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Acting on HIV
Acting on HIV offers a sustained and relatively systematic inquiry into drama as an approach to discussion of HIV/AIDS and related attitudes and behaviors. A distinctive feature of the research that is presented in Acting on HIV is the emphasis on the potential for and value of using drama to promote vital social change in addition to individual behaviour change. It has a strong theoretical foundation and seeks to interrogate the ethical, theoretical and practical complexities of using drama to address issues HIV & AIDS. The research that is communicated through the book is original and timely and will make a significant, trans-disciplinary contribution to scholarly conversations about the r...
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the doctor–patient relationship, and home and lay medicine.
1635: The Dreeson Incident
The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, the town lost in time, with librarians, firefighters, and garbage collectors trying to make do under unusual circumstances. And what better place for an undercover spy from France than working with the garbage colle...
1635: The Tangled Web
Though the Thirty Years Wars continues to ravage 17th century Europe, history as it once happened has been strongly deflected by the new force which is rapidly gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th Century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident-the Ring of Fire. The USE has know-how of 20th century technology, but the American traditions of freedom and justice is having an even stronger impact on Europe, and the rulers of Europe are powerless to stuff the Grantville genie back into the bottle. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Changes Between the Lines
The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and 1992 are analyzed with respect to semantic changes in the argument structure of verbs, the use of impersonal constructions, word order changes in subordinate clauses and in prepositional phrase constructions. The research objective is to trace language change based on diachronic empirical data, and to assess whether existing models of language contact make provisions to cover the long-term developments found in PG. The ...
Todsicher
Ein schauriger Leichenfund mitten im Zentrum von München stellt der Kripo vor allem eine Frage: Wer ist dieser Tote, dessen Gesicht komplett zerschossen wurde? Während eine erste Spur nach Italien führt, bekommt es die Polizei dort mit der Leiche eines ehemals erfolgreichen Geschäftsmanns zu tun, der eine mysteriöse Pleite erlebte. Gibt es Zusammenhänge zum Fall in München? In einem spannenden Verwirrspiel um Geld, Macht und dunkle Geschäfte mit Lebensversicherungen werden schließlich auch noch Hamburger Ermittler aktiv. Denn alles scheint sich plötzlich auf den Chef eines Fonds mit Sitz in der Hansestadt zu konzentrieren. Doch auch die mafiös organisierte Firma Ognissanti ist hinter diesem Mann her ...
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the...
Liebesallegorien
Die literarhistorische und kulturtheoretische Rehabilitierung der Allegorie ist in vollem Gange. Längst hat man sie aus der Sackgasse herausgeholt, in die sie durch einseitige Abwertung gegenüber der Metapher gedrängt worden war. Statt in eindeutiger Entschlüsselung aufzugehen, lassen Allegorien Übergangsbereiche zwischen wörtlicher und übertragener Dimension zu. Dabei können nicht nur Zeichen- und Erzählwelt, sondern auch historisch ‚Altes‘ und epistemisch ‚Neues‘ ironisch auseinandertreten. Der komparatistisch angelegte Band konzentriert sich auf das historische Erfolgsmodell Liebesallegorie. Die aktuelle Minneredenforschung wird mit der romanistischen, latinistischen und anglistischen Liebesallegorie-Forschung zusammengeführt. Im Zentrum stehen lusorische Potentiale des ‚altneuen‘ Faszinationstyps Liebesallegorie, wie sie vor allem im Spannungsfeld von Abstraktion und Hyperkonkretion greifbar werden. Die Relation ‚abstrakt-konkret‘ kann auf jeder der beiden Aussage-Ebenen, proprie und improprie, wiederkehren. Wie lassen sich diese epistemischen und ästhetischen Spielräume liebesallegorischer Novation historisch prägnant beschreiben?
