Grenzgänge

Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat

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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 author’s work, this book presents in-depth analyses of her first three novels, each …

Wege zur Verbindlichkeit

Studien zum deutschen Roman um 1300

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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 Braunschweig", and "Lohengrin" exemplify the tradition of medieval German romantic verse around 1300. The book seeks to …

Brückenschläge

Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)

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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 synoptic approach challenges, and gets past, the concept of Arabic resp. Turkish “national literatures”, outlining …

Geschichten über Geschichten

Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Ilyas Huri

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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 novels. In the light of the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990 …

Vita Aesopi

Überlieferung, Sprache und Edition einer frühbyzantinischen Fassung des Äsopromans

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This volume (book) presents the edition one of the most significant recensio of the Aesop Romance, the recensio of the manuscripts BPThSA. The edition of this recensio is accompanied by an introduction in which issues of the text tradition, the …

Der ägyptische Roman

Rezeption und Wertung von den Anfängen bis 1945

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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 then thrived as a genre in modern Egyptian literature, culminating in the …

Palästinenser im arabischen Roman

Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Palästina 1948 bis 1988

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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 representatives of the Palestinian collective. They frequently appear on the scene as guerilla …

Heinrich von Veldeke. Eneas-Roman

Vollfaksimile des Ms. germ. fol. 282 der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

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Gegen Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts bearbeitete Heinrich von Veldeke Vergils Aeneis und schuf so seinen Eneas-Roman. Er erzählt vom Untergang Trojas und Eneas’ Flucht aus der Stadt, von seinem Aufenthalt bei der karthagischen Königin Dido, dem Gang in die Unterwelt, …