Books in the Interkulturelle Begegnungen: Studien Zum Literatur- Und Kulturtransfer series

This book explores the German and English writings of Klaus Mann on America and for an American public. It focuses on his magazine Decision, his autobiographies The Turning Point and Der Wendepunkt, and his fictional works, including Speed, Der Vulkan, and The Last Day. It proposes a portrait of the author as an indefatigable cultural mediator.

Guido Cavalcanti, the first thirteenth-century author to gain the reputation of an auctoritas while still alive, has been handed down by literary tradition mainly for his Canzone Donna me prega, a dense philosophical treatise about love. This book looks at the Rime from the perspective of the ¿minor¿ poems, in which Cavalcanti demonstrates his theoretical conclusion by staging the venture of a lover inescapably doomed. Mired in his sensations, the lover exemplifies an existence that falls short of the faculty of imagination, therefore of the vision of God. The terrestrial perfection available to humans also affects language. The Voices of the Body are the nonverbal signs that Cavalcanti employs to articulate a grammar that is delimited by the lover's sensorial capacities. Federica Anichini focuses on two corporeal modes of speaking, spirits and tears. Her investigation of Cavalcanti¿s lines is grounded in the pages of the most popular medical handbook of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Avicennäs Liber Canonis, as well as in the linguistic theories of the Modistae. This study outlines Guido Cavalcanti as the forger of a special grammar that stands as a revolutionary invention in the field of poetic language.

The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy and its presence in acting manuals and plays in English, German, French and Italian.

The book studies the language of Restoration London irregular medical practitioners emerging from their printed handbills. Findings consist of the pragmatic features of quacks' communication, including images, the strategic use of printing in advertising, and the detection of a previously unknown source of a well-spread anti-quack satiric broadsheet.

This volume discusses teaching choices and topics in the implementation of a US study abroad business programme in Italy. It looks at business questions and methods in teaching Italian culture, language, history, and intercultural communication. Chapters focus on the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning for study abroad students.