For the first time, this book systematically presents the rich history of music publishing. It presents chronological summaries of the editorial histories of the works of many composers, from…

Job has inspired German literature like no other Old Testament figure. This volume looks at variants of the story of Job, reading the Book of Job as a meta-myth about literature that has…

In the 16th century, the multi-volume chivalry romance Amadis conquered the still nascent book market and became a regular bestseller. Despite its early popularity, German research has tended to…

This volume compiles 17 articles by the late Jewish scholar Günter Mayer (1936–2004) and his life-long collaborator, the Tübingen New Testament scholar Michael Tilly.…

Kant is regarded as the key critic of eudemonic ethics. Interpreters have claimed that for Kant, happiness was neither a precondition for morality nor a reward for moral conduct. However, this…

This is the perfect textbook for anyone who needs to develop a solid basic understanding of organic chemistry. It provides extensive information about the theoretical principles of inorganic…

The object analyzed here is the custom of the festival of relics (ostensio reliquiarum), at which the relics of a church were publicly displayed. On the basis of an examination of 24 late medieval…

The Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (first published in 1878 under the title Geschichte Israels I, and as of 18832 under the first-named title) by Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918) contains a…

Dictionaries make fascinating reading when they are seen in their historical, educational and linguistic context. Working from a modern cultural perspective, the author uses her own research and…

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Volume 7 contains Schleiermacher's correspondence from September 1803 until the middle of October 1804, the end of his time as Court Preacher in Stolp, Pommerania. Of the total of 291 letters in…

This factual volume brings to a conclusion more than 35 years of work on the Travelling Theatre Edition as part of the Editions of German Literature series. A comprehensive and detailed…

In his »Parsifal«, Wolfram experiments with different concepts of femininity and masculinity and in so doing engages with the schemata of thought and argumentation found in the immediate…

With reference to the reception accorded to Freidank, this study investigates the transformation of an historical author into a figure inscribed into cultural memory with a clearly delineated…

The facsimile of the Augsburg manuscript (1554) acquaints readers with the oldest known version of the texts and the melodies assembled in Adam Reißner's hymn book. As such, it is also the…

The adaptations of the Old Testament story of Joseph in baroque novels and Thomas Mann, Kafka's fictions of bureaucracy, clerk and employee literature in the Weimar Republic, the planning and…

This introduction is designed to give both students of German and other languages and all those interested in onomastics a grounding in the central issues addressed by this discipline and the…

With reference to extensive material, the study shows that the linking behaviour of French and Italian verbs of feeling is rule-guided. The crucial factor here is neither non-accusativity nor…

In linguistics, media studies and political science the analysis of communicative activity directed at a number of addressees is still widely undertaken on the basis of a simple dyadic model of…

The study examines the structure and function of explanatory practices (Begründen) in everyday German conversation. It indicates, among other things, the forms of explanation favoured by…

The interaction between the theory and practice of gender systems around 1800 is studied here with reference to the correspondence between the author Therese Huber (1764-1829) and Emil von…

In the early modern age the 'commentary' genre experienced an astounding upswing. On the one hand, scholars harked back to the use of this text variety in ancient times, on the other they used…

The study discusses the specific problems posed by the handling of collocations in two-language lexicography with reference to modern French-Russian dictionaries. Throughout the study, the…

The study describes the evolution of English participial and gerundial constructions in Middle English and early modern English, concentrating in the process on the function of text varieties in…

The studies show the extent to which love poems/songs by well-known medieval authors display links with supra-individual discourse conventions of the age in which they materialized. Central…

Human beings remember and have a memory. But what happens when memories figure in literary narrative? Narratological and poetological ideas on memory, history, and identity are brought together…

Exceptionally, perhaps, the study does not concentrate on the role of the theatre in the (German) bildungsroman. Instead, a comparative perspective is chosen to elucidate how and why European…

This volume, edited in honour of Professor Jeffrey L. Sammons of Yale University on the occasion of his retirement, presents a series of incisive essays on German-Jewish literary and cultural…

In the present-day social sciences, the concept of 'social role' has just as well-defined a meaning as the 'cathartic method' or the 'dramatization of latent dream content' in psychoanalysis.…

Though little is known about Shakespeare's Elizabethan audience it has been a constantly recurring theme in Shakespeare criticism and research. While notions of theatre-goers in the early modern…

The discrepancy between the organized war-veteran culture and the development of overall German culture since the 1970s at the latest, the closely-defined ideological framework involved, and the…

The study deals with syntactic and formal features of interrogative utterances, illocutionary and dialogic aspects of interrogative acts, and the lexical/semantic analysis of interrogative verbs…

French historiography between 1670 and 1730 had a dual function to fulfill: generating discursive knowledge and integrating imaging procedures, e.g. in the form of initially disavowed historical…