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Polnische und deutsche Phraseologismen mit den Komponenten kot/Katze und pies/Hund im "Słownik języka polskiego" von Samuel Bogumił Linde und im "Deutschen Wörterbuch" von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2015 The aim of the article is to analyze Polish and German idioms containing names of animals, namely cat and dog in Słownik języka polskiego by Samuel Bogumił Linde and Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Firstly, it is to be stated how many of
Dominika Janus
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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract This paper was prompted by some striking similarities between both the ritual and the medical use of placenta in Ming China and in premodern Europe. Contrary to most accounts, which focus either on the rise of chemiatric medicine or on the growing interest in “exotic” substances, the seventeenth century in Europe also reveals a revived ...
Wahrig B.
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Julie von Bechtolsheim, a Political Life: Women's Work and Governance in the Age of Revolution
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 475-498, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article understands how women and girls in the Grand Duchy of Saxe‐Weimar‐Eisenach negotiated core issues in the Age of Revolutions: early industrialization and political representation. The baroness Julie von Bechtolsheim (1751–1847) leveraged war, widowhood, courtly connections, and poetry to pursue a public ‘career’ as First Principal ...
Patrick Anthony
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James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 76-91, March 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the English scholar James Cowles Prichard's attention to language and comparative philology within his wider project on the natural history of man. It reveals that linguistic evidence was among the most important elements for Prichard in his overarching scientific aim of investigating human physical diversity, and served ...
Ian Stewart
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 92-113, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Language was never studied by linguists (or philologists) alone. The greater part of the languages of the world was first known in the West through the reports of missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators, and what they documented reflected their specific interests.
Floris Solleveld
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‘ES IST EINE DESOLATE IDEE, GENIE WERDEN ZU WOLLEN’: ZUM BÖRSENWERT DES BEGRIFFS GENIE BEI NESTROY
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 365-377, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT In his farces, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy seizes on prevailing stereotypes of genius, treating the concept with an irony that contributed to its critical revision in his day. Drawing on the theories of Michail Bachtin, the article examines how genius – as a term and as a series of (con)figurations – features in Nestroy's works, differentiating ...
Arno Dusini
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“Reeling In” Grimm Masculinities: Hucksters, Cross-Dressers, and Ninnies [PDF]
, 2013 In American films Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm appear as malleable as the folktales they collected and published. Not just framed by their cultural production, the Grimms are read through it.
Magnus-Johnson, Kendra
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‘SCHÖNE JUGENDLICHE MÄDCHENKÖPFE’: GENDER AND ‘GENIE’ IN LOU ANDREAS‐SALOMÉ’S MENSCHENKINDER
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 448-464, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT In her essay ‘Der Mensch als Weib’ (1899) Lou Andreas‐Salomé compares women to trees: both produce their ‘fruit’ unintentionally. This comparison seems to allow very little scope for active female creativity, let alone ingenuity. Closer inspection, however, reveals a more differentiated view of questions of gender and creativity.
Marlen Mairhofer
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Szerzőazonosítás Jacob és Wilhelm Grimm zajos, digitalizált levelezésében
Digitális Bölcsészet, 2021 Az alábbi cikk egy multidiszciplináris projekt eredményeit mutatja be, amely a különböző digitalizációs stratégiák számítógépes szöveganalízisben való használhatóságát járja körül.
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Jernej Kopitar, Vuk Karadžić and the Brothers Grimm
Knjižnica, 2013 The article is focused on Kopitar’s work in linguistics and oral tradition at the age of enlightenment and romanticism and on his contribution to the South Slavic publications of folk narratives and linguistics, especially from the perspective of his ...
Monika Kropej
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