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Book Res publica Europa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Balme
  • Publisher : Verlag Theater der Zeit
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 3957492475
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Res publica Europa written by Christopher Balme and published by Verlag Theater der Zeit. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quo vadis Europa? And where are the independent performing arts heading? Driven by values such as tolerance and openness, what power do the independent performing arts possess in a climate dominated by Euroscepticism? Are those values essential for Europe and if so, how can they be atrengthened? These were the questions focussed on at the IETM's Plenary Meeting Munich (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts) which is documented in this bi-lingual book. Central to the reflexions around the role of the performing arts in Europe were the topics "Post-colonialism", "Diversity" and "Visions for the Future". Including contributions by Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse and Kathrin Röggla. Quo vadis Europa? Wohin die freie Szene? Welche Tragkraft haben in einem von Euroskepsis geprägten Klima die unabhängigen darstellenden Künste, deren Arbeitsbegriff sich auf Werte wie Toleranz und Offenheit stützt? Sind diese Werte konstituierend für Europa, wie können sie gestärkt werden? Diese Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt des Treffens des International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM) in München, das in diesem zweisprachigen Buch dokumentiert wird. Im Zentrum der Reflexionen rund um die Rolle der darstellenden Kunst in Europa stehen Postkolonialismus, Diversität sowie Visionen für die Zukunft. Mit Beiträgen von Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse und Kathrin Röggla.

Book Ashantee

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  • Author : Peter Altenberg
  • Publisher : Ariadne Press (CA)
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Ashantee written by Peter Altenberg and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirty-eight impressionist episodes describes a white man's friendship with a group of Ashanti tribespeople from the Gold Coast of Africa (the former British colony known today as Ghana), who in 1896 were put on display as living objects in a popular ethnographic exhibit in the Vienna Zoological Garden, then still located in Vienna's famous amusement park called Prater. The exhibit caused a veritable "Ashanti fever" as the show attracted five to six thousand visitors per day. Altenberg, barely disguised as Ashantee's autobiographical character Sir Peter, shows a genuine curiosity about the cultural Other and paints a critical picture of his Austrian contemporaries' prejudices, revealed as they were experienced by the Africans. In "Ashantee", beautiful, sensual, childlike, and wholesome African "paradise people" provide inspiration for the tormented civilised soul of the fin-de-siècle European. Eccentric coffeehouse writer Altenberg is famous for his unique telegram style. Critic Karl Kraus claimed, "One sentence by Peter Altenberg is equal to an entire Viennese novel". "Ashantee" introduces the reader to a little-known facet of vibrant Vienna around 1900. Combining cross-cultural sympathy with colonial stereotyping, the book has gained new popularity as current debates about the challenges of cultural coexistence in the global society have renewed interest in the literature about encounters between people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In this edition, Peter Altenberg's literary text is illustrated with reprints of original drawings and photographs of Altenberg and the Ashanti in Vienna.

Book Fremde  Feinde und Kurioses

Download or read book Fremde Feinde und Kurioses written by Benjamin Jokisch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. The mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their belief systems, and their underlying social and economic relations - in their aim to cover the entire spectrum of the historically oriented humanities and social sciences.

Book Suchbild Europa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jürgen Wertheimer
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9789051838534
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Suchbild Europa written by Jürgen Wertheimer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Sammelband versucht, die unterschiedlichen Konstrukte des europäischen Szenariums auf textuelle bzw. poetologischer Ebene zu dokumentieren und zu entfalten. Dabei werden nicht nur philologische, sondern auch philosophische, kultursemiotische und literarische Stimmen Zentral- und Randeuropas berücksichtigt. Auch den zumeist kritischen Stimmen der Autorinnen und Autoren selbst gilt das Interesse.

Book Europa und die T  rkei im 18  Jahrhundert

Download or read book Europa und die T rkei im 18 Jahrhundert written by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: The contributions to this volume explore intercultural contacts and the reciprocal perceptions between Turkey and Europe in the eighteenth century. 'The dangerous Turk', one of the most antagonistic narratives in early modern times, lost impact after the Ottoman defeat in the second siege of Vienna 1683. The image of the Turk changed from the menacing, invincible terror of Christendom to that of a quaint and exotic neighbour. The result was a broad, partly euphoric acceptance and blending of Ottoman culture into the political, scientific, economic and aesthetic discourses of the eighteenth century. Conversely, the European impact on the socio-political and cultural life of the Ottoman Empire increased at the beginning of the eighteenth century. From the perspective of a variety of different academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume explore the following questions: What possibilities were there to form an idea of the other and to what extent was this idea founded on autistic self-assertion on the one hand, on curiosity and creative appropriation on the other? What forms of intercultural contacts existed and how have they been documented? german description: Thema dieses Bandes sind die interkulturellen Kontakte und die wechselseitige Wahrnehmung zwischen der Turkei und Europa im 18. Jahrhundert. Die Turkengefahr, eines der wichtigsten Antagonismusnarrative der fruhen Neuzeit, verblasste nach der osmanischen Niederlage bei der zweiten Belagerung Wiens 1683, und das Bild des Turken wandelte sich vom bedrohlichen, unbesiegbaren Schrecken der Christenheit zum kuriosen, exotischen Nachbarn. Die osmanische Kultur fand in den politischen, wissenschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und asthetischen Diskursen des 18. Jahrhunderts breite, zum Teil euphorische Aufnahme und Verarbeitung. Zugleich verstarkte sich zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts der europaische Einfluss im gesellschaftspolitischen und kulturellen Leben des Osmanischen Reichs. Welche Moglichkeiten bestanden, sich ein Bild des Anderen zu machen, und zu welchen Teilen grundete es auf autistischer Selbstbespiegelung einerseits, auf Neugier und produktiver Aneignung andererseits? Welche Formen des interkulturellen Kontaktes existierten und wie sind sie dokumentiert? Auf diese Fragen antworten die Beitrage aus der Sicht verschiedener akademischer Disziplinen.

Book Europa Provincia Mundi

Download or read book Europa Provincia Mundi written by Joseph Theodoor Leerssen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Das Europa der Aufkl  rung und die aussereurop  ische koloniale Welt

Download or read book Das Europa der Aufkl rung und die aussereurop ische koloniale Welt written by Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink and published by Wallstein Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Weitere Angaben Verfasser: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Professor an der Universität des Saarlandes, Inhaberdes Lehrstuhls für Romanische Kulturwissenschaft und Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Zwischen 1998 und 2002 Vizepräsident und dann Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Book The Role of Women in the Altaic World

Download or read book The Role of Women in the Altaic World written by Veronika Veit and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aus dem Inhalt (38 Beitrage): V. M. Alpatov, Female Variant of Japanese Z. Anayban, The Women of Tuva in the Context of the Transformation Period in Russia. Birtalan, Ada: A Harmful Female Spirit in the Mongolian Mythology and Folk Belief E. Boikova, Common-Law Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary Mongolia D. Chmielowska, The Image of Woman in Turkish Literature in the Second Half of the 20th Century M. Dobrovits, Maidens, Towers and Beasts M. R. Drompp, From Qatun to Refugee: The Taihe Princess among the Uighurs B. Frey Naf, Compared With the Women the a Menfolk have little Business of their own." - Gender Division of Labour in the History of the Mongols M. Galik, The Twenty-Fourth Nasreddin? Two Women in Wang Meng's Xinjiang Stories J. Giessauf, Mulieres Bellatrices oder Apis Argumentosa? Aspekte der Wahrnehmung mongolischer Frauen in abendlandischen Quellen des Mittelalters M. I. Gol'man, The Mongolian Women in the Russian Archives of the XVIIth Century W. Heissig, Zum Motiv der Hexenverbrennung in der Mongolischen Volksdichtung F. G. Hisamitdinova, The Place and Role of the Bashkir Woman in Family and Society: The Present and the Past.

Book Power and Influence After the Cold War

Download or read book Power and Influence After the Cold War written by Ann L. Phillips and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional wisdom about German dominance in the new Europe, this study presents a new approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on intensive fieldwork, Ann L. Phillips develops two original cases of German relations with East-Central Europe to test competing arguments. As she convincingly demonstrates, the politics of reconciliation and the activities of German party-affiliated foundations illustrate German engagement in the region in its dual faces: restraint and projection. The author uses the less-developed literature on reciprocal influences of domestic politics and the international environment to frame her analysis. These two cases provide evidence not only of the intersection of domestic politics and international relations but of when and how one trumps the other. Contributing to the theoretical debate, Phillips argues that this interplay explains the divergent trajectories bilateral relations have taken since 1990 in ways that more traditional neo-realist or liberal approaches could not. The author's fresh perspective and new evidence demonstrate that East-Central European states play a much greater role in the influence equation than they did in the past.

Book Heimat     Vaterland     Europa

Download or read book Heimat Vaterland Europa written by Hans-Gert Pöttering and published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Dreiklang von Heimat, Vaterland und Europa stellt die Dimensionen des politischen Wirkens des Europapolitikers Hans-Gert Pöttering dar. Von der ersten Direktwahl 1979 bis zu seinem Ausscheiden im Jahr 2014 gehörte der CDU-Politiker dem Europäischen Parlament an, dessen Präsident er von 2007 bis 2009 war. In dieser Funktion, aber auch als Vorsitzender der EVP/ED-Fraktion zwischen 1999 und 2007, war Pöttering u.a. maßgeblich an der Erweiterung der Europäischen Union um die mittel- und osteuropäischen Staaten sowie am Zustandekommen des Vertrags von Lissabon beteiligt. Politische Weggefährten aus Niedersachsen, Deutschland und Europa, die Pöttering in den vergangenen vier Jahrzehnten begleitet haben, würdigen in dieser Festschrift sein Engagement für die Einigung Europas in Frieden und Freiheit.

Book Samuel L  Clemens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans Borchers
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Samuel L Clemens written by Hans Borchers and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1986 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of ten scholarly essays dealing with Mark Twain and his work. The essays originated as lectures given at the University of Tübingen in celebration of the Mark Twain Year, 1985, and are written by four American (David B. Kesterson, Sydney J. Krause, J. Kenneth Van Dover, Daniel Williams) and five German Americanists (Hans Borchers, Helmbrecht Breinig, Winfried Fluck, Hartmut Grandel, Hans Hunfeld). Touching upon the main developments of Samuel Clemens the man as well as Mark Twain the writer, on the world-famous masterpiece Huckleberry Finn as well as on Twain's reception both in the United States and in Germany, the contributions in this volume reflect the broad range of interest that present-day scholarship takes in Mark Twain -- one of America's best-known and most popular, if in some respects still strangely mysterious, literary personalities of all times. The lively interest taken in the original lecture series and the responses it elicited led to the publication of this book. It is directed at the same audience that the lectures were intended for: students and teachers of American and English literature, both at university and highschool level, and a general public interested in one of the more fascinating careers in American literature.

Book Neue Perspektiven Zur Deutschsprachigen Literatur Der Schweiz

Download or read book Neue Perspektiven Zur Deutschsprachigen Literatur Der Schweiz written by Romey Sabalius and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth. u. a.: S. 11-30: Das Bild der USA in der zeitgenössischen Literatur der deutschsprachigen Schweiz / Romey Sabalius. [Betr. u. a. Friedrich Dürrenmatt (S. 13-14), Christoph Geiser (S. 23-25), Gertrud Wilker (S. 25-26) und Peter Bichsel (S. 27-28)]. - S. 52-72: Dialog und Didaxe in Gotthelfs "Uli"--Romanen : mit einem Nachwort zur Mediendebatte / Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich. - S. 143-152: Friedrich Dürrenmatts "Besuch der alten Dame" als Höhepunkt der Entwicklung eines Sujets im deutschsprachigen Drama / Dieter Sevin. - S. 153-165: Zur Dramaturgie aporetischen Denkens : Dürrenmatt und Kierkegaard / Roger W. Müller-Farguell. - S. 187-201: Von den Schwierigkeiten des "Unsagbaren": Walter Vogts "Altern" und Christoph Geisers "Wüstenfahrt" / Sibille Tröml. - S. 228-234: Das Territorium der Utopie / Anne-Marie Heintz-Gresser. [Betr. u. a. Paul Nizons "Selbstverpflanzung" nach Paris.].

Book The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Download or read book The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hanse, an organization of towns and traders in medieval and early modern Europe, was a unique phenomenon. At the same time, it was embedded in the northern European urban and mercantile culture. The contributions in this volume therefore seek to highlight the atypical features of the Hanse, and place them in a wider context of common roots, influences and parallel developments. New research is presented on the origin and growth of the Hanse, the organization of trade, legal history, interaction with non-Hansards and transitions in the Hanse in the early modern period. Moreover, the historiography of the Hanse, problems of source criticism and possibilities for future research are discussed. The volume is an inspiring guide to Hanse studies. Contributors are Carsten Jahnke, Edda Frankot, Sofia Gustafsson, James M. Murray, Mike Burkhardt, Marie-Louise Pelus-Kaplan, Stuart Jenks, and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

Book Zwischen den Kulturen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik
  • Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 3899585925
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Zwischen den Kulturen written by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reactions to Revolutions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Broich
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9783825874278
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Reactions to Revolutions written by Ulrich Broich and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outbreak of revolution in Paris in 1789 forced Britain into a political and military conflict that had a profound impact on politics, economy, public discourse and cultural life well into the 19th century. The essays collected here examine the various responses to the revolution and the significant changes wrought within Britain by the events. Some essays discuss the ideological divisions within Britain and Ireland. Others take a closer look at the media and the debate on the press, and reinvestigate responses to the revolution by prominent contemporaries such as William Godwin, Dugald Stewart, and William Wordsworth.

Book European Angst

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herta Müller
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2017-09-19
  • ISBN : 3944195949
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book European Angst written by Herta Müller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "European Angst"? Is it the extension of "German Angst" to a whole continent? The latter term is often used disparagingly to describe the German tendency to problematise, weigh up and hesitate, especially when reasons for this seem slight and insignificant. But European Angst has nothing to do with stereotypical overscrupulousness. It is a mass of powerful emotions which transcend national borders and therefore seemed a fitting title for a conference which was to address disturbing developments, including populism, extremism and Euroscepticism. /// Was ist das: European Angst? Etwa die Ausweitung der German Angst auf einen ganzen Kontinent? Mit German Angst beschreibt man im Ausland oft abschätzig das Problematisieren, Abwägen und Zögern der Deutschen, besonders dann, wenn die Gründe dafür nichtig und klein erscheinen. European Angst aber hat nichts mit stereotyper Bedenkenträgerei zu tun. Sie ist vielmehr ein Bündel starker Emotionen über viele Ländergrenzen hinweg und war deshalb ein treffender Titel für eine Konferenz, auf der über beunruhigende Entwicklungen, über Populismus, Extremismus und Europaskepsis gesprochen werden sollte.

Book Die europ  ische Dimension in der Aus  und Fortbildung von Fremdsprachenlehrern

Download or read book Die europ ische Dimension in der Aus und Fortbildung von Fremdsprachenlehrern written by British Council and published by ENS Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: