Publications
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Minorities and Majorities, Marginality and Centrality. An Introduction
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Marginalisierung in der Marginalität? Ein Blick auf digitale Räume anhand sprachlicher Konstruktion von randständigen Positionen im Kontext von Asexualität
This article discusses marginalisation in internet forums and blogging platforms using the example of asexuality blogs and discussion threads. While large corpora of both English and German, such as COCA and DeReKo, contain hardly any…
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Gänsehaut, Liebe und Langeweile. Sprachliche Konstitution von Emotionen in Laienbuchrezensionen aus dem Schullektürekanon
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Digitale Räume als Aushandlungsort für Zentralität und Marginalität
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Can a Finite Chain of Hydrogen Cyanide Molecules Model a Crystal?
When calculating structural or spectroscopic properties of molecular crystals, the question arises whether it is sufficient to simulate only a single molecule or a small molecular cluster or whether the simulation of the entire crystal…
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State of the Planet. Homi Bhabha and Namwali Serpell in Conversation
After explaining the rationale for bringing the author of The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell, and critical theorist Homi Bhabha into conversation, this interview with both of them explores some of the key themes of Serpell’s…
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Introduction. Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption
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Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption (Special Issue)
Research in African Literatures, the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are…
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Agency and Incentives of Diasporic Political Influencers on Facebook Malawi
This article examines the agency and incentives that drive the activism of diasporic political influencers on “Facebook Malawi,” an online imagined political community. In their seminal work on “social media dissidents” and “social media self-made…
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Widersprüchliche Figuren in vormoderner Erzählliteratur
Contradictory characters are characters whose internal characterization in the text is contradictory or who are designed in and as a contradiction to discourses and traditions external to the text. The volume contains case studies from…
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Einleitung. Was ist eine widersprüchliche Figur?
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Herrschaft und Macht im Widerspruch. Problematische Könige im ›Nibelungenlied‹
Using the examples of Gunther, Siegfried, Dietrich of Bern and Etzel in the ‘Nibelungenlied’, the lecture examines contradictions between royal rank and actual power to act, between the actions of rulers and the discourse of…
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Idealisierung und Widerspruch. Zur Figurenkonstitution von Rudolfs von Ems Alexander.
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Widersprüche in heldenepischem Erzählen
This article (re-)examines (marked) inconsistencies and incompatibilities in Middle High German heroic epic. Those contradictions may result from oral tradition, from the difficulties of transfering oral narratives into literacy, from the conditions of performing from…
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Knowledges and Contradictions in Premodern Narratives.
Contradiction is not just a (post-)modern phenomenon. In premodern narratives, conflicting concepts and logical inconsistencies are omnipresent. This paper focuses on contradictions interdependent with knowledge: Traditional narratives may aggregate different versions of matters rooted in…
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Erzähllogiken transnational. Narratologische Aspekte der Rezeption französischer Heldenepik in frühneuhochdeutscher ProsaErzähllogiken transnational
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“Wildekeit” und Widerspruch. Poetik der Diskrepanz bei Konrad von Würzburg
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Antagonisten im höfischen Roman? Eine Skizze
This contribution (re-)examines the description and multiple functions of selected antagonists in courtly romance around 1200. Excepting romance of antiquity, one rarely encounters equal opponents who represent a contrary system of values and continue to…
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Widerspruch als Erzählprinzip in der Vormoderne? Eine Projektskizze
In premodern narratives contradictions are omnipresent – conflicting concepts, logical inconsistencies, acts of objection. In a narratological perspective ›contradiction‹ – conflicts of incompatible knowledges and narrative patterns; inconsistencies in or between speech (by narrator or…
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Erzählen in transkultureller Perspektive. Zur Poetologie der Widersprüche in der europäischen Heldendichtung