OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2021)Tanalís Padilla traces the history of the normales rurales—rural schools in Mexico that trained campesino teachers—and outlines how despite being intended to foster a modern, patriotic citizenry, they became sites of radical ...
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(2021)Lynn Stephen examines the writing of Elena Poniatowska, showing how it shaped Mexican political discourse and provides a unique way of understanding contemporary Mexican history, politics, and culture.
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(2021)This volume is the first sistematic study of French editorial mediation in the internationalization process of Latin-American literatures. It opens a new field of investigation – Latin-American literary works translated ...
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(2021)What is the relationship between “image” and human thinking? What is the role of the concept of “form” in human knowledge? Scholars from the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, the history of science, aesthetics, ...
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(2021)This study inquires into the political and social significance ascribed to the urban Roman senatorial aristocracy and the senate in the first half of the fifth century CE. This volume therefore examines a topic of central ...
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(2021)Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in presenting the photographs ...
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(2021)This edited volume deals with issues relating to the quality of subject cataloging in the digital age, where heterogenous articles from different processes meet, and attempts to define important quality standards. Topics ...
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(2021)Practices of reading form an important center of synagogal worship as well as Jewish scholarship. The monograph reconstructs the development of ritual reading practices in ancient Judaism based on the triad of acts of ...
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(2021)This study examines the attitude of three important pre-Constantinian Church authors on the issue of military service by Christians. During their era, there were growing numbers of Christians in the army, and discussions ...
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(2021)In spite of extensive research in the field of cultural studies, the topic of fear has not yet been exhausted, especially considering that not even the semantics of its linguistic devices or the diversity of its linguistic ...
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(2021)There are few features that characterize the letter, and yet they have contributed to the successful history of this communication form for more than 3000 years: writtenness, materiality, mobility, address, the necessity ...
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(2021)Research from various corners has already shone light on the issue of what speakers know about their own language and their attitudes towards it. However, a joint theoretical and empirical basis is still missing. This ...
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(2021)This study suggests a new definition of the highly disputed class of noun-verb combinations. The new approach offered here does not begin, as before, with the verb, but rather, examines the semantic and pragmatic properties ...
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(2021)Violence is a central topic in De mortibus persecutorum, one of the most significant sources on the Tetrarchy’s persecution of Christians. Gianna Zipp examines this piece of writing as a literary complete works and ...
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(2021)This volume uses case studies to present the international literary exchange that took place in and around Berlin in the years directly following the construction of the wall and to show how cultural political activities ...
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(2021)This interdisciplinary volume delves into the significance of the early modern vanitas motif in the present day. In the arts, pop culture, and social discourses, it is utilized to make cultural-critical diagnoses. Reflections ...
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(2021)This transareal lecture inquires into the (perhaps already lost) unity of Romanticism behind the polymorphism of the Romantic discourses that took place between two worlds, Europe and America. This lecture reveals the scope ...
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(2021)As one of the world’s 7,000 languages, German shares "family similarities" with many other European languages, but also has some very unique traits. In a total of eight chapters, this book examines the German language ...
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(2021)Czesław Miłosz is at times called an American poet. This means one thing in Poland, and something else in the United States. To Polish readers, this description is mainly related to the moment of his departure from Europe ...
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(2021)While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. ...
