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This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short...

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated intoEnglish and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H....

"An excellent collection of studies connecting transnational migration to the construction of national identities. Highly recommended."--Luis Roniger, author of Transnational Politics in Central America

"The importance of this collection goes beyond the confines of one geographic...

The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered sense dictionary of the varieties of High German from the 14th to 17th century.

Its entries are arranged as follows: Each headword is followed by concise information on the inflectional morphology and (in the case of etymologically isolated words or words that are difficult to classify) brief references to the etymology. This is followed by the core of each entry, namely, the explanation of the various senses of a word, which have been numbered. References to time, region and text type provide important...

Wir leben im Plastikzeitalter. Kunststoffe sind das Werkzeug unserer Zeit, ohne sie gäbe es die moderne Gesellschaft nicht. Doch was wir hinterlassen, ist Müll, der in der Umwelt Ewigkeiten überdauert. Bereits in 30 Jahren soll es mehr Plastik als Fische im Ozean geben. Schon heute verursachen Plastikproduktion und Plastikmüll mehr als 3 Prozent der weltweiten Klimagasemissionen mehr als ganze Staaten.
Die Profiteure der Plastikkrise nehmen das in Kauf. Die Ölindustrie, Chemiekonzerne und die bekanntesten Marken der Welt sind abhängig von Plastik. Denn sie haben ihr...