OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2022)This study develops the theory that the practice of retelling reflected in the poetologies of German chivalric romance (12th and 13th cent.) must be understood not just as artificial poiesis but also as a practice of ...
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(2013)On 21 March 1933, the National Socialists celebrated their alliance with the old Wilhelmine elites on the "Day of Potsdam." Eighty years following 1933, the great year of upheaval, this volume more closely reexamines the ...
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(2013)Since the mid-1980s, public discourse in Poland has repeatedly focussed on the issue of how to deal with the National Socialists` destruction of the Jews. This has raised accusations that the Polish people bore an element ...
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(2022)This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. How and why does French contemporary literature tell stories about the now historical, ...
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(2022)This volume brings together contributions by international experts reflecting on Covid19-related neologisms and their lexicographic processing and representation. The papers analyze new words, new meanings of existing ...
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(2022)Is it possible to overcome grief after years of mourning? What should a Roman woman do to regain control of her thoughts? This book – which is the first commentary in English on Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia in forty ...
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(2022)The book provides the first systematic reconstruction of the reception of Lucretius’ theological and ethical verses in the work of the early modern philosopher Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). It argues that the latter was the ...
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(2022)This volume focuses on the attribution of agency across comics production (authorship and institutionalization), reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization). Contributors ...
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(2022)This volume brings together studies on the diverse ways that the genres and usage of hymns and sequences transformed in the middle ages and early modern period, taking them from being Latin liturgies to becoming vernacular ...
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(2022)Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
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(2022)Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
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(2022)In management, decisions are expected to be based on rational analytics rather than intuition. But intuition, as a human evolutionary achievement, offers wisdom that, despite all the advances in rational analytics and AI, ...
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(2022)The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, ...
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(2022)As too many intellectual histories from the ‘global South’ remain under-explored, this book aims to redress such imbalance. Authors from the region sketch out their perspectives of transformations. This includes case studies ...
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(2022)Remnants challenge the institution of the museum. They are tipping figures that open up attributions and thus collaborate in transgressing the taxonomic, disciplinary, architectural and institutional boundaries of the ...
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(2022)This study sheds light on the lives of an exiled group of Eastern European Jewish socialists who spent time in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, analyzes the different ways that they understood belonging, and traces their ...
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(2022)After its independence in 1957, Ghana sent specialists to both German states for professional education and training. This transnational entanglement history takes various perspectives to analyze the goals that Ghana, the ...
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(2022)The legacies of Old Egyptian society range from monumental pyramids to the microscopic traces of human activity, from stone inscriptions to novels. How can these things be put into a meaningful context, and what methods ...
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(2022)Vanitas does not just address ephemerality but also the relationship of the self to history it negotiates identity and positions itself both self-critically and politically. In which contexts does contemporary culture take ...
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(2022)For the first time, the Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten (Atlas of War Damage Maps) prepares an important source inventory for urban research and presents maps of Nuremberg, Hamburg, Hanover, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Essen from ...
