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Die Autorin analysiert die in polnischen UEbersetzungen der politischen Texte von Thomas Mann vermittelten Eigen- und Fremdbilder in Anlehnung an die Imagologie und die historische Semantik. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind die Reden Deutsche Hoerer! und Deutschland und die Deutschen sowie der Brief Warum ich nicht nach Deutschland zuruckgehe.

Das Buch ist ein Wegweiser durch die oesterreichische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen zwei aufeinander eingestimmte Bewegungen, die Moderne und die Postmoderne, welche das Bewusstsein der oesterreichischen Literatur gepragt haben.

This book reexamines the situation of Jews who after the liquidation of ghettos were hiding in the villages of the Kielce-Sandomierz region, and the attitude of local Christian people and partisans towards these Jews. A fresh perspective is contributed by the author's anthropological approach to the newly discovered field and archival sources.

This book is a study of the amorphous, fragmented and digressive world of G. G. Byron's poetic works, and the themes of mutability, deformation and transgression, referred to as madness. It analyses the author's conscious process of self-fashioning, narrative dis-orientation and the dismantling of cultural pre-conceptions.

The author investigates if primary school learners in Slovakia understand the instructions to the written exercises they are given during English lessons. He analyses the mistakes/errors they usually make, and judges the criteria for reaching the expected level of writing proficiency in English.

The book analyzes the set of consequences of Polish cities' participation in the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture 2016, which was held between 2007 and 2011.

The author investigates the interplay between literature, politics, market and identity in contemporary Ukraine (1991-2018). The sections of this book explore the contested role of Russophone culture in Ukraine, highlighting the impact of Russian-Ukrainian political relations on social developments in post-independence and post-Maidan times.

The book analyzes historical and contemporary relations between Poland and Mexico. It includes their political, economic and cultural dimensions, as well as the role of Polish migration to Mexico. The timeframe of the work is from the begining of first direct contacts between the states till 2017 and the announcement of the strategic partnership

This collection of articles summarises results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations.

Die Festschrift zu Ehren von Hans Bickes vereint aktuelle Forschungen, die thematisch an die Schwerpunkte seines breiten akademischen Schaffens angelehnt sind. Die Beitrage stammen aus den Bereichen »Bildungssprache und Sprache im Fach«, »Semiotik und Identitat« sowie »Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit«.

Echoes of English, also known as Anglicisms, are now heard all over the world. They encompass a wide range of linguistic phenomena, all of which are discussed in this book. Against a backdrop of corpus-based studies of Anglicisms in Danish, the present English influence in Scandinavia is compared with that regarding Afrikaans in South Africa.

Die Untersuchung beschaftigt sich mit Wirkungen eines US-amerikanischen Urteils gegenuber Dritten und einer moglichen Anerkennung dieser Wirkungen in Deutschland. Sie befasst sich zunachst mit der grundsatzlichen Anerkennungsfahigkeit eines US-amerikanischen Urteils. Es folgt eine Analyse der Wirkungen gegenuber Dritten sowie deren Anerkennung.

Dieses Buch prasentiert erstmals das Schriftwerk des Kunstkenners und Kulturvermittlers Claus Friede mittels eines Textkorpus von 85 Beitragen der vergangenen 30 Jahre (1990-2020). Transkultureller Fokus ist die Wende vom Analogen zum Digitalen. Mit 11 Gastbeitragen, biobibliographischem Anhang und reichhaltigem Bildmaterial.

In the course of the past ten years, there has been a significant change in the roles, perceptions and practices of key human rights actors in Armenia. There has been a rise in civic, rights and legal consciousness among the citizens. This has, in turn, led to frequent outbreaks of protests and the 2018 Velvet Revolution.

The book is an attempt at assessing the importance of three economic areas IN creating power in international relations: energy sector, internationalization of currency and technologies with a military significance, which might potentially be "a fuel for dominance" and the instrument to gain geopolitical advantages.

The book presents the case study of evolution of transitional justice policies designed by Ukraine in the context of the Donbas conflict. It offers a theoretical introduction, discusses the specific context of relevant decisions, and analyses the policies aimed at achieving three normative goals: truth-seeking, retribution, and restoration.

Linguistic minorities in Europe, multilingualism, speakers of minority languages, language revitalization, language activism, young people of minority communities, language and identity

This study shows the literary legacy of Boleslaw Lesmian, the great Polish writer, as an example of inter-literary and inter-cultural transfer of aesthetics, styles, genres, motifs. The volume explores American, French, Russian, Ukraininan contexts (Poe's, Goglol's, Pushkin's, Baudelaire's, Balmont's, Gorodetsky's, Jesienin's writing) of his work.

The book reunites transdisciplinary studies on the construction and deconstruction of gender in filmic, literary, and television Romance cultures. It presents a transmedial and transnational historiography of media, using figures of nomadic thinking to escape the binary concepts of normative biopolitics and offer new cartographies of desire.

Work-Process Based Development of Advanced Detailed Curricula

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit Rabattvereinbarungen innerhalb der Vertriebsstufen. Dabei wird das Verhaltnis zwischen dem pharmazeutischen Unternehmer und dem Grohandler sowie dem Apotheker anhand der Norm des 7 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Nr. 2 HWG untersucht.