Publications
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Mapping the Sensible
(2022)
Mapping figures in cinema as an experiential process inscribed within historically specific aesthetic regimes. The three long essays in this book explore mapping as a process of violent inscription on colonial landscapes ...
Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls
(2020)
Wie ist die zeitliche Gestaltung audiovisueller Bilder mit den verschiedenen Modi des Zuschauergefühls verbunden? Am Gegenstand der Screwball Comedy wird diese Frage erörtert: Die Filme des klassischen Hollywood-Genres der ...
Digressions in Classical Historiography
(2024)
This book offers an overall view of the ways in which digressions were diachronically used by ancient historians from the genre’s first steps in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. The authors of this volume mainly ...
Willensfreiheit
(2017)
This book surveys recent debates on freedom of will, incorporating the implications of modern brain research. The author develops an original, capability-based conception of freedom of will. Geert Keil proposes that the ...
Handbook of Stemmatology
(2020)
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from traditional to digital ...
Chapter Speaker and quote reduced parenthetical clauses
(2015)
In this paper, I present a syntactico-pragmatic delimitation and subsequent analysis of reduced parenthetical clause constructions that is based upon Schneider’s (2007a) superordinate and binary division between reduced ...
The Cold War
(2017)
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There ...
Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters
(2022)
This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating to the physical beauty of literary figures. It looks at both canonic and more marginal Middle High German ...
Willensfreiheit
(2017)
This book surveys recent debates on freedom of will, incorporating the implications of modern brain research. The author develops an original, capability-based conception of freedom of will. Geert Keil proposes that the ...
Geschichten im digitalen Raum
(2024)
In the age of digitality, the question is not so much whether learning about history is relevant in the digital space but how it should be modeled. In this volume, Alexandra Krebs develops a theoretical concept for such a ...
Erinnerungsorte in der Musik
(2022)
Why do we remember certain music from the past and attribute meaning to it, while other protagonists from the history of music slip into obscurity? Armed with this question, the author embarks upon a journey to sites of ...
Bilder unter Verdacht
(2024)
Digital images have been under suspicion of manipulation not just since the discussions about "deepfakes" and generative AI. While in the 1990s any digital image evidence seemed questionable, pragmatic answers have since ...
Erinnerungsorte in der Musik
(2022)
Why do we remember certain music from the past and attribute meaning to it, while other protagonists from the history of music slip into obscurity? Armed with this question, the author embarks upon a journey to sites of ...
Der grüne Kakadu
(2020)
In The Green Cockatoo, a one-act play from 1898, Arthur Schnitzler thematizes the indistinguishability of fiction and reality. The historical-critical edition reconstructs the history of the play and its publication, ...
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
(2010)
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which ...
The Global Cold War on Campus
(2023)
How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history interviews with former students, this book reveals how they – as many others around ...
Literarische Formen des Erinnerns
(2024)
The contributions in the volume follow the path of a “rhetoric of memory” in its various forms in the area of tension between canonization and decanonization as well as disruption and stabilization. The fundamental premise ...
Unruly Narrative
(2022)
This study deals with the formative powers of modern liberal ideas of private property. The liberal subject emerged with the formations of European liberalism, Atlantic slavery, and settler colonial expansion in the New ...
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...