Publications
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Geschichte der Komparatistik in Programmtexten
(2024)
Comparative literature today has become convoluted amid myriad reconceptualizations and declarations of its demise. In light of this situation, this book aims to reaffirm some of the central terms of comparative literary ...
Leberecht Migge „Überall Gärten! Für alle!“
(2024)
The newly discovered original plans, published for the first time in 2019, allow a new view at Leberecht Migge as a garden architect who is still relevant today. His equally beautiful and groundbreaking designs for house ...
US-Fantasy 1977–1987
(2022)
At the end of the 1970s, a new genre cycle was formed in US cinema. Starting with space opera in cinema, for which George Lucas' Star Wars is paradigmatic, fantasy established itself for the first time as an independent ...
Ein Meister an der Peripherie des Kapitalismus
(2023)
This study examines The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1880), the magnum opus of Brazilian author Machado de Assis. Those interested in literature and cultural theory will find here a shining model of that which affects ...
Ein Meister an der Peripherie des Kapitalismus
(2023)
This study examines The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1880), the magnum opus of Brazilian author Machado de Assis. Those interested in literature and cultural theory will find here a shining model of that which affects ...
How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960–2000
(2023)
In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the ...
Good practice in der institutionellen Kommunikation
(2023)
How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? The theoretical-methodological contributions discuss what the basis for evaluation is, how it can be collected empirically, and ...
Handlungskoordination in der Lernwelt Hochschule
(2022)
The switch from teaching to learning, competence-based teaching, and new public management are calling for changes to be made to the way that activities are coordinated at universities. Educational governance can help to ...
Sign Languages of the World: A Comparative Handbook
(2015)
Sign Language; Deaf history; Deaf Education; Linguistic Typology
Prosa: Theorie, Exegese, Geschichte
(2021)
A theory of prose does not exist yet. This volume aims to free prose from its invisibility as a medium for forms or genres devoid of characteristics. It redefines prose as a structure that works in latency, as a mysterious ...
The Influence of English on Italian
(2023)
The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of borrowings are discussed on the basis of a usage-based list of ...
Logiken der Sammlung
(2020)
The archive and its various forms as storage of cultural memory are the focus of the fourth volume of the literature and archive series. What does it mean when an archive is only dedicated to a holder, when there are estate ...
Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices: Crossing Views on Theoretical and Applied Sign Language Linguistics
(2013)
Sign Language; Applied Linguistics; Intercultural Communication
Schein und Anschein
(2023)
Der Sonderforschungsbereich Andere Ästhetik untersucht, wie vormoderne Artefakte ihren ästhetischen Status reflektieren. Hieran anknüpfend, geht der vorliegende Band einem seit der Antike bis heute zentralen Themenfeld ...
Greek Medical Papyri Text, Context, Hypertext
(2019)
This volume, authored by outstanding papyrologists and historians of ancient medicine, deals with topics focused on the papyrological evidence of ancient medical texts and contexts. The first part contains some new reflections ...
An Alchemist in Chains
(2024)
In 1717–1719, a court case against the pietist and alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona led to the burning of his writings and his banishment to Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This book investigates the details of the ...
US-Fantasy 1977–1987
(2022)
At the end of the 1970s, a new genre cycle was formed in US cinema. Starting with space opera in cinema, for which George Lucas' Star Wars is paradigmatic, fantasy established itself for the first time as an independent ...
Ethos und Pathos der Geisteswissenschaften: Konfigurationen der wissenschaftlichen Persona seit 1750
(2015)
Epistemology; Ethos of scholarship
Paradigmas y polifuncionalidad
(2020)
This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, ...
Shared Margins
(2021)
Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and ...
Chapter Digital Sieves
(2019)
The subject of About Sieves and Sieving is the motif of the sieve, starting from the enigmatic portraits of Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1533-1603). The sieve exhibits a wide range of meanings that extends ...
Leberecht Migge „Überall Gärten! Für alle!“
(2024)
The newly discovered original plans, published for the first time in 2019, allow a new view at Leberecht Migge as a garden architect who is still relevant today. His equally beautiful and groundbreaking designs for house ...
Kooperation und Innovation im Speyerer Buchdruck des ausgehenden Mittelalters
(2022)
This study examines Speyer, a significant medieval printing location, where four printers operated between 1471 and 1500. Alongside the most important workshop belonging to the Drach family, the brothers Johann and Conrad ...
Collecting Recipes: Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue
(2017)
Intercultural history of knowledge and science; Late Antique pharmacology/ pharmacotherapy; Talmudic Medicine; Greek medical encyclopedias
Hauptstadt und Staat
(2024)
In the past, Berlin flourished as a capital city, not so much due to the subsidies provided by Prussia and the empire but because these regimes understood and utilized it as a capital city. It became an imperial city and ...
Literarische Organotechnik
(2024)
The volume assumes that literature and its science are transdisciplinary and are fed by figures of thought, metaphors or models from other disciplines and, conversely, become a central place for innovative conceptualization. ...
Chapter Where Alice fell into
(2014)
The way in which different languages encode motion has been an important topic of investigation in the last few decades. As more data from typologically different languages has become available, the strict dichotomy between ...
The Theatre of Anxiety
(2024)
Against the background of multiple ecological, economic, political, or health crises, anxiety has become an overwhelming feeling characterising the early twenty-first century. This study identifies a broad reaction to this ...
Inspecting the Interview
(2024)
Interviews are omnipresent and play a crucial role in various public discourses, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a media platform. This volume assembles contributions by theoreticians ...
The Poetry of Cao Zhi
(2021)
This is the first complete translation of the poetry of Cao Zhi, a major figure from the formative age of classical Chinese poetry. The translations take the reader beyond anthology pieces to present a more complete view ...
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence
(2024)
The book provides an overview of the different AI technologies, demystifying terms such as search, reasoning, learning, adapting, understanding, and interacting. It covers the two dominant paradigms in AI, both the ...
Digital History
(2022)
Research and teaching in history have undergone profound changes within the scope of digitalization. This volume asks questions such as: What changes is digitalization making possible in the way that historical research ...
Enhancing Boardroom Diversity in Saudi Arabia
(2023)
This book reviews Saudi boardroom diversity of listed companies with regard to age, gender, nationality, experience and educational profile data of board members. It summarizes Saudi corporate governance legislation from ...
Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities
(2023)
This multi-authored monograph offers a state-of-the-art analysis of how translanguaging supports bilingual Roma students’ learning in monolingual school systems. Co-written by academic and non-academic participants, it is ...
« Aurore » de Nietzsche
(2024)
This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Dawn, Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality. In this in-depth commentary, Simonin shows that Dawn is fundamental to our understanding of the shake-up of our worldview ...
Lernwelt Hochschule gestalten
(2024)
Managing universities, especially teaching, is complex. One requirement for success is interplay at all levels – between the ministry, management, lecturers, students, and administration. Grounded in empirical research, ...
Die deutschsprachige weltliche Liedkultur um 1600
(2022)
This study examines the transformation that took place in worldly lied culture in German around 1600. Ornate poetry in the vernacular and solo lieder emerged in the sixteenth century and were predominantly developed using ...
Chapter Ki issues in Turkish
(2014)
De Vries’ (2006 et seq.) addition of ‘par-Merge’ to the extant Merger operations utilized by the narrow syntax provides a means by which to model parataxis and yet maintain that paratactic constituents (i.e. parentheticals) ...
Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games
(2013)
Incontestably, Future Narratives are most conspicuous in video games: they combine narrative with the major element of all games: agency. The persons who perceive these narratives are not simply readers or spectators but ...
Die Shoah im Spiegel öffentlicher Konflikte in Polen
(2013)
Since the mid-1980s, public discourse in Poland has repeatedly focussed on the issue of how to deal with the National Socialists` destruction of the Jews. This has raised accusations that the Polish people bore an element ...