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Book SynopsisLike its two predecessors, Aspects of Old Frisian Philology (1990) and Approaches to Old Frisian Philology (1998), Advances in Old Frisian Philology combines contributions by specialists of medieval Frisian studies with papers by international specialists from adjacent fields who have been invited for the occasion to bring their expertise to the discipline of Old Frisian. Together, the diverse approaches considerably advance our knowledge of and insight into various aspects of Old Frisian philology.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Rolf H. BREMMER Jr: Old Frisian Philology: Along the Road Alderik H. BLOM: Language Admixture in the Old West Frisian Basle Wedding Speeches Rolf H. BREMMER Jr: Language and Contents of the Old Frisian Manuscripts from Rüstringen (c.1300): A ‘Veritable Mixtum Compositum’ Kees DEKKER: Sibrandus Siccama on the Lex Frisionum (1617): Frisian Identity as a Philological Construct Siebren DYK: Jorwert Breaking: A Late Old West Frisian Sound Change Concetta GILIBERTO: The Fifteen Signs of Doomsday of the First Riustring Manuscript Eric HOEKSTRA and Sjoerd M. SIEBINGA: Exploring the Distribution of aeng, the Old Frisian Counterpart of Modern English any, Modern Dutch enig Stephen LAKER: Palatalization of Velars: A Major Link of Old English and Old Frisian Erika LANGBROEK: Die Sprache von Bernardus Rordahusim in der niederdeutschen Apokalypse der Baseler Handschrift F.VII.12, folio 211r-217r Rosemarie LÜHR: Bedingungssätze in altfriesischen Rechtstexten Henk D. MEIJERING: Dat nye lantrecht. Altfriesisches Recht im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhundert – Nachleben oder Neuanfang? Johannes A. MOL: Gallows in Late Medieval Frisia Roberta NEDOMA: Die voraltfriesischen Personennamen der Runeninschriften auf dem Webschwert von Westeremden, dem Schwertchen von Arum und anderen Denkmälern Anne Tjerk POPKEMA: Die altfriesischen Eidesbezeichnungen Irmengard RAUCH: Gender Semiotics, Anglo-Frisian wīf, and Old Frisian Noun Gender Joseph C. SALMONS: What Old Frisian Can Tell Us about the History of I-Umlaut across West Germanic Laura Catherine SMITH: Old Frisian Vowel Balance and its Relationship to West Germanic Apocope and Syncope Ineke VAN ‘T SPIJKER: The Vita Siardi: Inwardness, Community and Heavenly Bliss in Thirteenth-century Frisia Oebele VRIES: Her Bendix is wrbeck fonden. Die altfriesische Terminologie im Bereich des Zivilprozessrechtes David YEANDLE: Early Christian Loans in Old Frisian: The Linguistic Evidence List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisYou are invited to join a fascinating journey of discovery, as Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon explore the intersecting patterns of mathematics and poetry — bringing the two fields together in a new way. Setting the tone with humor and illustrating each chapter with countless examples, Birken and Coon begin with patterns we can see, hear, and feel and then move to more complex patterns. Number systems and nursery rhymes lead to the Golden Mean and sestinas. Simple patterns of shape introduce tessellations and concrete poetry. Fractal geometry makes fractal poetry possible. Ultimately, patterns for the mind lead to questions: How do mathematicians and poets conceive of proof, paradox, and infinity? What role does analogy play in mathematical discovery and poetic expression? The book will be of special interest to readers who enjoy looking for connections across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry features centuries of creative work by mathematicians, poets, and artists, including Fibonacci, Albrecht Dürer, M. C. Escher, David Hilbert, Benoit Mandelbrot, William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, and many contemporary experimental poets. Original illustrations include digital photographs, mathematical and poetic models, and fractal imagery.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 — Counting Patterns Chapter 2 — Counting Patterns Take Form Chapter 3 — Patterns of Shape Chapter 4 — Fractal Patterns Chapter 5 — Patterns for the Mind Chapter 6 — Conclusion Permissions Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA partir des années ’70, on voit en France une résurgence de la mémoire juive de l’Occupation et de la Shoah, qui va de pair avec une extraordinaire floraison de romans et de récits. Une nouvelle génération d’écrivains prend la parole : c’est la « génération d’après », celle des enfants de survivants et des survivants-enfants. Jusqu’à ce jour, peu de critiques ont été sensibles à la puissante unité qui relie ces œuvres, malgré la diversité des styles employés. Le présent ouvrage se veut une étude d’ensemble de la « littérature de la génération d’après », en passant par une analyse comparative de trois œuvres : celles de Georges Perec, de Patrick Modiano et de Henri Raczymow. Comment parler ? Comment dire une expérience – celle de la Shoah - qu’on n’a pas, ou très peu vécue, et qui n’a été transmise que fort difficilement, comme absence ou comme disparition ? C’est pourtant cette « mémoire absente » qui est au cœur même de ces trois œuvres. Elle s’exprime à travers une poétique proche des recherches formelles d’Oulipo et du Nouveau Roman. Quelles sont les pratiques d’écriture adoptées par chacun des trois auteurs ? Et comment les transforment-ils dans le cours de leur œuvre ?Table of ContentsRemerciements Avant-propos Prologue : Perspectives historiques, psychanalytiques et littéraires Première partie : Témoignage et fiction Chapitre 1 : Un témoin qui n’a rien vu. Georges Perec : Un homme qui dort Chapitre 2 : Le témoignage par le biais de la fiction. Patrick Modiano : Dora Bruder Chapitre 3 : Ni victime ni témoin. Henri Raczymow et la difficulté d’écrire la Shoah Seconde partie : Ecrire le lieu Chapitre 4 : Un univers disparu Chapitre 5 : La mémoire absente Chapitre 6 :Une remémoration qui passe par les lieux : Rue des boutiques obscures et W ou le souvenir d’enfance Chapitre 7 : Ecrire l’espace Epilogue : Autobiographie et photographie Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisPlusieurs auteurs franco-russes sont déjà considérés par des chercheurs universitaires (Makine, Sarraute, Gary, Nabokov, Troyat). D’autres le sont moins ou pas encore (Gran, Bashkirtseff, Serge, Volkonskaïa). Écrivains franco-russes réunit ces écrivains dans leur spécificité commune et permet ainsi, d’une part, un début de répertoire actualisé et, de l’autre, l’initiation de la recherche sur le sujet en ce sens. Intéressant pour les universitaires et les amateurs avertis, cet ouvrage présente une vingtaine d’auteurs d’origine russe qui ont choisi d’écrire en français.Table of ContentsIntroduction Alessandra TOSI : Zinaïda Volkonskaïa Rémi SAUDRAY : La comtesse de Ségur, née Rostopchine Antigone SAMIOU : Pierre de Tchihatchef : un voyageur franco-russe dans Le Bosphore et Constantinople Annick MORARD : Serge Charchoune dadaïste, ou le français sans complexe Raffaele ZANOTTI : Le son de l’Est de Michel Matveev Stéphanie BELLEMARE-PAGE : Elsa Triolet : au carrefour des lettres françaises et russes Thierry LAURENT : Joseph Kessel (1898-1979) Agnès EDEL-ROY : Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirine et l’autre rivage de la France Sarah ANTHONY : Le plurilinguisme des ultima verba : un outil intratextuel sarrautien Angela KERSHAW : Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) : Une Russe française, une Française russe ? Ani KOSTANYAN : Le théâtre d’Arthur Adamov F. César GUTIERREZ VIÑAYO : Henri Troyat (1911-2007) Anna LUSHENKOVA : La Réinvention de l’Homme par l’art et le rire : Les Enchanteurs de Romain Gary Leslee POULTON : L’Influence des « autres » dans l’oeuvre d’Alain Bosquet Christa STEVENS : Histoires de queue : témoignage et alliance dans Le Sang du ciel de Piotr Rawicz Murielle Lucie CLEMENT : Andreï Makine. Le mensonge, l’amour et la mort en musique Efstratia OKTAPODA : Luba Jurgenson. Être Française de culture russe : langue de rêve et de différence, ou caractère national et surconscience linguistique ? Ruth DIVER : Iegor Gran Bibliographie Table des matières

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Book SynopsisMulti-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novelists Patrick Neate and Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ showcases how artistic representations in literature, film, music and the visual arts reflect and respond to social and political discourses, and how they contribute to our understanding of the current (trans)cultural situation in Britain. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of writers such as Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay, Nadeem Aslam, Gautam Malkani, Nirpal Dhaliwal and Monica Ali; films ranging from Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice to Michael Winterbottom’s In This World and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men; paintings and photography by innovative black and Asian British Artists; and dubstep music.Table of ContentsLars ECKSTEIN, Barbara KORTE, Eva Ulrike PIRKER, Christoph REINFANDT: A Divided Kingdom? Reflections on Multi-Ethnic Britain in the New Millennium Writers’ Views Patrick NEATE: The Little Book of Tommy: Another Tommy Akhtar Investigation Rajeev BALASUBRAMANYAM: The Rhetoric of Multiculturalism Film I: Beyond the Burden of Representation? Ellen DENGEL-JANIC and Lars ECKSTEIN: Bridehood Revisited: Disarming Concepts of Gender and Culture in Recent Asian British Film Sandra HEINEN: Multi-Ethnic Britain on Screen: South Asian Diasporic Experience in Recent Feature Films Claudia STERNBERG: Babylon North: British Muslims after 9/11 in Yasmin (2004) Fiction I: Multi-Ethnic Utopias and Dystopias Lucie GILLET: Representations of Multicultural Society in Contemporary British Novels Sabine NUNIUS: ‘Sameness’ in Contemporary British Fiction: (Metaphorical) Families in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005) Ulrike ZIMMERMANN: Out of the Ordinary – and Back? Jackie Kay’s Recent Short Fiction Daniel SCHÄBLER: Teenage Transformations in Multi-Ethnic Britain: Rehana Ahmed’s Walking a Tightrope (2004) Nadia BUTT: Between Orthodoxy and Modernity: Mapping the Transcultural Predicaments of Pakistani Immigrants in Multi-Ethnic Britain in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Cordula LEMKE: Racism in the Disapora: Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) Visual Art and Music: Picturing and Sounding Identity Eva Ulrike PIRKER: Images of Muslim Britain Go Global: A Reading of the British Council’s Touring Exhibition Common Ground Ingrid VON ROSENBERG: Female Views: Cultural Identity as a Key Issue in the Work of Black and Asian British Women Artists Christoph HÄRTER: The Dub Renaissance – Reflections on the Aesthetics of Dub in Contemporary British Music Film II: Borderlines and Contested Spaces Sissy HELFF: Scapes of Refuge in Multicultural Britain: Representing Refugees in Digital Docudrama and Mockumentary Kathy-Ann TAN: ‘If you’re not on paper, you don’t exist’: Depictions of Illegal Immigration and Asylum in Film – on Michael Winterbottom’s In This World (2002) and Code 46 (2003) Barbara KORTE: Envisioning a Black Tomorrow? Black Mother Figures and the Issue of Representation in 28 Days Later (2003) and Children of Men (2006) Fiction II: Reading and Writing the Metropolis Michael MITCHELL: Escaping the Matrix: Illusions and Disillusions of Identity in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani (2006) Ellen DENGEL-JANIC: ‘East is East and West is West’: A Reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal’s Tourism (2006) Yvonne ROSENBERG: ‘Stop Thinking like an Englishman’ or: Writing Against a Fixed Lexicon of Terrorism in Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005) Stephan LAQUÉ: ‘A deconstructed shrine’: Locating Absence and Relocating Identity in Rodinsky’s Room (2000) Susanne CUEVAS: ‘Societies Within’: Council Estates as Cultural Enclaves in Recent Urban Fictions Interviews Angela KURTZ: Interview with Rajeev Balasubramanyam Violeta TOPALOVA: Interview with Patrick Neate Index Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between the 17th and 20th centuries. It uses data from the British component of ARCHER-2 (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers, version 2) to uncover the details of this long-term grammaticalization process, tracing the development of the construction from a stylistic device to a fully-fledged aspect marker. Illustrated by a wealth of examples, the work offers new results concerning the preferred linguistic environments and the development of the functions of the progressive. In contrast to previous studies, the author shows that there are certain restrictions to context expansion in grammaticalization. She argues convincingly that the persistent reluctance of the progressive to occur in certain contexts does not point to incomplete grammaticalization, but can instead be explained as a product of its particular functions. The author also challenges the tenet that grammaticalization is generally accompanied by subjectification.Trade Review”All in all, this well-edited and well-structured volume, written in an entirely academic yet pleasingly readable style, brings much new light on the history of the progressive.” in: English Language and Linguistics, Vol. 17/1 (2013)Table of ContentsIntroduction Theoretical background and methodology The functions of the progressive in present-day English A brief overview of the development of the progressive before the Modern English period Changes in frequency and the impact of external factors on the progressive in Modern English Linguistic contexts of the Modern English progressive The functions of the progressive in Modern English Evidence for grammaticalization and subjectification Conclusion References

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Table of ContentsDiether Schürr: Hiltibrants Gottvertrauen Seiichi Suzuki: Kaluza’s Law in the Old Saxon Heliand Toon van Hal: Der 18. Wachtendoncksche Psalm: einen kleinen Schritt näher zur Quelle John M. Jeep: The Strasbourg Alexander in the Context of the Early Medieval German Alliterating Word-pairs Anton Touber: Heinrich von Veldekes Natureingang, Motivik und Frankreich Evelyn Meyer: Manuscript versus Edition: the Multiple Endings of Yvain/Iwein/Iven/Ywayne and their Gender Implications Albrecht Classen: Religious Utopia in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan. Was Gottfried Influenced by Mystics such as Hildegard von Bingen? Helmut Beifuss: Die Kreuzfahrt des Landgrafen Ludwigs des Frommen von Thüringen Ein Zeugnis politischen Selbstbehauptungswillens? Eine funktionsgeschichtliche Interpretation Heiko Hartmann: Spiegelmetaphorik im mittelalterlichen Marien- und Frauenlob Thomas Leek: Jans Enikel and the Orthodox East Martin M. Langner: Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der mittelniederdeutschen Apokalypse. Skizze einer Darstellung der Überlieferung nach Handschriftengruppen Marjolein Stern: Visual Communication on Viking Age Runestones – A doctoral research project. Gaby Waxenberger, Kerstin Kazzazi: Research project “Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen – Runic writing in the Germanic languages (RuneS)” Besprechungen

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Book SynopsisAs its title suggests, this book is a selection of papers that use English corpora to study language variation along three dimensions – time, place and genre. In broad terms, the book aims to bridge the gap between corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics and to increase our knowledge of the characteristics of English language. It includes eleven papers which address a variety of research questions but with the commonality of a corpus-based methodology. Some of the contributions deal with language variation in time, either by looking into historical corpora of English or by adopting the method known as diachronic comparable corpus linguistics, thus illustrating how corpora can be used to illuminate either historical or recent developments of English. Other studies investigate variation in space by comparing different varieties of English, including some of the “New Englishes” such as the South Asian varieties of English. Finally, some of the papers deal with variation in genre, by looking into the use of language for specific purposes through the inspection of medical articles, social reports and academic writing.Table of ContentsKristin Bech and Gisle Andersen: New developments in corpus linguistics and the study of language variation and change Variation in time: Corpus studies in the history of English Christian Mair: Writing the corpus-based history of spoken English: The elusive past of a cleft construction Lilo Moessner: Discourse communities and their writing styles: A case study of Robert Boyle Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden: The diphthongisation of ME ū: The spelling evidence Variation in space: Corpus studies of contemporary features of English Christopher Koch and Tobias Bernaisch: Verb complementation in South Asian English(es): The range and frequency of “new” ditransitives Xinyue Yao and Peter Collins: Functional variation in the English present perfect: A cross-varietal study Johan Elsness: Gender, culture and language: Evidence from language corpora about the development of cultural differences between English-speaking countries Kathrin Luckmann de Lopez: Clause-final man in Tyneside English Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Elena Seoane: They have published a new cultural policy that just come out: Competing forms in spoken and written New Englishes Variation in genre: Corpus studies of English for Specific Purposes Daniel Lees Fryer: Exploring the dialogism of academic discourse: Heteroglossic Engagement in medical research articles Matteo Fuoli: Texturing a responsible corporate identity: A comparative analysis of Appraisal in BP’s and IKEA’s 2009 corporate social reports Natassia Schutz: How specific is English for Academic Purposes? A look at verbs in business, linguistics and medical research articles

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Book SynopsisOld Frisian is the youngest among the Old Germanic languages and has perhaps not always attracted the attention it deserves. The present volume testifies to the many challenges which the language, literature and culture of the medieval Frisians pose to the modern researcher. Reading the contributions of the twenty-plus authors, it becomes clear that approaches range from traditional to modern, from practical to theoretical, from syntax to etymology, from diachronic to synchronic, from orality to Latinity – in short, all of them aspects that can be subsumed under the term ‘philology’. Like its three predecessors, this special volume brings together veterans and newcomers, Frisians and scholars from all over the world, together reflecting the enthusiasm and learning they bring to the subject. Innovative, explorative, provocative – whatever qualification the reader wants to apply, what the authors above all show are directions for Old Frisian philology which future students in the field may take with profit.Trade ReviewWhat reviewers had to say about earlier volumes on Old Frisian Philology (Aspects of Old Frisian Philology [vol. 31/32, 1990], Approaches to Old Frisian Philology [vol. 49, 1998], and Advances to Old Frisian Philology [vol. 64, 2007]): "Insgesammt ist dies ein aufschlussreicher und reichhaltiger Sammelband auf anspruchsvollem Niveau, und es ist zu wünschen das es bei dieser dritten Sammlung nicht bleibt." – Elmar Seebold, in: NOWELE 56/57 (2009) "Taken the anthology as a whole, these essays offer an intriguing picture both of Frisian particularity and of the interactions of the Frisians with their Dutch, Low and High German-speaking neighbours within the West Germanic dialect continuum." – Sheila Watts, in: Modern Language Review 106 (2011) "Der vorliegende Sammelband verbindet die Frisistik an den niederländischen und friesischen Forschungseinrichtungen mit der internationalen Mediävistik und Altgermanistik. Dies ist für beide ein großer Gewinn." – Horst Heider Munske, in: Us Wurk 58 (2009) "In summary, one may say that the present volume will stand as a collection of worthwhile contributions to the study of Old Frisian language and culture and its position in Germanic Studies." – Kurth Goblirsch, in: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 109 (2010)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations “Introduction”, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. “The Orality of Old Frisian Law Texts”, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. “Old Frisian kede, kathene, keten: Latin Chains and Frisian Bondage”, Kees Dekker “Glimpses of the Hereafter in the Late-Medieval Thet Freske Riim”, Concetta Giliberto “Between Saxon, Franconian, and Danish: the Obstruents of Frisian”, Kurt Goblirsch “Two Aspects of Nominal Style in the Seventeen Statutes and Twenty-four Landlaws”, Colin J. Grant “Die schwachen Verben der dritten Klasse im Altfriesischen – eine Spurensuche”, Mirjam Marti Heinzle “kenna~kanna: the e/a- Variation in Old Frisian and Its Modern Frisian Reflexes”, Jarich Hoekstra & Geart Tigchelaar “Old Frisian Personal Pronouns: Morphology and Change”, Stephen Howe “Zur Rekonstruktion der altinselnordfriesischen Phonologie”, Martin Joachim Kümmel “The Downfall of Dental Fricatives: Frisian Perspectives on a Wider Germanic Trend”, Stephen Laker “Glossing the Old Frisian Psalter: Pragmatics and Competence”, Patrizia Lendinara “Nae collatie metten principale. Ist sprachwissenschaftliche Erforschung altfriesischer Urkunden auch auf der Grundlage von Abschriften vertretbar?”, Henk D. Meijering “Voraltfriesisch -u im Nominativ und Akkusativ Singular der maskulinen a-Stämme”, Robert Nedoma “Old Frisian: a Legal Language in Principle”, Anne Tjerk Popkema “Zur Endung runisch-altfriesisches -u und zur Entwicklung der Endung nom.sg.m. a-St. urgermanisches *az”, Roland Schuhmann “Particle and Prefix Verbs: Insights from the History of Frisian and Other West Germanic Languages”, Laura Catharine Smith “Stability and Change in Strong Verb Inflection between Old and Early Modern Frisian”, Oscar Strik “Codex Unia: Edition and Reconstruction of a Lost Old Frisian Manuscript”, Johanneke Sytsema “Dutch eiland ‘island’: Inherited or Borrowed?”, Michiel de Vaan “Corpus Size and Composition: Evidence from the Inflectional Morphology of Nouns in Old English and Old Frisian”, Arjen P. Versloot & El¿bieta Adamczyk “Thet is ac londriucht. Landrechte und Landrecht im mittelalterlichen Friesland”, Oebele Vries List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis is the 11th volume of Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Founded in 2002, Variants provides an international, interdisciplinary and comparative forum for the theory and practice of textual scholarship without restriction as to language, region or period. With its traditionally strong focus on textual editing in the electronic era, this issue has no less than four articles on the frameworks, principles and aspects of state of the art digital editions and best practice in the use of computers in scholarly editing. Other contributions are devoted to the sociology of texts, authorial agency, modern codicology, and the problems of editing large text traditions in English, German, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Spanish literature and history.Table of ContentsEssays Peter Shillingsburg: Development Principles for Virtual Archives and Editions Elena Pierazzo: Unpacking the Draft Page: A New Framework for Digital Editions of Draft Manuscripts Johanna Roelevink: Transparency, the Key to Sustainable Editing Stephanie Schlitz: Digital Texts, Metadata, and the Multitude: New Directions in Participatory Editing Sarah Neville: Nihil biblicum a me alienum puto: W. W. Greg, Bibliography, and the Sociology of Texts John Gouws: Bringing the Author and his Editors to Book: A Case Study of Fulke Greville João Dionísio: On the Matter of Authority in Almeida Garrett’s Frei Luís de Sousa Mikas Vaicekauskas: The Problem with Red Ink: The Marking of Prosodic Signs in Kristijonas Donelaitis’s Manuscripts Paulius V. Subačius: “Folded to fit into a pocket…”: Delivering a Sermon without Pulpit and Cassock Work in Progress Belén Almeida and Pedro Sánchez-Prieto: An Editiorial Challenge: The General Estoria of Alfonso the Wise Manuela Mayer: How to Edit an Editor? An Edition of the Learned Correspondence of the Brothers Pez Book Reviews Nicholas A. Sparks: Ars edendi: Lecture Series. Vol. 1. ed. Erika Kihlman and Denis Searby and Vol. 2. ed. Alessandra Bucossi and Erika Kihlman Pietro G. Beltrami: Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson (in collaboration with Anna Radaelli et al.), eds. The Troubadour Tensos and Partimens: A Critical Edition Sarah Laseke: Lawrence Warner. The Lost History of Piers Plowman: The Earliest Transmission of Langland’s Work Amy Bowles: William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Macbeth: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition, ed. Demitra Papadinis Andrew Frayn: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Gen. Eds. Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape. Tales of Unrest. Eds. Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape. Lord Jim. Eds. J. H. Stape and Ernest W. Sullivan II. Youth, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether. Ed. Owen Knowles Christof Schöch: Michael Poston and Rebecca Niles, eds., Folger Digital Texts Roger Osborne: The Mark Twain Project Online: Authoritative Texts, Documents, and Historical Research Patricio Ferrari: The History of Reading. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Volume 1, International Perspectives, c. 1500–1990. Eds. Shafquat Towheed and W. R. Owens. Volume 2, Evidence from the British Isles, c. 1750–1950. Eds. Katie Halsey and W. R. Owens. Volume 3, Methods, Strategies, Tactics. Eds. Rosalind Crone and Shafquat Towheed

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Book SynopsisMit dem Ende der DDR entstand in der Literaturwissenschaft der dringende Bedarf an (neuen) Forschungsarbeiten zu Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Literatur der DDR. Literarische Texte sollten dabei in erster Linie als Literatur gesehen werden und nicht, wie es bisher oft der Fall war, als Dokumente, die Einblick in die politisch-gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse gewährten. Diese Dissertation zeigt anhand vier relativ selbständiger Teilobjekte in diachroner und synchroner Hinsicht innovative Aspekte in der literarischen Kommunikation der DDR auf. Auf Grund bereits vorhandener Untersuchungen wurden Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Lyrikern und Literaturwissenschaftlern sowie -kritikern der Jahre 1966 und 1971/72 zum Ausgangspunkt genommen. Die deutlichen Initiativen einiger Lyriker und nicht zuletzt einiger Literaturwissenschaftler, im Jahre 1966 zu einer Erneuerung des rezeptiven Umgangs mit Lyrik zu gelangen, konnten sich erst zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre durchsetzen. Das letzte Kapitel setzt sich nachdrücklich mit den aktuellen Diskussionen um die Position der Lyrik und die ihrer Autoren (Stasi-Mitarbeit) auseinander.Table of ContentsVorwort. Einleitung. I. KAPITEL. Die Lyrikdiskussionen der Jahre 1966 und 1971/1972 in ihren literarisch-kommunikativen Zusammenhängen. II. KAPITEL. Die Lyrikreihe Auswahl - ein Sprungbrett für junge Talente in der DDR? III. KAPITEL. Das Ordnen des 'innersten Landes'. Motto-Bezüge in Volker Brauns Zyklus Der Stoff zum Leben als eine Spezialform von Intertextualität. IV. KAPITEL. Der Prenzlauer Berg als literarisches Sammelbecken oder Wie neu war die Lyrik der 'Jungen'? EPILOG. BIBLIOGRAPHIE. NAMENREGISTER.

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