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This book is the first in-depth monograph on one of the most celebrated German literary theoristsof the 20th century. Via an accessible analysis of Iser s complete English and German writings, this study explains his acclaimed reception theory and connects the famous notions of blanks and the implied reader to his earlier and later work on English literature and literary anthropology. Iser s views are also compared to those of related thinkers like Hans Blumenberg and illustrated with examples from contemporary authors like Hilary Mantel.

2016 New editorship

Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Gunther Fischer, Angelika Schnell

Not unjustly referred to as legendary, this series of books on the history and theory of architecture and urban development was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Conrads, who was joined by Peter Neitzke as a co-editor of the series in the early 1980s. Now numbering over 150 titles, it is the most comprehensive German-language book series covering these fields. Following the deaths of the two longtime editors Ulrich Conrads (2013) and Peter Neitzke (2015), a...

Dedicated to the Russian mathematician Albert Shiryaev on his 70^th birthday, this is a collection of papers written by his former students, co-authors and colleagues. The book represents the state-of-the-art of a quickly maturing theory and will be an essential source for researchers in this area. The diversity of topics and comprehensive style of the papers make the book attractive for Ph.D. students and young researchers.

This groundbreaking contribution to the comparative development literature offers a cogent analysis of social development in the economies of two vastly differing nations--one a giant nation oriented toward capitalism, the other a small country oriented toward socialism. Taking specific cases of socioeconomic development in each country, the authors build a basis for analyzing and evaluating the success of related social changes in each country.

The conceptual framework developed introduces the notion of social contract and the related concepts of worker participation and community...

The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century - Winston Churchill called it the first "world war" - and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years' War remains woefully understudied.

The Culture of the Seven Years' War is the first collection of essays to take a broad interdisciplinary and multinational approach to this important global conflict. Rather than focusing exclusively...