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Cicero, Paul and Seneca as Transformational Leaders in their Letter Writing
This commentary offers the reader a set of letters (or letter parts) written by Cicero, Paul, and Seneca, which have been selected against the Transformational Leadership categories of ‘idealised influence’, ‘inspirational motivation’, ‘intellectual stimulation’, and ‘individualised consideration’. Chapter 1 offers introduction into authors and theory: all three letter writers are considered as ancient leadership figures composing leadership letters. The letters selected are presented in original text facing a translation (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 provides analysis and discussion of each letter, and aims to introduce the reader to the historical and literary contexts before reading the letter through the lenses of Transformational Leadership theory. Chapter 4 sums up the findings on each letter and each letter writer in light of Transformational Leadership and its categories. The volume is aimed at all those who are studying the function of ancient letter-writing – especially the letters of Cicero, Paul, or Seneca.
200 Years of National Philologies
The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century and the cultural studies of the 20th century - must reposition themselves in the 21st century. The contributions address questions such as: What changes are occurring with increasing globalization? Are national literatures increasingly being absorbed into the so-called "world literature"? The authors come from the fields of Romance studies, German studies and English studies. They deal with topics of literary historiography, canonization, comparative literature, and also questions of the future.
Telling Stories / Geschichten erzählen
The essays collected in this volume highlight the narrative as a phenomenon inherent in human nature. They examine the likely purpose of artistic and literary expression and its contribution to survival in an early human environment. They also consider the developing interest in shaping experience through the narrative, and investigate the consequent significance of traits acquired throughout the ages for the production and reception of texts. In doing so, the book provides a highly diverse overview of the latest research and debates in this innovative field of research.
Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality
Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual artists, and composers have engaged with Romantic heritage. By exploring primary works that range from European arts to Latin American literature, these essays focus on the interdisciplinary developments that have emerged in literature, music, painting, film, architecture, and video art. Overall, the contributions in this volume demonstrate that intermedial connections—or sometimes the conscious lack of such connections—embody intriguing aspects of modernity and postmodernity.
Zeitgeist – How Ideas Travel
This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist, the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence, in the late 18th century. It traces zeitgeist’s descent from genius saeculi and investigates its association with public spirit and public opinion before surveying its prominence around the Wars of Liberation in Germany and during the politically restless 1820s in England. This trajectory shows that zeitgeist emerged from the 18th-century discourses about culture and the public functioning of social collectives. Under the impact of the French Revolution the term came to describe social processes of political and cultural challenge. Zeitgeist was discussed as a social d...
Nicht-Landschaften
In ihren Portraits von Industrielandschaften setzten Wolfgang Hilbig und Wolfgang Mattheuer auf ein ganz ähnliches Verfahren: eine Verkehrung romantischer Modi der Natur- und Landschaftsdarstellung. In den Werken des Schriftstellers Wolfgang Hilbig und des Malers Wolfgang Mattheuer bildet die Landschaft rund um Leipzig eine wichtige Konstante. Die seinerzeit vor allem durch die DDR-Braunkohleindustrie und ihren Raubbau zunehmend geschändete Gegend galt als eine der dreckigsten in ganz Europa. Ein dort zu Tage tretendes, zerrüttetes Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis war auch Sinnbild eines gescheiterten Staates und seines Systems. Von daher war eine künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit ihr vor einem doppelten Hintergrund problematisch. Zum einen weil die Ausmaße der Zerstörung historisch unvergleichlich waren, zum anderen weil die ästhetische Kategorie der Landschaft zu DDR-Zeiten per se als eine politische verstanden werden musste. Hilbig und Mattheuer versuchten dem zu begegnen, indem sie in der Adaption und Revision der vor allem durch die Romantiker entwickelten Verfahren der Landschaftsdarstellung einen Zugang suchten, der beiden Problematiken Rechnung trug.
