OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)History videos on YouTube have obtained an enormous reach and relevance in the transmission of historical and political content. This edited volume examines media stagings, specific features in the historical portrayals ...
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(2023)Saša Stanišić is one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature. This volume reveals new perspectives on Stanišić’s work and his authorial persona. It focuses on previously neglected aspects, such as ...
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(2023)The publication aims to view analogy relations as heuristic magic sticks or semiotic universals through which the unknown can be heuristically opened up with the help of the known. This means that analogies simultaneously ...
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(2023)Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives is a two-volume collection of papers on two closely related topics in Japanese psycholinguistics. Volume 1, Cross-Linguistic Studies, compares Japanese and ...
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(2023)This volume provides a new set of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of literary multilingualism in the age of national literature. Broader studies examine multilingual origins of seemingly monolingual ...
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(2023)Medical, sociological, and journalistic discourse currently views depression as the dominant psychological disease in modern societies. This volume examines narrative texts of the early twentieth century and contemporary ...
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(2023)This volume sheds light on the role played by progeny in maintaining dynasties in early modern royal courts. It attempts to break through the narrative of older research that saw dynasties as a series of male rulers. ...
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(2023)Women designers, many of them Jewish, played a decisive role in the development of Viennese modernity during the interwar period. This book presents new research on designers, photographers, journalists, and patrons who ...
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(2023)The digital turn has far-reaching implications for linguistic research, from data collection and analysis to storage infrastructure. It also brings about profound changes in epistemological and ethical practices as well ...
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(2023)Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This book explores what happened when meteorological hazards struck how medieval communities reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future ...
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(2023)This book examines how ordinary people have induced the most important political shifts in the history of the Sudan, including the last 2019 Revolution but also how they have participated to the construction of consensus ...
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(2023)The emergence of parliamentary democracy and the political public sphere in Germany in the nineteenth century created the conditions for the development of collective ideological vocabulary. From the Frankfurt Parliament ...
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(2023)Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002) was among the most influential linguists in the second half of the 20th century. Although known mainly as a structuralist and an expert in Romance linguistics, his work in fact goes far beyond ...
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(2023)Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore the long-lasting effects of colonial history on contemporary lives. Focusing on the media of text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book show how Kincaid’s ''poetics ...
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(2023)What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, the book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and ...
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(2023)The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
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(2023)The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations on the late 18th and 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Dominican fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1763–1827), it examines how Hispanic American ...
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(2023)In order to counteract introspective approaches and the detailed analysis of individual cases in historical grammar research, this volume brings together essays by experts working on the empirical analysis of (text)grammatical ...
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(2023)Clemency plays an important role in Livy and his value system. Clemency is invoked, exercised or denied in three areas: family, justice and army. What emerges is a complex understanding of this value concept, which relates ...
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(2023)For centuries women had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies.The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship ...
