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1. Metzler-Pöschel Hölderlin Handbook
Few German poets receive as much attention even in the present day as Friedrich Hölderlin. This handbook, which has been the standard work on Hölderlin research for many years, provides detailed information on the current state of research and knowledge in its new edition. It analyzes the entire body of the poet's work and also addresses his biography in the context of the era, the prerequisites for his work, his poetics, and finally the reception of Hölderlin. This makes various approaches and the diversity of Hölderlin's themes transparent. In the second edition, numerous articles have been rewritten and supplemented.
2. Metzler-Pöschel Introduction to Applied Linguistics
Applied linguistics relies on central linguistic theories, methods, and findings. This volume demonstrates how these can be used to analyze communication in texts, conversations, and various media formats. It connects knowledge and methods from key areas of applied linguistics: text linguistics, conversation analysis, media linguistics, and discourse analysis. The chapters provide a clear presentation of working with multimodal data from face-to-face communication, print advertising and commercials, hypermedia formats such as tutorials and websites, as well as forms of political reporting. It features a two-color design with colored illustrations, definitions, and numerous examples.
3. Metzler-Pöschel Cultural history of European music
This book presents a broad historical panorama of Europe and the Western world through music, which has long been a means for people to shape their cultures. Gernot Gruber narrates the history of music from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the recent present, characterized by a globalized popular and classical music scene. He describes, sometimes in detail and sometimes broadly, how closely music is intertwined with religion and ritual, power and politics, as well as everyday life and coping with existence. Thus, this cultural history offers something different from the familiar histories of music: it starts from the contexts that, as a history of ideas, social, and political history, underpin music. It vividly illustrates the tension between general life and the unique existence of music as an art form. The common thread is the question of what is European in music, the relationship between plurality and identity, and where this history leads us in the present: Is current European identity dissolving - or does the innovative engagement with the globally disseminated canon of European music not offer a chance for stability?.
4. Metzler-Pöschel Argument Analysis
The textbook teaches methods of argument analysis, meaning procedures for recognizing, reconstructing, contextualizing, criticizing, and ultimately improving arguments in texts. These techniques are not explained in a theoretical-abstract manner but are practically illustrated through numerous example arguments. Thus, it does not introduce argument theory but demonstrates argument analysis. Here, one truly learns to analyze arguments independently, with numerous case studies where methods are applied exemplarily.
5. Metzler-Pöschel Syntax
This book provides an introduction to generative syntax, one of the most widely used syntax models. It demonstrates how sentence structures are composed of word components and words, and explains how we can use these structures to clarify the relationship between form and meaning. Students will learn systematically and confidently to conduct syntactic analyses and will be guided towards independent study of the research literature. The book also shows that generative syntax, unlike traditional grammars, can describe language as a fascinating cognitive ability of humans. It includes many examples, exercises, and a glossary of German and English technical terms.
6. Metzler-Pöschel Das Bilderbuch
The picture book is a multifaceted multimodal narrative medium that has undergone a profound aesthetic transformation in recent decades. This volume provides a comprehensive foundation for work in teaching courses: the first part introduces the theory and history of the picture book and presents a six-dimensional analysis model. The second part contains fifteen model analyses, each with different focuses, such as aspects of visual and linguistic design in picture books or selected genres and themes. It includes guiding questions for analysis and many color illustrations.
7. Metzler-Pöschel Kant Handbuch
The handbook elucidates all works and essays by Kant through summaries and concise interpretations, providing insight into Kant's connections to the philosophical, scientific, religious, artistic, and political trends of his time. Kant's philosophy today represents the last unified reference point in the European philosophical tradition, viewing philosophy as the foundation of methodological rationality, particularly in the understanding of the sciences as the dominant element in the cultural self-conception of modern civilization. An introduction to Kant literature since the German Neo-Kantianism, organized by thematic groups, along with a timeline and detailed indexes, makes the handbook a historical reference work in philosophy. Kant's work is addressed in its three-step process of methodological propaedeutics of the "Critiques," metaphysics of nature and ethics, and applied philosophy.
8. Metzler-Pöschel Einführung in die Semantik
This volume introduces all central aspects and areas of semantics. It first explains key concepts of lexical and compositional semantics such as reference, predication, meaning, and proposition, without prioritizing any specific theoretical approach. The focus of the introduction is primarily on a descriptive account of the semantics of the parts of speech in German (verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, particles), complex word groups, and sentence types. The presentation of the phenomena aims to largely avoid formal tools, making it compatible with various theoretical approaches and maximally accessible for students with little or no prior knowledge. Building on the descriptive account, a second part will...
9. Metzler-Pöschel Gottsched Handbook
Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) is a central figure of the European Enlightenment. This handbook presents his works in the fields of poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, and language research. Poetics is explored with regard to genre differentiations (lyric, epic, drama, correspondence, and literary criticism), relevant poetological traditions (Antiquity, French Classicism, Baroque), and in collaboration with other authors, particularly Luise Gottsched (1713–1762). His oeuvre, along with its effects and receptions, is discussed in the tension between normative poetic claims, Enlightenment didactics, and proto-aesthetic innovative potential.
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Gottsched Handbook
English, German, Bend Strebel, Carolin Rocks, Giulia Morra, Sebastian Meixner, 2023
10. Metzler-Pöschel Thomas Mann Handbook
Thomas Mann is one of the most productive, important, and influential German-speaking authors of modern times. His novels, stories, essays, letters, and diaries reflect and shape the turbulent first half of the 20th century in a way that few other writers have achieved. The handbook provides well-founded individual contributions to his literary work, the diverse cultural, political, philosophical, literary, and media contexts, as well as to important motifs and current research trends.
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