Foreign Language Study : German

In his famous book "Homo Ludens" Johan Huizinga confirmed that "Animals play just like humans do" and defined play as the anthropological basis of culture. At the same time, Wittgenstein conceived of the notion of the "language-game". Developing these research traditions further, the 43 essays in this volume examine linguistic, literary, aesthetic and pedagogical aspects of play - using examples from Antiquity up to present-day computer games. The book provides important foundations and manifold stimuli for a cultural theory of games. more...

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This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satirical devices. It includes well-knowntexts (Pope's Dunciad, Byron's Don Juan, Heine's Atta Troll) and others which are little known (Ratschky's Melchior Striregel, Parny's La Guerre des Dieux). It owes a marked debt to Italian romance epic (especially Ariosto). The study places these texts in the literary context of the decline ofserious epic, which helped mock epic to flourish, and of the 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' which questioned the authority of Homer's and Virgil's epics; and it relates their substance to contemporary debates about questions of religion and gender. more...

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Modern German Grammar Workbook, Second Edition, is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of German. more...

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Working from the perspectives of family history, genealogy and gender-specificity, the study examines family structures and generational relationships in the Middle High German Nibelungenlied. In addition, from a diachronic perspective the study uses a textual concept of generation to analyse the intertextual relationships between the medieval works which are thematically linked by the discussion of the Nibelungenlied and/or Kriemhild. more...

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Discover the guttural delights of Teutonic swearing with this unabashed look at German slang, that builds on the runaway success of Pardon My French! and Pardon My Spanish! . Skilfully chosen translations bring out all the flavour of the original, and hundreds of examples show how the words are really used. Unprudish, unabashed and in your face, Pardon My German! features thousands of examples that show how terms are used in context.; A new partner for Pardon My French! and Pardon My Spanish!; Thousands of colourful examples with carefully chosen translations; Dozens of helpful notes to explain interesting usage points; Attractive modern page design more...

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