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englischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]
more informationenglischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]
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more informationDer Band behandelt die Schrift- und Buchgeschichte des griechischsprachigen byzantinischen Reiches aus der Perspektive einer Sozialgeschichte. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Schrift in ihrem Wechselspiel mit den Akteuren (Schreiber, Leser) und damit verbundene sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte wie die Wahl [...]
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