In the period of Weimar Classicism Goethe did not only write a number of plays which to the present day have retained their place in the canon of 'classical' literature forming part of the…

Alongside Wieland Wagner, Walter Felsenstein (1901-1975) was the most important opera director of the early post-war period in Germany. To this day, the dramaturgic preparation of his…

The Potsdam performance of Sophocles' »Antigone« in 1841 was an event of historic significance tantamount to a renaissance of Greek tragedy in the German theatre. In terms of the performing…

The study is concerned with the way the love of Shakespeare evinced by the German theatre and its audiences began and developed in the 18th century. In fact, this is a history of 'love at second…

The study investigates the response to reunification in the German theatre, concentrating on 1) the prominence of this topic in plays, 2) formal approaches, and 3) the aspects of reunification…

The papers brought together in this volume stem from a German-Italian colloquium held in September 1994 and concentrate a) on the Arcadian image of Italy and its perception by German travelers…

With reference to the 'case' of German Dante reception, the study examines the historical developments undergone by German Romance studies in the first half of the 20th century. A central focus…

Approaches to a history of European mentality in the modern age are derived here from the confrontation of thematically related works in German and Italian literature. The emphasis is on the…

The volume brings together contributions by internationally renowned experts on the question of topos, a legacy of classical rhetoric used and studied in a broad variety of areas. As such the…

This volume (a collection of excerpts from the »Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric«) provides the reader with essential knowledge about the concept, methodologies, and history of European…

Roman Ingardens Werk über das Kausalproblem führt entscheidend über den Problemstand hinaus, wie er von John Stuart Mill und seinen Nachfolgern gekennzeichnet und seither kaum mehr verändert…

Husserls »Logische Untersuchungen« sind eines der folgenreichsten Werke der neueren Philosophiegeschichte. Mit dem ersten Erscheinen in den Jahren 1900 und 1901 (Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle/Saale…

»Das durchgehende Thema der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die zeitliche Konstitution eines reinen Empfindungsdatums und die einer solchen Konstitution zugrunde liegende Selbstkonstitution der '…

The study takes up the recent Heidegger controversy which has been set off by Victor Farias' book »Heidegger et le nazisme« (1987). Silvio Vietta shows with the help of so far unpublished…

The book is an introduction to the major problems of German grammar. It is primarily designed for students but is also suitable as a work of reference for all those interested in language. After…

The 'Bio-bibliographical Handbook of Eighteenth Century German Linguistic Scholarship' presents articles on approximately 1600 authors who published works of linguistic interest in German-…

This is the eighth and final volume of the large-scale historiographic manual on 18th century linguistics. All told, it contains some 1,600 articles on the authors who produced publications of…

Just as every society has its social stratification, so linguistics has its more elevated disciplines and its less reputable areas. Many of the really exciting issues are banished into the…

The »Handbook of Frisian Studies« is the first systematic overall description of Frisian studies from the early runes to Frisian as a European minority language. The central focus is on the West…

The topics addressed in this volume dedicated to the linguist and German studies scholar Peter Eisenberg are grouped under four headings. The first section devoted to phonology, syllabification…

The present festschrift assembles articles from colleagues and friends of Gottfried Kolde on research issues representing his central concerns. The broad range of subjects is an apt reflection…

The articles deal with issues related to corpus theory, corpus compilation, and various ways of using corpora. They provide examples of the evaluation and exploitation of corpora from synchronic,…

Proceeding from a discussion of striking text-immanent features relating both to form and content, the study examines some 70 German dialogue texts dating from between 1521 and 1525 and inquires…

This study investigates how the speech-act 'refusal' is (or can be) realized in German and Japanese. Every individual's choice of communicative resources (in this case, the linguistic manifestation…

A poetics of literary dialogue is not something only invented in the modern age. Back in the Middle High German ‘Classical’ era, a culture was already beginning to develop of verbal…

The subject of this study is verbal word-formation via suffixal derivation in Middle High German. In the framework of a synchronic and functional system analysis it investigates the interaction…

Jakob Friedrich Reimmann stands between Baroque and Enlightenment. He is one of the major representatives of early 18th century historia litteraria, that forgotten discipline which set out to be…

The volume goes back to a symposium in Halle in 1998. It essays an examination of the relationship of Christian Thomasius (1655-1733) to the literature and scholarly culture of the period in…

In his famous »Voyage Round the World«, and also in his essays »More on the Human Races and Outline for a Future History of Mankind«, Georg Forster (1754-1794) took a knowledgeable and committed…

In terms of the moral strictures of German enlightenment, knowledge of human nature was equivalent to judgment on it. The study demonstrates that moral narratives exemplify the resulting…

This grammar is designed both for teachers and students and while concentrating on phonology and inflexion also considers a number of specific syntactic features. Clarity of presentation,…

This study argues that it would be a foreshortening of Enlightenment discourse to regard prejudice merely as one of the bugbears the Enlightenment set out to dismantle. Rather, the discourse on…

The Fritz-Hüser-Institut in Dortmund is Europe's only research institute with a library and an archive for the literature and culture of the world of employment. For the first time in its…