Literatur

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 …

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

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The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

Mystique, langage, image : Montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild. Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren

The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 23 (2020/2021): (V)erdichtete Leben. Literarische Lebensmuster in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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‚(V)erdichtete Leben‘ meint den Status von (auto)biographischer Literatur zwischen ‚wirklichem’ Leben und seiner literarischen Funktionalisierung. Unter diesem Aspekt widmet sich der aktuelle Tagungsband der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft der Frage nach der Relevanz von (Auto)biographie als Gattung und Textbestandteil im Mittelalter …

Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale

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This volume celebrates the work of the American linguist Mark R. Hale with contributions from general and historical linguistics, especially comparative Indo-European linguistics, phonological and syntactic theory, and language change.

Mittelalter-Rezeption im zeitgenössischen Musiktheater

Katalog und Fallstudien

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Medieval subjects have played a significant role in the history of opera and musical theater. Since 1945 over 350 works have been set in the Middle Ages or demonstrate a reception of medieval topics or events. These are catalogued with …

Das ‚Briefbuch‘ der Strassburger Johanniterkommende Zum Grünen Wörth

Untersuchungen und Edition

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The 'Letter Book' served as the basis for the formation of a community identity in the monastery Zum Grünen Wörth. What is unusual about this manuscript are the two conversion texts declared as autographs, the 'Four Years' of the founder …

Alles geschieht in der Welt der Poesie wegen

Leben und Werk des Achim von Arnim

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I first encountered Achim von Arnim's work in the summer semester of 1968 while studying German philology at the University of Hamburg. In an advanced seminar on the theory of Romanticism, I wrote a paper on the story “Der tolle …

Ein leises Geräusch wie ein Gefühl des Sehnens

Dichtung und Zeugenschaft zum faschistischen Konzentrationslager in Libia Coloniale

Arabic poetry about the Italian concentration camps in Libia Coloniale is often understood primarily as a historical source, thereby neglecting the poems' literary merits. A Soft Sound, Like a Feeling of Longing approaches these poems from a literary theoretical perspective …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Petrus de Alvernia. Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum Aristotelis

Edizione, introduzione e note

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This is the first critical edition of the most significant medieval commentary on Books III-VIII of Aristotle’s Politics. This commentary was intended as a continuation of Thomas Aquinas’s literal commentary on Books I-III of the Politics. It was highly influential …

Zwischen Tugend und Laster

Weibliche Rollenbilder in den Tragedi und Comedi des Hans Sachs

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The present study is the first to examine in detail a representative corpus of the tragedi and comedi with female protagonists written by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs. On the basis of a precise reconstruction of the intertextual frame of …

Decoding DA’ISH

An Analysis of Poetic Exemplars and Discursive Strategies of Domination in the Jihadist Milieu

Why do Jihadists compose poetry and what role does poetry play in the transmission of the jihadist ideology? Decoding DĀʿISH is located at the intersections of the literary, the religious, and the political in jihadist discourse. The study examines how …

Orts-Wechsel

Reale, imaginierte und virtuelle Wissensräume

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Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives from the European Middle Ages to the 21st …

Neuere Aspekte germanistischer Spätmittelalterforschung

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Die hier publizierten Tagungsbeiträge bilanzieren und perspektivieren Aspekte der Forschung zum deutschen Spätmittelalter. Dabei kommen verschiedene Blickwinkel und methodische Ansätze zum Tragen, von der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung über die Gattungsperspektive bis hin zur weiterführenden, exemplarischen Analyse am Einzeltext. In der Summe ergeben …

Das »Bairisch-österreichische Buch von Troja«

(»Buch von Troja II«). Kritische Ausgabe

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With this volume, Heribert A. Hilgers and Heinz Thoelen present a critical edition of one of the most noteworthy and outstanding late medieval German prose epics about Troy, which has been prepared on the basis of all surviving manuscripts. The …