Highlighting efforts to address today’s most pressing social challenges through the study of texts in languages other than English.
Literature for Change examines how the study, production, circulation, and reception of literary texts in languages other than English contribute to addressing...
Read More about Literature for Change: The Case for Literary Research Across Languages and Cultures (Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies)Highlighting efforts to address today’s most pressing social challenges through the study of texts in languages other than English.
Literature for Change examines how the study, production, circulation, and reception of literary texts in languages other than English contribute to addressing...
Read More about Literature for Change: The Case for Literary Research Across Languages and Cultures (Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies)How did female German-Jewish writers negotiate issues of femininity, Jewishness, and urban experience at the beginning of the 20th century? Godela Weiss-Sussex describes the evolution of multi-dimensional portrayals of the personal and societal place of the "German Jewish woman" in these...
Read More about Jüdin und Moderne (Conditio Judaica #90)This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the...
Read More about Georg Hermann: Deutsch-Jüdischer Schriftsteller Und Journalist, 1871--1943 (Conditio Judaica #48)Kann das Warenhaus als Symbol der Moderne gelten? Dieser Band widmet sich dem Berliner Warenhaus des sp ten 19. und fr hen 20. Jahrhunderts. Die interdisziplin ren Beitr ge behandeln das Thema im Rahmen der konomiegeschichte, der Frauen- und Antisemitismusforschung, sowie im Hinblick auf Aspekte...
Read More about Das Berliner Warenhaus- The Berlin Department Store: Geschichte und Diskurse- History and DiscourseThe study of European literatures was once characterised by single-language, nation-bound enquiry, but in the context of globalisation the transnational and multi-lingual aspect of these literatures has come to the fore. The forces driving this change range from acknowledgement of ancestral and...
Read More about Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe (Studies in Comparative Literature #57)The study of European literatures was once characterized by single-language, nation-bound enquiry, but in the context of globalization the transnational and multi-lingual aspect of these literatures has come to the fore. The forces driving this change range from acknowledgement of ancestral and...
Read More about Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe (Studies in Comparative Literature #57)Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London...
Read More about The Cultural Identities of European Cities (Cultural Identity Studies #16)Dieser Band untersucht die kulturelle Bedeutung des Warenhauses f r die Moderne in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien.
This volume examines the cultural significance of department stores for modernity in literature, film and other media.
