German Languages & Cultures
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German Narratives of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century [Hardback]
Linda Shortt (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975882
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 4
Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post... .... Learn More -
Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature: Gott und Welt 1798-1827 [Hardback]
Regina Sachers (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907747977
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe’s poetic contribution to this conflict,... .... Learn More -
Yvan Goll: The Thwarted Pursuit of the Whole [Hardback]
Robert Vilain (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975561
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 1
The life of the bilingual writer Yvan Goll (1891-1950) was one of perpetual experimentation and self-renewal. In the first study to treat Goll’s whole literary career, Robert Vilain explores the full range of his poetry, nov... .... Learn More -
Probabilistische Geolinguistik: Geostatistische Analysen lexikalischer Variation in Bayerisch-Schwaben [Paperback]
Simon Pickl (Author)
$73.00ISBN: 9783515104630
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik – Beihefte
Volume: 154
Welche Faktoren können erklären, an welchen Orten welche dialektalen Ausdrücke verwendet werden? Welchen Regeln folgt die geographische Verteilung von sprachlichen Varianten? Diese Arbeit untersucht sprachgeographische Muster und Strukturen auf de... .... Learn More -
Marie Hassenpflug: Eine Märchenerzählerin der Brüder Grimm [Hardback]
Heiner Boehncke (Author); Phoebe Schmidt (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9783805345361
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
German literature owes Marie Hassenpflug some of their finest stories: "The Sleeping Beauty" "Snow White" and "Red Riding Hood"- These are just some of the twenty folk tales she has told the Grimm brothers. .... Learn More -
Sebald's Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life [Hardback]
Helen Finch (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975905
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 2
Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald’s major texts, from ‘After Nature’ to ‘Austerlitz’, Helen ... .... Learn More -
Goethe's Visual World [Hardback]
Pamela Currie (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975899
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 3
Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of perception. This investigation into his writings ... .... Learn More -
Römische Kaiser in Deutschland: Der archäologische Führer [Paperback]
Holger Dietrich (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9783805346030
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Series: Archäologische Führer
Trier, Mainz and Cologne – these are fascinating German cities with an even more exciting roman past. But not only in large cities traces of the roman emperors can be found, often even the most remote places are full of historical mysteries. The a... .... Learn More -
Die Leipziger Professorenfamilien im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert: Eine Studie über Herkunft, Vernetzung und Alltagsleben [Hardback]
Theresa Schmotz (Author)
$134.00ISBN: 9783515102551
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Quellen und Forschungen zur sächsischen Geschichte
Volume: 35
English Description: Household names such as Alberti, Börner, Gottsched Carpzov, Hebenstreit, Hommel or Rivinus (to name a few) belong to families of Leipzig professors in 17th and 18th Centuries. Up until now, research devot... .... Learn More -
Erscheinungsformen rheinischer Alltagssprache: Untersuchungen zu Variation und Kookkurrenzregularitäten im "mittleren Bereich" zwischen Dialekt und Standardsprache [Paperback]
Robert Möller (Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9783515101226
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte (ZDL-B)
Volume: 153
English Description: In the Rhineland, just as in a large part of the German speaking area, the language used in informal communication in everyday life is mostly neither dialect nor standard German, but rather something in betwee... .... Learn More