Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics.  Meer

This volume explores Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) and her paintings from the period 1950–1975. Text in English and Norwegian.  Meer

This study relates theory to the details of poetic practice. it presents Opitz, Burger and Aichendorff as representatives of their times and demonstrates how they adapt the classical arts to their particular talents and beliefs.  Meer

Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This book traces the complex discourse of melancholy in contemporary literature in the work of Monika Maron, Christoph Hein, Arno Geiger and Alois Hotschnig with a focus on themes such as time, transcience, the body, gender and postmemory.  Meer

Shows how linguistic options for creating coreference in English and German can be interpreted against the background of their motivating factors. This book discusses mental text processing, German-English systemic contrasts and register peculiarities as possible sources for variation on different linguistic levels.  Meer

The stories are organized in four sections: Animal stories (Tiergeschichten, largely fables), Comic tales (Schwanke, which range from the silly to the outrageous), Fairy tales (Zaubermarchen, or wonder tales), Local legends (Sagen, which include stories of ghosts and goblins, and religious legends).  Meer

This book examines a series of tandem language classes which apply the principles of Intergroup Contact Theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew, 1998). Native Germans and Turkish immigrants taught each other their respective mother tongue.  Meer

This book focuses on German science policy for cooperation with the Global South, arguing that instead of global sustainability, policies mainly aspire to German economic benefits.  Meer

Combining migration studies theories with approaches of mobility studies Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility emerging in transnational biographies of Polish migrants in Germany and Canada.  Meer