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Ibsen, Scandinavia and the making of a world dramaHenrik Ibsen’s drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his…
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Discourse markers: an enunciative approachIn our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what…
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The pluricentricity debate: on Austrian German and other Germanic standard varietiesThis book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World…
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Transmodern perspectives on contemporary literatures in EnglishTransmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over…
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Update 11/2025:Wir werden die Lizenz für RetroNews zu Ende 2025 aus finanziellen Gründen leider beenden müssen. Update 11/2023: Mittlerweile ist die Sammlung auf über 2.000 Zeitschriften gewachsen, und der abgedeckte Zeitraum läuft bis 1952. RetroNews…
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Diesseits des Don Juan-Mythos: Zwischen Immunisierungsdynamiken und Affirmation des LebensDie Untersuchung der Dynamiken, die den Mythos Don Juans begründen und über die üblichen Befunde zur Dialektik von Verführung und göttlicher bzw. gesellschaftlicher Bestrafung hinausgehen, steht…
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The Development of Tropes in Arabic Wine Poetry Up to the 12th Century Ad This book explores the theory of the evolution of poetic imagery as developed by Joseph Sadan, showing how metaphors were taken…
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Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literatureNorse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and…
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Linguistic turns, 1890-1950: writing on language as social theoryLinguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the…
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The Carthaginian North: semitic influence on early Germanic: a linguistic and cultural studyThis book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems…