This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a natio...

Johann Georg Hamann is accused of the ›dark style‹ like hardly any other author. This accusation became a topos of Hamann reading and criticism, wh...

This volume focuses on the special historical moments of the third oldest University Psychiatry in Germany, which has been existing in Göttingen si...

This volume focuses on the special historical moments of the third oldest University Psychiatry in Germany, which has been existing in Gottingen si...

From different professional perspectives, this volume is devoted to an important Turkish-German topic: Scientists from Turkey and Germany as well a...

Al-Gazali (1058–1111) is considered to be one of the most influential and powerful Muslim thinkers and scholars produced by the Islamic tradition o...

The United States did not enter World War I until April 1917. But politicians and intellectuals have been discussing the implications of this confl...

Serpent symbolism plays an important role in Keats's rich animal imagery both on a quantitative level and on a qualitative one. Through images of d...

Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, but she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children:...

For decades, historians and societal forces have campaigned for rapprochement, reconciliation and dialogue between East Asian nations. This book is...

Taking into account the relevant and mostly contemporary ango-american debates concering collective intentionality, the author examines what it mea...

Among the many examples of Russian-American émigré literature, a number of less known authors moved to the USA, following their predecessors’ trans...

This study is an attempt to reorient the field of Chinese linguistics from the perspective of the new field of cultural interaction studies. The au...

This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of Seventhday Adventist interchurch relations -- a 20-million-member body whose ecumenical sta...

In this volume, Lucyna Harmon compares the episodes that constitute the British TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet with their pre...

The notion of the 'spirit' is dazzling: it has manifold meanings and plays a crucial role in Early Modern medicine, psychology, religion, natural p...

The life and work of Aleksandr A. Chuprov (1874-1926), the most important Russian and continental statistician at the time, is described here for t...

The King of Castile, Alfonso X (1221–1284), commissioned the compilation of the ‘Siete Partidas’, a legal compendium that laid the foundations of a...

The book provides a new approach in economic education that is called real life economics. Several studies evaluate an inadequate knowledge and a l...

Older people remain mobile longer and will consequently take more active part in road traffic. The number of older road users will thus increase si...