Writing the Mountains reconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and argues that in a range of texts, from E.T.A. Hoffmann's “Die Bergwerke zu Falun” (1819) to Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten (1995) and beyond, mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate aesthetic and narrative innovation. In contrast to dominant critical approaches to the Alpine landscape in literature, in which mountain ranges often features as passive settings, or which trace the influence of geographical and geological sciences in literary productions, this study argues for the dynamic role in literature of presumably rigid mineral structures. In German-language fiction after 1800, the counter-intuitive topology of rocky mountain ranges and unfathomable subterranean depths of the Alpine imaginary functions as a space of exception which appears to reconfirm and radically challenge the foundations of Enlightenment thought. Writing the Mountains reads the mountain range as a rigid yet permeable liminal space. Within this zone, semiotic orders are unsettled, as is the division between organic and inorganic, between the human and the other.
The mendicant Orders had a profound impact on urban society, life and culture from the thirteenth century onwards. Being engaged in extensive and ambitious pastoral activities they depended on outside support for their material existence. Their influence extended into ecclesiastical as well as secular affairs, leading to the creation of a network of connections to different social groups and on occasion even an involvement in politics. The role of the mendicants in a medieval capital has not yet been systematically studied. A first attempt to study a city of this scale is here made for London.
In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarisation and minority concerns. In this first in-depth critical analysis of international administration, aid and reconstruction policies in Kosovo, Jens Stilhoff Sorensen argues that the region must be analysed as a whole, and that the process of state collapse and recent changes in aid policy must be interpreted in connection to the wider transformation of the global political economy and world order. He examines the shifting inter- and intracommunity relations, the emergence of a 'political economy' of conflict, and of informal clientelist arrangements in Serbia and Kosovo and provides a framework for interpreting the collapse of the Yugoslav state, the emergence of ethnic conflict and shadow economies, and the character of western aid and intervention. Western governments and agencies have built policies on conceptions and assumptions for which there is no genuine historical or contemporary economic, social or political basis in the region. As the author persuasively argues, this discrepancy has exacerbated and cemented problems in the region and provided further complications that are likely to remain for years to come." -- Back cover.
Der renommierte Schlagzeuger Christian Dierstein hat zusammen mit einer Forschungsgruppe der Hochschule für Musik Basel die Spieltechniken auf dem Schlagzeug aus neuartiger Perspektive erforscht. Im Zentrum stehen nicht die Schlaginstrumente, sondern ihre Anreger: Schlägel, Hämmer, Bögen, spezifische Handtechniken bis hin zu elektronischen Impulsgebern. Sie alle werden im Buch detailliert beschrieben und ihr Anwendungsspektrum in sorgfältig ausgewählten und kommentierten Literaturbeispielen dargestellt. Zahlreiche Essays von Gastautoren wie Nicolaus A. Huber, Steven Schick, Fritz Hauser und Bernhard Wulff verankern die spieltechnischen Beschreibungen im zeitgenössischen ästhetischen Diskurs. Sie verdeutlichen, dass im aktuellen Komponieren und seinem erweiterten Material- und Performancebegriff gerade die Frage der Anregung und der Interaktion mit Klangobjekten ins Zentrum rückt. Entstanden ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für Komponisten und Interpreten, das sich auch als Inspiration für zukünftige und innovative Herangehensweisen ans Schlagzeugspiel versteht.
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