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Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013
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M. Uecker, D. Göttsche, H. Budd, & G. Haberlah (Eds.), Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013. Nottingham ePrints

A collection of 12 papers delivered at the DAAD Postgraduate Summer School in German Studies "Norms, Normality and Normalization".

Matthias Uecker: Introduction: Norms, normality and normalization; Jürgen Link: Crisis between ʻDenormalizationʼ and... Read More about Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013.

Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile
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Lawrance, J. Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile. Presented at Historians of Medieval Iberia

This paper examines the political and juridical theories expounded in Allegationes super conquesta insularum Canarie contra Portugalenses, a brief prepared in 1436 or 1437 by Alfonso de Cartagena, bishop of Burgos and Castilian legate to the Council... Read More about Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile.

Russian anti-literature
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Hellebust, R. (2013). Russian anti-literature. University of Nottingham

To support the myth of Russian literature’s unique social mission, its critics, historians, and creators since the time of Pushkin have used various strategies to present it as inherently nomoclastic – as somehow standing apart from established Europ... Read More about Russian anti-literature.

Das rhetorische Ich: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Selbstinszenierungen
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Uecker, M. Das rhetorische Ich: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Selbstinszenierungen. Presented at Sixth Bradford International Colloquium on Contemporary German-Language Literature

The article discusses the rhetorical strategies underlying Hans Magnus Enzensberger's presentation of his work as an author, editor and poet.

Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
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Palfreyman, R. (2013). Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed. University of Nottingham

Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 feature-length silhouette animation Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) includes a number of striking examples of animal bodies, ranging from composites, machine-animals and monsters to a dramatic... Read More about Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed.