Publications
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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 ...
Precarity in European Film
(2022)
This volume explores how contemporary European cinema engages with the increasing precarization of life and work on the continent. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic ...
TransArea
(2016-07-11)
The future of area studies lies in opening out into TransArea studies, which tie together area-connected competencies with transdisciplinary research practices. It is one of the loftiest and most urgent duties of philology ...
Powers of Protection
(2021)
This volume explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, ...
Restoration as Fabrication of Origins
(2023)
This publication aims to clarify the relationships between material restoration and politics in Italian Renaissance art by focusing on the question of origin as a foothold for political, patrimonial, and cultural identity. ...
Theatron
(2012)
This volume presents 22 studies on aspects of rhetorical culture from Late Antiquity to the last years of the Byzantine Empire. Many of them concentrate on the effects and social relevance of the art of public speaking, ...
Die fragmentierte Stadt
(2021)
Wo Menschen eng zusammenleben, gibt es Konkurrenz und Verdrängung. Beinahe selbstverständlich nehmen wir hin, dass viele öffentliche Räume nicht mehr von allen Bevölkerungsgruppen gleichermaßen genutzt werden. Dies geschieht ...
Saša Stanišić: Poetologie und Werkpolitik
(2023)
Saša Stanišić is one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature. This volume reveals new perspectives on Stanišić’s work and his authorial persona. It focuses on previously neglected aspects, such as ...
Auf dem Weg in die Moderne
(2023)
So far, scholarship has classified the speculation crises of the eighteenth century as having had no real economic consequences. This study aims to review this theory by looking at seven speculation crises. It concludes ...
Menschen zählen
(2015)
This book gets to the heart of discussions on big data and the digital age. It presents the 200-year history of the idea that people and societies are nothing more than the sum total of the data collected by quantitative ...
Sprachkontakt generativ
(2023)
This book makes a theoretical contribution to research on the dynamics and processes of structural language contact and language change resulting from contact. It also provides insights into the syntax of Cimbrian, one of ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems
(2013-08-29)
This book is thesecond volume of a three volume series recording the "Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment" that took placein Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. ...
Authorship and Text-making in Early China
(2018)
Der vorliegende Band berichtet über die bisherigen Aktivitäten des Instituts, seine Historie und Perspektiven und erlaubt darüber hinaus auch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Aufbaus eines Instituts in Afrika und auf ...
Makrokonstruktionen
(2022)
The study investigates adverbial structures in spoken French that combine three or more discursive elements in a complex way. These structures are modeled in accordance with the terms of construction grammar as “macro ...
Death in Jewish Life
(2014-08-28)
This volume examines in inter-disciplinary perspective the degree to which the medieval Ashkenazi were innovative in the area of communal activity surrounding burial and mourning customs. The topics cover liturgical poetry ...
Staatsorganisationsrecht
(2022)
This textbook, written by university researchers, contains basic knowledge about German state organization law (Staatsorganisationsrecht). It presents exam-relevant material specifically for students. It also contains ...
Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase Systems
(2022)
The essential principles of green chemistry are the use of renewable raw materials, highly efficient catalysts and green solvents linked with energy efficiency and process optimization in real-time. Experts from different ...
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
(2021)
During the 13th century, the Franciscan school became prominent among the first universities such as Oxford and Paris and other European centres of learning. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some ...
Big Data Security (Volume 3)
(2019)
After a short description of the key concepts of big data the book explores on the secrecy and security threats posed especially by cloud based data storage. It delivers conceptual frameworks and models along with case ...
Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare
(2018)
This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity ...
Geschichte der Krim
(2020)
The book surveys the history of the Crimea from ancient times to the present, reflecting both the latest research and the author’s own recent findings. In the context of recent developments in the Crimea and what most legal ...