The 7th extensively revised and fully up-to-date edition of this textbook presents the full scope of international law, including connections to constitutional and European law. In addition to…

Der Autor bietet eine in die einzelnen Fachgebiete gruppierte Dokumentation der rund 1000 MATLAB-Befehle. Die Funktionen der einzelnen Befehle werden verständlich erläutert und anhand…

Die Arbeit verfolgt den Gnostizismus in der Philosophie und Ästhetik der Moderne. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ludwig Klages, der junge Bloch, Heidegger und Adorno, deren Werke strukturelle Verwandschaften…

Eberhard Lämmert: Einführung Eckart Goebel: Stationen der Erzählforschung in der Literaturwissenschaft Hilmar Frank / Tanja Frank: Zur Erzählforschung in der Kunstwissenschaft Peter Diezel:…

Die interdisziplinären Bewegungen innerhalb der Literaturwissenschaft in den letzten Jahrzehnten und die Formierung neuer Disziplinen wie Kulturwissenschaften und Medienwissenschaften machen diese zu…

Das Symposion resümiert Perspektiven auf die Allegorie im Anschluss an Benjamin und de Man und entwickelt sie weiter. Mit selbstreflexiven Praktiken des Fragments, des Zitats, der Collage…

Research on human sexuality enjoyed a boom around 1900. Beyond the boundaries of science, a widespread social debate arose about the new discoveries and their potential social, moral, and…

Hope originally meant anticipation of what is to come and was related mostly to the material here-and-now or a religious dimension in the beyond. By the modern era at the latest, however, this…

This outline fills a gap by presenting a history of didactic poetry between the late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. In addition to established authorities, it also considers the field of neo-…

In order to combine their facts and make sense of them, writers of history in the 16th century made use of literary genres and representational strategies. Using four chronicles, the '…

The dictionary as a cultural product stands at the heart of this study, which examines nine monolingual dictionaries of English and French and their socio-cultural contexts. Of central import is…

Verb classes and the realisation of arguments are investigated in languages of different types - in the accusative language German, the ergative language Basque, and the split language Georgian…

The present volume is divided into 9 chapters containing 19 articles by 23 authors and closing with a bibliography of 589 titles. Its organisation is systematic. First, 'Langenscheidts…

This study pursues two aims. First it presents the hitherto little-known and academically neglected first Zagreb edition of Yvan Goll's (1891-1950) extensive poem 'Paris brennt' in a synoptic…

Departing from Nietzsche's revolutionary reinterpretation of Greek civilization, the study analyzes the creative transformation of Greek tragedy, as the canonic model of Western theatre, by a…

The book deals with the idea and the possibilities of (re-)constructing scientific grammars of natural languages (e.g. English and German) as empirical axiomatic theories, i.e. theories which…

The volume assembles 30 articles discussing the following aspects of the DGWDAF: grammar and word formation, phonetics and orthography, pragmatics and semantics, collocations and examples, the…

The first volume of 'Studia typologica' contains the full length documentation og the plenary lectures of the Mainz Summer School on Typology 1998.

The study proceeds on the conviction that one of the characteristics of the syntax of a language is the relative frequency with which syntactic constructions occur. 42 translations of the early…

This work provides a detailed introduction to the theories put forward by the founder-fathers of the 'New Rhetoric', represented here by I.A. Richards, the champions of the New Semantics,…

Generation Y demonstrates an adherence to new values, placing greater emphasis on happiness rather than money. It is a generation that regards both profession and family as essential; it does not…

The volume provides an introduction to themes and problems central to the hitherto almost totally neglected phenomenon of communication in magazines and journals. It considers first of all the…