Biographical note: Mariusz Kami?ski, School of Higher Vocational Education, Nysa, Poland. So far there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries. A dictionary like Chambers deserves special attention because of its long tradition that g…
Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are 'digressive' in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in variou…
Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are 'digressive' in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in variou…
This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracaue…
Inhalt -- Zur Einleitung -- Die deutsche Medizinliteratur des Mittelalters. Vorüberlegungen zu einer historischen Darstellung -- Die Leges barbarorum als Quelle der Medizingeschichte -- Medizinisches im Handschriftencensus - Zugänge, Fragestellungen, Hilfsmittel, Optionen, Zukun…
Eine Bestandsaufnahme unseres Wissens über mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche medizinische Texte und ihre Fachtermini und deren Bedeutungen steht bis heute aus. Dabei sind medizinische Texte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit eine wichtige Q.
From some points of view, Timocles departs from the norm of his time, and in particular from near-contemporary comedians such as Alexis, Eubulus and Antiphanes, and appears to be the most 'Aristophanic' poet of the fourth century. More specifically, in a period when political sa…
Biographical note: Mareike Klein promovierte an der Universität Siegen im Fach Germanistik - Mediävistik. Die Inszenierung feudaladeliger Herrschaft wird in heldenepischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts von Farb- und Glanzimaginationen getragen. Dabei lassen sich Farben un…
Biographical note: Manuel Delicado Cantero, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. This book presents a historical and comparative syntactic analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses - traditionally called complement and adverbial clauses. This study examines the …
Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on sound studies and transmedial narratology, audionarratology combines concepts from both while als…
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighboring languages. This book pay…
