Literary essays

Zwischen Tönen und Worten

Ein Reader mit Aufsätzen, Reden und Interviews

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“Intuition or analysis” was a ten-page booklet which the author of this book wrote at the age of sixteen and in which he first developed the idea of “music as therapy” in the light of his own personal experience, in …

From Old to New Persian

Collected Essays

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In a long series of essays, written during almost half a century, Bo Utas analyses the development of West Iranian languages, particularly Old, Middle, and New Persian, from various perspectives. The focus is placed on the transition from Middle to …

Der strahlende Berg

Geschichten aus Fukushima

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The book describes in detail, realistically and comprehensibly, how the people in Fukushima experienced the disaster and came to terms with it. However, the author does not assign the characters in his stories only a passive role, but through them …

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, …

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 …

Persistenz und Rezeption

Weiterverwendung, Wiederverwendung und Neuinterpretation antiker Werke im Mittelalter

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The present volume is based on a colloquium held by two research centres of the Philosophical Faculty of Cologne University. i.e. the “Centre for Mediterranean Cultures (Zakmira)” and the “Centre for Medieval Studies”. The contributions by various authors from the …

Spätantike und byzantinische Elfenbeinbildwerke im Diskurs

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Aus dem Inhalt:
Arun Banerjee: Non-destructive Investigation of Ivory by FTIR and Raman Spectroscopy - Gudrun Bühl: The Making of Early-Byzantine Pyxides - Jean-Pierre Caillet: Remarques sur l’iconographie Christo-Mariale des grands diptyques d’ivoire du VIe siècle. Incidences éventuelles quant à leur …

Architektur und Liturgie

Akten des Kolloquiums vom 25. bis 27. Juli 2003 in Greifswald

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This book unites most of the papers which were held during the colloquium „Architecture and Liturgy“ in Greifswald in 2003. The articles are dealing with the relationship of architecture and liturgy during the time spanning from the Late Antiquity to …

„dat ih dir it nu bi huldi gibu“

Linguistische, germanistische und indogermanistische Studien Rosemarie Lühr gewidmet

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Der Sammelband umfasst Beiträge von Schülern, Mitarbeitern und Weggefährten der Indogermanistin und Linguistin Rosemarie Lühr, die die vielfältigen Forschungsinteressen der Jubilarin widerspiegeln. Die Aufsätze reichen thematisch von der Textphilologie und Graphematik über die traditionelle Indogermanistik bis zu Syntaxuntersuchungen im generativen …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 18 (2010/2011): Konrad von Megenberg (1309 bis 1374): Ein spätmittelalterlicher »Enzyklopädist« im europäischen Kontext

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This proceedings places Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) squarely at the focal point of European cataloging. It combines contributions from Megenberg followers from different disciplines and creates a wide spectrum of thought on the modern effectiveness of this first German "non-fiction …