OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political violence and aggression. This multidisciplinary collection of ...
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(2024)Beyond the traditional dichotomy between idealized and "monstrous" mothers, the contributions gathered in this volume analyze a wide range of maternal figures in French and Francophone literature of the 20th–21st centuries, ...
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(2024)From the classical age to contemporary Francophonie, French-language literature features numerous instances of popular speech, whose mimetic or conventional character remains open to debate. This book brings together ...
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(2024)This volume analyzes the ambivalence of comic representations of disability in fictional texts, films and stage performances, as well as the ambivalence of reception. It seeks to describe precisely what kind of comicality ...
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(2024)In German, there are nominal compounds with identical constituents (ICCs). This study is the first to provide comprehensive data on the formal and functional properties of ICCs and a theoretical discussion in which these ...
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(2024)This volume gathers reflections on secularity from the Ottoman Empire, modern Arab states, the Turkish Republic, Iran, and Jewish perspectives from Europe and Israel, many translated into English for the first time. While ...
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(2024)This volume maps the international academic debate on secularity. It places contributions from within ‘Western’ academia alongside lesser-known texts from various parts of the world, in several cases translated into English ...
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(2024)Taking contemporary popular culture and its immanent theory building as its starting point, this edited volume is the first to ask whether the category "popular" can be applied to the Middle Ages and early modern period. ...
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(2024)In Dunhuang in the 820s, scribes, editors, and administrators produced thousands of Tibetan and Chinese copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life. Drawing on the 1,500 such Tibetan copies now kept at the British Library, this ...
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(2024)Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts – including those otherwise lost – from ...
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(2024)Writing one’s genealogy by hand is a common practice across cultures, both past and present. This volume explores how lineages were expressed in handwritten form within different social, cultural, and religious contexts ...
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(2024)The PIMS Yearbook surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. This interdisciplinary field includes—but is not limited to—360-degree paintings dioramas and museum displays gaming ...
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(2024)The volume collects contributions about the most recent developments of the theoretical and practical concept of digital critical edition applied to Greek Papyrology, redacted by outstanding scholars involved in ground-breaking ...
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(2024)This volume offers an innovative contribution to the field of Cultural Studies. It addresses the intersection between disability and scenic, literary and audiovisual creation and examines the role that 'functional diversity' ...
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(2024)Age studies add the perspective of aging to the issues of inclusion and diversity, which intersect with other axes (gender, race, class, functional diversity, etc.). This volume delves into the scenic, literary and audiovisual ...
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(2024)This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is ...
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(2024)In recent years, more artists have been integrating institutions, funding structures, critics, and distribution circuits into the works themselves, putting pressure on the long-standing analytical division in art studies ...
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(2024)The volume investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, with a focus on the reception and reuse of their literature, through a discussion of ...
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(2024)Secularization as a political and ideological project has been part of transforming and giving new life to religion, not least through reforms in the education system and in public enlightenment efforts. The volume provides ...
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(2024)This study argues for a new view of contemporary Arab thought by analyzing the idea of time that underlies key discussions over Arab heritage (turāth). Focusing on three authors, it shows how their work was shaped by a ...
