Writing systems avoid characters that are mirror images of one another (like b and d). The reasons for this are bound up with the way our brains work. The present study examines 41 sets of…

The study proceeds on the following premise: in his apprentice years (1963-1975) the young Botho Strauß (b. 1944) elaborated a poetics centering around historical theatre reality and focussing…

The volume assembles papers from an eponymous colloquium held in Brunswick on the 18th/19th September 2001. It sets out to provide a documentation and overview of key concerns, currents and…

The aims of the book are twofold: (a) to unite language, literature, and history in the framework of a biographically supported and educationally well-founded historiography of language, and (b…

The volume is largely made up of papers presented at a symposium devoted to the works of Hermann Lenz (1913-1998). Its reflects the broad spectrum of responses aroused by Lenz' books both in the…

The study proceeds from an inquiry into Thomas Mann's position with regard to tradition and the conviction that this question can only be answered by analyzing the way in which meaning is…

This collection of essays is interdisciplinary in approach and examines areas of the life and work of Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) that have hitherto been largely neglected: his complicated…

This study is the first to use detailed textual analysis to determine the position occupied by the well-known conservative-revolutionary cultural critic and novelist Frank Thiess (1890-1977) in…

With some reference to Heine, Rosenkranz and Vischer, this study presents Prutz, Hettner and Haym as a generation of literary historians crucially influenced by Hegelianism. It thematizes the…

Hundreds of challenging and varied exercises and solutions in organic chemistry provide undergraduate chemistry students and students with chemistry as a minor field with comprehensive exam…

John Rawls’s second major work, Political Liberalism (1993), is devoted to the question of how a liberal society can arrive at a consensus regarding questions of justice given its societal…

For decades, experts in Slavic studies and English and American studies have engaged in separate discussions on the narratological concepts of skaz and unreliable narration, generally…

In essays and interpretations of individual works, Ulrich Hötzer sets out to define what it is that makes Eduard Mörike's (1804-1875) works so unmistakably his own. In his quest for fundamental…

Taking the »Melusine« romance as an example, this study compares the conditions governing literary production and reception in late medieval France and Germany. In so doing, it also addresses…

The form and structuring of an ordinary-language text (say the description of an instruction or a story) are largely pre-determined by the quaestio, the explicit or implicit question that the…

These studies investigate the concept of nature and science in early Enlightenment thinking on natural law and the contribution to its development made by Albrecht von Haller's scientific method…

Digital media are gaining greater significance all the time. In comparison with traditional media this involves changes not only in the reception conditions for users but also in the conceptual…

This study is designed as a contribution to gender studies; it examines the (various different) ways in which gender roles are constructed in 18th century educational manuals and novels in…

Towards the end of the 18th century there was a veritable boom in the production of novels in dialogue form. Whereas, however, the comparable genre of the epistolary novel centres around the…

This volume is designed as an aid to research into international connections in the poetry of the present day. It covers the scholarly studies published between 1945 and 1988 pertaining to the…

This collection of new studies on Jewish authors from Austria (among them Franzos, Beer-Hofmann, Schnitzler, Broch, Roth, Kisch, Brod, Canetti, Celan, Ausländer) is dedicated to the Tel-Aviv…

The Bohemian and Moravian ghetto novels by Leopold Kompert (1822-1886), Eduard Kulke (1831-1897) and others are a repository of frequently highly detailed information on Jewish social life in…

The volume assembles the papers delivered at an interdisciplinary symposium held at the University of Klagenfurt in December 2000. The studies focus on a variety of different topics, all of…

This study examines statements on the topic of persuasion (in Greek: peithein) in extant texts from the late fifth century BC - drama, hisotiography, judicial oratory - in order to gain insights…

The case collection includes all areas of administrative law and can be used as a supplement to university or commercial review courses for honors-level examinations. This volume covers…

Researchers view the switch from parchment to paper as an essential condition for the rapid rise in literacy in Europe during the Late Middle Ages. The first part of this volume focuses on…

This book deals with the chemical structures of paints, pigments, dyes, binders, and excipients. Starting from the principles of natural science that underlie coloration, it presents the…

Das Handbuch bietet die bei weitem umfassendste Auswertung zum aktienrechtlichen Spruchverfahren. Zu über 400 Squeeze-outs und den anschließenden Spruchverfahren (Stand Ende 2013)…

The festschrift for Helmut Koopmann assembles contributions from renowned friends and colleagues reflecting the wide range of interests pursued by its dedicatee. The volume opens with a homage…

The articles in this volume centre around theoretical and practical of two-language lexicography. The frame of reference ist the ongoing work being done in preparation for a new German-Hungarian…

The study focuses on the confusion created by Romain Gary`s (1914-1980) adoption of a pseudonym in the years 1974-1980 and the specific issues for literary studies by the disparate reception…

As the social, political, and economic center of public life in a polis, the agora underwent profound changes during the Hellenistic period. This study examines agorai as symbolically charged…

At a burial, death is placed within an interpretive existential framework and solemnized in ritual. The life that was lived is comfortingly evoked by means of culturally specific symbols. This…

This innovative grammar, presented here for the first time in German translation, takes into account the newest developments in linguistics. Rather than following one particular linguistic model…

Insights from modern translation studies have found little application until now in research on the Septuagint. This study applies the functionalist (skopos) theory of translation to the Greek…

In Parts of Classes, David Lewis outlined a reduction of ZFC to a second order mereology. His conclusion takes on the following form in this reconstruction: ZFC is susceptible to parameterized…

Kafka's short story dramatizes the problematic relationship between power and justice by channeling parabolic imagery from the depths of our social existence and psyche. The Kafka expert Renate…

Since the signing of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the idea of protecting and making use of the world's cultural and natural heritage has gained in popularity. Over time, however, a…

The work offers a comprehensive representation of the German patent law with a commentary on patent law, patent royalty law, patented design law, semiconductor protection act, and the employee…