Literature

Hama als Erinnerungsfigur

Tabu, Schweigen und der Kampf um Deutungshoheit in der syrischen Literatur

17 x 24 cm, 372 p., hardback
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Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Massaker von Hama im Jahr 1982, das jahrzehntelang zu den stärksten Tabus der syrischen Gesellschaft zählte. Anhand literarischer Darstellungen und Deutungszuschreibungen werden Formen des Schweigens, Erinnerns und Erzählens im Zusammenhang mit dem Massaker analysiert. Die …

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

17 x 24 cm, 272 p., cloth
98.00 €
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The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific …

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

17 x 24 cm, 256 p., cloth
79.00 €
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The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

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 …

Oscillating Bodies

Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

17 x 24 cm, 256 p., hardback
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Oscillating Bodies reads together the depiction of human bodies in arabophone and francophone Tunisian novels. This produces an understanding of Tunisian society from the country’s independence in 1956 until the revolutionary upheavals of 2010/2011. It appears as a society that …

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 …

Palestinian Theatre
17 x 24 cm, 256 p., hardback
59.00 €
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The book outlines the development of Palestinian theatre from the first theatrical attempts before 1948, to the heavy blow, which these attempts suffered as a result of the Nakba, to regeneration of the professional theatre out of the ashes of …