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Literature: history & criticism

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97839549018456
Loy, Thomas

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 304 p., hardback
118,00 €

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...

Series: Iran – Turan Volume: 16
9783954901494
Kleinmichel, Sigrid

Hiob zwischen Selbstbezichtigung und Protest

Gedichte aus Mittelasien (19. bis 20. Jahrhundert)

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 480 p., hardback
148,00 €

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

Series: Iran – Turan Volume: 14
9783954901746
Wagner, Hans-Günter

Sutrengeschichten

Von Karma und Wiedergeburt

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 264 p., paperback / softback
24,90 €

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...

9783954900497
Wagner, Hans-Günter

Buddhistische Fabeln

Still hören ist besser als laut zu beten

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 256 p., paperback / softback
24,90 €

„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...

9783954900404
Editor: Pannewick, Friederike; Khalil, Georges
In cooperation with: Albers, Yvonne

Commitment and Beyond

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

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 356 p., hardback
79,00 €

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...

9783895009563
Beck, Gertrud

Trojasummen

Das »Elsässische Trojabuch« und die gedruckten Trojakompilationen

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 360 p., cloth
110,00 €

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

9783954900565
Delshad, Farshid

Textbuch modernes Persisch

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 336 p., hardback
39,90 €

The Textbook Modern Persian contains thirty selected readings about contemporary Iran from various disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter of the book includes an introduction to...

9783954900800
Editor: Bennewitz, Ingrid; Ohlendorf, Wiebke

Von Heiligen, Rittern und Narren

Mediävistische Studien für Hans-Joachim Behr zum 65. Geburtstag

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 224 p., cloth
69,00 €

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...

9783895008047
Winckler, Barbara

Grenzgänge

Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 272 p., hardback
69,00 €

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...

9783954900022
Olalde, Liudmila

Zum Begriff ’namarupa:’

Das Individuum im Pali-Kanon

13.0 x 21.0 cm, 156 p., paperback / softback
24,00 €

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...

9783895009235
Editor: Bennewitz, Ingrid; Layher, William

der âventiuren dôn

Klang, Hören und Hörgemeinschaften in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 176 p., cloth
59,00 €

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...

9783895009136
Davila, Carl

The Andalusian Music of Morocco

Al-Ala: History, Society and Text

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 368 p., hardback
89,00 €

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...

9783895009396
Franke-Ziedan, Claudia

Satire und Kontext

Gesellschaftskritik in den Dramen des ägyptischen Autors Ali Salem

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 272 p., hardback
69,00 €

This study examines the dramas of the Egyptian writer Ali Salem (b. 1936). In addition to determining Salem’s position in literary history and outlining developments in modern...

9783895009518
Hg. von Martin Przybilski und Nikolaus Ruge unter Mitarbeit von Leonie Butz und Hanna Häger

Fiktionalität im Artusroman des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

Romanistische und germanistische Perspektiven

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 200 p., cloth
45,00 €

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...

9783895008054
Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

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

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 120 p., hardback
69,00 €

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...

9783895009143
Hinterberger, Martin

Phthonos

Mißgunst, Neid und Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 530 p., cloth
128,00 €

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

Series: Serta Graeca Volume: 29
9783895009112
Kerth, Sonja

Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 192 p., cloth
78,00 €

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der...

9783895009297
Editor: Ackeren, Marcel van; Opsomer, Jan

»Selbstbetrachtungen« und Selbstdarstellungen – »Meditations« and Representations

Der Philosoph und Kaiser Marc Aurel im interdisziplinären Licht. The Philosopher and Emperor Marcus Aurelius in an interdisciplinary light. Akten des Interdisziplinären Kolloquiums Köln 23. bis 25. Juli 2009

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 400 p., paperback / softback
49,00 €

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Marc Aurel war römischer Kaiser und der letzte bedeutende stoische Philosoph in der Antike. Seine...

9783895008078
Hajjar, Osman

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 304 p., hardback
79,00 €

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...

9783895008962
Editor: Löser, Freimut; Steinke, Robert; Vogelgsang, Klaus; Wolf, Klaus

Neuere Aspekte germanistischer Spätmittelalterforschung

17.0 x 24.0 cm, 292 p., cloth
58,00 €

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Die hier publizierten Tagungsbeiträge bilanzieren und perspektivieren Aspekte der Forschung zum deutschen...