de Gruyter Lexikon – serie

The de Gruyter lexicon Metaphor Theories provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of metaphor, a compendium-like overview of all metaphor theories, and an extensive bibliography on the topic. Existing metaphor theories are divided into four main categories: 1. structural theories (Coseriu, Jakobson, et al.), 2. pragmatic theories (Searle, Grice, et al.), 3. semantic theories (Ricoeur, Danto, et al.) and 4. functional theories (Buhler, Blumenberg, et al.). The lexicon is a reference work on the phenomenon of metaphorical speech - an intensely-discussed topic in the fields of literary science and linguistics, as well as in philosophy.

Das literarische und philologisch-literaturkritische Werk Ludwig Tiecks (1773‑1853) bestimmte maßgeblich die Literatur und den Kulturbetrieb in der Zeit um 1800 wie die Epochensituation nach der „Kunstperiode“. Das Lexikon stellt Leben und Zeit Tiecks dar, ordnet sein Werk in die ästhetische Tradition ein und beschreibt seine Poetik und sein Engagement als Literaturkritiker, Editor und Philologe. Einzelne Texte werden im Kontext des Gesamtwerks sowie im Kontext ihrer Zeit interpretiert, und auch die Wirkung von Tiecks Œuvre wird dargestellt. Der Artikelteil wird ergänzt durch eine vollständige Forschungsbibliographie.

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud, up into the late Middle Ages; popular literature was often transmitted orally and performed by public entertainers; and a number of literary forms were shaped by an oral background. Although questions of orality and the manifold interrelations between oral and written traditions have been the subject of intensive research in medieval studies, there is no general, state-of-the-art compendium in this field. In this book an international team of scholars discusses theoretical issues, such as the oral theory, oral poetics and performance-related approaches, as well as various literary traditions and genres. Special emphasis is laid on a comprehensive view of medieval literature, which also comprises literary traditions beyond the borders of Europe, with chapters on orality and literature in the Older Germanic, the Celtic, and the Romance languages, in Middle English, Middle High German, Byzantine Greek, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. The book's aim is to provide a well-founded and reliable orientation for students and researchers in medieval studies.