Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - German

This book is a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The topics in the book include a wide range of studies from the analysis of social science textbooks to the teachers image on newspapers, from the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level to the role of organizational silence on the academicians loneliness in the working life.

Le jardin est l espace le plus representatif de la frontiere entre l homme et la nature ou s integrent les elements reels et imaginaires choisis par le savoir-faire des humains pour creer un objet de beaute. Il s agit d un lieu social s offrant a l artiste comme espace de lecture du monde. S approprier a la fois le naturel et l artifice, les organiser d une maniere intelligible, releve d une volonte esthetique qu il convient de dechiffrer comme etant le langage d un amour de la mesure, d une condensation du savoir, etant une ecriture amoureuse. La solitude du jardinier semble s accorder a...

The Altdeutsche Textbibliothek Old German Text Library] is the series of editions of German medieval texts with the richest history. Foundedin 1881 by Hermann Paul, it has been edited by leading Germanists Georg Beasecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart Wachinger. Since 2001, responsibility for the series has rested with Christian Kiening.
In the meantime, the series comprises some 120 volumes, with an exemplary combination of closeness to the original manuscript(s) with ease of reading, philological accuracy with concern for university teaching. It includes recognised editions of...

Das 50-jahrige Jubilaum des Germanistenverbandes im sudlichen Afrika wird in dem ersten Teil 50 Jahre SAGV und den beiden Rubriken zu den Verbandszeitschriften Acta Germanica und DUSA/e-DUSA gewurdigt. Die nachfolgenden wissenschaftlichen Beitrage sind wie immer unter den Uberschriften Afrika schreiben und Allgemeine Beitrage versammelt. Die Rubrik Afrika schreiben vertritt seit geraumer Zeit die Schwerpunktsetzung des Jahrbuchs. Beitrage von (sud-)afrikanischen Germanist/innen und anderen zeigen, dass der dezidierte Afrikabezug mit literarischen, kulturellen,...

This book presents a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The scientific studies include a wide range of topics from the analysis of social science textbooks to the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.

The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T. Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer's early output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and...

Why did so many citizens of the GDR agree to collaborate with the Stasi?

Reading works of literature since German unification in the light of previously unseen files from the archives of the Stasi, After the Stasi uncovers how writers to the present day have explored collaboration as a challenge to the sovereignty of subjectivity. Annie Ring here interweaves close analysis of literary fiction and life-writing by former Stasi spies and victims with documents from the archive, new readings from literary modernism and cultural theories of the self. In its pursuit of the strange...

Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000. Scholars from Canada, the United States, and Europe identify the motifs, topics, and ways of artistic creation that define this cross-cultural region. This interdisciplinary volume is divided into two historical periods and includes analyses of literature, film, music, architecture, and media. By focusing first on the interrelations in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century, the contributors reveal a complex trans-ethnic...