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Der vorliegende Band versammelt Aufsätze, die aus Vorträgen auf der ,47. Internationalen Ökumenischen Konferenz der Hebräischlehrenden' (IÖKH) in der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg hervorgegangen sind.Die thematische Vielfalt der Beiträge reicht von der Betrachtung stilistisch eingesetzter Verbformen in biblischen und qumranischen Texten über die Untersuchung von Manuskripten vom Toten Meer auf ihre orthographischen und sprachlichen Kontakte untereinander sowie mit dem zeitgenössischen judäischen Aramäisch bis hin zu Studien über Etymologie, Vokalisierung und Akzentuation des masoretischen Textes.

'The Traumatic Celebration of Beauty in Alan Hollinghurst's Fiction' is the first monograph to delve into all the novels published by the writer so far: from his extraordinary debut, 'The Swimming-Pool Library' (1988), to 'The Sparsholt's Affair' (2017). The chapters follow a chronological order in Hollinghurst's production. However, all of them address the complex interaction of traumatic and celebratory discourses as voiced by gay and queer characters ranging from the twentieth to the early twenty-first century. This timely volume is intended to explore the limits of same-sex desire and identity in Hollinghurst's six novels drawing on trauma theory and intertextuality.

The Victorian rise of mass print media competed against persisting cults of orality: lectures, political speeches, and other oral formats were omnipresent. Still, cultures of lecturing and public speaking have remained surprisingly invisible in Victorian literary and cultural studies. These two anthology volumes explore this important cultural practice, tracing representations and fictionalisations of ephemeral oral performances through print and, sometimes, manuscript. From manuals of rhetoric via journalism and autobiography to fiction, the sources have been selected, introduced and annotated with care; some of them are published here for the first time (and most of them for the first time since the Victorian era). Both volumes combined also show how the vibrant scene of lecturing became increasingly more diversified, popularised, and socially inclusive. Vol. 1 thus addresses the problem of 'mixed speaking' (before both men and women), while vol. 2 is concerned centrally with the active participation of women in the cultures of lecturing and public speaking, from the early nineteenth century to the suffragettes.Vol. 1: The Art of Public Speaking - Speaking Techniques and Voice Production - Gesture and Attitude - Relationship with the Audience - Chairmanship - Managing Lectures and Lecture Tours - Public Reading and Reciting - Penny Readings - Humorous and Satirical Approaches.Vol. 2: Women and Elocution: Reading and Reciting - Women's Debating Clubs - Satirizing Women Speakers - Conversion to Suffragism and 'First Speech' - Training and Professionalising Women Lecturers.

The Victorian rise of mass print media competed against persisting cults of orality: lectures, political speeches, and other oral formats were omnipresent. Still, cultures of lecturing and public speaking have remained surprisingly invisible in Victorian literary and cultural studies. These two anthology volumes explore this important cultural practice, tracing representations and fictionalisations of ephemeral oral performances through print and, sometimes, manuscript. From manuals of rhetoric via journalism and autobiography to fiction, the sources have been selected, introduced and annotated with care; some of them are published here for the first time (and most of them for the first time since the Victorian era). Both volumes combined also show how the vibrant scene of lecturing became increasingly more diversified, popularised, and socially inclusive. Vol. 1 thus addresses the problem of 'mixed speaking' (before both men and women), while vol. 2 is concerned centrally with the active participation of women in the cultures of lecturing and public speaking, from the early nineteenth century to the suffragettes.Vol. 1: The Art of Public Speaking - Speaking Techniques and Voice Production - Gesture and Attitude - Relationship with the Audience - Chairmanship - Managing Lectures and Lecture Tours - Public Reading and Reciting - Penny Readings - Humorous and Satirical Approaches.Vol. 2: Women and Elocution: Reading and Reciting - Women's Debating Clubs - Satirizing Women Speakers - Conversion to Suffragism and 'First Speech' - Training and Professionalising Women Lecturers.

There are 1.8 million Indigenous people in Canada, accounting for five percent of the total population. They speak more than seventy languages and represent many different cultures. With recent land claims and the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools, the situation of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis has gained critical attention. Teaching Indigenous Studies, however, is a difficult endeavor, as educators must be knowledgeable and sensitive about Indigenous histories, cultures, traditions, and political issues.Incorporating the latest research in anthropology, ethnography, history, literary and film studies, the chapters in this book focus on current matters such as traditional ways of life, land claims, and self-government, trace cultural changes that resulted from contacts with the Europeans, and discuss the process of reconciliation. Referring to Indigenous perspective in the analysis of cultures and the teaching of these issues, the authors have included many Indigenous voices and sources, and explore the institutions that provide Indigenous communities in Canada with national and international visibility.

'Corporeal Battlegrounds' explores the depiction and critical potential of the entanglement of work and embodiment in contemporary realist U.S.-American novels. It argues that manifesting the elusive effects of contemporary capitalism in the figure of the laboring body allows for a critique of capitalism. The laboring body thus provides a gateway to understanding how power relations are perpetuated by the work we engage in and to revealing the inherent logic of capitalism.To provide a comprehensive view, each larger section examines one aspect of contemporary capitalism in conversation with a novel: social acceleration, digitalization, financialization, and 24/7 capitalism. These sections question how the novels approach the representability of economic relations and how the depiction of the laboring body functions to open up an area of tension to criticize the link between the laboring body, economic participation, and the perception of failure and success.

The study privileges the puppet as a new and revealing point of access to contemporary critical debates regarding performance, genre, affect, aesthetics, cultural production, political activism and the nonhuman studies. The contributors address a striking range of performance histories, aesthetic movements and theoretical positions, from the Arabic influence on Iberian shadow puppetry to the position of the puppet in post-Revolutionary Iran and the American anti-war movement; from the puppet's central role in the development of European theatre to avant-garde and modernist anti-theatre; from the puppet's place in the histories of visual art and experimental film to critiques of mass media. By paying careful attention to the specific roles and varieties of puppets in these diverse historical, political and cultural contexts, the collection provides new insights into the practices, aesthetics and ethics of puppet theatre, which serve, in turn, to interrogate anew the relationships between the human and the nonhuman, the material and the immaterial, the uncanny and the sublime.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on teaching, re-reading, and expanding the Romantic canon by shedding light on the period from a distinctively Cultural Studies point of view. The discourses reflected in this range of contributions open a window into the social inequalities of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, be they in generational, class, gender, sexual or ethnic terms, as well as intersections thereof.We see a significant parallel between the ethics and literary activism of Romantic writers and the 'wokeness' of activists in Western contemporary cultures, especially given the criticism surrounding their works which either celebrates their progressive impetus or unveils the underlying shortcomings of their performative activism and intrinsic close-mindedness. The essays reveal that Romantic ideas echo into contemporary controversies surrounding questions of white privilege, gender and sexual inequalities, human rights, and the increasing marginalisation of vulnerable groups in the face of global crises.

,Literatur 99' blickt zurück auf die achtzigjährige Karriere des Verfassers als Anglist und Literaturwissenschafter. Der vorliegende Band soll die Reihe der literaturwissenschaftlichen Publikationen komplettieren, die 1955 mit den ,Typischen Erzählsituationen' eröffnet wurde. In den Fokus rücken Themen seiner Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeit, wie Gedanken zum Stilwandel vom Klassizismus zur Romantik, zum Imagologischen, das vor allem in der literarischen Beschreibung des Nationalcharakters von fiktionalen Personen sichtbar wird, sowie zur Kriegsliteratur und ihrer Literarizität.Was 1942 mit der Organisation eines Gastvortrags über den Dichter William Wordsworth in einem englischen Kriegsgefangenenlager begann und über entscheidende Impulse zum New Criticism und dem Strukturalismus, empfangen 1950/51 als Special Auditor an der Harvard Universität, 1955 zur Habilitation über Anglistik - Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Graz und anschließend zu Professuren in Göttingen und Erlangen sowie Gastprofessuren im anglophonen Ausland führte, findet mit diesem Buch seine Abrundung.

Astrid Lindgrens edierte ,Kriegstagebücher 1939-1945', die sowohl in Schweden als auch in Deutschland erstmals 2015 publiziert wurden, sind Ausgangs- und Kristallisationspunkt dieses interdisziplinären Sammelbandes. Die Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, die Lindgren mit Einsetzen der Kriegshandlungen am 1. September 1939 zu schreiben beginnt, bieten facettenreiche Zugänge für Geschichts-, Buch- und Literaturwissenschaft: So lassen sich etwa Verbindungen zum Kriegsgeschehen in Europa ebenso herstellen wie Überlegungen zum Verlagswesen und der Rolle der Materialität der Tagebücher anstellen; Lindgrens Werden als Schriftstellerin, ihr literarisches Schaffen und Wirken werden vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet und reflektiert. Gerahmt wird die so vorgenommene Positionsbestimmung Lindgrens, ihrer autobiographischen und kinderliterarischen Texte durch den Blick auf die politische und kulturelle Situation in Schweden und Europa während und nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges.

This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century.

Troja gehört zu den großen mythologischen Reservoirs europäischer Kulturen. Zu allen Zeiten konnte der Rückgriff auf die Erzählungen vom Krieg zwischen Griechen und Trojanern Legitimitätstransfers und kulturelle Selbstinterpretationen stimulieren. Das gilt nicht zuletzt für jene mittlere Epoche, die man trotz Ungleichzeitigkeiten der historischen und literarhistorischen Entwicklungen in Europa als Vormoderne fassen kann. Der vorliegende Band versammelt dreizehn Studien aus Anglistik, Germanistik, Latinistik, Romanistik und Skandinavistik, die Anverwandlungen des Trojastoffes dieser Epoche aus verschiedenen literarischen Kulturen in den Blick nehmen. Das Nebeneinander der so vereinten Textbetrachtungen zeigt - trotz aller Abhängigkeiten und Kontinuitäten, die die Texttradition auch kennzeichnen - ein weites Panorama erzählerischer Konstruktivität. Der Band bietet zugleich eine die akademischen Fächergrenzen übergreifende Sicht auf ein philologisches Denken, dessen Gegenstand das ,mittelalte' Troja ist.

The palaeography of the first Slavic script - the Glagolitic script - is being published in English language for the first time. Unlike former historiography-based palaeographic textbooks, this study is linguistically substantiated. After presenting the elemental historical and philological knowledge on the creation of the script and its relation to the parallel Slavic script - the Cyrillic - the author goes on to distinguish the development of those linguistically-based segments (e.g. graphemes) from the means that optimize the transfer of linguistic message through the visual writing system. The evolution of letter forms is being observed in the long process of minusculization. The coordination of letters in lines and the readjusting of their forms to the four line system turned out to be the 'spiritus movens' of the changes not only in the letter forms but in the script's entire visual appearance as well. At the focus of interest, there are the oldest Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech and Croatian Glagolitic texts of the 10th and the 11th century.

Habitually, the "inter" in intermediality is conceived of as the interrelation between neatly distinguishable semiotic systems and projected as intercompositional agenda. While there are benefits of such a research design it fails to fully fathom both pop music and its potential ties to the literary text. Such relations can better be grasped by including the logic of literature as social system and the mediality of communication - in fiction as well as in pop music. 'Sonic Fictions of America' defines pop music as medial cluster strongly informed by the indexical effects of recording technologies. How, then, does pop affect literature? More often than not, literature has shown a surprising capacity to immunize itself against the "threat" of the popular, turning to familiar forms and styles to evoke pop phenomena. Discussing a rich array of prose texts from Ralph Ellison to Bret Easton Ellis, this study delineates a rather slow shift towards the end of these self-immunizing tendencies.

As growing economic and racial inequality continues to shape American society, homelessness remains an urgent issue. Embedded in American history, and more recently exacerbated by the 2008 financial and housing crisis, a new wave of homelessness has emerged as the U.S. has faced surging evictions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The essays in this volume explore homelessness both as the literal state of being unsheltered and as the modern and contemporary condition of being and/or feeling estranged from society. They also reflect on the meaning of home in relation to race, class, gender, migration and mobility in an American and transnational context. Contributions include interdisciplinary research that investigates representations of home and homelessness in modern and contemporary fiction, film, and videogames, as well as philosophical, historical, political and architectural discussions of homelessness.

The present volume is an alphabetically arranged lexicon of mythological terms of Baltic mythology. The terms are analyzed in their historical and ethnological context and in perspective of their etymology. They were preserved in numerous chronicles, usually written in non-Baltic languages, namely Latin, German, Old Russian, and Old Polish. Their second important source is hidden in Lithuanian and especially Latvian folk songs called 'dainas'. Portions of both primary texts and folklore are included within the individual entries. The recently formulated interpretations of Lithuanian and Latvian mythologists are also taken in account, to confront them with older opinions and with the results of etymological analysis. The proposed etymological explanations of the analyzed terms should serve to differentiate a common Indo-European heritage from the purely Baltic forms, and finally from external mutual interferences with Slavic, Iranian, Germanic and Fenno-Volgaic traditions.

1762 bis 1766 erscheint in Zürich eine achtbändige Übersetzung von insgesamt 22 Shakespeare-Dramen des damals in Biberach lebenden Kanzleibeamten und Schriftstellers Christoph Martin Wieland. Sie ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht eine Pionierleistung, stellt sie doch die deutsche Shakespeare-Debatte auf eine solide Textbasis, macht den elisabethanischen Dramatiker erstmals einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich, liefert die ästhetische Matrix für das Dramenschaffen des Sturm und Drang, dient als Grundlage zahlreicher Bühnenbearbeitungen, erweitert maßgeblich die Ausdrucksfähigkeit der deutschen Literatursprache und bezeichnet eine wichtige Etappe in der Überwindung des klassizistischen Übersetzungsmodells.Die derzeit erscheinende historisch-kritische Ausgabe der Übersetzung bot Anlass für systematische Untersuchungen von Aspekten, die von der Forschung bisher entweder verzerrt und unvollständig behandelt oder weitgehend vernachlässigt worden sind.

The "Drillbook of English Phonetics" is designed to accompany lecture courses on English phonetics and language laboratory classes in British English pronunciation at university level. It is equally suitable as a self-instructional programme for anyone wishing to improve their English pronunciation. Part I (Pronunciation Practice) provides pronunciation exercises to be used in conjunction with additional audio material (available on request) or following the model of a native speaker. Part II (Transcription Practice) presents model texts for phonetic transcription. In both parts, orthographic text and phonetic script appear on facing pages. Several phonetic puzzles are also included.

Mit Cicero gilt dieser erste Band der Reihe ,Philosophia Romana' einem der bedeutendsten und produktivsten philosophischen Autoren in Rom. Sein Titel ,Cicero ethicus' will dabei pointiert kenntlich machen, dass hier ein Blick auf den römischen Autor geworfen wird, der in ihm nicht nur den Vermittler hellenistischer Lehren, sondern einen philosophischen Autor mit eigenem ethischen Anspruch und Konzept erkennt. Hierzu wenden sich die acht Beiträge des Sammelbandes den im Herbst 45 v. Chr. entstandenen ,Tusculanae disputationes' zu und unterziehen sie aus philosophiegeschichtlichen, philologischen und literarischen Perspektiven einem Vergleich mit dem kurz zuvor verfassten Werk ,De finibus bonorum et malorum'. Dieser komparative Ansatz versteht sich als Plädoyer dafür, dass sich Ciceros Ethik, die als innovative Synthese von hellenistischer Philosophie und römischer Weltorientierung beschreibbar ist, nur in einer werkübergreifenden Analyse erschließen lässt, so formal unterschiedlich sich seine Schriften im Einzelnen auch präsentieren mögen.

Der Band setzt die Bilderflut wissenschaftlicher Evidenzkulturen in Bezug zur Suche nach der Sinnlichkeit und suggestiven Kraft von Bildern. Das Hauptaugenmerk richtet sich auf die Zusammenhänge von eikon und episteme in wissenschaftlicher und künstlerischer Forschung. Der Begriff des "Bildes" wird zu diesem Zweck breit gefasst als bildliche Vorstellung und Darstellung. Im Mittelpunkt der Beiträge stehen Dynamiken des Herstellens und Wahrnehmens von Bildern und deren Rolle für Wissensproduktion, -dokumentation und -transfer. Zehn Fallbeispiele aus unterschiedlichen Fachgebieten - von Archäologie über Theologie bis hin zur Szenografie - beleuchten das historisch aufgeladene Spannungsfeld von Ästhetik und Epistemik. Im Lichte aktueller Anwendungen aus Wissenschaft und Kunst hinterfragt der Band die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit von analogen und virtuellen Bildern, die an der Schwelle zu einer Neubewertung von Taktilität im Zeichen der Corona-Krise 2020 besondere Brisanz erfährt.

Siri Hustvedt is one of the few contemporary US-American authors who consistently engages with the questions of seeing and perceiving in her work. However, despite the growing academic interest in her narratives, many aspects related to the depiction of these fundamental practices have been left unaddressed in the criticism. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the concepts of seeing and perceiving as represented in both her fictional and nonfictional writings published to date and argues that Hustvedt's texts reveal the deep entanglement of the senses that inform a meaningful human experience. Drawing on phenomenology and feminist epistemology, this study highlights Hustvedt's interest in embodied cultural habits and implicit forms of knowledge that play a crucial role in the ways people perceive the world and each other. Through the motif of gender masquerade, her narratives explore how the ideas about femininity and masculinity shape people's perceptions and interactions.