Semiotics / semiology Books

War der Deutschunterricht 1871-1914 ein staatliches Instrument zur Erziehung nationalchauvinistischer Untertanen? Inszenierte er in diesem Zuge einen geistlosen „Klassiker-Kult"? Seit den 1970er Jahren verstellen solche Vorstellungen den Blick auf...

From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek...

This book explores the notion of dialogue adapted from Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin, who elaborated a critical methodology for interpreting the postcolonial encounter. The study explores dialogue in works of literature and ethnography by authors as...

Since World War II critics have been predicting the decline of the novel. This book argues that the novel is not dead. Looking at American and English fiction it claims that the novel can not only change the possibilities of art, but also contribute to...

Many of Bob Dylan's most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then and since. This book explores the unthreading of ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and identity...

Contributions to North American Ethnology Volume 3, published in 1877, is a collection of essays and research papers by Stephen Powers. The book focuses on the ethnography and culture of various Native American tribes in North America. The essays cover a...

The Problem Of The Homeric Poems (1878) by William Duguid Geddes is a comprehensive analysis of the Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The author examines the question of their authorship, their historical context, and their significance in...

"Unveil the Truth Behind "The Chameleon Theory"Dive into the labyrinthine psychology of chameleon-like behavior with "The Chameleon Theory: Unmasking the Hidden Pursuit of Approval." This riveting exploration delves deep into the roots, consequences, and...

The meaning of an expression resides not in the expression itself but in the experience of a person's engagement with it. Meaning will be different not only to different people but also to the same person at different times. This book offers a way of...

This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating...

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research...

The Bible Allegories: An Interpretation (1905) is a book written by George Millen Jarvis that provides a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the allegories found in the Bible. The author delves into the symbolic meanings behind the parables,...

Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bernensis (1760) a Sinner, Ioanne Rodolpho, editus, est opus quod describit collectionem codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bernensis. In hoc catalogo, codices manuscripti, quos Bibliotheca Bernensis...

The book includes contributions on the importance of the German model and its influence on Romanian language, literature, and philosophy.　Das Buch bietet Beiträge zur Bedeutung des deutschen Vorbildes bzw. Einflusses auf die rumänische Sprache, Literatur...

Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst examines the innovative poems for multiple voices composed by the Canadian poet by drawing on the main insights of biosemiotics, ecophilosophy and material ecocriticism.

Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die Darstellung von Homo- und Bisexualität in der Holocaustliteratur. Abhängig von der Rolle, die die Autorin gegenüber dem Holocaust einnimmt, fragt sie nach den literarischen Darstellungsstrategien, die dabei zur...

Dieser Band dokumentiert die Resultate einer 2011 in Peking durchgeführten Tagung, an der chinesische und deutsche GermanistInnen beteiligt waren. Der Gegenstand der Aufsätze ist die Imagination Chinas in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von 1827 bis 1988...

Die ambivalente Spiegelsymbolik, ein integraler Bestandteil der feministischen Reflexion, taucht auch konstant in Prosatexten zeitgenössischer österreichischer Autorinnen auf. Einerseits versinnbildlicht der Spiegel ein mehrdimensionales Gefängnis für...

Der Band enthält die Beiträge von drei Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Beiträge der Sektion Post/Nationale Vorstellungen von 'Heimat' in deutschen, europäischen und globalen Kontexten (betreut und bearbeitet von Friederike Eigler unter...

This volume contains a selection of the proceedings of a conference organised by the International Feuchtwanger Society entitled 'Feuchtwanger and Film'. The conference took place in September 2007 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles...

This book is about the interrelationship between nature, semiosis, metarepresentation and (self-)consciousness, and the role played by metarepresentation in evolution. Representations must have emerged via self-organization from non-representational...

The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts...

This book examines new literary imaginings of the interconnected city spaces of Bombay, London and New York in South Asian diasporic texts from the 1990s to the present. It charts the transition from London-centric studies on postcolonial city spaces to...

Comparative literary studies face new challenges today in a world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field is restricted by conventional notions of comparativism born in the...

This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories, essays and unpublished archival materials which have...

The urgent need for the study of exclusive identities in conflict is ever more apparent in a globalizing world in which societies are becoming multicultural and complex and in which inter-cultural contact and the co-existence of languages and cultures...

Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung und nach der kulturwissenschaftlichen Wende verdient eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Bedeutungsdimensionen der Magie und Sprache in der Literatur im Kontext afrikanisch-europäischer Beziehungen erneute Aufmerksamkeit...

E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating...

This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and...

This book is the first critical survey of the work of Éric Jourdan. Jourdan first came to public attention as a schoolboy in 1955, when he published Les Mauvais anges, a sulphorous novel of adolescent male-to-male love, which was banned by the censors in...

This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm Tóibín repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through this collapsing of boundaries, he examines the cost of...

One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to the constructed nature of fiction writing. Some common...

The French mathematician René Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic...

Der von Edward Said angeregte Orientalismus-Diskurs über den westlichen Blick auf den Orient weist auf die überwiegend durch Stereotype und Vorurteile geprägte Betrachtungsweise des Okzidents hin. Dabei geht Said stillschweigend von einem männlichen...

This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. The overarching theme of the collection is the revision of the accepted view of Latin American national identities as represented in twentieth-century...

Classical Antiquities: Old Greek Life is a book written by John Pentland Mahaffy and originally published in 1885. The book is a comprehensive study of ancient Greek civilization and culture, covering topics such as religion, art, literature, philosophy,...

Der Sammelband enthält Texte von internationalen WissenschafterInnen, die sich mit deutschsprachiger, vor allem österreichischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Zeitraum von 1918 bis 1945 befassen. Werke aus der Zwischenkriegszeit sind ebenso vertreten...

Der Sammelband regt zum ersten Mal dazu an, die fachgeschichtliche Theoriebildung zur Geschichte des Deutschunterrichts hinsichtlich ihres Ertrags und ihrer Legitimation für die Disziplin der Literaturdidaktik sowie ihren bildungspolitischen Auftrag...

Este estudio de análisis comparativo e interdisciplinario replantea lo canónico y descubre lo novedoso en cuanto a la reflexión y autorreflexión sobre las premisas teóricas, la evolución de las pautas del género mismo y el complejo entretejer entre la...

Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die Darstellung des Ersten Weltkrieges im Romanwerk Marcel Prousts aus einer transdisziplinären, intermedialen, philologischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektive heraus und lädt auf diese Weise zu einer...

The First World War is a crucial yet divisive event in Irish history that has brought the complexity of Irish identity politics into sharp focus. This study shows how Irish drama and prose have responded to the war and its legacy, offering intriguing...

This book attempts to trace trajectories in black feminist theorizing that have emerged in American scholarship since the 1990s. The book focuses on recent black feminist contributions to literary productions and their impact on other fields.

Con motivo del XXV aniversario de la muerte de Aníbal Núñez (1944-1987), se reúnen trabajos de la segunda generación crítica. Las colaboraciones - referidas a temas como la poética del paisaje, el uso del mito, la écfrasis, el imaginario, el viaje, la...

With the terms visionary and despot, the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahler's inner biography: his unshakable belief in...