englischThe First World War, a historical turning point of destruction and new beginning, has changed strategies of world politics along with military technologies, but also the field of culture and media. The literature of the Great War, shaped mostly by combatant writers, recognised authenticity [...]
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englischIs homophobia in Iranian society a product imported from the West? In today's scholarly contributions to the history of sexuality in the Middle East, this question is often answered with a 'yes', pointing to the replacement of local discourses by the Western discourse on sexuality during the [...]
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Die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung des Phänomens ästhetischer Selbstbezüglichkeit hat weiterhin Konjunktur. Einer Fülle von entwickelten Konzepten sowie simultan und teilweise synonym verwendeten Begriffen steht dabei das auffällige Desiderat einer diachronen und funktionalen Perspektive gegenüber. [...]
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englischThis is the first volume aimed at placing the enormous set of fragments from the Qubbat al-khazna on the map of Middle Eastern history as a corpus. As much as its famous sibling, the Geniza of Cairo, the Qubba was ‘discovered’ in the 19th century, but its over 200,000 fragments have remained [...]
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englischThe Jewish-Canadian and Arab-American writers and professors of literature George Ellenbogen (*1934) and Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) were life companions. In both their memoirs, the authors tell stories of neighborhood, enriching encounters and their search for roots. George grows up in the [...]
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Die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung des Phänomens ästhetischer Selbstbezüglichkeit hat weiterhin Konjunktur. Einer Fülle von entwickelten Konzepten sowie simultan und teilweise synonym verwendeten Begriffen steht dabei das auffällige Desiderat einer diachronen und funktionalen Perspektive gegenüber. [...]
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englischThis is the first volume aimed at placing the enormous set of fragments from the Qubbat al-khazna on the map of Middle Eastern history as a corpus. As much as its famous sibling, the Geniza of Cairo, the Qubba was ‘discovered’ in the 19th century, but its over 200,000 fragments have remained [...]
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englischThis study examines Benedikte Naubert's literary influence on the almost forgotten work of Ferdinand Grimm, the younger brother of the famous brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It shows Grimm's affinity to the successful fairy-tale writer for the first time, taking up the trail and following [...]
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englischThe focus of the book is on the edition, translation and interpretation of official letters on the annual Nile flood sent in the 12th–15th centuries from Cairo to Syria, as well as replies and forwardings within Syria. The letters, wich are transmitted in literary sources, were composed by [...]
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Mit Herausgabe der Schwarzen Hefte ist die Diskussion um Martin Heideggers Beziehung zu Judentum und Nationalsozialismus wieder aufgeflammt. Eugenio Mazzarella zeigt, auf welche Weise sich der Philosoph nach anfänglicher Unterstützung für das Dritte Reich von Politik und geschichtlicher Realität [...]
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