Private Kunst: Hermetisierung und Sakralisierung der Literatur um 1900Die vorliegende Studie zeigt anhand textimmanenter Analysen von literarischen Texten moderner Autoren wie Stefan George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke u. a., dass Privatheit als ästhetisches Phänomen eines der zentralen Paradigmen … Weiterlesen
Coding Gender in Romance CulturesThe book reunites transdisciplinary studies investigating the questions of construction and deconstruction of gender in filmic, literary, and television Romance cultures by referring to a corpus that stretches from plays of travesty in 18th century opera … Weiterlesen
Wingless desire in modernist Russia: envy and authorship in the 1920sIn Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series … Weiterlesen
Approaches to the Medieval Self: Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, ca. 800‑1500The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based … Weiterlesen
Cultural Interaction Studies in East Asia: New Methods and PerspectivesThis volume tackles the unique scholarly challenges of Cultural Interaction Studies in an East Asian context. Leading experts in a variety of related fields – from religion and history to geography, … Weiterlesen
Mythos Lesen: Buchkultur und Geisteswissenschaften im InformationszeitalterDie Gründe für den rasanten Prestigeverlust von Buchkultur und Geisteswissenschaften sind vielfältig. Niemand weiß, wie die Zukunft des Lesens tatsächlich aussehen wird. Dennoch lassen sich einige Antworten aus den Entwicklungen seit der Jahrtausendwende extrapolieren. … Weiterlesen
Johannes Scherr: mediating culture in the German nineteenth centuryTraces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world.The German nineteenth century saw a … Weiterlesen
Aging, duration, and the English novel: growing old from Dickens to WoolfThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned … Weiterlesen
Nachdem der einmonatige Testzugriff stark genutzt wurde, wurde die eBook Collection der Plattform Al Manhal nun für zunächst ein Jahr lizenziert. Zugriff haben alle Angehörigen der WWU Münster, auch von zu Hause aus über VPN. Enthalten sind in der stetig … Weiterlesen
Idioms and ambiguity in context: phrasal and compositional readings of idiomatic expressionsIdioms have long been of interest to research in linguistics as well as literary studies. In the existing research, however, the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity has never been … Weiterlesen
Language and metaphors of the Russian revolution: sow the wind, reap the stormLanguage and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the language and … Weiterlesen
The writer’s gift or the patron’s pleasure? The literary economy in late medieval FranceThe Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure? introduces a new approach to literary patronage through a reassessment of the medieval paragon of literary sponsorship, Charles V of … Weiterlesen
Register des Graphischen: Variation, Interaktion und Reflexion in der digitalen SchriftlichkeitAusgehend von den kleinsten Elementen des graphischen Inventars modelliert der Sammelband die soziale und situative Ausdifferenzierung digitaler Schriftlichkeit im integrativen Dialog zwischen schrift- und soziolinguistischen Ansätzen. Erkenntnisleitend ist dabei die … Weiterlesen
The language of thieves: the story of Rotwelsch and one family’s secret historyYou might have heard the saying ‘you’re in a pickle’ meaning you’re in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the … Weiterlesen
Grounded identities: territory and belonging in the medieval and early modern Middle East and MediterraneanGrounded Identities: Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including … Weiterlesen