Foreign Language Study : German

Intermediate German is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each of the units combines concise grammar explanations with examples and exercises to help build confidence and fluency. more...

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No 19th century writer in German has been the subject of such intensive reception by modern literati as Adalbert Stifter. His order of things, the discovery of slowness and his silent inscrutability still exercise a fascination today. In these studies, central works of Stifter’s are analysed and the hitherto underrated moment of irony is highlighted. This irony leads to the supposedly model heroes and educational stories being at the same time debunked, and this suspension of standards leads time and again to unexpectedly comic effects. more...

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Joachim Camerarius (1534-1598), the Nürnerg doctor and botanist, produced one of the most influential writings on European emblematics with his four-volume work which was published from 1595-1605. In this 1587 volume, appearing for the time with scholarly commentary, Camerarius develops a new project - he sets the moral-religious interpretation of the world against the empirical-scientific view. In this edition, Camerarius´ watercolors and interpretative texts are accompanied by extensive notes so that his influences and intended effects can be clearly understood. more...

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The study questions the semantic difference postulated by research between the various constructional types of psychverb. The difference which is assumed in causal structure is refuted using logico-philosophical and linguistic arguments together with findings from psychological and neurological research into emotion. It is shown that in their causal semantics psychverbs differ characteristically from action verbs. Psychverbs display a bi-directional causal relation, which occasions a variety of intralingual and supralingual constructions. Based on cognitive-semantic considerations of the supralingually widespread polysemy of psychverbs and a functionalist syntactic model, the study demonstrates by what other mechanisms, if not by differences in the role and causal structure, the syntactic realisation of psychverb arguments is determined. The basis is an empirical study of psychverb constructions in five genetically and typologically different European languages: German, Estonian, Turkish, Laz and Basque. more...

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Following extensive revision and updating, the Killy Lexicon of Literature will be republished beginning in 2008. Thus, a new and improved edition of this renowned standard work of German literary science will be made available to scientists, students, and literature enthusiasts. The Killy includes bio-bibliographical articles about all of the important German-language authors from the Middle Ages to the present. It provides clear, reliable, and extensive information on the life and works of each author, thus facilitating the classification of each into a historical and literary-historical context. The Killy includes not only the greatest and most important authors of each era, but also journalists, screenplay authors, literary scientists, and writers of specialist literature. Moreover, the easy-to-read articles are distinguished by the synopsis of biographies, contemporary history, and oeuvre, like no other lexicon of German literature provides. The new edition of the Killy will be published in thirteen volumes (Vols. 1-12: Authors and Works; Vol. 13: Index). Key Features: Renowned lexicon, unique in its completeness, on German literature from its beginnings to the present Extensively revised, updated and extended new edition Includes approx. 500 new entries on modern literature Entries offer a synopsis of life and work Revised by today´s leading experts in German language and literary studies more...

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