@phdthesis{Chikezie2017, author = {Chikezie, Aloysius Cheta}, title = {THE VALUE OF WORK IN NIGERIA with Reference to Laborem Exercens}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-147592}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Work is seen by many thinkers as the fundamental dimension of man`s existence on earth. Through work, he provides his basic necessities on earth and co-operate with God in the work of creation. He received this mandate to work from the very beginning of creation by God. In carrying out this mandate, man every human being reflects the very action of the creator of the Universe. God worked and intended that man who is created in His image and likeness continues the work of creation by working. Even though Man suffers and sweats through work and yet, in spite of all this toil-perhaps in a sense because of it - work is a good thing for man. It is not only good in the sense that it is useful or something to enjoy; it is also good as being something worthy, that is to say something that corresponds to man's dignity that expresses this dignity and increases it. This project examines man as a creature called to work and born into work. It is true that through work, man provides himself and his family with the basic necessities of life and everyday needs for the reason he charges wages for his sweat. Work goes beyond and should exceed the boundaries of the material benefit that comes out of it to the satisfaction and fulfilment for the very purpose we should work. The modern society has attached so much importance to money and material possession, the question then is how do we go along working in the spirit of improvement and renewal of the earth? The modern man understands work only as a means of making his daily bread. For this reason, he engages himself in an occupation that he has little or no interest in. He ends up quarrelling everyday with the people that he or she is supposed to serve through work. The result is low work output and waste of talents and the society loses an opportunity for improvement as every creature is supposed to contribute uniquely. A good example is Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with a population estimate of about over 170,000,000 people and the sixth Oil producing Nation.}, subject = {Nigeria}, language = {en} } @article{Pordzik2017, author = {Pordzik, Ralph}, title = {George Orwell's Imperial Bestiary: Totemism, Animal Agency and Cross-Species Interaction in "Shooting an Elephant", Burmese Days and "Marrakech"}, series = {Anglia}, volume = {135}, journal = {Anglia}, number = {3}, issn = {1865-8938}, doi = {10.1515/ang-2017-0045}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-194200}, pages = {440-466}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This essay argues that Orwell's representation of animals as companion species offers a strikingly new, as-yet largely neglected view of animal agency and interiority in his work. In "Shooting an Elephant", Burmese Days and "Marrakech", the writer's focus on the social reject is supplemented by a marked sense of community implying human tragedy yet framing it within precariously situated human-animal, colonial or urban-imperial transitions that visualise animals as agents of change and co-shaping species interdependent with the lives of the humans that utilize and domineer them. Animals are required whenever Orwell aspires to shift from isolation to communality, from the self-conscious outsider to the larger realm of ideas framing the world in which his characters strive to overstep the accepted lines of social performance and conformity. Read in and around disciplinary structures of rationalization, Orwell's animals appear to secure themselves, quite paradoxically, a place within the normative anthropocentric framework excluding them. They extend beyond anthropomorphising or allegorical modes of description and open up bio-political perspectives within and across regimes of knowledge and empathy. Orwell's writings thus present a challenge to the culturally accredited fantasy of human exceptionalism, collapsing any epistemic space between humans and animals and burying the idea of sustaining radical species distinction.}, language = {en} } @article{Huettner2017, author = {Huettner, Sabrina}, title = {Nelson Pressley. American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ix + 185 pp, \$69.99.}, series = {Journal of Contemporary Drama in English}, volume = {5}, journal = {Journal of Contemporary Drama in English}, number = {1}, issn = {2195-0164}, doi = {10.1515/jcde-2017-0019}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-194210}, pages = {217-222}, year = {2017}, abstract = {No abstract available}, language = {en} } @misc{RaphaelHernandez2017, author = {Raphael-Hernandez, Heike}, title = {Claudia Deetjen. Re-Imagining Nature's Nation: Native American and Native Hawaiian Literature, Environment, and Empire. American Studies - A Monograph Series 267. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016, 236 pp., € 45.00.}, series = {Anglia}, volume = {135}, journal = {Anglia}, number = {4}, issn = {1865-8938}, doi = {10.1515/ang-2017-0078}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-195398}, pages = {775-778}, year = {2017}, abstract = {No abstract available.}, language = {en} } @article{ApostolidisGkarpousisKoch2017, author = {Apostolidis -Gkarpousis, Alexandros and Koch, Christian}, title = {Convergences et divergences dans les articles «Langage» de Louis de Jaucourt et «Langue» de Nicolas Beauz{\´e}e. Une comparaison de deux articles de l'Encyclop{\´e}die de Diderot et D'Alembert}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172843}, pages = {19-36}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The two articles of «Langage» and «Langue», published in 1765 in the 9th volume of the great French Encyclop{\´e}die by Diderot and D'Alembert, treat some essential philosophical questions on the human ability of communication with linguistic signs. Nevertheless, as the two authors Jaucourt and Beauz{\´e}e did not share completely identic points of view, the comparative lecture of both articles reveals a complementary perspective, particularly relating to the origin of language as a divine gift or humans' creation for communicative needs. A further aspect of divergence concerns the textual composition of the article « Langage » as a structured informative text, and the article « Langue » as a long and freely composed writing including personal remarks by the author. The following article deals with the potential of approaches to the Encyclop{\´e}die in modern linguistics, concretely demonstrated in the comparative analysis of these two articles.}, language = {fr} } @article{Schaefer2017, author = {Sch{\"a}fer, Elena}, title = {Veo veo. ?'Qu{\´e} ves? Durch H{\"o}r-Seh-Verstehen zu Mehrsprachigkeitskompetenz}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172946}, pages = {183-201}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Multilingualism is part of our everyday lives and has recently entered the medium of film. Based on the linguistic diversity of Spanish-speaking countries, the present paper explores multilingualism as a key competence of foreign language learning. Since film provides students with audiovisual access to multilingual situations, a selection of educational videos that form parts of German textbooks will be critically explored concerning the presentation of multilingual phenomena. The results will be discussed in order to contribute to the systematic acquisition of multilingual skills in the sense of language and cultural awareness during classroom learning.}, language = {de} } @misc{OPUS4-17281, title = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik. Band 3}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3/2017}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, editor = {Bobineau, Julien and Callsen, Berit and Gold, Martina and Goldmann, Julius and Hesselbach, Robert and Hornung, Christoph and Meisnitzer, Benjamin and Ravasio, Paola}, isbn = {978-3-946101-02-4}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172810}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Die Zeitschrift promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik richtet sich an alle NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen im Bereich der romanistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Fachdidaktik. Das Ziel der Zeitschrift ist die F{\"o}rderung der romanistischen Forschung im Allgemeinen und des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Romanistik im Besonderen. Sie versteht sich damit als Impulsgeber f{\"u}r junge romanistische Forschung, ohne sich dabei thematisch zu beschr{\"a}nken.}, subject = {Literaturwissenschaft}, language = {mul} } @article{Berneiser2017, author = {Berneiser, Tobias}, title = {Lissabonner Navigationen. Literarische Nautik und heterotopischer Stadtdiskurs in Jos{\´e} Cardoso Pires' Lisboa - Livro de Bordo}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172859}, pages = {39-64}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article seeks to analyse urban representation in Jos{\´e} Cardoso Pires's Lisboa - Livro de Bordo (1997), a book dedicated to the author's home city Lisbon, by focusing on its prevailing nautical and maritime imagery. This imagery as well as its tendency to design Lisbon as a city-ship shall be examined with regard to spatial construction in the Livro de Bordo. Urban sailing as well as the recurrent representations of the Portuguese capital's spaces as heterotopias will be interpreted as approaches to subvert institutional and homogenic discourses on Lisbon.}, language = {de} } @article{Hennemann2017, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {«ainda {\´e} nova a m{\´u}sica, i think» Zur Code-Alternation in portugiesischen online-Diskursen}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172882}, pages = {107-125}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The present paper is concerned with the use of English cognitive verbs like think, mean and guess as well as with fixed expressions that contain these verbs like guess what (?) or think about it in Portuguese online discourses. In the qualitative analysis of examples retrieved from the Corpus do Portugu{\^e}s (Web/Dialects) I mainly focus on the syntactic behavior of the expressions under survey, also comparing their use and function in the English language. In the final part of the paper I reflect about possible reasons of the employment of English elements in Portuguese conversation.}, language = {de} } @article{Book2017, author = {Book, Bettina}, title = {Komplements{\"a}tze im Spanischen}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172869}, pages = {67-80}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This paper discusses complementation strategies in Spanish, focusing on a specific construction most speakers are not aware of: the complementation clause preceded by the verb conocer. Not being a typical complement-taking verb, conocer surprises with a stable and persistent presence throughout the centuries, from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish. After giving an introduction into the field of complementation clauses and one of its main focus of study, grammatical mood, this study uses empirical data from the corpus programs CORDE, CREA and CORPES XXI to show the usage and prevalence of the construction in question. In doing so, this analysis gives a quantitative insight, exemplifying the results with several examples from all ages.}, language = {de} } @article{Ibrahim2017, author = {Ibrahim, Amira}, title = {L'orientalisme fran{\c{c}}ais : d{\´e}finition et histoire}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172899}, pages = {127-145}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The history of intellectual and cultural contact between West and East is very complicated and contradictory. A long time ago, eastern culture attracted the attention of many writers, orientalists and researchers, who headed east not only to study and describe the fascinating eastern civilizations, but also to analyze their different literary, historical and scientific aspects. The new mysterious but exciting environment inspired the orientalists to record and describe what they experienced regarding the architecture, the nature and the people. The attractive eastern natural views which are distinguishable from the monotonous western environment - especially after the industrial revolution - helped them to find new prospects. The East has been coming into focus since the middle ages, when the church campaigns started to study Islam as the prevalent religion in this area. The orientalist motivations were not only religious, but also followed economic, colonial and scientific agenda, which lead to a plethora of specialized research, stories, novels and analytical studies. A close look at the orientalists' works will provide us with an overview of eastern civilization. Therefore, their works are considered as a mirror reflecting their point of view to the east and the north of Africa, especially to pharaonic Egypt. The orientalists who travelled to the east and expressed their passion to this old civilization in their writings influenced the literary movement deeply. But what do we mean by the term orientalism? Edward Sa{\"i}d has defined this term in different ways. Sa{\"i}d presented and interpreted it as a way of thinking, a historical phenomenon. Defining orientalism has become a problem indeed, and now it is carrying a number of meanings which do not match. Therefore, the aim of the study is to bring into focus the most important definitions of the term orientalism from the late 17th to the mid-20th century.}, language = {fr} } @article{Rauchhaus2017, author = {Rauchhaus, Moritz}, title = {Topo-Analyse hin zur Ewigkeit: Catherine Pozzi zwischen Journal und Peau d'{\^A}me}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172938}, pages = {165-180}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Peau d'{\^A}me has often been regarded as an enigmatic and mysterious text which prevented a broad attention and interpretation since its posthumous publication in 1935. But putting the perspective on Pozzi's Journal, particularly during the years 1920 and 1921, allows us to discover a significant intertextuality between both of them. Catherine Pozzi's perception of space in her every day writing does not differ from her philosophical work, since for her the concepts of center and periphery do not form a strict dichotomy. It becomes superfluous in a world without limits. The perception and philosophy of Catherine Pozzi tends to go beyond the boundaries of space which allows us, as readers of these two forms of writing, to comprehend her vision of a spatial and temporal eternity.}, language = {de} } @article{Mounga2017, author = {Mounga, Bauvarie}, title = {Strat{\´e}gies narratives et violence dans le roman post-colonial africain : le cas de la technique du fragmentaire dans Le Pleurer-rire d'Henri Lop{\`e}s}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172916}, pages = {149-162}, year = {2017}, abstract = {After independence, in the sixties, sub-Saharan Africa including Francophone, saw moving to the head of his governments, dictatorial powers. Henri Lop{\`e}s translated this in his work by a formal violence. We will study in this paper, the violence employed by the Congolese novelist in Le Pleurer-rire (1982): the technique of fragmentary. Our work is structured in three parts: the presentation of formal violence in Le Pleurer-rire, manifestations of postcolonial political system in this novel and the operation of the technique of fragmentary.}, language = {fr} } @article{Thalhammer2017, author = {Thalhammer, Johanna}, title = {L'art de bien chanter und Von der Kunst zierlich zu singen und zu spielen - Eine kontrastive Analyse von Texten der musikalischen Fachsprache im 18. Jahrhundert anhand von Ausz{\"u}gen aus Code de musique pratique, Rameau (1760) und Der vollkommene Capellmeister, Mattheson (1739)}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172958}, pages = {203-224}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article is an analysis and a comparison of German and French special language of music in the 18th century, more precisely about the terms used to describe the activity of singing. The analysis is based on two treatises about music theory. The first writing, Der Vollkommene Capellmeister, was written by Johann Mattheson in 1739 and the second, Code de musique pratique by Jean-Philippe Rameau was published in 1760. Both texts contain a chapter which gives explanations how to sing. The treatises include different types of technical words: specific terms easy identified as special language terms like names of ornaments in the music, special verbs standing for singing, and words and anaphors to describe tonality and dynamics. By having a look on the terms of music language, the influence of Italian and French words on German vocabulary of music becomes obvious. The vocabulary is often similar in both languages, but not always defined as a part of the special language of music.}, language = {de} } @article{BobineauHesselbach2017, author = {Bobineau, Julien and Hesselbach, Robert}, title = {Interview mit Prof. Dr. Elissa Pustka}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172927}, pages = {7-17}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Interview mit Prof. Dr. Elissa Pustka}, language = {de} } @article{Duerner2017, author = {D{\"u}rner, Benedikt}, title = {Der lyrische Triebt{\"a}ter Andr{\´e} Pieyre de Mandiargues Gewalt und Erotik im Gedichtband L'{\^A}ge de craie}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172876}, pages = {83-105}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The surrealists are not the only influence on the literary efforts of Andr{\´e} Pieyre de Mandiargues - but it's this influence that makes his oeuvre capable for an analysis based on Freudian theories. This way of an analysis is even more appropriate knowing that two of Mandiargues' main and favourite themes - the eroticism and the violence - coincide with the Freudian life and destruction drive. Analysing the two poems Les filles des gobes and Les ruines de l'amour from the volume of poems L'{\^A}ge de craie, it's these two paradigms that are clearly recognizable: Mandiargues' symbolism reveals the duality of the domination by desires.}, language = {de} }