Die chinesische Literatur kann im 20. Jahrhundert dank der Wandlung Chinas zum Nationalstaat die Isolation überwinden und in den Dialog mit der Weltliteratur eintreten. Keine andere Epoche ist ...

Die Taten unseres Lebens, die wir die guten nennenund von denen zu erzählen uns leicht fällt,sind fast alle von jener ersten “leichten“ Art,und wir vergessen sie leicht.Andere ...

The present volume is concerned with the question of what distinguishes a prose text from the Age of Realism from one from the Modern Age. Starting from the present state of research in textual ...

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific ...

Latein hat derzeit einen schweren Stand in der europäischen Bildungspolitik. In der Schule wird es zunehmend von modernen romanischen Sprachen verdrängt, und an den Universitäten verzichtet man ...

The study is based on the Bochum Middle High German Corpus, and in three steps it profiles the manifestations and characteristics of prepositions and prepositional phrases in Middle High German ...

In its capacity as administrator of Stefan George's heritage, the Stefan George Foundation not only looks after the poet's literary estate but also coordinates and promotes all the activities and ...

In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca  decided to form a collection of all his correspondence. The letters deal with multifarious topics, switch between narration and ...

The focus on inner space unites two topical areas of cultural anthropology: space as a structural paradigm, and the focal differentiation between the categories of “inner” and “outer”. The ...

While writing a word, everybody will have paused for a moment to think about the correct spelling. It is just this behaviour which the present book studies using modern technology. As schoolchildren ...