own words of the Chinese: politicians, intellectuals, the media, and journalists. The Chinese rhetoric―complex, ironic, argumentative, and abstruse―may hold ...
Geselliger Sang
(2024)
Sociable Song: this volume examines German-language love songs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its chapters from literary studies and musicology consider the songs’ dissemination, functions, and mediality. By ...
Literatur und Film im Spiegel des Digitalen
(2024)
In light of the strong media competition generated by the internet and digital television, two older and similarly endangered media formats, literature and cinema, are increasingly reflecting on their potential and limits ...
Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains
(2018)
Criterial freezing; copula; Hebrew copular sentence; labeling; Subject Criterion; small clause; subject position(s); PRON; Inverse copular sentence; Focus; Smuggling
The Power of Religion / Religion and Power
(2023)
How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship between power and religion always negative or can religion also affect individuals ...
Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas: Themes from Barcan Marcus
(2015)
Modal logic; quantification; rationality
The Philosophy of Human Rights
(2011-11-17)
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral ...
Inschriftenkulturen im kommunalen Italien Traditionen, Brüche, Neuanfänge
(2019)
The volume examines the epigraphic cultures of Italian communes during the High Middle Ages and their relationship to earlier epigraphic cultures in antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It focuses especially on the question ...