OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Ǧawāhir al-Akhbār wa-Mulaḥ al-Ashʿār, Gems of the Tales and Anecdotes of poetry, by Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAqāma Al-Yamanī, contains tales from the pre-Islamic, early Islamic, and Abbasid periods. The work contains ...
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(2024)This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their performance in the theater between 1600 and 1685. A comparison of Spanish and French theater culture reveals ...
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(2024)The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to previously unaddressed problems at the descriptive, methodological and ...
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(2024)With ethnic roots in Somalia, compounded by the experience of religious conversion, add to this an Anglo-Indian boarding school experience, and over three decades in Norway transitioning from the disparate roles of refugee, ...
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(2024)While ancient banquets are gaining traction in international research, they still pose a number of interpretative challenges. By concentrating on the early Greek symposium, this volume reviews previous interpretative models ...
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(2024)Future T/Issues discusses transplantation in speculative fiction and life writing and emphasizes the heterogenous voices that shape transplant practices. This book adds to the discussion of organ transplantation by focusing ...
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(2024)The study is the first to comprehensively examine the significance of literary multilingualism in German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In analyzes of works by Franz Kafka, Dada, Mascha Kaléko, Paul ...
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(2024)Philosophical discourses can fail in different ways and for different reasons. If disputants are involved in a mere dispute over words, their dispute is not based on disagreement. Due to a linguistic misunderstanding, they ...
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(2024)Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten or erased women’s contributions. Their agency is a glaring blind spot in the pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume studies manuscripts ...
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(2024)At the turn of the millenium, we saw the start of a global change that supersedes traditional forms of government, defined in this book as oikocracy. It is characterised by an uncontrollable demand for money ahead of public ...
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(2024)The 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume examine facets of the history of asymmetrical dependencies via representations of dependency in a wide range of (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions ...
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(2024)This book analyses written artefacts integrating diverse languages and scripts. It investigates scribal practices, shedding light on multicultural communities and regions with intersecting writing traditions. The essays ...
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(2024)How are extremist ideologies constructed in texts and conveyed in a potentially persuasive manner? This volume responds to this question by looking at German-language magazines published by the "Islamic State." It examines ...
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(2024)This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of D. Zúñiga (Chile), L. Restrepo (Colombia), and F. Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic ...
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(2024)This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, ...
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(2024)What, actually, meant “modernisation” for the long 19th century Middle Easterner? Stephan Guth finds the essence of the so-called Arab(ic) “Renaissance” (and corresponding movements in Turkish) in emerging subjectivity and ...
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(2024)Managing universities, especially teaching, is complex. One requirement for success is interplay at all levels – between the ministry, management, lecturers, students, and administration. Grounded in empirical research, ...
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(2024)The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors ...
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(2024)This volume examines the stylistic characteristics of threatening and abusive letters by right-wing extremists as well as left-wing extremist position papers and claims to responsibility. It applies qualitative and ...
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(2024)The book examines a turning point in European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to launch an attack on the continent. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British ...
