englischThis introduction to music and memory is aimed at students of musicology and all others who are interested in music. It first approaches the topic by taking a look at current interdisciplinary memory theories and memory research, then examines the aspects of forgetting and storing memories, [...]

englischThis introductory book is intended for students of Scandinavian studies who are primarily interested in modern Scandinavian literary studies. It combines a thorough theory-based and problem-oriented overview of the most important methods currently used in literary, media and cultural studies [...]

englischIn »Szenarien des Übergangs« Miriam Althammer looks at a topic that has so far been neglected in Dance Studies: the impact of Europe's eastward expansion on contemporary dance. Using the example of the East-West exchange at the Tanzquartier Wien in the early 2000s, she examines the [...]

englischThe Kulturkampf, the conflict between the German Reich and the Catholic Church in the 1870s and 1880s, was an epochal event. It had a lasting impact on the relationship between the denominations and the relationship between the state and religion in Germany and marked a fundamental crisis of [...]

englischLiterature produces textual bodies in (at least) two ways: it creates textual corpora as well as linguistic representations of bodies and body images. This volume is devoted to negotiations of bodies and text in literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present: bodies in texts, [...]

englischThis book explores research into modern, everyday culture, explaining its history as well as key terms and showing its development alongside central socio-political trends. Additionally, this book contains a brief overview of current research fields and provides meaningful insights into [...]

englischThe military system was one of the most important factors in Greco-Roman society and has been the subject of numerous studies in recent years. This anthology contains essays in Italian, Spanish and English by José Vela Tejada, Francesco Fiorucci, Anna Busetto, Philip Rance, Georgis Chatzelis [...]

englischHistorical narrative was one of the most prominent narrative forms in the 19th century. But it was always also future-oriented. In this volume, this flipside of addressing the past is examined from a historical and systematic perspective using the following guiding questions: How can [...]

englischWe encounter tricksters’ grins in myths, legends and other fictional or historical narratives. They populate liminal spaces and thus do not only transgress binary boundaries. As confusion and provocation of the familiar, tricksters enable us to pause for a moment, and they offer new [...]

englischOver the last few decades, increased production of films and series that have fantastical structures has been observed, especially in Romance language-speaking countries and the US. A renewed boom in the genre is thus apparent in those nations which had already been at the epicentre of the [...]

englischIn the essays in this book, the author traces structures of time as a factor in shaping choreographies. How do concepts and bodily experiences of temporality intertwine in the production, performance and perception of a dance piece? And in what way is the tension between ephemerality and [...]

englisch‘Hofmannsthal – Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne’ has been published since 1993 and is considered the most important organ of Hofmannsthal research. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of European modernist culture and, in [...]

englischThe politics, culture and people of Northern Europe have had a decisive influence on the history of pan-European encounters for millennia, a fact that is insufficiently reflected in scholarly attention. This handbook draws attention to these shortcomings and is the first work to [...]

englischMetabolic and digestive concepts shape how we speak about literature and reading. It is a matter of 'digesting' the material and 'letting it sink in' or letting remarkable passages 'melt in one's mouth'. Fictional as well as non-fictional texts virtually labour on the knowledge of food, [...]

englischRepresentations of theatre and dance were and are as broad as they are connectable. This also applies to the academic study of theatre and dance. In this handbook, experts provide insights into the history (or histories) of both art forms, definitions and basic terms, methods and theories as [...]