The purpose of this volume is to introduce and discuss the foundations of research. The
main aim is to equip students with some of the most important tools and terminology of …

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century.
Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that …

Over the past several decades, scholars in communication and other fields working from
various paradigmatic and cultural perspectives have found themselves increasingly in …

The Stasi is often described as a “state within a state,” 2 although a more accurate
description is probably “society within a society,” or “secret surveillance society.” With a large …

The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity—that of liberal
capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism …

European social theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tended to
define modernity as a condition of heightened alienation in which traditional community is …

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western
world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living …

Tabus: Je mehr sie vom Verschwinden bedroht sind, desto häufiger werden sie erwähnt. 3
Freilich ist die Begrifflichkeit oft vage, aber man unterstellt ein geteiltes Vorverständnis. 4 …

Tabu und Recht repräsentieren diametral gegenläufige, einander widersprechende
Lebenswelten: Tabu steht für archaische Denkstrukturen, irrationale und tribale …

Scopo del lavoro di ricerca è ridefinire lo spazio come strategia rappresentativa non soltanto
letteraria, ma anche culturale. Ripercorrendo l'evoluzione del pensiero spaziale …