englischIn the decades around 1900, “Weltanschauungsliteratur” (ideological literature) boomed. These texts, which oscillate between science and literature, promise a meaningful explanation of the world in times of crisis. Three great novels of German modernist literature – Thomas Mann's Zauberberg, [...]
more informationenglischThe 15th century saw the last wave of mass conversions to the Christian faith on the Iberian Peninsula. The formerly large Jewish population there was coerced, sometimes with open violence, to accept baptism. However, significant parts of the Christian majority never accepted the converts as [...]
more informationenglischThis first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in “Doctor Who” (1963-2020) uses one of Britain’s longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization [...]
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englischThis volume contains eighteen academic contributions examining the work of Orhan Pamuk, one of the leading authors of contemporary Turkish literature. Scholars working in Turkey, Central and Northern Europe, and the USA discuss various issues of his fictional and non-fictional texts, such as [...]
more informationenglischHow much tradition is there in the avant-garde? Is everything that is claimed to be new really new? Literary Expressionism (the most important avant-garde movement of Classical Modernism), which was and still is generally considered to be the epoch of "broken forms", claimed this for itself: [...]
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Das Phänomen Freiheit, das einerseits einen nicht-vorbestimmten Handlungsraum und anderseits ein verfolgbares kausales Verhältnis zum Urheber voraussetzt, lässt sich auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen Bestimmtheit und Unbestimmtheit zurückführen. Gemäß diesem Leitgedanken erläutert die vorliegende [...]
more informationenglischDespite its undisputed place in the canon of the avant-garde, Oswald Wiener's „die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman“ remains, half a century after its publication, a riddle in need of interpretation. As part of his work on the first complete translation of the „verbesserung“ (into [...]
more information„Resilienz“ ist heute ein Modewort. Doch das Phänomen existierte bereits vor seinem Begriff, und zwar als eine Grundeigenschaft des Menschen. Die Resilienzforschung arbeitet psychische „Schutzfaktoren“ heraus, die Belastungen durch Stresssituationen mindern und dabei helfen, Widerstandskräfte [...]
more informationenglischThe original preserved monumental Hellenistic cult group in the sanctuary of the goddess Despoina in Lycosura is of high importance for the archaeological research. Pausanias is considered as the only literary source about the cult group, which was created by the artist Damophon and was [...]
more informationenglischThis volume contains the first printed edition with notes and commentaries of the section on Martin Heidegger's ‘Sein und Zeit’ from Charles Malik's 1937 philosophy doctoral thesis at Harvard University. Malik's pioneering text stands as one of the earliest Anglophone analytic, [...]
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