Literatur

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren
17 x 24 cm, 364 p., cloth
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The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

Cooperator: Martin Fischer

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 23 (2020/2021): (V)erdichtete Leben. Literarische Lebensmuster in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

14.8 x 21 cm, 456 p., hardback
69.00 €
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‚(V)erdichtete Leben‘ meint den Status von (auto)biographischer Literatur zwischen ‚wirklichem’ Leben und seiner literarischen Funktionalisierung. Unter diesem Aspekt widmet sich der aktuelle Tagungsband der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft der Frage nach der Relevanz von (Auto)biographie als Gattung und Textbestandteil im Mittelalter …

Translator: Abdullah Incekan

Nameyên ji şairekî ciwan re. Briefe an einen jungen Dichter

zweisprachig Kurmanji-Kurdisch/Deutsch

13 x 18 cm, 112 p., paperback / softback
14.90 €
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Die «Briefe an einen jungen Dichter» von Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) gehören zu den meist rezipierten Briefen der Weltliteratur. Sie wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt und fanden insbesondere bei einer jungen Leserschaft großen Anklang. Zwei schreibende Seelen treffen sich öffnend …

Schriftrollen

Untersuchungen zu deutschsprachigen und mittelniederländischen Rotuli

15.5 x 23 cm, 584 p., with dust jacket
119.00 €
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This book is the first to offer a thorough examination of German-language and Middle Dutch texts transmitted in the medium of the scroll. The study attempts to focus on rotuli as a European phenomenon, and presents commented editions and analyses …

Decoding DA’ISH

An Analysis of Poetic Exemplars and Discursive Strategies of Domination in the Jihadist Milieu

17 x 24 cm, 344 p., hardback
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Why do Jihadists compose poetry and what role does poetry play in the transmission of the jihadist ideology? Decoding DĀʿISH is located at the intersections of the literary, the religious, and the political in jihadist discourse. The study examines how …

Zwischen Tugend und Laster

Weibliche Rollenbilder in den Tragedi und Comedi des Hans Sachs

17 x 24 cm, 416 p., cloth
88.00 €
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The present study is the first to examine in detail a representative corpus of the tragedi and comedi with female protagonists written by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs. On the basis of a precise reconstruction of the intertextual frame of …

Wahnsinn und Ekstase

Literarische Konfigurationen zwischen christlicher Antike und Mittelalter

17 x 24 cm, 164 p., cloth
78.00 €
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›Wahnsinn‹ (insanity) is an enigmatic term with a huge variety of meanings. This variety ranges from labelling mental illnesses or behaviour which is incomprehensible, unreliable or dangerous, to positive attributes (»wahnsinnig gut« i.e. »extremely great«). In case studies, this volume …

Die jungen Kosmopoliten

Prozesse von Aneignung und Abgrenzung in der zeitgenössischen türkischen Literatur

17 x 24 cm, 232 p., hardback
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Young authors from Turkey question boundaries, they are challenging borders between nations, between humans, between times. Their works reflect a new zeitgeist which is often shaped by contradictions, but instead of trying to dissolve these contradictions, withdrawing to one's own …

Repräsentationen der Bibel in der Volkssprache

Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften mit deutschen Texten aus dem Zisterzienserkloster Altzelle

17 x 24 cm, 344 p., cloth
98.00 €
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The Cistercian abbey Altzelle was, during the Late Middle Ages, one of the most important educational centers in the area of present-day Saxony. The libraries of Altzelle produced significant German-language manuscripts, which this work hopes to analyze with an orientation …

Unterlaufenes Erzählen

Psychoanalytische Lektüren zum höfischen Roman

15.5 x 23 cm, 496 p., with dust jacket
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The monograph examines four works from the Middle High German courtly literature (“Lanzelet” by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, “Parzival” by Wolfram von Eschenbach, “Tristan” by Gottfried von Strassburg, and “Wigalois” by Wirnt von Grafenberg). Phenomena like ambiguities, vagueness, ruptures in coherence …