Linguistics

Shchekina-Greipel untersucht welche Faktoren die Publikation westlicher Literatur unter den ideologisch-totalitären Bedingungen der Sowjetunion bestimmten.

This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose...

This comprehensive book makes us discover the privileged role that writing systems played in the region’s delicate post-imperial and post-socialist transitions.

By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought, this collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading some geopoetical texts to...

Society is characterized by a constant flow of multimodal products, which increasingly blur the lines between screen and reality, and audiovisual translation allows overcoming geographical and linguistic frontiers between small realities across the planet. However, research has long struggled to...

Il viaggio: un momento prezioso e privilegiato dalle variegate opportunità e dagli imprevedibili sviluppi. La via per penetrare l’ignoto, per introdursi in se stessi in modo naturale, spontaneo; la via dell’incontro. Un percorso che, al di là delle ragioni per cui si intraprende, produce sempre...

This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships.

When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Beckett’s work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between...

Eva Leitzke-Ungerer ist seit 2006 Professorin für Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen am Institut für Romanistik der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. In dieser Zeit hat sie nicht nur zahlreiche Studierende auf ihre berufliche Tätigkeit grundlegend vorbereitet, sondern durch ihre...

Die Lebensmeisterei ist ein Angebot an alle, die ihre persönlichen Grenzen möglichst weit ausdehnen und neue beglückende Erfahrungen machen wollen. Die ein klares Nein formulieren, wenn die Frage auftaucht, ob das schon alles gewesen sei. Die eine Krise als Chance für Wachstum begreifen. Die Spaß...