englischBringing together renowned scholars and emerging scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe, this volume addresses and challenges past and present Olympic narratives and legacies in Japan. In contrast to existing research, the contributions of the sixteen sport scientists from [...]

englischLies constitute one of several variants of non-factual communication. Based on the Interdisciplinary Graduate School on Factual and Fictional Narration, the contributions in this volume are both theoretical and historical and span a wide range of different approaches. While the essays from [...]

englischThe Franconian Friedrich Rückert is not only one of the most productive German-language poets of the 19th century, but also one of the most important mediators between the literatures of the Orient and the Occident in Europe because of his numerous translations. He was able to read a total [...]

Ist es möglich, untreu zu sein und trotzdem tugendhaft zu bleiben? Schnitzler kreist in seinen mittleren Dramen immer wieder um diese Frage. Mit der Sprachkrise um 1900 im Hintergrund analysiert die vorliegende Arbeit Schnitzlers pragmatische wie ethische Sprachauffassung.Letztere schafft die [...]

englischThe growth and population of the Semantic Web, especially the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, has brought to the fore the challenges of ordering knowledge for data mining on an unprecedented scale.

The LOD Cloud is structured from billions of elements of knowledge and pointers to knowledge [...]

englisch„Die Verwandlung des Knaben Kai“ is a novel written by Ernst Michalski, a German-Jewish art historian of the years of the Weimar Republic, who was one of the founder of the reception theory. His category of the „aesthetic boundary“ has become a key-concept of the terminology of art history. [...]

Die Arbeit untersucht umfassend die Auswirkungen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges auf die geistliche Residenzstadt Bamberg. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind zentrale Bereiche wie Politik, Finanzen, Militär, Bauwesen, Demographie und Handel. Neben den Kriegsjahren erfahren dabei die bisher oft nicht [...]