OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)These seven studies analyze interpretations of ancient Jewish history by prominent Jewish scholars in the German world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although focusing on diverse figures and episodes, they all argue that ...
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(2024)Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co-actors in their work, and so established a sculptural aesthetic of the ...
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(2024)Johannes Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445-1510), the best-known 15th century German preacher, delivered his sermons to an enthusiastic Augsburg audience in 1488. These sermons were preserved in the form of sermon transcripts, ...
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(2024)Whoever stands at the lectern at poetry lectures is in demand and questioned at the same time. He should not only present his work in the authentic voice of the author, but also speak as a lecturer in creative writing, as ...
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(2024)In this volume, international researchers examine transformative processes of Jewish youth movements in Europe and Palestine between 1918 and 1945. They focus on the thoroughly controversial responses of youth to questions ...
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(2024)Digital images have been under suspicion of manipulation not just since the discussions about "deepfakes" and generative AI. While in the 1990s any digital image evidence seemed questionable, pragmatic answers have since ...
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(2024)English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world? The monograph challenges the monopoly of English as metalanguage and proposes instead a "Postcolonial ...
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(2024)The new standard work for creating job descriptions and job evaluations comprehensively lists new and updated work procedures in academic libraries. The fulfilled job characteristics as well as associated remuneration ...
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(2024)Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books ...
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(2024)Comparative literature today has become convoluted amid myriad reconceptualizations and declarations of its demise. In light of this situation, this book aims to reaffirm some of the central terms of comparative literary ...
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(2024)This book is the first history of Austria’s Chambers of Chartered Engineering Consultants from the foundation of the institution of chartered engineering consultants in 1860 up to the Ziviltechnikergesetz of 1957. In ...
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(2024)For the first time, this volume presents a geographically and phenomenologically broad range of case studies on late medieval changes of rule, from dynastic succession to conquest by force. The focus will be on the border ...
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(2024)In the 20th century, Germany experienced two dictatorships, the Third Reich and the GDR, which continue to shape the Federal Republic to this day. Nevertheless, the post-war perspective of the leading actors in both regimes, ...
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(2024)Publication of the Millstatt Sermons opens access to the last yet untapped collection of early German sermons (around 1200). This edition of 72 prototypical German language sermons includes the texts with a critical ...
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(2024)This volume establishes theoretical and methodological principles on the relationship between literature and science. It combines approaches from the fields of cultural semiotics, narratology, and the philosophy of science, ...
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(2024)Religious traditions, symbols, and practices are shaped by gender gender roles, stereotypes, and ideals have religious underpinnings. Studying gender in religious studies means taking the category of gender into account ...
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(2024)Although connectives fired the starting signal for construction grammar with let alone, they then faded from its focus – potentially due to the challenges that they present to the concept of construction on several levels. ...
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(2024)This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight keynotes. Among others, thirty-four further papers are dedicated to the central theme of the conference: the ...
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(2024)This volume assembles cutting-edge work on Latin poetic style from an international cast of scholars, both senior and emerging. Some of the papers were discussed in an international workshop in Oxford in March 2022 the ...
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(2024)Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion) in 1732. Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe’s "mirror" ...
