Publications
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Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept
(2015-05-29)
This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber`s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The volume critically evaluates ...
Offshoring of white-collar services
(2020)
This is one of few books in the market dealing with offshoring of professional services, the dynamic phenomenon of high relevance in the global economy. The unique feature of the book is merging economic and business ...
Literatura latinoamericana mundial
(2020)
From the perspective of Latin American Studies, this volume offers a critical contribution to the current debate on world literature. It is structured around three conceptual blocks: gatekeepers, as the dispositives and ...
Une doxographie sunnite du IVe/Xe siècle
(2021)
This book contains an edition and annotated translation of the only remaining doxographical fragments written by al-Qalānisī, a Sunni theologian contemporary of al-Aš'arī. The study preceding the edition gives an overview ...
The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety
(2023)
This book engages the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, one of the most important collections of early manuscripts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament, by placing them within larger conversations relating to ancient ...
Innovation Technology
(2017)
Comprise definition of 1500 terms.
Innovation from A to Z presents a glossary, including: Terms, older terms whose meanings have changed, acronyms, synonyms, famous names, selected abbreviations, and cross-references. A ...
Gegenwartsgeschichte der deutschen Wirtschaft
(2022)
The topic of this book is the interplay between the economic order and economic development in Germany's various economic systems since 1945 the social market economy of the old Federal Republic of Germany the state socialist ...
Literatur nach der Digitalisierung
(2021)
Digital media are transforming narratives and literary texts. They are also changing how we think about the present. It is against this backdrop that this volume inquires into the status of contemporary literature after ...
Francesco da Barberino al crocevia
(2021)
This volume presents an interesting case study dealing with the relationship between bilingualism and society in 14th-century Florence. Francesco da Barberino’s Documenta Amoris are a sort of orthodox contrappunto of the ...
Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
(2020)
This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. biblical and theological poetry in classical meters – from a diachronic perspective. Thus, it is possible ...
Gegen den Stand der Dinge
(2016)
Challenging the Status of Things reflects on the current shift in how museums relate to material culture. Contemporary notions in material culture studies, sociology, and art theory ascribe critical power to objects. The ...
Portals of Globalization
(2019)
This book investigates the planning of Mumbai's ports and free zones, focusing on periods of global and regional change: the early British Raj, independence, and economic liberalization. The port and free zone projects ...
International Handbook of Practical Theology
(2022)
A practical theology, that wants to face the complexity, plurality and differentiation of situations and contexts of religious practices from a global point of view, needs to refer to the discourses that shape them. The ...
Talking Dialogue
(2021)
The modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide significance. Based upon genuine archival work, the authors of the present book reconstruct the history of the movement from 1900 to 2000. Looking at central episodes in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
(2022)
This volume approaches the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses promise ...
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 ...
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 ...
Les musiques du français parlé
(2016-01-01)
This volume presents a series of critical essays on the accentuation, rhythm, and intonation of contemporary French which offer new insight into the formal and functional characteristics of French prosody from three different ...
Gefängnis als Schwellenraum in der byzantinischen Hagiographie
(2021)
This volume investigates the literary depiction of prison as a liminal space in early and middle Byzantine martyrs’ Passions. Prison proves to be a transitional space where both the formation of corporeal endurance and the ...
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.
Reflektierte algorithmische Textanalyse. Interdisziplinäre(s) Arbeiten in der CRETA-Werkstatt
(2020)
The Center for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA) develops interdisciplinary mixed methods for text analytics in the research fields of the digital humanities. This volume is a collection of text analyses from specialty ...
Germanistik in Wien
(2016)
The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the ...
The Cultural Net
(2018)
I developed the basic theoretical approach here outlined, which consists in a network theory of cultural (specifically literary) production. The main area of exemplification for the theoretical assumptions, early modern ...
Spanisch in Berlin
(2020)
Welche Motivationen stehen hinter dem Wunsch, Spanisch zu lernen? Welche Einstellungen verbinden Lernende mit der Sprache? Das Buch zeigt die Ergebnisse einer Reihe von Befragungsstudien mit Lernenden in Berlin an Hochschulen ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
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 ...
Expanding the Lexicon
(2018)
The book series is dedicated to the study of the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay as an interface phenomenon. The contributions aim to bring together approaches from various disciplines and present case studies on different ...
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 ...
Whiteface
(2022)
This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are ...
Cross-Linguistic Studies
(2023)
Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives is a two-volume collection of papers on two closely related topics in Japanese psycholinguistics. Volume 1, Cross-Linguistic Studies, compares Japanese and ...
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 ...
Wortschatz: Theorie, Empirie, Dokumentation
(2018)
Our traditional understanding of the lexicon has been changed by recent attention to the demarcation between grammar and the lexicon, increased attention to the phenomena of variance, the observation of quantitative divisions ...
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 ...
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, ...
Le lettere di Dante
(2020)
Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302–1315). This book answers ...
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 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 ...
Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutschsprachigen Presse des östlichen Europas / Multilingualism in the German-Language Press in Eastern Europe
(2023)
From various disciplinary perspectives, this issue examines the significance and forms of multilingualism in the German-language press of Eastern Europe from the Vormärz to the eve of World War II. Linguistic practices in ...
Von der Szene in die Forschung
(2023)
When fans become researchers, crossing boundaries is part of it. Citizen science makes it possible to change sides and perspectives, which can lead to productive exchanges of knowledge and experience in scholarship 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 ...
Thinking Narratively
(2022)
What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two ...
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 ...
Ästhetik des Depressiven
(2023)
Medical, sociological, and journalistic discourse currently views depression as the dominant psychological disease in modern societies. This volume examines narrative texts of the early twentieth century and contemporary ...
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 ...
Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe
(2022)
This volume introduces applied linguistics for language-based professions. Learning and practicing with both book and an online offering promotes academically rigorous thinking and action in everyday professional life, ...
Animal Kingdom of Heaven
(2019)
The essays collected in this volume apply an interdisciplinary approach to explore aspects of the relationship between animal and human in late antiquity. With a focus on ways that anthropozoological connections were defined ...
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 ...
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, ...
Dokufiktionalität in Literatur und Medien
(2021)
Hybrid narratives between fact and fiction are all the rage these days. Frequently, they are characterized as “docu-fiction,” though it is unclear which staged references to self and others are actually covered by the ...
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? ...
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 ...
Socio-Political Risk Management
(2023)
This volume explores the understanding, analysis and applications of mitigating social and political risks and the devastating consequences of mishandling of incidences. Contributors use evidence based practices, theories ...
Voces de mujeres en la Edad Media
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women. From powerful nobility as a cultural actor, to prominent and lesser-known female writers, including female protagonists of lyric ...
Contesting Religion
(2018)
As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts ...
Proclus and his Legacy
(2017)
Proclus and his Legacy bridges a gap in scholarship, specifically the last great head of the Platonic Academy, Proclus, and his influence in the history of philosophy and theology. These essays offer not only a companion ...
Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture
(2021)
Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of ...
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 ...