Das bewährte Arbeitsheft führt in die wichtigsten Teilbereiche der synchronen und diachronen Linguistik des Italienischen ein, wobei besonderes Augenmerk auf die Dialektologie und…

The comparison of mother tongue and target language has, for a long time, created a bridge between the practical and the academic work in language in German university studies. This course book…

This students' manual provides an introductory overview of lexical semantics based on the present state of theoretical discussion. It explains important 'basics'such as lexical relations, the…

This workbook differs from other introductions in three ways. It is language-based without concentrating on one specific language-pair, and it is concerned with selected essentials. The first…

Die Untersuchung behandelt die von 1945/46 bis 1962 erschienenen Romane Claude Simons (* 1913). Ihr liegt ein fiktiver Dialog zwischen dem nouveau romancier und Jean-Paul Sartre zugrunde. Den…

Maurice Blanchot a exercé une influence indiscutable dans les débats littéraires de l'après-guerre. L'analyse de son oeuvre accentue sa présence aux discussions structuralistes,…

The study draws on Pierre Bourdieu's literary field theory and recent French historiography on intellectualism to submit the literary field in France in the decade after the First World War to…

Between 1981, when the 60-year-old author won the prestigious Premio Campiello with his first novel »Diceria dell'untore«, and his death in 1996, Bufalino published novels, short stories, plays…

The study discusses J.M.G. Le Clézio's (*1940) travel writings from the period 1985-1995 (»Le chercheur d'or«, »Voyage à Rodrigues«, »La quarantaine«) as a project geared to poetological self-…

This book looks at the Franco-Jewish novel in the first few decades after the Second World War. Beginning with Elie Wiesel's autobiographical narrative »La Nuit« (1958) there is discussion of a…

The study is the first to engage in a detailed examination of imagery in the works of the Milanese engineer, philosopher, and writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973). It explores different kinds…

This volume contains the proceedings of the eponymous conference held in Münster in May 1998. Central concerns are a) Jewish political thinking in France and Italy, and b) the conflict between a…

Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs lebten etwa 4.500 Juden spanischer Staatsangehörigkeit im deutschen Machtbereich. Bis 1942 waren sie wie andere ausländische Juden von den Deportationen in die…

Am Leitfaden einer Geschichte von 'Verstellung' und 'Verstellungskunst' markiert die Untersuchung denjenigen historischen Umbauprozeß, in welchem die überkommenen rhetorisch-politischen…

In seiner singulären Weise, künstlerische und theoretische Diskurse zu initiieren, zu transformieren und mit politischer Praxis zu verbinden, braucht Carl Einstein (1885-1940) den Vergleich mit…

Die einzigen Begriffe, mit denen die Literaturwissenschaft zur Zeit hoffen kann, ihren Gegenstand - 'Literatur' - abzugrenzen, dürften Fiktion und Vieldeutigkeit sein. Diesen Begriffen wird hier…

The study examines texts by Julia Kristeva, Philippe Sollers, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino and Roland Barthes, stemming largely from the 80s and 90s, with a view to essaying…

The circle of like-minded litterati that formed around the poet Stefan George (1868-1933) at the turn of the century represented one of the most outspoken and controversial responses to what at…

The form and function of popular encyclopedias went through very considerable changes in the 19th century. The study outlines the emergence of the general reference work as a genre in its own…

Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur ('world literature') made its first appearance in his periodical »Über Kunst und Altertum« and displays three dimensions: historical diagnosis,…

The study examines the entire spectrum of forms taken by the prose poem in Germany between 1880 and 1920, presenting the first comprehensive history of this genre in the European literary…

The compass of the volume extends both to single-leaf broadsides from letter-presses and printed forms produced in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The perspectives on this new textual and…

The apparently vague and certainly hackneyed term 'structure' has become a terminally ubiquitous 'hardly perennial' in the research on Arthurian romance in verse and prose. Unlike orally derived…

The term 'literary lives' defines the specific focus on the question of role designs that runs throughout this volume. The focus is on literature, albeit in a broadly conceived sense of the term…

Miraculous phenomena as an integral feature of Arthurian literature have always been a central focus of research, notably in approaches centering on the history of motifs and sources, and those…

Wolfram's »Titurel« is one of the most important works of medieval literature. This new publication provides critical editions of the texts of the three versions that have come down to…

This collection represents a preliminary theoretical, methodological, and empirical stage to a planned stratificational grammar of New High German. The conviction uniting these articles is that…

Volume 5 of Roman Ingarden's Collected Works assembles 13 relatively brief articles devoted by the renowned Polish philosopher (1893-1970) to Phenomenology as conceived of by his teacher Edmund…

Roman Ingardens unprätentiöse, analytisch orientierte Phänomenologie wurde vor 1945 relativ wenig beachtet. Heute jedoch zählt Ingarden zu den großen Denkern und Phänomenologen des 20.…

The Heidelberg manuscript (P) of Otfrid's »Evangelienbuch« is a further source that puts us in relatively close contact with the author. It was written in the late 9th century in Wei…

The present Volume 8 of the Collected Works of Roman Ingarden follows Volumes 6 and 7 published in 1994 and 1996 respectively and brings the edition of the epistemological writings of the Polish…

The 'Cognition of the Literary Work of Art' (1937; 1968) by Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), the renowned Polish philosopher and pupil of Husserl, combines the epistemological and the ontological…

This is the third of the new Bremen editions of heroic epics related to Dietrich von Bern. The texts of ›Alpharts Tod‹ (late 13th century) and ›Dietrich und Wenezlan‹ (…

This ist he first major monograph on Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), the most significant representative of the early 20th century Viennese literature alongside Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler.…

In careful analyses of selected scenes from Nelly Sachs' dramas (1891-1970), the study pinpoints the Jewish, language-philosophical and aesthetic traditions central to the stage works of this…

Jewish literature blossomed in Germany during the years 1933 to 1938. It was tolerated by the National Socialists and served German Jews as a means of self-ascertion and frequently also provided…

In the first third of the 20th century, Georg Hermann (1871-1943) was an internationally well-known and popular author. His gentle irony and the bitter-sweet cachet of his atmospheric…

In the eight decades after the 1830s, ghetto literature became the most important genre in the development of Jewish literature in German. In its first section, this documentation outlines the…

The rediscovery of the works of the Galician writer Soma Morgenstern only took place after his death. They are marked by the quest for identity embarked on by Jewish intellectuals in the 20th…

This is a study of one of the few prose texts by an author much better known for his poetry. It is inspired by Celan's remark that »Gespräch im Gebirg« was written 'in memory of an encounter…

Franz Lehár (1870-1948), 'the composer most frequently performed within his own lifetime', still represents an unresolved dilemma for the historiography of music. In terms of modernism his music…

This study owes its inception to the realisation that previous academic consideration of puppet theatre and its history has been deficient in terms of genuine theoretical reflection both on…

Leonide Massine (1896-1979), next to Fokine and Nijinsky the moving spirit behind the Ballets Russes, collaborated with almost all the major artists of the age and is held by dance experts to be…

This description of the reception accorded to Oscar Wilde's comedies in Germany from 1902 to 1992 is based on 90 translations and/or adaptations and 200 stage productions. Central aspects…

This study centers on the plays written by Heiner Müller (1929-1995) in the late 70s and early 80s and their stage productions. By means of explicit reference to the history of drama and the act…