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Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek & Hrólf Kraki and His Champions Inherited through the line of the berserker Anganty´r and his war-loving daughter Hervor, the ever-lethal, shining sword Tyrfing and its changes…
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Women, rhetoric, and drama in early modern Italy Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and…
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Tolstoi and the evolution of his artistic world Joe Andrew and Robert Reid assemble thirteen analytical discussions of Tolstoi’s key works, written by leading scholars from around the world. The works studied cover almost the…
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Silk Road Linguistics: The birth of Yiddish and the multiethnic Jewish peoples on the Silk Roads, 9-13th centuries. The indispensable role of the Arabs, Chinese, Germans, Iranians, Slavs and Turks In this comprehensive study Paul…
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Nordic literature of decadence Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigation of broadly understood fin de siècle…
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Wissensrohstoff Text: Eine Einführung in das Text MiningDer größte Teil des Weltwissens ist in digital verfügbaren Texten beschrieben. Diese Texte stellen einen bedeutsamen Wissensrohstoff dar, doch wie kann dieses Wissen extrahiert werden? Lernen Sie in…
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Contested selves: life writing and German culture Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Döblin, Becher, women’s WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and…
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Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces – marshland, rivers and the sea – were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine…
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In der Kategorie „Buntes aus Westfalen“ berichten wir über (teils kuriose) Neuerscheinungen, die wir als Landesbibliothek im Rahmen des Pflichtexemplarrechtes (das gibt es schon seit 1824!) als kostenlose Belegexemplare aus westfälischen Verlagen und/oder Selbstverlegern erhalten. Aus dem…