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Affe und Affekt = Die Poetik und Politik der Emotionalität in der Primatologie
Diese Open-Access-Publikation mit dem Titel "Affe und Affekt" untersucht anhand populärwissenschaftlicher Forschungsmemoiren die Form und Funktion von Emotionen, Affekten und Gefühlen in der Feldforschung mit Affen – und wie gerade Literatur und Film das Verhältnis von Mensch, Affe und Affekt für die Wissenschaft produktiv reflektieren und analysieren. Der Mensch ist evolutionär betracht…
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- 1
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- 9783476051042
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- XII, 467 ill; hlm
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- 6
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Beauvoir in Time
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
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- Volume: 348
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- 978-90-04-43121-8
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In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre wi…
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- 978-90-04-52572-6
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- xx, 376 pp
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- Islam in Africa, Volume: 25
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Übersetzungspolitiken in der Frühen Neuzeit / Translation Policy and the Po…
Ausgangspunkt dieses Konferenzbands im Open Access ist die Frage nach den Bedingungen, die dafür verantwortlich zeichnen, dass überhaupt und in welcher Form in der Frühen Neuzeit übersetzt wird. Anders formuliert geht es um die grundsätzliche Frage danach, warum bestimmte Texte, Bilder, Zeichenkomplexe etc. eine Übersetzung erfahren, während andere unübersetzt bleiben (müssen). Welche …
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- 1
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- 9783662673393
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- XVI, 387 ill; lamp
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- 3
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Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit – Konzepte und Methoden / Concepts and P…
Dieser interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Konzepten und Methoden des Übersetzens als zentraler und ubiquitärer Kulturtechnik der Frühen Neuzeit (1450–1800). In fünfzehn Einzelstudien werden gesellschaftliche Leitvorstellungen, Wahrnehmungsmuster und Kommunikationsformen erforscht, die seit dem 15. Jahrhundert durch Praktiken des Übersetzens etabli…
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- 1
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- 9783662625620
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- XX, 501 ill; lamp
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- 1
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Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende = Transformationen eines romantischen Erzäh…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu analysieren, was genau sich in diesen Texten im Vergleich zur historischen Romantik verändert hat. Die Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende lässt sich damit als eine folgenrei…
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- 1
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- 9783662662892
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- XVII, 392 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 2
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A Topos Subverted = Italy in the 20th and 21st century German literary imagin…
What has become of the literary topos “Italy”—once so central to German literature—in the 20th and early 21st centuries? Does it still have a role to play in the German self-understanding and in what way has this role changed? To address these questions, this study focusses on six texts. Each text revises, subverts, and radicalises this literary topos such that it gains new contemporary…
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- 1
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- 9783503238064
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- 182 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 15
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Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and A…
What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralizatio…
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- Volume: 105
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- 978-90-04-69113-1
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Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind = From the Per…
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancie…
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- 1
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- 9789811530364
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- X, 199 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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It’s My Party = Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Musi…
This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural stu…
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- 1
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- 9789819967100
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- XXIV, 230 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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