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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Lesen- und Schreibenlernen und -lehren in der Erwachsenenbildung. Passgenaue Unterstützung in heterogenen Lerngruppen [PDF]
Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at, 2023 Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit Erwachsenen mit deutscher Erstsprache auseinander, die über geringe Lese- und Schreibkompetenzen verfügen. Dieses Phänomen wird als „funktionaler Analphabetismus“, „geringe Literalität“ oder „Illetrismus“ bezeichnet.
Peter Hubertus
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ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 323-336, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 298-310, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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e-Scripta Romanica, 2021 Le langage de la pornographie se déploie aujourd’hui non seulement dans les dictionnaires des mots du sexe ou dans les textes, mais aussi sur diverses pages Web.
Mateusz Białas
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German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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Le temps vécu dans le récit de fiction et dans le récit historique
Enthymema, 2013 Si Ricœur évoque à plusieurs reprises les extraordinaires ressources qu’offre la fiction pour saisir les subtiles variations entre le temps de la conscience et le temps chronologique, il relève en revanche les limites de l’histoire : le récit de fiction –
Sabina Loriga
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 167-185, March 2026.Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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Frauenstimmen: „Wir haben eine Stimme – du auch!“
Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at, 2021 (English abstract below!) *„Frauenstimmen“ ist ein Projekt, das von Juni bis September 2020 vom Verein Projekt Integrationshaus sowie vom Verein Piramidops – Frauentreff durchgeführt wurde.
Lydia Rössler
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