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Parliamentary Papers
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Decay and Afterlife
Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, a...
The Law Reports
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Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience
This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and moves beyond, previous theories of rhythm to tie meter more particularly to the specificities of poetic language in blending of embodied responses, cultural situations, and linguistic particularities. The book examines the German-language tradition across three centuries, arguing that the interdisciplinarity and richness of metrical theory and practice emerge in the heterogeneity of poetry and its defenders in their specific historical moments...
Lieblingsstücke
Lieblingsstücke Ő unter diesem Titel wird aus Anlass des 125-jährigen Bestehens des Deutschen Seminars der Universität Zürich ein Überblick über das gegenwärtige Spektrum an Zugängen zu Sprache und Literatur gegeben. Gut lesbare, kurze Beiträge widmen sich Texten oder Ausschnitten, Begriffen, Themen oder Bereichen, die besonderes Faszinationspotenzial besitzen. Es entsteht das facettenreiche Porträt eines Instituts und zugleich eine individuelle wie repräsentative, informative wie anregende Momentaufnahme germanistischen Arbeitens im frühen 21. Jahrhundert. Christian Kiening ist Professor für Ältere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Zürich und Leiter des Nationalen Forschungsschwerpunkts (NFS) "Medienwandel Medienwechsel Medienwissen. Historische Perspektiven".
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