Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland,…
The heart is an iconic symbol in the medieval and early modern European world. In addition to being a physical organ, it is a key conceptual device related to emotions, cognition, the self and identity, and the body. The heart is read as a metaphor…
This study, for the first time, systematically analyzes the function and meaning of so-called textile pages in book illustration of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The ornamented pages of gospels and liturgical books evoke Byzantine and Islamic si…
The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of…
The notion of the "Silk Road" that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and met…
L'ouvrage propose une approche renouvel e du discours rapport . Il inscrit la Repr sentation du Discours Autre (RDA) dans une probl matique d'ensemble comme articulation m talangage/alt rit , partir de choix th oriques explicites aux divers plans (l…
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the lyric poets, in the poetry of this period. This mo…
Pindar gilt schon l nger als Vertreter einer h chst altert mlichen Dichtungsform, die in ihren Urspr ngen sogar derjenigen Homers vorausgeht. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmet sich die Arbeit der pindarischen Phraseologie, speziell den Phraseologisme…
The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes' will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense…
Wenn Klassiker in der Philosophie die Funktion haben, Medien der Diskussion zu sein, so ist Cassirers Status als (kultur-) philosophischer Klassiker in besonderer Weise gerechtfertigt: Seine Philosophie ist strukturell auf kritische Vermittlung ausg…
Rechtsgeschichte ist ein Teil der Kulturgeschichte. Rechtsentwicklungen werden in Kunstwerken reflektiert, mitunter auch vorweggenommen. Umgekehrt verm gen juristisches Handwerk und juristische Reflexion h ufig bei der Erschlie ung literarischer Wer…
In focusing on the systematic deduction of the categories from a principle, Schulting takes up anew the controversial project of the eminent German Kant scholar Klaus Reich, whose monograph "The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments" made the ca…
Personalized and adaptive systems employ user models to adapt content, services, interaction or navigation to individual users' needs. User models can be inferred from implicitly observed information, such as the user's interaction history or curren…
This book explains deep learning concepts and derives semi-supervised learning and nuclear learning frameworks based on cognition mechanism and Lie group theory. Lie group machine learning is a theoretical basis for brain intelligence, Neuromorphic…
This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in vario…
The series Trends in Applied Linguistics aims to meet the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. Applied linguistics is understood in a broad sense, by focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current proble…
Welche Rolle spielten die Verfilmungen seiner Romane und Erz hlungen bei der Entstehung und Aush rtung der Vorstellungen, die man sich heute gemeinhin von Thomas Mann macht? Inwiefern trugen sie h ben und dr ben zur deutschen Selbstvergewisserung be…
Die hier vorgelegten Beitr ge diskutieren M glichkeiten und Bedingungen einer konsensf higen Bestimmung des Literaturbegriffs. Dabei geht die Diskussion von der bestehenden Vielfalt literaturtheoretischer, methodischer und methodologischer Ans tze a…
This volume presents nineteen studies by specialists in the field of Greek lexicography. A number of papers deal with historical aspects of Greek lexicography covering all phases of the language, i.e. ancient, medieval and modern, as well as the int…
Literarische Utopien sind Medien einer spezifischen kulturellen Kommunikation. Ihre textuelle Organisation, die sie von anderen Gattungen unterscheidet, besteht in einer Mobilisierung von Bildern der satirisch beschriebenen Wirklichkeit und im Entwu…
Klaus Wachtel has pioneered the creation of major editions of the Greek New Testament through a blend of traditional philological approaches and innovative digital tools. In this volume, an international range of New Testament scholars and editors h…
Die Neue deutsche Literaturgeschichte erscheint in der dritten, wiederum aktualisierten und durchgehend berarbeiteten Auflage. Sie stellt in klarer Sprache und zusammenh ngenden Textkomplexen die wichtigsten Autoren und Werke der gro en Epochen der…
Peter Handke zahlt nicht nur zu den wichtigsten, sondern auch zu den umstrittensten Autoren der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Literaturwissenschaftler und Weggefahrten unternehmen eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme und befassen sich mit den li…
Peter Handke z hlt nicht nur zu den wichtigsten, sondern auch zu den umstrittensten Autoren der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Literaturwissenschaftler und Weggef hrten unternehmen eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme und befassen sich mit den li…
This book is the first introduction to the new field called cognitive history. The last decades have seen a noticeable increase in cognitive science studies that have changed the understanding of human thinking. Its relevance for historical research…
Heute ist oft von einem "Museum der Zukunft" die Rede: als Kontaktzone, Arena, Forum und Plattform - vielleicht sogar als besetzter Raum: Das Museum der Zukunft ware radikaldemokratisch. Im Hinblick auf eine Neudefinition des Museums aktualisiert No…
This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology from starting material to processes and products including market demands. This work is essential for all students of wood science and a useful reference for…
With contribiutions Francesco Bandarin, Minja Yang and Mechthild Roessler This publication is the fourth in the Heritage Studies series and aims to reflect upon the many dimensions of sustainability and sustainable development within the Heritage St…
This class-tested textbook gives an overview of the structure and functions of proteins and explains how amino acids form a defined structural entity with specific properties. The authors also introduce modern methods for purification and separation…
The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often referred to as 'linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For much of that time the debate was not informed by much exp…
One hundred years before Freud's striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological case-history emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany as an epistemic genre (Gianna Pomata) that cut across the disciplines o…
Seit dem 17. Jh. geh ren Geschmack und Schmecken zu den zentralen sinnlichen Selbsttechniken eines neuen metropolitanen Weltb rgertums. Die bung des Schmeckens, ihre Mitteilung und Inszenierung verspricht, losgel st von politischen, konomischen und…
Dieser Band pr sentiert die 14 Autorinnen, die bislang mit dem Nobelpreis f r Literatur ausgezeichnet wurden. Dass Produktion wie Rezeption von Kunst und Literatur keine geschlechtsneutralen T tigkeiten sind, ist keine neue Einsicht der Gender Studi…
This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. Based on data from annotated corpora it provides an in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English…
This book brings together the study of two great disciplines of the Islamic world: law and philosophy. In both sunni and shiite Islam, it became the norm for scholars to acquire a high level of expertise in the legal tradition. Thus some of the grea…
This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that tog…
Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion demonstrates that literature and polemic interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, constructing ideological frameworks that defined the various groups to which individuals belon…
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does no…
Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending shock waves through the whole of Europe; they ast…
Uber 900Millionen Menschen leiden gegenwartig weltweit an Hunger. Dieses Buch geht der Frage auf den Grund, was die Bewohner der vermogenden Staaten diesen Menschen schulden. Der Fokus liegt dabei weniger auf der Frage, wie eine gerechte Welt bescha…
This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the boo…
This text presents a history of reflection on language in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present. It features a chronological review of work on the philosophy of language, on grammar, on lexicography and on the critique of language.
The volume Regeln der Bedeutung ('Rules of meaning') marks the launch of REVISIONEN, a projected series of some eight volumes on basic concepts of literary theory. The series aims to reflect on central concepts of literary studies which have become…
Stata is one of the most popular statistical software in the world and suited for all kinds of users, from absolute beginners to experienced veterans. This book offers a clear and concise introduction to the usage and the workflow of Stata. Included…
In diesem Buch wird das Reich der Lyder zum ersten Mal nicht mehr als Anh ngsel der Kolonialgeschichte Ioniens, n mlich als hellenisiertes Barbarenreich am stlichen Rand der griechischen Kulturwelt, dargestellt, sondern als eigenst ndiges Mitglied d…
