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Diese Veröffentlichung bietet erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die Poetikvorlesung als poetologische Gattung. Das Kompendium beschreibt das Korpus der Poetikvorlesungen in seinen historischen, geografischen, ästhetischen, kulturpolitischen und ökonomischen Dimensionen, trägt bestehende Forschungen ebenso wie nicht-akademische Rezeptionen zusammen und diskutiert die Funktionen dieser Gattung im literarischen Feld. Internationale Expertinnen und Experten erläutern die Ursprünge der Gattung im anglo-amerikanischen Raum, die Etablierung und Verbreitung der Gattung in deutschsprachigen akademischen Institutionen, die geläufigen Formen und Konventionen bei der Organisation, verbreitete Praktiken bei der Inszenierung sowie zentrale poetische und poetologische Inhalte. Ziel des Kompendiums ist eine in mehrfacher Hinsicht komparatistische Perspektive auf die Poetik der Gegenwart für Interessierte innerhalb und außerhalb der Universitäten. Ein Verzeichnis gehaltener Poetikvorlesungen sowie eine Bibliographie veröffentlichter Texte und Forschungen erleichtern zudem den Einstieg für nachfolgende Untersuchungen.

This book is intended for beginning students, both chemistry majors and other students who require it for their program. The material is presented in a concise and student-friendly way, without the inclusion of topics unnecessary at that level. A complete section is designed to lead students through the naming of organic compounds in a self-taught manner. Reactions are grouped by mechanistic type and stereochemistry is emphasized throughout. An introduction to the spectroscopic methods used for structure determination is included. Problems are included at each stage and new in this edition are complete answers to the problems as well as an introduction to the molecules of nature.

Claudius Claudianus (ca. 370-404 n. Chr.) galt lange vor allem als panegyrischer Chronist des weströmischen Kaiserhofs ab 395 n. Chr. Auch die wohl nach seinem Tod unter dem Titel Carmina minora gesammelten kürzeren Gedichte lassen den Panegyriker Claudian erkennen, zeigen jedoch gleichzeitig einen Dichter, der besonders anhand der Beschreibung von Naturmirabilia weitere Facetten seines poetischen Programms präsentiert. Dieses Programm zeichnet sich einerseits durch eine intensive intratextuelle Bezogenheit aus, die unterschiedliche Aspekte eines ausgeprägten ars-natura-Diskurses aufzeigt, in dessen Rahmen die Erzeugnisse einer natura artifex vom poeta artifex Claudian ekphrastisch höchst raffiniert inszeniert werden. Andererseits verdeutlichen intertextuelle Bezüge zu zahlreichen griechischen und lateinischen Dichtern die Einbindung einer Tradition, die ergänzt durch typische Gestaltungsmittel spätantiker Dichtung die programmatische Bedeutung der concordia discors offenbart. Genannte Bestandteile des poetischen Programms Claudians betrachtet die vorliegende Publikation anhand detaillierter Textanalysen und leistet so einen wertvollen Beitrag zur weiteren philologischen Erschließung der Carmina minora.

Five Greek plays that survived fragmentarily in papyri are published and commentated on here: Aeschylus' Theoroi or Isthmiastai, Hypsipyle, Laïos, Prometheus Pyrkaeus and Sophocles' Inachos. Textual and interpretative remarks made in all these papyri lead to novel and interesting identifications and reconstructions of the stories of the relevant plays.

Discrimination, stigmatization, xenophobia, heightened securitization - fear and blaming of "aliens within" - characterize the world infected by COVID-19. Such fears have a long cultural history, however, particularly in connecting pathology with race, poverty, and migration. This volume explores theory and narratives of disease, danger, and displacement through the lenses of cultural, literary, and film studies, historical representation, ethnics studies, sociology and cultural geography, classics, music, and linguistics. Investigations range from, for example, illness discourse in the ancient classics to images of perilous intruders in the Age of Trump, from the Haitian Revolution and subsequent zombie stereotypes to current, problematic refugee resettlement in the US South and Greek islands, from the urban underworld in nineteenth-century sensation novels to ethnic women "on the stroll" in coronavirus times. The collection is organized into three thematically intertwined parts: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass; Pathologizing the Other; Constructing and Countering Collapse. It examines changing or recurrent aporias in tropes of belonging and exclusion, as well as the birthing of new forms of identity, agency, and countercultural expression.

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.

Corrosion Science and Engineering is now an integral part of research throughout the world. Researchers are actively looking for an alternative eco-friendly way of developing non-toxic corrosion inhibitors from natural sources. This book discusses all the recent advancements in the corrosion field with an emphasis on natural sources which is the demand of the era to replace the commercially available toxic corrosion inhibitors.

An Erinnerungsorten in der Musik kulminiert ein Ausschnitt von Musikgeschichte in einem Moment der Gegenwart und verweist als bedeutsames Zeichen in die Zukunft. Die Bedeutung manifestiert sich darin, dass die Orte eine identitätsstiftende Funktion für bestimmte Gemeinschaften haben, die so unterschiedlich sind wie die Orte selbst. Denn nicht nur reale oder begehbare, sondern auch imaginierte und metaphorische Orte dienen dem gemeinsamen, gegenwärtigen Erinnern an Musikgeschichte. Auf der Basis einer gründlichen Bestandsaufnahme zum Begriff des Erinnerungsortes widmet sich die Autorin mit historiographischer Genauigkeit und aufschlussreichen kulturgeschichtlichen Bezügen fünf höchst unterschiedlichen Erinnerungsorten in der Musik: Beethovens neunter Symphonie, der Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Mozart und Graz, dem Genre HipHop, der Philharmonie und dem Jüdischen Museum in Berlin. Untersucht werden die Mechanismen ihrer Konstruktion, Beständigkeit und Beweglichkeit, die abhängig sind von individueller Erinnerung sowie institutionellen und gesellschaftspolitischen Kontexten. Inwiefern Musik, um nicht in Vergessenheit zu geraten, der medialen Verankerung und materiellen Verortung bedarf, wird in diesem Buch erkenntnisreich dargestellt.

Complex analysis is found in many applications of applied mathematics, from mechanical and electrical engineering to quantum mechanics. The coverage includes . These topics include, a more detailed treatment of Univalent functions, and Harmonic functions, and normal families. As well as presentations of the Dirichlet Problem, Green's function, and Laplace transform.

This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the relationship between the Human Sciences and Big Data, with special emphasis on the Ibero-American space. The volume is divided into four parts (theoretical, methodological, practical and glossary of terms) with an interdisciplinary vision that integrates thought, culture, language, literature, theoretical criticism, society or the use of new bibliometric techniques.

Science and technology will play a critical role, but not the only role, in realizing the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Not only must we observe the cultural context of scientific and technological interventions, we must respect the innovative capacity of those with different backgrounds. This book presents case studies concerning technological interventions in global health, the environment, agriculture, and their ethics.

The Handbook of the Circular Economy provides critical definitions, thought-leaders¿ perspectives and presents state-of-the-art empirical research on circular economy transitions and industrial solutions. Setting out the main tools and initiatives being developed as part of either a transition or transformative state, it also provides a narrative including foundations from the fields of sustainability, eco-innovation and responsible innovation.

This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 90's, a multi-track approach to peacemaking has been developed by academics and practitioners to bring political and civil society leaders together from across the divide of contested societies to find ways out of the conflict. Much of the focus up to now has been given to the strategic contribution of Track II conflict analysis and problem-solving workshops. This book puts the spotlight on the role that grassroots leaders and citizens can play at Track III level in the community in building and strengthening a bottom-up approach to conflict transformation following protracted conflicts. In Part 1, the focus is on the post-conflict situation of Northern Ireland twenty years after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement. Part 2 portrays scholarly and practitioners' perspectives and actions in communities and organizations designed to build partnerships in order to counteract the legacies of active protracted conflict.

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that religion, spirituality, lived religion on this side and beyond institutional communities refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious affairs collected from various cultures and religions. The first section presents 'concepts of religion'. Chapters include considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of 'religious practices' from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents the main theoretical discourses that map the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, fifty-eight authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Ruth Klüger (1931 - 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English literature as well as her Ph.D. in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at several American universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her credit, mostly in the fields of German and Austrian literary history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right, an essayist, and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe, where she was a guest professor in Göttingen and Vienna. Her memoir, entitled weiter leben (1991), which she translated and revised in an English parallel-text as Still Alive, was a major bestseller and highly regarded autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor. It was subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages. It has also generated a vigorous critical discussion in its own right. Ruth Klüger received numerous prestigious literary prizes and other distinctions. The present volume, The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century, aims to honor her memory by assessing critically her writings and career. Taking her biography and writings as points of departure, the volume includes contributions in fields and from perspectives which her writings helped to bring into focus acutely. In the table of contents are listed the following contributions: Sander L. Gilman, "Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger's Works and Life"; Heinrich Detering, "'Spannung': Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger's Writing"; Stephan Braese, "Speaking with Germans. Ruth Klüger and the 'Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews'"; Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, "Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger"; Ulrike Offenberg, "Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish; Mark H. Gelber, "Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective"; Monica Tempian, "Children's Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah"; Daniel Reynolds, "Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism"; Vera Schwarcz, "A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger."

The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the twelfth century with the commentaries of Eustratius of Nicaea and Michael of Ephesus, which primarily served educational purposes. The use of Aristotle's ethics in the classroom continued into the late Byzantine period, but until recently scholastic use of the NE was known mostly through George Pachymeres' epitome of the NE (Book 11 of his Philosophia). This volume radically changes the landscape by providing the editio princeps of the last surviving exegetical commentary on the NE stricto sensu, also penned by Pachymeres. This represents a new witness to the importance of Aristotelian studies in the cultural revival of late Byzantium. The editio princeps is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough introduction, which offers an informed reading of the commentary's genre and layout, relationship to its sources, exegetical strategies, and philosophical originality. This book also includes the edition of diagrams and scholia accompanying Pachymeres' exegesis, whose paratextual function is key to a full understanding of the work.

Die Vorstellung, daß die Welt aus sich selber erklärbar sei, ist für das europäische Denken eine Selbstverständlichkeit, die die Deutung des Menschseins einschließt. Anders im Islam: Der Koran verkündet Allah als den einen niemals ruhenden Gestalter des Kosmos und des Schicksals des Menschen. Anhand von zahlreichen Quellen legt der Autor dar, wie diese Glaubenswahrheit in der Geschichte des islamischen Menschenverständnisses interpretiert wurde.

Polymer Engineering 2nd edition book focuses on recyclability of thermosetting polymers, application of natural and synthetic polymers in fabric & home care products. The authors not only describe the latest developments in polymer chemistry for membrane technologies concerning energy production and storage systems but also for development of encapsulation technologies and separation processes.

Band V/14 der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe Friedrich Schleiermachers (1768-1834) umfasst 365 überlieferte und erschlossene Briefe von und an Schleiermacher aus den Jahren 1817 und 1818. Schleiermachers dritte Tochter Hildegard wurde geboren; die Familie zog aus dem Pfarrhaus der Berliner Dreifaltigkeitskirche in das Haus des befreundeten Verlegers Georg Reimer um. Schleiermachers Halbschwester Anne (Nanny) verließ nach zwölf Jahren den Haushalt und heiratete Ernst Moritz Arndt. - An den (nur teilweise erfolgreichen) Bemühungen um eine synodale Verfassung der preußischen Kirche hatte Schleiermacher leitenden Anteil. Er wurde zum ersten Präses der der vereinigten Berliner Synode gewählt; am Vorabend des in ganz Deutschland begangenen Reformationsjubiläums vollzog die Synode mit einer gemeinsamen Abendmahlsfeier die Union zwischen Lutheranern und Reformierten. Als Sekretar der Akademie der Wissenschaften organisierte Schleiermacher für deren Projekt einer kritischen Aristoteles-Ausgabe die notwendigen Forschungsreisen. Als Dekan der Theologischen Fakultät war er u.a. mit der Unterstützung bedürftiger Studenten befasst. Bald selbst im Visier staatlicher Überwachung, verfolgte Schleiermacher die politische Wendung von der Reform zur Reaktion mit wachsendem Unbehagen.

Es geht in dem vorliegenden Band um die Rehabilitierung der theoretischen Neugierde für jenes Millennium, das wir Mittelalter nennen. Was heißt es, eine theoretische Einstellung einzunehmen? Gibt es kulturelle Unterschiede oder einen Bedeutungswandel hinsichtlich der curiositas? Was sind die bevorzugten Gegenstandsbereiche der theoretischen Neugier? Hierbei prallen zwei Einstellungen aufeinander: die curiositas als fehlgeleitete und im Grunde eitle und schädliche Neugier oder als ein Naturverlangen, das ein anthropologisches Existential darstellt. Ausgehend vom Wortfeld der theoretischen Neugierde wird die Dialektik und longue durée der curiositas in ihren historischen und systematischen Zusammenhängen thematisiert. An die Stelle von normativen Wertungen treten zeitlich und räumlich weitgespannte Untersuchungen, die dazu beitragen, die begriffliche, motivische und konzeptionelle Entfaltung der theoretischen Neugier im Spannungsfeld theoretischer, kultureller, institutioneller und religiöser Determinanten zu verfolgen und damit zugleich aus der epochenfixierten Engführung zu befreien. Der historische Blick zeigt uns wie in einem Laboratorium die zentrale Idee wie auch die Perspektivenvielfalt der theoretischen Neugierde.

Hilary Whitehall Putnam was one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. As student of Rudolph Carnap's and Hans Reichenbach's, he went on to become not only a major figure in North American analytic philosophy, who made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind, language, mathematics, and physics but also to the disciplines of logic, number theory, and computer science. He passed away on March 13, 2016. The present volume is a memorial to his extraordinary intellectual contributions, honoring his contributions as a philosopher, a thinker, and a public intellectual. It features essays by an international team of leading philosophers, covering all aspects of Hilary Putnam's philosophy from his work in ethics and the history of philosophy to his contributions to the philosophy of science, logic, and mathematics. Each essay is an original contribution. "Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished philosophers of the modern era, and just speaking personally, one of the smartest and most impressive thinkers I have ever been privileged to know-as a good friend for 70 years. The fine essays collected here are a fitting tribute to a most remarkable figure." Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "In Engaging Putnam excellent philosophers engage the writings and ideas of Hilary Putnam, one of the most productive and influential philosophers of the last century. Putnam stands out because of the combination of brilliance and a firm grasp of reality he brought to a very broad range of issues: the logic and the philosophy of mathematics, free-will, skepticism, realism, internalism and externalism and a lot more. Along with this he offered penetrating insights about other great philosophers, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. All great philosophers make us think. With many, we try to figure out the strange things they say. With Putnam, we are made to think about clearly explained examples and arguments that get to the heart of the issues he confronts. This book is a wonderful contribution to the continuation of Putnam-inspired thinking." John Perry, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Using Documents presents an interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of human communication with documents in and after the "Gutenberg galaxy." Interdisciplinarity is taken seriously: looking back on existing work, texts on written communication by the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel and by an interdisciplinary French group of authors under the pseudonym Roger T. Pédauque are taken as a starting point and presented afresh (in part for the first time for an English-speaking audience). A look ahead to the future is attempted in contributions from an-again interdisciplinary-group of cultural scientists and cultural technologists who gathered at the University of Wuppertal in October 2019. Whereas the modeling (including technical modeling) of documents has to date largely been limited to the description of output forms and specific content, the foundations are laid here for including documents' contexts of use in models that are grounded in cultural theory. In this way, a hitherto largely unexplored intersection between media science and media technology is also investigated.

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Applications of microbial nanotechnology are currently emerging with new areas being explored. Biosynthesis of nanomaterials by microorganisms is a recently attracting interest as a new, exciting approach towards the development of ¿greener¿ nano-manufacturing compared to traditional chemical and physical approaches. This book will cover recent advances of microbial nanotechnology in agriculture, industry, and health sectors.

Early Christian Scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch is a study exploring Christian interaction with the Samaritan Pentateuch as evinced by hexaplaric sources. The manuscript evidence for the Samaritan Pentateuch in Greek attests two distinct, textually unrelated groups of readings: a saµ-type (i.e., the Samareitikon) and a µ¿¿¿¿-type. Only the latter, the subject of the present study, is hexaplarically derived and predates, considerably, any evidence for the former. The extant hexaplaric colophons and scholia found in the books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy reveal that at some point the Caesarean library acquired a copy of the Samaritan Hebrew Pentateuch. This copy was then collated, quantitatively, against the hexaplaric Septuagint. Since the Samaritan text is often longer than the Septuagint due to a number of "expansions", taken from various pre-existing passages of the Pentateuch, the Caesarean critics "translated" these expansions into Greek with the aid of the Septuagint. No evidence was found that the so-called Samareitikon (i.e., Samaritans' own Greek translation) was either known to or used by the Caesarean critic. These "translations" bear no trace of Samaritan exegesis. It is hypothesized here, that the collation and "translation" was made possible through the use of the multi-columned Hexapla as a kind of analytical lexicon. Taking the results of this effort, the responsible party added these data to the margins of the Caesarean Septuagint edition. These passages were later translated into Syriac and were even adopted by some later Christian scribes as legitimate biblical readings. It is posited that Eusebius-not Origen, as has been commonly supposed-was the one responsible for this work. The study explores these data diachronically from inception to integration. The findings and analysis are relevant for the fields of biblical studies, Samaritan studies, and the study of Bible production and the praxis of textual research in early Christianity.

Das Anegenge ist ein frühmittelhochdeutscher geistlicher Text, der unikal in der Wiener Sammelhandschrift 2696 überliefert ist. Thematisch stehen vor allem Fragen nach Gott vor der Schöpfung, dem Zusammenwirken der Trinität im Kontext von Schöpfung, Sündenfall und Erlösung oder der Erlösbarkeit des Menschen nach dem Lapsus im Fokus. Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt eine umfassende Revision des in der Forschung häufig als problematisch erachteten Anegenge: Auf der Grundlage einer handschriftennahen Neuedition wird das Anegenge philologisch wie interpretatorisch neu erschlossen.

With the increasing world-energy demand there is a growing necessity for clean and renewable energy. This book offers an introduction to these new types of solar cells and discusses fabrication, different architectures and their device physics on the bases of the author's teaching course on a master degree level. A comparison with conventional solar cells is given and the specialties of organic solar cells emphasized.

The role of migration for Christianity as a world religion during the last two centuries has drawn considerable attention from scholars in different fields. The main issue this book seeks to address is the question whether and to what extent migration and diaspora formation should be considered as elements of a new historiography of global Christianity, including the reflection upon earlier epochs. By focusing on migration and diaspora, the emerging map of Christianity will include the dimension of movement and interaction between actors in different regions, providing a more comprehensive 'map of agency' of individuals and groups previously regarded as passive. Furthermore, local histories will become parts of a broader picture and historiography might correlate both local and transregional perspectives in a balanced manner. Behind this approach lies the desire to broaden the perspective of Ecclesiastical History - and religious history in general - in a more systematic manner by questioning the traditional criteria of selection. This might help us to recover previously lost actors and forgotten dynamics.

This volume examines (1) the philosophical sources of the Kantian concepts "apperception" and "self-consciousness", (2) the historical development of the theories of apperception and deduction of categories within the pre-critical period, (3) the structure and content of A- as well as B-deduction of categories, and finally (4) the Kantian (and non-Kantian) meaning of "apperception" and "self-consciousness".