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  • The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel

    Poetics of the Brain

    by Sonja Boos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany

    Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

    by Sonja Boos ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • A History of Psycholinguistics

    The Pre-Chomskyan Era

    by Willem Levelt ...
    How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them?These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Towards a General Theory of Translational Action

    Skopos Theory Explained

    by Katharina Reiss, Hans J Vermeer ...
    Translated by Christiane Nord ...
    This is the first English translation of the seminal book by Katharina Reiß and Hans Vermeer, Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie, first published in 1984. The first part of the book was written by Vermeer and explains the theoretical foundations and basic principles of skopos theory as a general theory of translation and interpreting or ‘translational action’, whereas the second ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Modern Architecture

    Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading

    by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler ...
    Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Lyric Orientations

    Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

    by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In Lyric Orientations**, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality.** She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). While Hölderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each ... Read more

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  • Subjectivity in Motion

    Life, Art, and Movement in the Work of Hermann Rorschach

    by Naamah Akavia ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Mental Health
    The motif of human movement has long been understood as central to Hermann Rorschach’s strikingly innovative inkblot experiment. But owing to Rorschach’s untimely death a year after publishing his famous work, Psychodiagnostics, the world has lacked an adequate understanding of how he came to put so much stress on human movement in his unique perceptual theory. Now historian Naamah Akavia changes ... Read more

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  • Mathematics in Waldorf Schools

    Teaching Mathematics in the Upper Grades

    by Stephan Sigler ...
    Series series Teaching Mathematics in the Upper Grades
    In this work, those subjects given in the format of block-lessons are examined with respect to educational theory and didactical and methodological aspects. The publication is intended for scientists, students and practicing teachers. It emerged from a research project by the Pedagogical Research Centre at the Federation of Waldorf Schools in Kassel and the Alanus University of Arts and Social ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Beginning of Terror

    A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work

    by David Kleinbard ...
    The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work."-Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Boston University"[A] well-reasoned, fairly fascinating, and illuminating study which soundly and convincingly ... Read more

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  • Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience

    Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grünbein

    by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge ...
    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, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD