Literary studies: general

Achim von Arnim ― Bettine Brentano verh. von Arnim. Briefwechsel

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Der Briefwechsel zwischen Achim von Arnim und Bettine Brentano, dem preußischen adligen Schriftsteller und der...

Vita Salva

Carmina huius aevi Latina cum versione Germanica. Lateinische Gedichte, heute gedichtet und auch ins Deutsche übersetzt

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Das Buch enthält in lateinischer Sprache verfasste und ins Deutsche übersetzte Gedichte über Gegenstände aller...

Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler

Mitteilungen der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft. Band 14, 2018

Achim von Arnim’s Zeitung für Einsiedler (Tröst Einsamkeit) was published from April to August 1808 as »an attempt of a new kind of Journal« and is still considered today as »one...

Unterlaufenes Erzählen

Psychoanalytische Lektüren zum höfischen Roman

The monograph examines four works from the Middle High German courtly literature (“Lanzelet” by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, “Parzival” by Wolfram von Eschenbach, “Tristan” by...

Exkurse im höfischen Roman

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Exkurse setzen im mittelalterlichen höfischen Roman die Ordnung des Erzählens aus, indem der Erzähler eine...

Georgische Literatur in deutschen Übersetzungen

Bibliographie – 1887 bis 2017

According to the last bibliography "The literatures of the peoples of the Caucasus - New translations and German-language bibliography" (2003) by Steffi Chotiwari-Jünger, this...

Amicus und Amelius im europäischen Mittelalter

Erzählen von Freundschaft im Kontext der Roland-Tradition. Texte und Untersuchungen

For the Middle Ages Amicus and Amelius were the epitome of friendship. Narratives of the two friends however not only touch upon medieval ideals of friendship but also on...

History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia

Contemporary Actors and Practices

This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produced in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several...

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

Each of the autobiographical narrations presented in this study on Bukharan Jews is unique. Seen collectively, they amount to a comprehensive survey of Bukharan Jewish experiences...

Hiob zwischen Selbstbezichtigung und Protest

Gedichte aus Mittelasien (19. bis 20. Jahrhundert)

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In mehreren Handschriften überliefert sind Ghasele und andere Gedichte von einem Dichter, der sich Ayyub (Hiob)...

Commitment and Beyond

Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s

This book is about relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in...

Trojasummen

Das »Elsässische Trojabuch« und die gedruckten Trojakompilationen

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Troja galt im Mittelalter als die Idealstadt schlechthin. Daher spielte der Trojastoff in der mittelalterlichen...

Von Heiligen, Rittern und Narren

Mediävistische Studien für Hans-Joachim Behr zum 65. Geburtstag

This Festschrift, published on the occasion of Hans-Joachim Behr’s 65th birthday, offers a wide range of contributions by renowned scholars of medieval studies as well as...

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...

Zum Begriff ’namarupa:’

Das Individuum im Pali-Kanon

Nāmarūpa (literally “name and form”) is widely known as a Buddhist term used to denote the the five “groups” (P. khandhas, Sk. skandhas) of which the individual is said to consist...

der âventiuren dôn

Klang, Hören und Hörgemeinschaften in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

The contributions in this volume assess the value of the acoustic in the Middle Ages and evaluate its importance in medieval literature. Although a great deal of research in...

The Andalusian Music of Morocco

Al-Ala: History, Society and Text

This book reframes the history of the Andalusian music of Morocco by highlighting the interplay of oral and literary processes in the preservation and transmission of this...

Fiktionalität im Artusroman des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

Romanistische und germanistische Perspektiven

Contrary to former studies the volume focusses on the opportunities of fictional world concepts in the Arthurian narrations of the European Middle Ages apart from the factitive...

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book...

Phthonos

Mißgunst, Neid und Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur

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Die Emotion „Phthonos“ spielt in Byzanz (definiert als „Schmerz über das Wohlergehen des anderen“) eine...