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War is an event, theme, topos that induces fiction more than any other - stimulating, one might say, superego-like instances of historical fidelity - to press on its own boundaries, inhibit the space of the invention and merge with non-fictional forms of writing (memorial, diary, reportage ...). But in what way and to what extent its literary (as well as theatrical, cinematographical, comic book...) representation has changed - in terms of tone and strategies, in the degree of deformation of the known and shared reality - in the space of a Century that has seen the transformation of war strategies, media coverage and consequently the collective imagination linked to conflicts? The volume, conceived and edited by Nicola Turi, while tracing the individual path of known and lesser-known authors, in relation to the main theme of the book, both Italian and not (from Leopardi to Zanzotto, from Gadda to Calvino, from Salsa to Dessí, from Luzi and Fenoglio to Leavitt, Eisner and Celestini), also stimulates and elaborates a profound reflection on the bewilderment and natural attraction of the artistic gesture (from time to time in the name of fierce irony, desperate incredulity, the elegiac testimony) for evil, pain, the martial distortion of the human, social and political context.

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Within the Kafkaesque bestiary, the dog is undoubtedly the animal that deserves a more careful study: it is the image which the author uses the most, in literary writing but also in the private one, and which occupies a a very large time span, so much so that it becomes a real key figure through which to read Kafka's work from a possible new perspective. The volume aims to demonstrate how the problems that have characterized Kafka's existence are hidden behind the dog's symbology, the reflections around which he has concentrated, throughout his life, his thought and his writing: the woman and the question of marriage, writing itself, religion as a relationship with the divine.

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Das Deutsche ist eine der am besten erforschten Sprachen der Welt; weniger bekannt ist, welche Gemeinsamkeiten es mit den europäischen Nachbarsprachen teilt und wo seine Besonderheiten liegen.Die insgesamt acht Kapitel des Buches stellen prägnant und anhand von anschaulichen Beispielen Wortschatz und Grammatik des Deutschen vor. Dabei verhilft ein Vergleich mit den Optionen etwa im Englischen, Französischen, Polnischen, Ungarischen oder anderen europäischen Sprachen zu einem verschärften Blick. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei ein kurzer Abriss der Facetten von Sprache allgemein sowie die Herleitung der grundlegenden Sprachfunktionen aus einer handlungsbezogenen Perspektive. Die folgenden Kapitel stehen unter Motti wie: ?Das Verb ? Zeiten, Modi, Szenarios und Inszenierungen?, ?Der nominale Bereich ? die vielerlei Arten, Gegenstände zu konstruieren? oder ?Der Text ? wenn wir kohärent und dabei narrativ oder argumentativ werden?. Das letzte Kapitel trägt den Titel: ?Das Deutsche ? auf dem Weg zu einem Sprachporträt?.Das Buch soll Sprachinteressierten auch ohne linguistische Fachkenntnisse einen neuen Zugang zu unserer Muttersprache erschließen und die Sensibilität für die sprachliche Verbundenheit auf unserem Kontinent trotz aller Vielfalt stärken.

Comparative linguistics. --- Comparative linguistics --- History.

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In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual context on the function of the verbal forms. Readership: Scholars of Classical Arabic syntax and discourse, Arabic grammatical tradition, comparative Semitic syntax, and anyone concerned with Arabic linguistics.

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This study undertakes to examine the problem of the tenses in Classical Arabic. While aware of the long tradition which shaped the discussion of this subject, and building, in fact, on some important insights offered by medieval and modern grammarians, this study attempts to redefine the discussion and propose a new analysis of the tenses, based on a functional text-oriented investigation of a large corpus of Classical Arabic prose.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Historical & comparative linguistics