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Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative i…
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Wolfgang von Weisl: Schauspiel und Roman im Zeichen des modernen politischen …
Der Band präsentiert zwei von dem Wiener Zionisten Wolfgang von Weisl verfasste historisch-fiktionale Werke: das Schauspiel Erlöser und den Roman Der Anfang der Wandlung Israels, deren Zentralfiguren, Simon Bar Kochba und der aus Russland nach Palästina eingewanderte Joseph Trumpeldor, als glorifizierte Nationalhelden und Märtyrer bis heute im kollektiven Gedächtnis Israels gegenwärtig si…
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Virgil, Aeneid 11, Pallas and Camilla, 1–224, 498–521, 532–596, 648–6…
"A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the book opens in a mournful mood as the warring parties revisit yesterday’s killing fields to attend to their dead. One casualty in particular commands attention: Aeneas’ protégé Pallas, killed and despoiled by …
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Variants of Rhetorical Ventriloquism
This book-length study is concerned with the various - vicarious and delegative - devices pertaining to rhetorical ventriloquism (sermocinatio, ethopoeia, prosopopoeia, etc.) - including their technical, conceptual, and applicative history in European and Western literatures, from Ancient to (Early) Modern times. It is published as an Online Supplement (.pdf) to (the article "Rhetorical Ventril…
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Übersetzung als Kulturaustausch
The contributions to this volume approach the subject of translation from a multitude of perspectives. They thus show how translations are not only closely connected with notions of language, literature, and cultural studies but also reciprocally influence societal and political circumstances as much as they are influenced by these.
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Western Arabia in the Leiden Collections. Traces of a Colourful Past
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately connected with the supervision of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca from the Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia. Notable guests at this consulate …
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Tradition und Moderne in Bewegung
The articles in this volume bear witness to the productive energy of the interplay between tradition and modernity, whether in theater, literature, or popular culture. At the same time, they emphasize the importance of cultural intermediaries, including translators. The volume thus illustrates that - despite (or precisely because of) political developments in Turkey and Germany, alike - a multi…
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Sustainable Humanities
Culture and institutions; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Dutch literature
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Studi greci e latini per Giuseppina Matino
Il volume raccoglie ventinove studi greci e latini dedicati all’illustre grecista Giuseppina Matino da partecipanti alla Sezione di Scienze dell’Antichità del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. I saggi spaziano dalla lingua e letteratura greca alla lingua e letteratura latina, alla filologia classica, alla papirologia, alla letteratura la…
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Selbstoptimierung: Eine kritische Diskursgeschichte des Tagebuchs
Lebenskunst hat Konjunktur: Offenbar ist der Traum, das Leben als Gesamtkunstwerk einzurichten, zur ethischen Maxime geworden. Beteiligt ist dabei seit der Antike das Motiv von Selbsterforschung bzw. Selbstbesserung, das über die Frühe Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart wirksam geblieben ist. Tagebücher sind dabei ein notwendiges Begleitmedium gewesen und haben wechselhafte Formen angenommen, die …
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