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Performing Modernism
(2022)
The book examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in Romania between the two world wars, focusing on remarkable Jewish avant-garde artists located in Bucharest. Based on extensive new research, it shows ...
Exiled in East Germany
(2024)
Recounting the life stories of Malawian and South African freedom fighters living in exile in East Germany during the Cold War, this study unfolds multiple entanglements between the “Second” and “Third” worlds from the ...
Rente im Dritten Reich Die Reichsversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte 1933 bis 1945
(2019)
Scant research attention has addressed the role, significance, and function of the RfA in the maintenance and reformulation of the retirement insurance system in the Nazi society transformed by the ideology of the ...
Chapter Toward a Migratory Turn
(2019)
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally ...
Dante’s Performance
(2024)
Dante’s Commedia abounds with scenes of liturgical drama, sacred songs, and dance performance. The sacred poem represents the afterlife with great poetic force thanks to the richness of its performed theology. Dante’s ...
Elective Affinities
(2024)
This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central Europe and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributions from different ...
“Cultures of Airborne Diseases”, Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies
(2024)
Examining airborne diseases from the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and health humanities, among other fields, “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” platforms significant discourse ...
Manual der Koloproktologie, Band 1
(2019)
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 ...
Judentum und Arbeiterbewegung
(2018)
Before the Second World War, individuals of Jewish origin played a disproportionate part in the labor movement, which was a central current in the struggles for emancipation. Especially in Eastern Europe, there were Jewish ...
Judentum und Arbeiterbewegung
(2018)
Before the Second World War, individuals of Jewish origin played a disproportionate part in the labor movement, which was a central current in the struggles for emancipation. Especially in Eastern Europe, there were Jewish ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Relativism
(2016)
One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in “On Certainty” (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a ...
Chapter There’s Always the Sun
(2016)
The present paper asks how Macrobius thinks his extensive allegories of statues of the gods and other elements of traditional religion are possible. He can be shown to espouse a Neoplatonic theory of images. This entails ...
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?
(2022)
Digitization technologies applied to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite unquestionable merits, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also ...
Chapter Lexikostatistik 2.0*
(2014)
In the middle of the 20th century there were various attempts to classify
Languages with the help of word lists that correspond to the basic vocabulary of the relevant
Languages are taken to automate. These methods ...
Zur Aktualität der Privatrechtstheorie Adolf Reinachs
(2024)
The aim of this treatise is to present Reinach's main work to a broader audience and thus to make a contribution to its rediscovery - which, in the view expressed here, is overdue. To this end, the treatise first introduces ...
Climbing up the Social Ladder?
(2024)
Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position. But how does this work for those already atop or very close to it? This book explores instances of ...
Osteuropäisch – jüdisch – sozialistisch
(2022)
This study sheds light on the lives of an exiled group of Eastern European Jewish socialists who spent time in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, analyzes the different ways that they understood belonging, and traces their ...
Dynamics of Religion
(2016)
RGVV(History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)—contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning—and engages them from a ...
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 ...
The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts
(2016)
Lexicography; Typology; Cross-Linguistic Comparison
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 ...
The Future of the Past
(2024)
The 27 studies in the volume address the issue of the value and relevance of classical antiquity today, as reflected in all aspects of modern life: the sciences, the linguistic forms, literary expressions, cultural tradition, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Arbeitsvorgänge in Bibliotheken
(2024)
The new standard work for creating job descriptions and job evaluations comprehensively lists new and updated work procedures in academic libraries. The fulfilled job characteristics as well as associated remuneration ...
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 ...
Affektpoetiken des New Hollywood
(2016)
How do spectators become emotionally involved in cinema? Starting from this question, the book suggests an original view about a critical period in United States film history. In a detailed analysis of individual films, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Le mal et la symbolique
(2022)
This book outlines the trajectory from Paul Ricœur’s The Symbolism of Evil to his writings devoted to psychoanalysis, the common thread being the residue left by the subject of evil, which guided Ricœur to Freud. This book ...
Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America
(2012)
This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South ...
Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
(2018)
Instruments constitute a classic member of the thematic role inventory, yet they are usually analyzed only peripherally, taking a back seat to the more studied members such as Agent and Patient. This dissertation investigates ...
Catalogue of the New Corpus of Documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem
(2024)
The documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad areas of social, political, cultural and economic history. The first documents ...
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 ...
Beyond Diversity
(2024)
The anthology collects cutting-edge essays on contemporary LGBTQ+ issues in Japan. By discussing political and cultural representations of and by sexual minorities in Japan after 2000, it offers novel perspectives and sheds ...
Paul on the Human Vocation
(2021)
This book offers a new explanation for Paul’s puzzling use of λογικὴ λατρεία (Rom 12.1). Based on a detailed investigation of ancient philosophical parallels, it argues that Paul here alludes to discourse on the role of ...
Queer Pop
(2024)
This volume considers how feminist, queer and trans* musicians, filmmakers, curators, and performance artists contribute to popular culture. It explores the many ways of relating to difference that their contributions ...
Lettere alle “tre amiche”
(2022)
This volume presents the letters (approximately 600) that Scipio Slataper wrote between late 1909 and December 1915 to his “three friends” from Trieste, Anna Pulitzer, Gigetta (Luisa) Carniel, and Elody Oblath. These letters ...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, ...
Beyond Exceptionalism
(2021)
While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. ...
Chapter 3 Implicature and explicature
(2012)
In this paper, we look in detail at some of the particular micro-processes involved in the online, relevance-driven derivation of explicature and implicatures. But before that, we set out some background intellectual history ...
Elective Affinities
(2024)
This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central Europe and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributions from different ...
Christus in natura
(2020)
This volume offers detailed studies into the Physiologus, a Greek manuscript probably written in Egypt in the 2nd century CE. The Physiologus was the first Christian text to sum up a general understanding of nature using ...
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 ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019-10)
The monograph tries to throw new light on Franz Brentanos (1838–1917) conspicuous reluctance to publish his philosophical findings based on his biography, personality and the development of his scientific theories. In ...
Optogenetics
(2013)
Biophysics; Genetic Engineering; Neuroscience; Optics; Vision Restoration
Comics and Agency
(2022)
This volume focuses on the attribution of agency across comics production (authorship and institutionalization), reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization). Contributors ...
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 ...
Inhabited Machines
(2022)
Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is ...
Frames interdisziplinär: Modelle, Anwendungsfelder, Methoden
(2018)
Das Frame-Konzept als kognitives Repräsentationsformat ist seit seiner Einführung durch Minsky und Fillmore vielfach rezipiert und modifiziert worden. Dieser interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band vereint Beiträge aus so ...
Postcolonial Theory and Crisis
(2024)
The volume aims at a conceptualisation of the relations between postcolonial theory and crisis as well as to the crisis of postcolonialism and the ways in which it can respond to contemporary issues, trying to understand, ...
Chapter Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum in papyris reperta: Occidente ed Oriente, testi e contesti
(2016)
The volume collates ten studies that confront the main issues of the research on Roman poetic fragments: textual criticism and interpretation, new additions to the corpus, authorship, prosody and colometry, literary genre, ...
Microbial Evolution under Extreme Conditions
(2015)
Microorganisms; biodiversity; microbial inhabitants
Body, Gender, Senses
(2024)
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists. Underlining the critical relations between ...
The Age of Neoliberal Absolutism
(2024)
At the turn of the millenium, we saw the start of a global change that supersedes traditional forms of government, defined in this book as oikocracy. It is characterised by an uncontrollable demand for money ahead of public ...
Body, Gender, Senses
(2024)
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists. Underlining the critical relations between ...
Das Gelingen der künstlichen Natürlichkeit
(2021)
It is becoming increasingly possible to fundamentally intervene into human life using disruptive biotechnologies. On the other side, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In this twofold development, the boundaries ...
Das Gelingen der künstlichen Natürlichkeit
(2021)
It is becoming increasingly possible to fundamentally intervene into human life using disruptive biotechnologies. On the other side, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In this twofold development, the boundaries ...