A particular--Persian--trajectory for the configurations of a certain German orientation and identity-formation from the late Baroque Rococo, past Classicist Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang , and German Romantics is disserted using Goethe's theory of poetic translation as derived…
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Richard Beer-Hofmann, born in Vienna on July 11, 1866, and Lion Feuchtwanger, born in Furth (Germany) on July 7, 1884, were both homini judaici. Unlike most of their fellow German Jewish writers, they were proud of their Jewish heritage. Because of their dissimilar upbringings, …
This dissertation, “The Orient in Europe: Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature,” responds to Edward Said's concept of a monolithic Christian Orientalism that justified European economic and political control of the Middle East. The project considers the role of E…
Female Muslim immigrants in France and Germany are increasingly experiencing challenges integrating into Western lifestyle. They have to adjust to occidental communities in which they try to incorporate their own traditions and values. They experience feelings of simultaneous be…
While avoiding generalizations or any attempt to essentialize the already problematic concepts of East and West, or North and South, by ascribing some permanent or pre-destined essence to them, the present study compares the poetries of Ahmad Shâmlu (1925-2000) and Bertolt Brech…
This dissertation aims to challenge Edward Said's notion of Orientalism as the ideological cohort of Western imperialism by examining works of Orientalist fiction produced by a European empire devoid of overseas colonies: Austria-Hungary. In particular, this study argues that fa…
My dissertation examines the history of the encounter between Islam and African local cultures, focusing on how the coming of Islam reshaped the lives of the local populations of the Middle Casamance. It retraces the changing spiritual geography of this region from African relig…
Although modern Germany is a multicultural and multireligious society, a fact reflected by the growing number of works on the lives of migrants to Germany by authors from non-German backgrounds, it is still difficult to find much scholarly study of the role of Islam in these wor…
Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico
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""In Kafka's Jewish Languages David Suchoff quite persuasively argues that the Germanic interplay between high and low (Yiddish) languages and the rise of modern Hebrew account for far more of the plays and innovations of Kafka's writing than has previously been acknowledged. Su…
Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at …
This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local th…
This is a history of German literature up to the reunification in 1990. It looks at the main authors and movements, what Germans would be reading and writing in a given period, and what they would have watched at the theater or found in a library. It includes, for example, discu…
