Linguistics

Die jungen Kosmopoliten

Prozesse von Aneignung und Abgrenzung in der zeitgenössischen türkischen Literatur

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Young authors from Turkey question boundaries, they are challenging borders between nations, between humans, between times. Their works reflect a new zeitgeist which is often shaped by contradictions, but instead of trying to dissolve these contradictions, withdrawing to one's own …

Messapisch

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Concise description of the Messapic language (phonology, morphology, syntax) on the basis of the Messapic epigraphic corpus. Analysis of selected Messapic inscriptions. Extensive bibliography.

Identität und Maske

Die Aneignung des Anderen in Bearbeitungen des Tristanstoffes im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert

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This volume concentrates on episodes in Middle High German literature in which identity becomes ambiguous through the using of disguises. In this way, these episodes are not underestimated as droll story elements but are actively used to explain how identity …

The Lantern of Spirits

Miṣbāḥ ul-arvāḥ

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Misbâh ul-arvâh, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dîn Muhammad b. Îl-Tughân Bardasîrî Kirmânî. It is not a very long …

Le verbe pashto

Parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale

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In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian language, Pashto verbs share some main behaviours with the other …

Le livre du Chevalier errant

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From 1394 to 1396 the Piedmontese marquis Thomas III of Saluzzo wrote a long encyclopaedic novel in French in which a knight wanders through the three allegorical worlds of Cupid, Fortuna and Lady Knowledge. Like hardly any other work of …

Die Kniga palomnik des Antonij von Novgorod

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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This book contains the first study of the text transmission of the Kniga palomnik by Anthony of Novgorod. From the philological perspective, the edition offers a new text basis for further research into the characteristics, the transmission and reception of …

Die einstimmigen Lieder Oswalds von Wolkenstein

Edition der Melodien und Kommentar

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Eine wissenschaftlich reflektierte Gesamtausgabe der rund 100 einstimmigen Melodien Oswalds von Wolkenstein galt viele Jahrzehnte als Desiderat. Mit dieser Publikation wird nun endlich eine angemessene Edition und Kommentierung sämtlicher einstimmiger Lieder des spätmittelalterlichen Dichters, Sängers und Komponisten Oswald von Wolkenstein …

Die nicht-dramatischen Dichtungen des Hans Sachs

Grundlagen, Texttypen, Interpretationen

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Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body of work comprising more than 6200 songs. In recent decades, research on his rhyme and song poetry has been limited to individual studies and …

Der Mönch von Salzburg und das lateinische Lied

Die geistlichen Lieder in stolligen Strophen und das einstimmige gottesdienstliche Lied im späten Mittelalter

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The book studies those sacred songs of the Monk of Salzburg corpus which do not rely directly on a Latin–melodic or textual–original. These songs show the form of the canzonic stanza and have therefore been considered to belong into the …

Mystique, langage, musique : dire l’indicible au Moyen Âge

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Music has long since occupied a privileged place in mystical tradition: chants induce ecstasy, visions are accompanied by auditory perception, and above all the mystical vocabulary is shaped by metaphors, allegories and descriptions from the field of music. In this …

Das dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie

Esse est movere - to be is to move. Contrary to our static notions of medieval philosophy, Nicolaus Cusanus in the 15th century sketches a dynamic view of the world in which creatures are independent and self-acting beings. For the …

Kommentar zum IV. Buch des „Parzival“ Wolframs von Eschenbach

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Through the commentary of book IV of Wolfram’s Parzival a significant desideratum within Parzival-commentary has been filled. The volume at hand is particularly useful in that it concentrates decisively on text indexing while presenting comprehensive information with philological meticulousness and …

Gewaltstrategien: Codierung und Inszenierung von Gewalt im vorreformatorischen Nürnberger Fastnachtspiel

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In zahlreichen Fastnachtspielen von Hans Rosenplüt und Hans Folz ist Gewalt enorm frequent – das breite Repertoire reicht von Wortdelikten über physische und sexuelle Gewalt bis hin zu massivem, gewalttätig agierendem Fremdenhass. Auf der Basis eines Gewaltbegriffs, der gleichermaßen die …

Grenzgänge

Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat

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Hudā Barakāt’s novels are complex and densely woven texts that focus on the obsessions and inner conflicts of their protagonists. The first monograph dealing with the Lebanese author’s work, this book presents in-depth analyses of her first three novels, each …