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Navigating Copyright for Libraries
(2022)
Much of the information that libraries make available is protected by copyright or subject to the terms of license agreements. This reader presents an overview of current issues in copyright law reform. The chapters present ...
Der Engel in der Moderne
(2022)
Die anhaltende Präsenz von Engeln in der Moderne wurde oft auf ein gesteigertes Trostbedürfnis zurückgeführt. Die Engelsfigur ist aber nicht bloß statisches Überbleibsel einer verlorenen Glaubensgewissheit. Vielmehr steht ...
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History
(2023)
Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore the long-lasting effects of colonial history on contemporary lives. Focusing on the media of text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book show how Kincaid’s ''poetics ...
Estetica e poetica in Giovan Battista Gelli
(2023)
This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of 16th-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less studied aspects: not only was Gelli deeply interested in figurative art, attested ...
Wortbildung diamedial
(2023)
The book is devoted to word-formation in written and spoken German. Corpus analyses trace diamedial usage patterns and functions of word formations in single texts, text complexes, text types as well as in linguistic ...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(2020)
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new ...
Dialekte machen
(2019)
This empirical study examines the importance of dialect and dialect use in Switzerland. Based on interdisciplinary approaches, it explores the extent to which linguistic perception and assessment on the part of laypersons ...
Konstruktion von Sprache und Sprachwissen
(2018)
This study examines the empirical differences between children with strong and weak language skills in the area of written language acquisition. While learning age has been extensively studied by researchers as the critical ...
Ordinary Oralities
(2023)
Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, grands discours, famous singers. But for most, life consists of private conversations, intimate whispers, hot gossip or ceaseless quarrels. ...
Cosmopolitan Responsibility
(2019-03-01)
The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities ...
SCHNITZLER:REIGEN (2BD.E) E-BOOK OA Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2019)
La Ronde is one of Arthur Schnitzler’s most controversial works. The historical-critical edition provides an introduction to its history, reconstructs the provenance of the manuscript, and presents a facsimile of the ...
Historische Gärten und Klimawandel
(2020)
Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic conditions? On the basis of four historical gardens, this project analyzes the ...
Nobelpreisträgerinnen 14 Schriftstellerinnen im Porträt
(2019)
This volume presents the 14 female winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, e.g. Lagerlöf, Sachs, Jelinek, Müller, Munro. Contributions offers exemplary readings of chosen works, while outlining the intellectual profile ...
Normen und Standards für die digitale Transformation Werkzeuge, Praxisbeispiele und Entscheidungshilfen für innovative Unternehmen, Normungsorganisationen und politische Entscheidungsträger
(2019)
Norms and standards are indispensable for the success of the economy’s digital transformation, even as their applications become more and more complex. This book sheds light on relevant findings from standards research, ...
Traduire Cicéron au XVe siècle Le ›Livre des offices‹ d'Anjourrant Bourré V
(2019)
In an article entitled “Per una nuova valutazione del Quattrocento francese”
published in 1957 on the threshold of the first booklet of "Studi Francesi", Franco Simone
affirmed that philological restitution of texts and ...
Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
(2019)
The Aulikaras were the rulers of western Malwa (the northwest of Central India) in the heyday of the Imperial Guptas in the fifth century CE, and rose briefly to sovereignty at the beginning of the sixth century before ...
Sprach-Spiel-Kunst Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis
(2019)
What does wordplay teach us about the function of language and communication? What creative open spaces are used in wordplay, and what are the rules and limits that govern the game? The volume presents ideas of masters of ...
Discourse on the State of the Jews Bilingual Edition
(2019)
Considered the first specimen of a theoretical literature on Jewish political economy, the Discourse is much more. Initially conceived as an apology for the Jewish community of Venice, it is actually replete with sceptical ...
Progress in Commutative Algebra 2
(2012-04-26)
This is the second of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida ...
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory
(2020)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While ...
Annotations in Scholarly Editions and Research
(2020)
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication ...
Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia
(2023)
The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. Through a systematic analysis of the sources, ...
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 ...
Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten
(2020)
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion
(2014)
This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific conversational features. A further focus ...
Cultures of Eschatology Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
(2020)
The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and ...
Action-Related Representations
(2020)
Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still ...
Die Inschriften zu den Ludi saeculares
(2020)
The Saecular Games are considered one of the best-testified religious festivals of ancient Rome. The most significant source are two inscriptions, the Acta augustea and the – partially badly damaged – Acta severiana. The ...
LiebeLesen. Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu einem großen Gefühl und dessen Aneignung
(2020)
The lecture volume plumbs a seductively diverse and infinitely confusing subject: love. From Tristan and Isolde to Don Juan, Cecilia Valdes, Emma Bovary, and the love fables of modern mass media, the relationship between ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
The World's First Full Press Freedom
(2022)
The book investigates the world's first full legal press freedom. In 1770, king Christian 7's physician, the German enlightener J.F. Struensee, effectively became ruler of Denmark. His first decree, complete abandonment ...
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, ...
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
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 ...
La identidad mexicana en libros escolares y narrativas
(2021)
This study analyzes the discursive construction strategies that structured the cognitive model of Mexican national identity in four generations of textbooks (1960–2009). Using tools from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics ...
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 ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Heinrich Heine - ein deutscher Europäer im französischen Exil
(2011)
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
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 ...