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The Origins of Christian Democracy

Politics and Confession in Modern Germany

By: Maria Mitchell

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The Origins of Christian Democracy

Politics and Confession in Modern Germany

By: Maria Mitchell

A pioneering exploration of the origins of German Christian Democracy in the context of 19th- and 20th-century politics and religion

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118412

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The Tragedy of Fatherhood

King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West

By: Silke-Maria Weineck

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The Tragedy of Fatherhood

King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West

By: Silke-Maria Weineck

Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association. Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of benign, legitimate rule. The paternal trope gains its strength from its integration of law, body, and affect-in the affirmative model of fatherhood, the biological father, the legal father, and the father who protects and nurtures his children are one and the same, and in a complex system of mutual interdependence, the father of the family is symbolically linked to the paternal gods of monotheism and the paternal ruler of the monarchic state. If tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conflict between competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure. Silke-Maria Weineck traces both the tensions and various strategies to resolve them through a series of readings of seminal literary and theoretical texts in the Western cultural tradition. In doing so, she demonstrates both the fragility and resilience of fatherhood as the most important symbol of political power. A long history of fatherhood in literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Tragedy of Fatherhood weaves together figures as seemingly disparate as Aristotle, Freud, Kafka, and Kleist, to produce a stunning reappraisal of the nature of power in the Western tradition.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628920785

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9781628920789

Ahead of All Parting

The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Ahead of All Parting

The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell’s acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet’s rich formal music and depth of thought. “If Rilke had written in English,” Denis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “he would have written in this English.” Ahead of All Parting is an abundant selection of Rilke’s lifework. It contains representative poems from his early collections The Book of Hours and The Book of Pictures; many selections from the revolutionary New Poems, which drew inspiration from Rodin and Cezanne; the hitherto little-known “Requiem for a Friend”; and a generous selection of the late uncollected poems, which constitute some of his finest work. Included too are passages from Rilke’s influential novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and nine of his brilliant uncollected prose pieces. Finally, the book presents the poet’s two greatest masterpieces in their entirety: the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. “Rilke’s voice, with its extraordinary combination of formality, power, speed and lightness, can be heard in Mr. Mitchell’s versions more clearly than in any others,” said W. S. Merwin. “His work is masterful.”

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0804153574

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Ezekiel’s Vision Accounts as Interrelated Narratives

A Redaction-Critical and Theological Study

By: Janina Maria Hiebel

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Ezekiel’s Vision Accounts as Interrelated Narratives

A Redaction-Critical and Theological Study

By: Janina Maria Hiebel

Ezekiel is one of the best-structured books in the Old Testament. It is commonly recognized that the strongly interrelated vision accounts (Ez 1:1–3:15; 8–11; 37:1–14; 40–48) contribute greatly to this impression of unity. However, there is a marked lacuna in publications focusing on the vision accounts in Ezekiel as an interconnected text corpus. The present study combines redaction-critical analysis with literary methods that are typically used in a synchronic approach. Drawing on the paradigm of Fortschreibung, it is the first to present a united redaction history that takes into account the growing interconnections and dependencies between the vision accounts. Building on these results, the second part follows the development of selected themes, such as the relationships between characters, the roles of intermediate figures and anthropological and theological implications, throughout the stages of redaction. The study thus represents an important step towards an understanding of the complex redaction history of the book of Ezekiel, and indeed of its theology. The combination of diachronic and synchronic methods makes it relevant for scholars of both directions and is itself a methodological statement.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110406659

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9783110406658

Selected Poems

With Parallel German Text

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Selected Poems

With Parallel German Text

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019956941X

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Reappraising Legal, Political and Ethical Questions Concerning the Herero and Nama Genocide

By: Julia Franziska Maria Böcker

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Reappraising Legal, Political and Ethical Questions Concerning the Herero and Nama Genocide

By: Julia Franziska Maria Böcker

“In the face of such ‘unspeakable truths,’ wouldn’t it be better to simply, quietly bow down?” (Kora Andrieu: Sorry for the Genocide, 2009). This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of colonial crimes. In order to reconcile with massive systemic injustice, not only the historical foundations and legal questions are relevant, but also political viewpoints and peace ethics. The book demonstrates that, in the face of extreme violence, even genocide, a political apology can be an effective tool for conflict transformation, even when the injustice is far in the past.

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BRILL

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900468820X

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Eugen Ehrlich: Bibliographic Index

By: Sergiy Nezhurbida,Maria Dyachuk,Manfred Rehbinder,Slávka Tomaščíková

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Eugen Ehrlich: Bibliographic Index

By: Sergiy Nezhurbida,Maria Dyachuk,Manfred Rehbinder,Slávka Tomaščíková

The Bibliographic Index EUGEN EHRLICH is a guide through available materials containing information about the life, scientific, educational, legislative and social activities of the Austrian lawyer and university professor in the period of 1896-1918. Eugen Ehrlich was the Dean in 1901-1902 and 1908-1909 and the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1902-1903 and 1909-1910, the Vice-Rector in 1907-1908, and the Rector of Franz Joseph University in Czernowitz in 1906-1907 (now Ukrainian: Chernivtsi). Moreover, ex officio, he was a member of the local parliament. The Index includes the foreword of the compilers, an introductory article, a selected basic chronology with the dates of the life and work of Eugen Ehrlich, and the four main structural parts: “List of works by Eugen Ehrlich”, “Eugen Ehrlich as editor”, “Literature about Eugen Ehrlich’s life and activity” and “Appendices: Documents from Chernivtsi University Scientific Library holdings”. “List of works by Eugen Ehrlich”, “Periodicals with Eugen Ehrlich's publications”, “List of used periodicals”, and “Name index” are all provided for the convenience of users. The “Name index” includes all the names recorded in the main text of the publication (numbers of bibliographic records of works devoted to individual persons are enclosed in parentheses). The book contains photographs of Eugen Ehrlich and photographs of materials linked to his life and activities. They have made the bibliographic index more attractive and more interesting for readers. The Index can help users find necessary documents and verify the accuracy of existing information, that it becomes a prerequisite for further research, and finally, it will be useful to all who are interested in Eugen Ehrlich’s life journey and scientific legacy.

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Vernon Press

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1622733770

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Ribbon of Darkness

Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences

By: Barbara Maria Stafford

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Ribbon of Darkness

Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences

By: Barbara Maria Stafford

Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivorous in her research, she has published work that embraces neuroscience and philosophy, biology and culture, pinpointing connections among each discipline’s parallel concerns. Ribbon of Darkness is a monument to the scope of her work and the range of her intellect. At times associative, but always incisive, the essays in this new volume take on a distinctly contemporary purpose: to uncover the ethical force and moral aspects of overlapping scientific and creative inquiries. This shared territory, Stafford argues, offers important insights into—and clarifications of—current dilemmas about personhood, the supposedly menial nature of manual skill, the questionable borderlands of gene editing, the potentially refining value of dualism, and the limits of a materialist worldview. Stafford organizes these essays around three concepts that structure the book: inscrutability, ineffability, and intuitability. All three, she explains, allow us to examine how both the arts and the sciences imaginatively infer meaning from the “veiled behavior of matter,” bringing these historically divided subjects into a shared intellectual inquiry and imbuing them with an ethical urgency. A vanguard work at the intersection of the arts and sciences, this book will be sure to guide readers from either realm into unfamiliar yet undeniably fertile territory.

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University of Chicago Press

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022663065X

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9780226630656

New Poems, 1907

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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New Poems, 1907

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him to take a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that was published in two separate volumes under the title Neue Gedichte, or New Poems. As the celebrated Rilke translator Edward Snow observes, these books "together constitute one of the great instances of the lyric quest for objective experience." Here is the first volume, New Poems, 1907, in a bilingual edition.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466872640

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9781466872646

Rilke's Book of Hours

Love Poems to God

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke's Book of Hours

Love Poems to God

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.

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Penguin

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1573225851

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9781573225854

Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke

A Dual-Language Book

By: Franz Kafka,Rainer Maria Rilke

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Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke

A Dual-Language Book

By: Franz Kafka,Rainer Maria Rilke

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city’s natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka, whose fiction is synonymous with the anguish of modern life; and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose stories unfold in the same transcendent lyricism as his verse. Twelve of Kafka’s stories from the compilation Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) appear here, along with two tales from Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist). Rilke's stories include "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" (The Ballad of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke), "Die Turnstunde" (The Gym Class), and Geschichten vom lieben Gott (Stories About the Good Lord). Stanley Appelbaum has provided an introduction and informative notes to these stories, along with excellent new English translations on the pages facing the original German.

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Courier Corporation

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0486120597

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9780486120591

Cross-Border Security over Receivables

By: Harry C. Sigman,Eva-Maria Kieninger

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Cross-Border Security over Receivables

By: Harry C. Sigman,Eva-Maria Kieninger

Receivables transactions play an important role in modern national economies. This book, which studies the law of seven European nations, provides an in-depth examination of the key substantive law issues, as well as a detailed examination of the private international law issues, particularly, the third party effects of assignments. National reports use practical cases to explore the issues and to highlight differences and similarities. The book will assist market participants and their counsel to better understand the rules of their own countries and those of other countries, will be of great value to academics in the private, comparative and private international law fields and will assist those involved in national, EU and global reform efforts.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3866538596

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9783866538597

Secrets Beyond the Door

The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives

By: Maria Tatar

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Secrets Beyond the Door

The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives

By: Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.

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Princeton University Press

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0691127832

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9780691127835

Uncollected Poems

Bilingual Edition

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Uncollected Poems

Bilingual Edition

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Edward Snow's selection of more than one hundred of Rainer Maria Rilke's little-known and neglected poems in this bilingual edition offers the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated accomplishments in all of modern poetry. The poems in Uncollected Poems reveal a freer, more dangerous, less self-fashioning Rilke than the poet of the Elegies and the Sonnets; and Snow's translations of them, while always scrupulously faithful to the German, bring Rilke's power and music into English with unmatched grace and intelligence.

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North Point Press

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1466872683

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9781466872684

Im Westen Nichts Neues

By: Erich Maria Remarque

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Im Westen Nichts Neues

By: Erich Maria Remarque

The full German text of Remarque's 1929 novel is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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Routledge

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1134972059

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9781134972050

The Choice of Law Contract

By: Maria Hook

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The Choice of Law Contract

By: Maria Hook

This book offers a contractual framework for the regulation of party autonomy in choice of law. The party autonomy rule is the cornerstone of any modern system of choice of law; embodying as it does the freedom enjoyed by parties to a cross-border legal relationship to agree on the law applicable to it. However, as this study shows, the rule has a major shortcoming because it fails to give due regard to the contractual function of the choice of law agreement. The study examines the existing law on choice of law agreements, by reference to the law of both common and civil law jurisdictions and international instruments. Moreover, it suggests a new coherent approach to party autonomy that integrates both the law of contract and choice of law. This important new study should be read with interest by private international law scholars.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509901019

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9781509901012

JUSTIÇA E DEMOCRACIA: as novas perspectivas da hermenêutica constitucional

By: Renata Furtado de Barros,Paula Maria Tecles Lara

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JUSTIÇA E DEMOCRACIA: as novas perspectivas da hermenêutica constitucional

By: Renata Furtado de Barros,Paula Maria Tecles Lara

A ABPJD (Academia Brasileira de Produção Jurídica Discente) apresenta seu terceiro livro produzido com a colaboração de diversos profissionais da área jurídica, intitulado: "JUSTIÇA E DEMOCRACIA: as novas perspectivas da hermenêutica constitucional". Essa obra é fruto de inúmeras pesquisas dos alunos do curso de Pós-Graduação em Direito da PUC Minas, tendo contado com a colaboração de diversos docentes e discentes de outras instituições espalhadas por todo o Brasil. Com o objetivo de facilitar a leitura, a obra foi dividida em dois volumes, sendo este o primeiro volume. O que se busca a todo momento é crer em um ordenamento jurídico mais justo e democrático, para tanto, entendemos que a hermenêutica é um caminho seguro para reflexão da aplicação das normas no Estado Democrático de Direito brasileiro. Esperamos que esse livro seja uma reflexão da hermenêutica constitucional e de seu papel na manutenção de ideais mais sólidos de Justiça e Democracia. As Organizadoras.

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Lulu.com

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1300495987

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9781300495987

The Mayor of Hornbach Stadtschultheiss Isaac Besse (1652-1725)

Ancestors and Descendants

By: Maria Besse,Thomas Besse

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The Mayor of Hornbach Stadtschultheiss Isaac Besse (1652-1725)

Ancestors and Descendants

By: Maria Besse,Thomas Besse

Isaac Besse, son of Henri Besse (1624-1699) and Catherine Martin (1652-1725), was born in 1652 in Ste-Croix, Vaud, Switzerland. He married Anna Maria Scheel in about 1683 in Hornbach, Germany.

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Verlag Pirrot Saarbrücken

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3937436030

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9783937436036

New Poems

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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New Poems

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571139508

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9781571139504

Die griechische Bibel in Alexandrien

Ihre Legende und die exegetische Praxis im hellenistischen Judentum

By: Maria Sokolskaya

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Die griechische Bibel in Alexandrien

Ihre Legende und die exegetische Praxis im hellenistischen Judentum

By: Maria Sokolskaya

Offering a fresh look on the legendary tradition of the Septuagint and on the exegetical practice of the Greek Torah (Philo) this book pleads for a consistent Jewish exegetical tradition in Alexandria that is based on both biblical idioms - the Greek and the Hebrew. Wie hängen die Legende über die Entstehung der Septuaginta und die exegetische Praxis des alexandrinischen Judentums (vor allem Philons) zusammen? Das Buch plädiert für eine einheitliche exegetische Tradition in Alexandrien, welche beide Gestalten der Tora – die griechische und die hebräische – berücksichtigt.

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BRILL

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9004523162

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9789004523166

Devices of Wonder

From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

By: Barbara Maria Stafford,Frances Terpak,J. Paul Getty Museum

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Devices of Wonder

From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

By: Barbara Maria Stafford,Frances Terpak,J. Paul Getty Museum

Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.

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Getty Publications

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0892365900

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9780892365906

Das Chaos in uns. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Maria-Sophia Neef

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Das Chaos in uns. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Maria-Sophia Neef

Eine wilde Zusammenstellung von Gedichten, Kurzgeschichten und diversen Gedankenspielen. Navigiere dich durch einen Dschungel an Themen, der Vergangenes, wie Philosophisches, bis hin zu Beziehungen jeglicher Art umfasst, einen in Schicksalsschläge eintauchen und in Fantasien verlieren lässt. Dem Chaos zuliebe, sind manche Texte auf Deutsch, andere auf Englisch verfasst.

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3710829755

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany

Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562–1696

By: Maria R. Boes

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany

Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562–1696

By: Maria R. Boes

Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular, Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch, which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696, provides a fascinating insight into contemporary penal trends. Drawing on this and other rich resources, Dr. Boes reveals shifting and fluid attitudes towards crime and punishment and how these were conditioned by issues of gender, class, and social standing within the city’s establishment. She attributes a significant role in this process to the steady proliferation of municipal advocates, jurists trained in Roman Law, who wielded growing legal and penal prerogatives. Over the course of the book, it is demonstrated how the courts took an increasingly hard line with select groups of people accused of criminal behavior, and the open manner with which advocates exercised cultural, religious, racial, gender, and sexual-orientation repressions. Parallel with this, however, is identified a trend of marked leniency towards soldiers who enjoyed an increasingly privileged place within the judicial system. In light of this discrepancy between the treatment of civilians and soldiers, the advocates’ actions highlight the emergence and spread of a distinct military judicial culture and Frankfurt’s city council’s contribution to the quasi-militarization of a civilian court. By highlighting the polarized and changing ways the courts dealt with civilian and military criminals, a fuller picture is presented not just of Frankfurt’s sentencing and penal practices, but of broader attitudes within early modern Germany to issues of social position and cultural identity.

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Routledge

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1317157982

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Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

The Book of hours, written in three bursts between 1899-1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siecle epigone to distinctive modern voice. The poems are crucial documents of Rilke's development, from his tour around Russia with Lou Andreas-Salome, through his hasty marriage to Clara Westhoff in the artists' community of Worpswede, to his turn toward the urban modernity of Paris. Rilke assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the Romantics' journey into the self, speaking to God as part transcendent deity, part needy neighbor. Echoes of his juvenile style persist, yet by the end of the book the influence of the sculptor Rodin is discernible in the distinctive idiom of urbanity, in the terminology of "things," and in Rilke's turn to the everyday world around him."--Jacket flap.

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Camden House

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1571133801

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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke,M. D. Herter Norton

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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke,M. D. Herter Norton

Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393310388

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9780393310382

Child of War

A Memoir of World War Two and the Cold War

By: Ingrid Maria Polonius

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Child of War

A Memoir of World War Two and the Cold War

By: Ingrid Maria Polonius

Child of War is not your ordinary war memoir. Told from the perspective of a child, Ingrid Polonius’ earliest memories of being alive include running for her life to bomb shelters while the sirens of Kassel, Germany, wailed their daily air-raid warnings. In 1943, the Allies stepped up their air attacks on Germany, sending bombers day and night to obliterate Ingrid’s hometown, a major producer of Panzer tanks. The Allies then breached the Edersee Dam just outside Kassel, flooding her hometown, creating massive devastation. Ingrid witnessed it all, living through events no child should ever have to endure. Civilians were now paying the ultimate price as the Allies exacted retribution against Adolf Hitler and his war machine. Many of these civilians included true innocents, such as Ingrid, who was a blameless little girl, a child of war. Ingrid’s moving memoir recounts the very worst and best of her experiences in war-torn Germany and the Cold War aftermath. Ingrid’s beloved mother played a crucial role in saving Ingrid and her brother and sister’s lives many times through her iron will to survive. Ironically, she also risked their lives by refusing to fly the Nazi flag and clandestinely copying out anti-Nazi sermons in her basement by candlelight. Told with compassion and an eye for detail, Child of War: A Memoir is Ingrid’s personal testimony of the effects of war upon children. Through emotional and spiritual perseverance, Ingrid thrived as an athlete and student, making the best of the hard years following the war, now known as The Hunger Years. She was there during the rise of the Cold War, the building of the Berlin Wall, and many years later, she celebrated its eventual collapse. Ingrid’s memoir is a study in memory, as she writes, “Memory is a fragile thing, turning powerful when triggered.” She fearlessly examines the tremendous losses, especially the family members who died, such as Uncle Lu, who commanded a U-boat and was lost at sea in the early stages of the war, leaving behind a wife and two children. In another twist of fate, Ingrid ended up settling in the United States and becoming an American citizen. Never did she imagine she would end up a citizen of the country her family surrendered to when American tanks rolled in, and two GIs burst into their home pointing their machine guns directly at her. Ultimately, Child of War portrays the life of a young girl growing into a woman, who, despite surviving bombardments, near starvation, and unimaginable loss, has managed to fashion a life well worth living, finding joy and optimism in service to others.

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1977259936

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The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans

A Captivated Audience?

By: Maria Fritsche

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The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans

A Captivated Audience?

By: Maria Fritsche

The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has been largely overlooked until now. The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans is the first book to explore the use of the Marshall Plan films and, importantly, their distribution and reception across Europe. The study examines every available film – the 170 that remain from the 200 estimated to have been made – and looks at how they were designed to instil hope, argue the case for economic restructuring and persuade the Europeans of the superiority of the liberal-capitalist system. The book goes on to reason that the films served as a powerful weapon in the cultural Cold War, but that the European audiences were by no means passive victims of the US propaganda effort. Maria Fritsche discusses the Marshall Plan films in the context of countries across Western, Northern and Southern Europe, covering the majority of the 17 European countries that participated in the Plan in the process. The book incorporates 70 images and utilises a vast number of archival sources to explore the strategies the US adopted to sway the minds of the Europeans, the problems they encountered in the process and, not least, the varied responses of the European audiences. It is a vital study for any scholar or student keen to know more about postwar recovery in Europe, the legacy of the Second World War or America's relationship with Europe in the 20th century.

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1350009350

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Voices of Supporters

Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections

By: Veronika Koller,Natalia Borza,Massimiliano Demata,Laura Filardo-Llamas,Anna W. Gustafsson,Susanne Kopf,Marlene Miglbauer,Valeria Reggi,Ljiljana Šarić,Charlotta Seiler Brylla,Maria Stopfner

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Voices of Supporters

Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections

By: Veronika Koller,Natalia Borza,Massimiliano Demata,Laura Filardo-Llamas,Anna W. Gustafsson,Susanne Kopf,Marlene Miglbauer,Valeria Reggi,Ljiljana Šarić,Charlotta Seiler Brylla,Maria Stopfner

This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027249741

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Poetics of the Incarnation

Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love

By: Cristina Maria Cervone

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Poetics of the Incarnation

Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love

By: Cristina Maria Cervone

The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the material imagery engaged by medieval writers, the structural forms that give their writing shape, and even their ideas about language itself. In Poetics of the Incarnation, Cristina Maria Cervone examines the work of fourteenth-century writers who, rather than approaching the mystery of the Incarnation through affective identification with the Passion, elected to ponder the intellectual implications of the Incarnation in poetical and rhetorical forms. Cervone argues that a poetics of the Incarnation becomes the grounds for working through the philosophical and theological implications of language, at a point in time when Middle English was emerging as a legitimate, if contested, medium for theological expression. In brief lyrics and complex narratives, late medieval English writers including William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, and the anonymous author of the Charters of Christ took the relationship between God and humanity as a jumping-off point for their meditations on the nature of language and thought, the elision between the concrete and the abstract, the complex relationship between acting and being, the work done by poetry itself in and through time, and the meaning latent within poetical forms. Where Passion-devoted writing would focus on the vulnerability and suffering of the fleshly body, these texts took imaginative leaps, such as when they depict the body of Christ as a lily or the written word. Their Incarnational poetics repeatedly call attention to the fact that, in theology as in poetics, form matters.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812207475

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Erste Gedichte

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Erste Gedichte

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Reproduction of the original: Erste Gedichte by Rainer Maria Rilke

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3732677397

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Inner Sky

Poems, Notes, Dreams

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Inner Sky

Poems, Notes, Dreams

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

We are right at the start, do you see. As though before everything. With a thousand and one dreams behind us and no act. --

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1567923887

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The Play of Words

Blood Ties and Power Relations in Aeschylus' "Oresteia"

By: Giulia Maria Chesi

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The Play of Words

Blood Ties and Power Relations in Aeschylus' "Oresteia"

By: Giulia Maria Chesi

The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this research challenges the reader with some open questions: who is Clytemnestra? Where is justice if a mother dies? By reading the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role of Clytemnestra. It also breaks silence among scholars, who have generally portrayed Clytemnestra as the bad mother who kills the children's father and as the bad wife who betrays her husband.

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311033433X

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