Publications
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Shaping Visions in U.S.-American Magazines
(2024)
This book presents the first comprehensive study on U.S.-American female illustrators’ creative imaginations of femininity, 1890-1920. It offers insight into the multi-faceted visual-textual relations across mass and little ...
Infrastructure Aesthetics
(2024)
In recent years, more artists have been integrating institutions, funding structures, critics, and distribution circuits into the works themselves, putting pressure on the long-standing analytical division in art studies ...
Studies in the Atharvaveda
(2024)
This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. ...
Doing Digital Film History
(2024)
How has the digital turn shaped the practices of doing film history in research and teaching? From digital archival practices, database-driven search and analysis of film historical collections to the visualization and ...
Justiz im Umbruch
(2024)
This is the first volume to present the history of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe, the superior federal court for civil and criminal matters, in the period 1950 to 1968. Volume 1 deals with the ...
Counting on Computers
(2024)
Counting on Computers is a compelling exploration of socialist ambitions for a computerised future in the German Democratic Republic. It examines the authoritarian leadership's positive vision of socialist computerisation ...
The Book of Leviticus from the Gözleve Bible
(2024)
This volume offers a linguistic analysis of the Book of Leviticus from the so-called Gözleve Bible (1841), a printed Crimean Karaim Bible translation penned in Hebrew script. Crimean Karaim, and thus the language of this ...
Ethnicity as Desire
(2024)
Ethnicity as Desire provides an in-depth study of the political and ideological meanings of gay pornography shaped over the last 40 years. Focusing on the analysis of ethnic representation, it offers innovative research ...
Herausforderung Digitalisierung
(2024)
As part of a digital lecture series organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the winter semester of 2021/22 to mark this anniversary, renowned scientists from various disciplines gave valuable lectures on the topics ...
Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture
(2024)
How does textual culture change? How do genres turn into new forms, how do texts and books change through use and in performance? When does variation turn into change? This book addresses different aspects of change in the ...
Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet
(2024)
In Dunhuang in the 820s, scribes, editors, and administrators produced thousands of Tibetan and Chinese copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life. Drawing on the 1,500 such Tibetan copies now kept at the British Library, this ...
Normas y diferencias
(2024)
This volume offers an innovative contribution to the field of Cultural Studies. It addresses the intersection between disability and scenic, literary and audiovisual creation and examines the role that 'functional diversity' ...
Ancient Greek Purism
(2024)
This volume investigates the cultural, linguistic, and historical roots of Atticism: the purist movement that in the Imperial age promoted 5th-century Attic as a literary linguistic standard. The status-building of Attic ...
Widerstände
(2024)
This volume addresses definitions, forms, and motifs of the resistance against National Socialist. Its explorations focus on individual choices to resist politically organized struggles and defiance deserters and queer ...
Idylle als Denkraum im 19. Jahrhundert
(2024)
This volume brings together chapters on the conspicuous rise of idyllic genre parameters in the various literatures, illustrated media, and visual arts of the long nineteenth century. The theory behind the resurgence of ...
Beyond Mimicry
(2024)
This book addresses critical issues at the heart of both academic debate and political confrontations in African societies, facing profound crises of governance due to the failure of exogenous models adopted in the continent. ...
Digital Papyrology III
(2024)
The volume collects contributions about the most recent developments of the theoretical and practical concept of digital critical edition applied to Greek Papyrology, redacted by outstanding scholars involved in ground-breaking ...
The Fragility of Responsibility
(2024)
Norway has a tradition in promoting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). This book consists of case studies of how social responsibility is institutionalized in Norwegian ...
Conditions of Violence
(2024)
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ...
»Schizophrenie« in der Alltagssprache
(2024)
Since it was coined in 1908, the term schizophrenia has undergone a remarkable transformation. As well as being a medical diagnosis, the term is now also used to describe contradictory situations and as an everyday insult. ...