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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Translated by: Fähnrich, Heinz
Das Spiel des Todesengels
Georgien unter Stalin. Ein dokumentarischer Roman
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„Das Spiel des Todesengels“ verkörpert eine Art dokumentarischen Roman, der einen großen Teil der Geschichte des...
Sutrengeschichten
Von Karma und Wiedergeburt
Sutra stories tell the reader something about the results of good and bad deeds in a detailed and illustrative manner. A pleasant current state of existence is explained as the...
Buddhistische Fabeln
Still hören ist besser als laut zu beten
„Listening still is better than praying loudly“ contains 171 parables and allegories stemming from the Buddhist traditions of China and India. Chinese Buddhist prose conveys...
Grenzgänge
Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat
Hudā Barakāt’s novels are complex and densely woven texts that focus on the obsessions and inner conflicts of their protagonists. The first monograph dealing with the Lebanese...
Die Messingstadt
Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung
Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for...
Das »Bairisch-österreichische Buch von Troja«
(»Buch von Troja II«). Kritische Ausgabe
With this volume, Heribert A. Hilgers and Heinz Thoelen present a critical edition of one of the most noteworthy and outstanding late medieval German prose epics about Troy, which...
Wege zur Verbindlichkeit
Studien zum deutschen Roman um 1300
Ulrich of Etzenbach's "Wilhelm von Wenden", Heinrich von Neustadt's "Apollonius von Tyrland", Johann von Würzburg's "Wilhelm von Österreich", and the anonymous "Reinfried von...
Georgische Gegenwartsliteratur
Eine Anthologie georgisch-deutsch
This anthology illustrates the literary work of the historical development of Georgia over the last 30 years for German readers. It includes in particular such works, which - to...
Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit
Zur Genese moderner Prosa in Ägypten (1860 bis 1908)
This socio-literary study examines the relationship between processes of modernisation and reform, and new literary genres produced in Egypt of the second half of the 19th...
Herzog Friedrich von der Normandie
Der altschwedische Ritterroman »Hertig Fredrik av Normandie«. Text, Übersetzung, Untersuchungen
Around 1300 the norwegian royal house ordered an unknown writer to translate a nowadays lost german source into the old swedish knight’s tale „Hertig Fredrik av Normandie“....
Individuation and the Shaping of Personal Identity
A Comparative Study of the Modern Novel
This book endeavors to contribute to comparative literary studies, especially the study of the modern novel, through its analysis of the process of individuation in four distinct...
Neuirisches Lesebuch
Texte aus Cois Fhairrge und von den Blasket Inseln
This reading book contains an anthology of Modern Irish prose texts in the original and in German translation. The texts cover the areas of folklore, biography and literary text...
Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres
Lectures de quatre œuvres en prose de Salim Barakat
This study explores the early prose work of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist and poet Salim Barakat (b. 1951). Containing elements of both the realistic and fantastic, his narrative...
Thüring von Ringoltingen. Melusine (1456)
Nach dem Erstdruck Basel: Richel um 1473/74
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Am 29. Januar 1456 schließt der Berner Patrizier Thüring von Ringoltingen die Prosabearbeitung der „Melusine“...
Sehnsucht nach Sinn
Literarische Semantisierung von Geschichte im zeitgenössischen türkischen Roman
Towards the end of the 20th century a new interest in the Ottoman and Seljuk past crystallized in Turkish fiction. In the process, not only an array of aspects connected with the...
Brückenschläge
Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)
Brückenschläge (Building Bridges) is the first detailed and systematic comparison of two modern Middle Eastern literatures, taking the novel genre as a paradigm. The study’s...
Jesus, Joseph and Job
Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women’s Fiction
Joseph, Jesus and Job are all immediately recognizable religious figures in both Christianity and Islam who have been incorporated into a range of artistic and literary projects...
Geschichten über Geschichten
Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Ilyas Huri
Elias Khoury (b. 1948) is one of the most outstanding figures in Lebanon’s cultural, intellectual and literary life today. The study focuses on the theme of memory in Khoury’s...
Palästinenser im arabischen Roman
Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Palästina 1948 bis 1988
In contemporary Arabic fiction from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan as well as in Palestinian exile novels, Palestinians are predominantly depicted as and judged in terms of being...
Der ägyptische Roman
Rezeption und Wertung von den Anfängen bis 1945
Beginning in the 1820s, the decade Egyptians were first able to read a European novel, this study traces the process through which the novel subsequently established itself and...
Neuerscheinungen 2023/2024
Gesamtverzeichnis 2023/2024
Katalog Oriental Studies & Linguistics
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