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Gattungs-Wissen
Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 30.18Hauptbeschreibung Literatur konstituiert Wirklichkeit und Wissen wesentlich über die Ausstellung und Thematisierung sprachlicher Formgebung. Auf diese Weise reflektiert sie die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Wissen und ist so immer auch, qua formaler Gestaltung, Wissen vom Wissen. Ausgehend von grundlegenden epistemologischen Überlegungen zum Verhältnis... more...
Medieval German Literature
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 41.95Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. more...
Romane I
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 224.00Volumes 17 to 19 of Christian Weise's Complete Works present what are known as his political novels. The novels are highly significant for the history both of the genre and of society. Weise composed them as symbols of his political philosophy and wrote them for the training of the new caste of bourgeois officials, who had to behave 'skilfully' - i.... more...
Agrippina. Epicharis
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 433.00This double volume contains two tragedies by Lohenstein that are based on two events from the reign of the emperor Nero: his mother's murder and the conspiracy of Piso. Presented here to modern standards of critical scholarship are the texts of the 1665 first editions from Breslau. 'Agrippina' and 'Epicharis' are annotated at length here for the first... more...
Philipp von Zesen
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 126.00The volume contains the papers given at a conference held in Basle in Autumn 2006 on the writer Philipp von Zesen (1619-1689). The publication ? the first collected volume devoted to this author for 35 years ? displays the whole breadth of Zesen's work: Apart from his lyric poetry and novels, the papers discuss his linguistic and poetological innovations... more...
Innenräume in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The focus on inner space unites two topical areas of cultural anthropology: space as a structural paradigm, and the focal differentiation between the categories of ?inner? and ?outer?. The literature of medieval Germany, in staging such interior space in a variety of ways, poses questions about difference, liminality, and transgression, and thus allows... more...
Texte zum Sprechen bringen
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 210.00This Festschrift on the occasion of Paul Sappler's 70th birthday contains over 30 papers from both younger colleagues and those of long standing. The main emphases in the volume are on Paul Sappler's own areas of interest - courtly lyric, courtly, heroic and minor epics, medieval and early modern drama, text editions and commentaries, lexicography.... more...
Wunder, Spott und Prophetie
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 126.00This study is devoted to the hitherto largely disregarded natural fools, who form part of the broad spectrum of fools in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. Using the farcical novel Histories of Claus Fool, which was widely read in the 16th and 17th centuries, it examines the notion of natural foolishness and its use by the Protestant writer Wolfgang... more...
Todten-Andenken und Himmels-Gedanken
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00Starting with the lyric poetry, this volume opens the first critical edition of the sacred works of the prominent Nuremberg Baroque poet Sigmund von Birken (1626?1681). A double volume, it provides access to the most extensive collection of Birken's sacred poetry still extant in manuscript. Alongside mourning poems, the collection contains poems covering... more...
Daphnis, Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit (1400-1750), 35:1-2 / 2006
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 130.20Inhalt Michael BAERMANN: Antonius von Pforr und die Herren von Schoenau: Ein neuaufgefundenes Lebenszeugnis zum Verfasser des 'Buches der Beispiele' Ulli ROTH: Rudimenta Reuchliniana. Faber Stapulensis auf den Spuren des Hebraisten Johannes Reuchlin Sabine KOLOCH, unter Mitarbeit von Frank BOEHLING und Hermann EHMER: Akkumulation von Ansehenskapital.... more...









