Kinder treiben uns um. Sie gehoren zum menschlichen Leben wie der Tod und die Liebe, ja sind geradezu deren Konsequenz. Betrachtet man ihren Platz in der Gesellschaft, so offenbaren sie sich als Spiegel unserer selbst. Die Analysen vergangener, gegenwartiger und ideeller Kindheitsbilder in diesem Band stammen aus dem Leipziger studium universale zum Thema Kindheiten sowie der Leipziger Universitatsvesper unter dem Motto Wenn ihr nicht werdet wie die Kinder ... aus dem Jahr 2012. Durch diese Konstellation treffen sakrale und sakulare Perspektiven aufeinander und reflektieren ein fur...
Kinder treiben uns um. Sie gehoren zum menschlichen Leben wie der Tod und die Liebe, ja sind geradezu deren Konsequenz. Betrachtet man ihren Platz in ...
From today s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The contributions united in this volume cover the three categories of geography, adaptation and reception of Dickens works. Whether in a physical, imaginary or virtual sense, notions of space, time and change are fundamental to all of these fields. They inform both Dickens narrative and his biography, in which acts of movement, exchange and...
From today s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting ...
In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of ghost stories throughout history and presumably prehistory. Science has been a great destroyer of myth and superstition, but at the same time it has created new black boxes which we are filling with our ghostly imagination. In this book, literature from the Middle Ages to Oscar Wilde and Neil Gaiman,...
In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have...