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Dictionary of African Biography
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
Thresholds, Encounters
Paul Celan's works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celan's writing—and that Celan's writing has come to mark for others (Hamacher, Derrida, Szondi)—thus call for a new philology. This philology cannot be situated within presupposed genres or fields but rather explores the ways in which poetic and philosophical ambitions meet in texts by, and on, Celan. The first part of Thresholds, Encounters ("Ex-posing the Poem") speaks to issues of history, ecology, and aurality; the second part ("Language Dislodged") delves into Celan's articulations of encounter, positionality, and translation. Throughout, contributors probe the consequences of Celan's poetry for thinking and writing, while inviting readers from different disciplinary spaces to further pace out the liminal zones opened by his oeuvre.
Ethical Encounters
The essays on dimensions of theatre ethics at the heart of contributions to this volume demonstrate how individual academics and theatre artists have thought about the ethical implications of theatre, and present the concepts and paradigms that have guided and influenced their thinking. They raise relevant issues and debate these in clearly defined, but not uniform ways—ways that have helped them to come to terms with the issues they raise. The reader may agree or disagree with individual authors or individual arguments. If such agreement or disagreement supports them to form and develop their own opinions and resultant actions, this book has served its purpose. This volume arises from the...
Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy?
Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the tension has increased. In July 2019, scholars of both traditions gathered in Stuttgart, Germany, for an unprecedented conference devoted to exploring and overcoming the division between these churches. This book, the second in a two-volume set of the essays presented at the conference, explores the ecumenical and practical implications of the relationship between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. Like the conference, the volume brings together representatives of these Churches, as well as theologians from different geographical contexts where tensions are the greatest. The published essays represent the great achievements of the conference: willingness to engage in dialogue, general openness to new ideas, and opportunities to address difficult questions and heal inherited wounds.
Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan
What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain its validity after the Second World War? These are the core questions of Axel Englund's book, which is the first to address the topic of Paul Celan and music. Celan, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who has long been recognized as one of the most important poets of the German language, persistently evoked music and song in his oeuvre, from the juvenilia to the posthumous collections. Conversely, few post-war writers have inspired as large a body of contemp...
Pathways to Paul Celan
The reviews discussed in this volume about Paul Celan, arguably the most important German-language poet of the last fifty years, reflect the wide spectrum of opinion he encountered at the hands of the critics. The contributions were selected in so far as they make apparent the nature of Celan's development as a poet as well as the history and maturation of his reception and influence.
Horizonte
Der Titel dieses Bandes, Horizonte, weist auf das ungewöhnlich weitgreifende schöpferische Interesse Hans Bergels hin. Sein umfangreiches Werk umfasst Romane, Lyrik, Novellen, Kurzgeschichten, Essays und wissenschaftliche Studien, ebenso die bildende Kunst sowie Features, politische Analysen u. a. Das einende Merkmal ist die Herangehensweise an den Stoff: Bergels persönliche Handschrift erweist sich jedes Mal als stärker als die Konvention. Das macht den Reiz, die Spannung und die Unverkennbarkeit der Texte dieses Poeta doctus aus. Literaturhistoriker und -wissenschaftler kommen in diesem Band zu Wort, ebenso ausgewiesene Kulturtheoretiker, Formanalytiker, Kritiker. Ihre Beiträge wurden aus über hundert Arbeiten ausgewählt. Sie behandeln Bergels Werk in seiner ganzen Breite.
Versehen
Kunst kann kein gesellschaftliches Statement mehr sein, wenn sie sich weiter ausschließlich innerhalb der abgesicherten Terrains ihrer vordefinierten ‚Disziplinen’ verwirklicht. Dieses Buch ist ein Vorschlag aus der Perspektive des zeitgenössischen Tanzes, die Grenzen zwischen den verschiedenen Medien von Kunst aufzuheben. Denn tänzerische und choreographische Strategien werden in allen Künsten angewandt. Diese – und andere – transmedialen Phänomene dürfen heute nicht mehr als Ausnahmeerscheinungen marginalisiert werden. Denn sie bestimmen das künstlerische Arbeiten im 21. Jahrhundert maßgeblich mit. Das wurde bisher übergangen, und es wird hier mit einem neuen Denkansatz versehen: Ohne die Identitäten der kanonisierten Kunstformen zu verleugnen, perspektivieren die AutorInnen dieses Bandes erstaunliche Migrationsbewegungen zwischen Tanz und bildender Kunst sowie Film, Musik, Literatur und Urbanismus. Ein Projekt von corpus, Europas derzeit wichtigstem Internetmagazin für Tanz, Choreographie und Performance: www.corpusweb.net
