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Die Raumzeitlichkeit der Muße
(2016-08-26)
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das Phänomen der Muße in seiner Räumlichkeit und in seinem Verhältnis zur Zeit. Die Untersuchungen widmen sich philosophischer Reflexion sowie literatur- und kunsthistorischer Betrachtung, ...
Der Abschreckungseffekt auf die Grundrechtsausübung
(2017-12-12)
Julian Staben examines chilling effects, framed as deterrence-based lines of argument, in the jurisprudence of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court) and compares them with the jurisprudence of ...
Strangers in a Strange Land
(2012-06-01)
In this text Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
(2018-01-02)
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary ...
Monumental Matters
(2011-09-07)
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, ...
All in the Family
(2012-06-04)
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is ...
First Words
(2015-12-22)
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever ...
Ägyptische Erzählungen oder Über die Vorsehung
(2012-10-09)
Die "Ägyptischen Erzählungen" des Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n. Chr.) entwerfen in Form einer Allegorie, die den Osiris-Mythos mit neuplatonischen Elementen erzählt, ein lebendiges Bild der Erlebnisse, die der Autor ...
Language and Culture in Eighteenth Century Russia
(2009-06-01)
Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a ...
Cultivating Femininity
(2018-03-31)
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (<i>chanoyu</i>). In <i>Cultivating Femininity,</i> Rebecca Corbett ...
Zugriffe auf das Ich
(2016-08-26)
Wie beeinflussen psychoaktive Stoffe unser Bild von uns selbst? Entlang dieser Frage zeichnet Magaly Tornay die Geschichte psychoaktiver Stoffe in der Schweiz seit dem Aufkommen des LSD nach und zeigt auf, wie zwischen ...
Challenging Communion
(2017-01-01)
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically ...
The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
(2017-04-30)
In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians ...
Third-Generation Holocaust Representation
(2017-01-15)
Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of ...
The Witching Hour and Other Plays
(2014-08-15)
Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The ...
From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony
(2022)
When American occupiers broke up the Japanese empire in the wake of World War II, approximately 1.7 million people departed Japan for various parts of Northeast Asia. The mass exodus was spearheaded by Koreans, many of ...
Plain of Plenty
(2024)
<p>The Argive Plain in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, was central to the Mycenaean culture during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–1200 BCE). While known for its settlements and treasures, little is understood ...
Menschenrechte im Konflikt
(2022)
Zur Regulierung von politischen und sozialen Konflikten werden Menschenrechte oft als normative Leitidee ins Spiel gebracht. Insbesondere in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten hat sich gezeigt, wie heterogen die Aufgaben sind, ...
Understanding History in Asia
(2019)
The twentieth century has been called a century of war. Wars and colonization leave deep chasms between countries. In the case of Japan, these frictions have manifested themselves as historical issues. The history since ...