"The Little Book of Bereavement for Schools" is written by best-selling author Ian Gilbert together with his three children. It is a very personal account of the way educational institutions tried and succeeded, tried and failed and sometimes didn't try at all to help William, Olivia and Phoebe come[...]
Associated at various times with Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism, Schwitters produced paintings, collages, sound pieces, sculpture and installation works, as well as journalism, criticism, poetry and short stories. Forced to flee Germany in 1936, Schwitters took refuge first in Norway and then,[...]
This collection of papers embodies the dynamism and diversity of the field of pragmatics. Its authors represent ten different countries and exemplify research across all aspects of pragmatics, along with the interrelations between pragmatics proper and such neighboring disciplines as cognitive psych[...]
Der spannenden Nibelungensage liegen geschichtliche Tatsachen zugrunde, wie die Vernichtung der Burgunder am Rhein durch die Hunnen 436 und der Tod Attilas in der Nacht seiner Hochzeit mit Ildica, einer Germanin. Dieses "Hohelied der Treue" zeigt zugleich die Tragik der Treue auf, die hier zu Tod un[...]
The difficulties of a translation vary with the character of the text, the nature of the languages involved and the intended audience. Working in two languages that boast long recorded histories yet lack the status of 'passport' tongues, the contributors to this volume wrestle with the full range of[...]