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Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

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Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book aims at introducing interarts studies to Middle Eastern studies and, at …

Palästinensische Autobiographien

Unsere Situation schuf unsere Erinnerungen

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The history of Palestine is one written by others, Roman and Arab conquerors, Ottoman and British rulers, and today a Zionist shadow looms. As if finally realizing that claims to territory demand a claim to history, following the defeat of …

Sehnsucht nach Sinn

Literarische Semantisierung von Geschichte im zeitgenössischen türkischen Roman

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Towards the end of the 20th century a new interest in the Ottoman and Seljuk past crystallized in Turkish fiction. In the process, not only an array of aspects connected with the “official”, heroic-nationalist version of history were subjected to …

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

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A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity, specifying the appeal they held for his contemporaries. Drawing on structural text analysis, the …

Martyrdom in Literature

Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity

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This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern literatures. Despite its divergent historical, religious, philosophical or political circumstances, there does …

Writers and Rulers

Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times

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Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties) chose rulers and other political leaders as the recipients for their writings, …

Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture

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Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture scrutinizes the fascinating and diverse wanderings forms of artistic expression, in particular literature, have taken through different cultural fields, both within and outside a specific geographical region or historical époque. Approaching the topic …

Brückenschläge

Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)

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Brückenschläge (Building Bridges) is the first detailed and systematic comparison of two modern Middle Eastern literatures, taking the novel genre as a paradigm. The study’s synoptic approach challenges, and gets past, the concept of Arabic resp. Turkish “national literatures”, outlining …

Crisis and Memory

The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative

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This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of the state of Israel and its continuing aftermath, to the Suez …

Jesus, Joseph and Job

Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women’s Fiction

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Joseph, Jesus and Job are all immediately recognizable religious figures in both Christianity and Islam who have been incorporated into a range of artistic and literary projects both inside and outside the Arab world. This study examines how three Lebanese …

Héritages platoniciens et aristotéliciens dans l’Orient et l’Occident (IIe-XVIe siècles)

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The aim of bringing together these works in this volume is to explore, through specific studies, the reception of certain aspects of Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism in Patristics and the philosophy of Late Antiquity, in medieval Latin thought and in medieval …

Jenseits der Dichotomie von Text und Bild

Verfahren der Veranschaulichung und Verlebendigung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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This volume brings together the research findings of a DFG network of Germanists and art historians. The focus is on processes of visualisation and vivification in the sister arts of painting and poetry. For Christian-influenced pre-modern art production, it was …

Nameyên ji şairekî ciwan re. Briefe an einen jungen Dichter

zweisprachig Kurmanji-Kurdisch/Deutsch

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Die «Briefe an einen jungen Dichter» von Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) gehören zu den meist rezipierten Briefen der Weltliteratur. Sie wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt und fanden insbesondere bei einer jungen Leserschaft großen Anklang. Zwei schreibende Seelen treffen sich öffnend …

Schicksal – Zufall – Willensfreiheit

Kontingenz im Trojanerkrieg Konrads von Würzburg

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The tale of the fall of Troy is - and was already in the Middle Ages - a popular and oft-told story, and the tragic end of the war between Greeks and Trojans can be considered anchored in cultural memory. …

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

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A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous speech, as well as tales, legends, anecdotes and other …

Les sculptures antiques du Musée d’art et d’archéologie du Pays de Laon - Die antiken Skulpturen des Musée d’art et d’archeologie du Pays de Laon

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In the latest volume of the MAR catalogue series the ancient sculptures of the Museum of Laon (France) are presented for the first time in their entirety. The catalogue consists largely of the collection assembled by Paul Marguerite de la …

Macchiabate I. Ausgrabungen in der Nekropole von Francavilla Marittima, Kalabrien, 2009-2016

Die Areale Strada und De Leo

Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Macchiabate necropolis of Francavilla Marittima in northern Calabria has been a key archaeological site when it comes to the encounter between the Greeks and the indigenous Iron Age cultures in southern Italy in …

guldîne linge

Fünf Essays zu Gottfrieds Tristan

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In his Tristan novel, Gottfried von Straßburg uses narrative traditions and common motifs of ancient, Celtic, French, Medieval Latin and German traditions. Furthermore, he incorporates aspects of material culture and contemporary scholarly knowledge. This book’s five essays can be read …

La mort du roi : réalité, littérature, représentation | Der Tod des Königs: Realität, Literatur, Repräsentation

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The death of the king was always one of the most significant events in the history of a rule. He gave the impetus to various symbolic representations, to produce a rich literature and extensive iconography. This volume brings together a …

The Modern Greek subjunctive complementation

A diachronic and typological approach

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This monograph addresses a syntactic “peculiarity” of the Modern Greek language, namely the phenomenon of finite complementation which is instantiated by the usage of a verbal category habitually described as the Modern Greek subjunctive mood. The study provides a systematic …