englischSappho from Lesbos, born in the seventh century BC, was the first canonical female voice in Europe. From antiquity on she was appreciated in art/ artistically received, even if – or perhaps precisely because – her biography lies in the dark and most of her poetry is lost. To this day, the [...]
more informationenglischNarratives and dramatic plays are usually based on a non manifest structure that can be conceived as a moral one, where you can find rules and sentences of having-to-do.
The Moral Contract as a metaphor describes this fundamental basis, composed of three components: competition, exchange [...]
more informationenglischThe proceedings explore knowledge organization systems and their role in knowledge organization, knowledge sharing, and information searching.
The papers cover a wide range of topics related to knowledge transfer, representation, concepts and conceptualization, social tagging, domain [...]
more informationenglischIn the present work, the literary elaboration of the concept of Foucault's heterotopia is related to the creation of poetically reflected writing concepts and poetic worlds in the texts of three modern Arab female authors, the starting point of which is often place-related vision or [...]
more informationenglischThe publication deals with texts calling for violence and justifies this by religious arguments. It is however not always possible to distinguish, whether these arguments are motivated by religious convictions or whether they are later justifications. In most cases, they are intertwined. It [...]
more informationenglischSappho from Lesbos, born in the seventh century BC, was the first canonical female voice in Europe. From antiquity on she was appreciated in art/ artistically received, even if – or perhaps precisely because – her biography lies in the dark and most of her poetry is lost. To this day, the [...]
more informationenglischThe period around 1900 marks the threshold from “not knowing” to “knowing” about Korea. During this time the first German-language travelogue appeared. The study is based on four selected travelogues written between 1880 and 1915 and analyzes the representational strategies of the text and [...]
more informationenglischIs homophobia in Iranian society a product imported from the West? In today's scholarly contributions to the history of sexuality in the Middle East, this question is often answered with a 'yes', pointing to the replacement of local discourses by the Western discourse on sexuality during the [...]
more informationenglischThe Greeks had been present in the arid zones of the southern and eastern Mediterranean since the beginnings of the archaic age. The environment of the desert produced vastly different experiences from those in their spaces of origin and their descriptions were for a long time viewed as mere [...]
more informationenglischHeroic tales recount violence, which can be defined as a deliberate assault on the body of another against their will. The act of violence is a culmination of courage, determination, contempt for rules and the power to act; violence appears as a paradigmatic test of the individual. Violence [...]
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