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Afrika – Kontinent der Extreme
The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and fi…
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- 9783902719416
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Tradition Through Modernity: Postmodernism and The Nation-State in Folklore S…
"In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those whose traditions are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explica…
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- 9789517466653
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- 700 ANT a
The Verb in Nyakyusa
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a …
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- 9783961100156
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Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature: Urban Experiences in Finnish …
"Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature analyses experiences of the Finnish capital in prose fiction published in Finnish in the period 1890– 1940. It examines the relationships that are formed between Helsinki and fictional characters, focusing, especially, on the way in which urban public space is experienced. Particular attention is given to the description of movement through urba…
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- 9789522225481
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Aino Kallas
"The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debate…
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- 9789522227874
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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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- 9781783746026
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Verder: Beckett En De 21E Eeuw
Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Culture and institutions; Dutch literature; Dutch and Flemish literature; Stage presentations
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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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- 9783110604276
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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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- 9783863954109
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Framing French Culture
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time cir…
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- 9781922064875
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