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Von Ibrahim zu Ibrahim: Daniel Casper von Lohensteins „Türkische Trauerspiele“
The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 230-249, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract Klaus Günter Just ordnete die Dramentexte Daniel Casper von Lohensteins in seiner zwischen 1953 und 1957 erschienenen historisch‐kritischen Edition nicht chronologisch, sondern geographisch und kulturell drei Rubriken zu: afrikanische, römische und türkische Trauerspiele – eine Kategorisierung, die von Generationen von Literaturwissenschaftler*
Isabel von Holt
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Infant and Child Development, Volume 31, Issue 6, November/December 2022., 2022 Abstract Both theory of mind (ToM) and executive functioning have been related to children's academic abilities. In a longitudinal study with 112 children, we investigated the influence of these two abilities on children's math and reading performance at 7 years of age.
Daniela Kloo +3 more
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DAS GENIE IM SCHAFFEN NIETZSCHES
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 394-409, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article aims to show the central importance of Friedrich Nietzsche to notions of genius in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On the one hand, it considers the influence of idealised representations of Nietzsche (for example, in Thomas Mann and Gottfried Benn) as a genius marked by loneliness, illness, and finally madness.
Sebastian Kaufmann
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Between Promise and Ecstasy: Hope as a Subject of an Engaged Theology
Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 977-996, October 2021., 2021 Abstract This article outlines a socially‐engaged theology that retrieves hope as an essential theological concept. The argument focuses not so much on the specific orientation that a socially engaged theology might take, but more on its motives. Here two notions of hope need to be distinguished: the hope that is future‐oriented (hoping that . . .) and
Hartmut von Sass
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 416-438, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT In the wake of contemporary anxieties about climate change and environmental degradation, biographers of Alexander von Humboldt have sought inspiration from his life as an explorer, a plant geographer and a scientific writer. A ‘green Humboldt’ has emerged, to many a key thinker on the environment, to some the founding father of modern ...
Nicolaas Rupke
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 339-370, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt was regarded as an anti‐fascist symbol among German‐speaking exiles who, fleeing persecution from the Nazi regime, found refuge in Mexico. Humboldt's legacy was read as being an endorsement of the country's struggle for political and cultural emancipation, while his famously anti‐racist stance proved helpful in framing ...
Andrea Acle‐Kreysing
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 183-202, April 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT This article contends that the image is a central trope in Paul Celan's poetry. It suggests that Celan's rejection of metaphor and his opposition to readings of his poetry as mere imagery constitute only one side of his understanding of the image.
Julian Johannes Immanuel Koch
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Lykaon, der Wolfsmann, und Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 67-85, April 2021., 2021 Viele der rezenten Studien zur Ästhetik des Monströsen nehmen auf Michel Foucaults Vorlesungsreihe Les anormaux Bezug, in der er u. a. der diskursiven Transformation des Monsters von einem somatischen hin zu einem moralischen Abweichungsphänomen nachgeht.
Thomas Emmrich
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Wo bleibt das " Papierlose Büro"? - Ein Essay für Gerhart BRUCKMANN
Austrian Journal of Statistics, 2016 Der Begriff papierloses Büro ist als Metapher für Reduktion der Verwaltung auf ein notwendiges Minimum zu verstehen. Es werden Hemmnisse und Probleme einer derartigen Entwicklung sowohl auf organisatorischer als auch soziokultureller Ebene diskutiert.
Wolf Rauch
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George Herbert’s Metaphorical Textures [PDF]
, 2016 Der Aufsatz untersucht Struktur und Funktion der konzeptuellen Metapher (conceit) in der metaphysischen Dichtung des 17. Jahrhunderts. Am Beispiel zweier Gedichte von George Herbert, „Love (3)“ und „Easter Wings“, wird gezeigt, wie poetische Texte mit ...
Lobsien, Verena Olejniczak
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