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J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

Sebastian Speth

Eric Achermann

Peter Oestmann

In dubio - Zweifel vor Gericht im Pitaval

&lt;p&gt;1. In dubio pro dubio: Einleitende Bemerkungen zum Zweifel in Pitavalgeschichten aus der Perspektive von Recht und Literatur.- 2. Recht und Literatur im Wettstreit. Das Parlement de Paris als Hort beredter Billigkeit.- 3. Justizaff&amp;auml;ren im Raum der &amp;Ouml;ffentlichkeit. Die Causes c&amp;eacute;l&amp;egrave;bres im Kontext literarischer und publizistischer Diskurse im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts.- 4. Martin Guerre: zur anhaltenden Faszination einer Betrugsgeschichte.- 5. Le faux Martin Guerre &amp;ndash; Zweifel an der Identit&amp;auml;t der Person.- 6. Betrug, Standesanma&amp;szlig;ung, Bigamie &amp;ndash; und Konversionspolitik Anmerkungen zu Peter Mege giebt sich f&amp;uuml;r den Herrn von Caille aus (Pitaval II,1).- 7. Zweifel versus Unschl&amp;uuml;ssigkeit. Peter Mege giebt sich f&amp;uuml;r den Herrn von Caille aus.- 8. Prozessf&amp;uuml;hrung im Wandel der &amp;Ouml;ffentlichkeiten: Pitavals Darstellung des Abstammungsprozesses der Familie de la Guiche.- 9. Eine zweifelhafte Identit&amp;auml;t: Orte des Zweifels in der Geschichte Enfant reclam&amp;eacute; par deux m&amp;egrave;res, ou la c&amp;eacute;l&amp;egrave;bre cause de Saint Geran &amp;ndash; Die Rechtssache S. Geran .- 10. Der Pitaval als rechtshistorische Entt&amp;auml;uschung: Offene Fragen in der Pivardiere-Geschichte.- 11. Histoire de la Pivardiere Stadien ihrer Textualisierung &amp;ndash; vor, nach und bei Gayot de Pitaval.- 12. Ein au&amp;szlig;ergew&amp;ouml;hnlicher Zivilprozess in der Fallsammlung des Advokaten Gayot de Pitaval: Cause de Dieu. Oder: Die Morgenr&amp;ouml;te der Gerechtigkeit.- 13. Das Individuum vor Gericht: Pitavals Handelsvertrag mit Gott als mehrfachsemantisierte Fallgeschichte.- 14. Eine juristische Lekt&amp;uuml;re von Pitavals Mariage declar&amp;eacute; abusif.- 15. Zweifel qua Ger&amp;uuml;cht und Widerspruch. &amp;Uuml;bertragungs- und Argumentationsprobleme in der Pitavalgeschichte: Die nach dem Tode der Frau f&amp;uuml;r nichtig erkl&amp;auml;rte Ehe.- 16. Der Fall der Marquise von Brinvilliers und die Frage nach der strafprozessualen Verwertbarkeit ihrer Beichte.- 17. T&amp;auml;uschung, Perversion, Komplott und Reue. Erz&amp;auml;hlerische Plausibilisierungen zweifelhafter Momente des Falls Brinvilliers in den causes c&amp;eacute;l&amp;egrave;bres von Gayot de Pitaval (1734) bis Fouquier (1861).- 18. Eine t&amp;ouml;dliche Folter &amp;ndash; zur Pitavalgeschichte des unschuldig Verurteilten Jacques Le Brun.- 19. Vor-Urteile: Zur Funktion des Zweifels im Fall Le Brun (alter Pitaval).- 20. Das Spannungsfeld zwischen dem &amp;bdquo;&amp;ouml;ffentlichen Geschrei&amp;ldquo; und dem richterlichen Ermessen: Pitavals Darstellung des Falles der Marquise von Ganges (1667).- 21. Genese einer Fallgeschichte: Pitavals Marquise de Gange.- 22. Urbain Grandier und die Nonnen von Loudun (Pitaval II,2): Eine rechtshistorische Lekt&amp;uuml;re.- 23. Im Bann des Zweifels. Der &amp;sbquo;Fall&amp;lsquo; Urbain Grandier als Lehrst&amp;uuml;ck dubioser Rechtlichkeit.- 24. Von pflichtvergessenen, unwissenden und vollkommenen Richtern: Pitavals gestrafte Richter von Mantes.- 25. Affektbetontes Erz&amp;auml;hlen. Schrecken und Mitleid in Pitavals Rechtsfalldarstellung der gestraften Richter.&lt;/p&gt;

Passages - Transitions - Intersections

This volume explores the complexities and variations of the nation and examines its transformative potential within the broad field of literary studies through various literary works, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and theater. The authors address phenomena such as global capitalist exploitation, and its conjunction with other forms of violence, including colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and white supremacy. They engage with literary texts and film that reflect on, and disseminate, both hegemonic and, importantly, counterhegemonic discourses across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each chapter engages with productions that speak from minoritarian and/or racially oppressed perspectives, including works representing Black American transnationalism, perspectives of refugees of color, immigrant and Palestinian voices, Romani positionalities, and Caribbean diasporic perspectives. Focusing on these cultural texts, our authors examine the effects of, as well as resistance to, a variety of vectors of oppression. These include U.S.-American anti-Black racism and anti-migrantism, in connection with the exploitation of the working class; European anti-Roma violence; 20th-century Zionism; the violence of European border regimes; and forced migration and the segregation of refugees into camps.

Exploring the Boundaries of Nationhood and its Alternatives

Narrated Belonging

This open access book goes beyond a criminological analysis of cyber human trafficking. This phenomenon questions the role of digital actors in enforcing anti-trafficking objectives. While this framework has traditionally included a wide array of supranational, national, and non-governmental institutions, the addition of digital actors remains an eccentricity for anti-trafficking scholars and practitioners. Insofar as the fight against human trafficking is limited to its dedicated framework, the role of digital actors is almost non-existent. Outside this field, increasing obligations for corporations, including digital actors, have raised the attention of the literature on the use of private powers to adjudicate objectives of public interest. Various innovative European texts, especially those regulating technologies, data and platforms, might be leveraged to prevent trafficking, prosecute offenders, and assist survivors.This book aims to create a bridge between the evolving needs of traditional anti-trafficking stakeholders and innovative technological and legal solutions developed outside of their field. Such a bridge expands the tools available to anti-trafficking practitioners and scholars towards a more effective prosecution of traffickers, a more comprehensive protection of their victims, and new pathways to prevention.The book introduces the hypothesis that digital actors can impact each aspect of the fight against human trafficking (prevention, prosecution, protection) through the transversal objective of cooperation, or partnerships. In this book, avenues for cooperation are developed, formally or informally, to connect, explicitly or indirectly, digital actors with the common public objective of fighting human trafficking as a violation of human rights. More specifically, which EU obligations imposed on digital actors can be leveraged towards this objective? To answer these questions, this book offers to cover a wide array of EU law, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the Digital Services Act, the Artificial Intelligence Act, the E-Evidence Package, or the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

A Legal Story About “Partnerships”

The Role of Digital Actors in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Literatur und Recht

Im 18. Jahrhundert werden in Auseinandersetzungen um die Geltung der deutschsprachigen Literatur und ihrer Regeln nicht selten Begriffe und Strukturen aus dem Recht verwendet. Die Studie betrachtet unter Rückgriff auf rechtswissenschaftliche Forschung zum Geltungsbegriff zentrale Auseinandersetzungen der Zeit aus rhetorischer Perspektive und fragt nach den Gründen für diese Bezugnahmen auf das Recht. Sie liefert damit nicht nur theoretische Impulse zur Verwendung des Geltungsbegriffes in der Literaturwissenschaft, sondern auch umfassende Untersuchungen zur rhetorischen Praxis eines zentralen Kapitels deutschsprachiger Literatur.

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien,&nbsp;in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18. Jahrhunderts die Geltung der Literatur und ihrer Regeln mithilfe von Rückgriffen auf das Recht zu behaupten. Es zeigt auf, wie die Autoren in vielfältiger Weise das Recht, seine Prinzipien und Strukturen sowie rechtsbezogene Diskurse aufrufen, um Begründungsprobleme der zeitgenössischen Poetik und Literaturkritik überzeugend zu bearbeiten. Der Begriff der Geltung spielt bislang in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung nur eine geringe Rolle und ist in verstärktem Maße nur in der Mediävistik herangezogen worden. Unter Rückgriff auf rechtswissenschaftliche Forschung wird der Begriff auf die Literatur hin konturiert. Zentral ist dabei eine Annahme rechtswissenschaftlicher Forschung, wonach Rechtsgeltung ein Produkt interaktionaler Austauschprozesse ist, an deren gelungenem Fortführen alle Beteiligten ihren Anteil besitzen. Je überzeugender in diesem Diskurs die Argumente sind, desto eher stoßen sie auf Anerkennung. Maßgeblich ist deshalb die Rhetorik als diejenige Disziplin, die sich ganz grundlegend damit auseinandersetzt, was an einer Sache überzeugend ist. Die Relevanz von Rechtsmetaphoriken für die Literaturkritik ist in der Forschung immer wieder betont worden, umfassende Untersuchungen fehlen bislang. Dieser Forschungslücke widmet sich die vorliegende Studie mit Blick auf die zentralen Anfänge der Literaturkritik im 18. Jahrhundert und der prägenden Rolle, die Poetiken in dieser Zeit spielen. In der Untersuchung werden der deutsch-schweizerische Literaturstreit zwischen Johann Christoph Gottsched, Johann Jakob Bodmer und Johann Jakob Breitinger, Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Auseinandersetzung mit Johann Melchior Goeze im Fragmentenstreit sowie Friedrich Schillers und Gottfried August Bürgers Streit um die Volkspoesie daraufhin betrachtet, wie die Kontrahenten die normativen Vorgaben, die sie darin formulieren, überzeugend zu vermitteln suchen. Ergänzend herangezogen wird zudem Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Hamburgische Dramaturgie als zentrales Werk mit Blick auf die Entwicklung der Literaturkritik. &nbsp;

Rhetorische Perspektiven auf Streit um die Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert

Literatur – Geltung – Recht

“Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Granddaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel.” —The Guardian“A brilliant dissection of a fragmented nation in which a glimmer of hope relieves a somber but wholly memorable tale.” —Kirkus (starred review)From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller’s attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find her lost child in the east.His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, intent on reclaiming and settling ancestral lands to the East. Among them, Kaspar encounters Svenja, a woman whose eyes, hair, and even voice remind him of Birgit. Beside her is a red-haired, slouching, fifteen-year-old girl. His granddaughter? Their worlds could not be more different— an ideological gulf of mistrust yawns between them— but he is determined to accept her as his own.More than twenty-five years after The Reader, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping novel that powerfully probes the past’s role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

“Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Granddaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel.” —The Guardian“A brilliant dissection of a fragmented nation in which a glimmer of hope relieves a somber but wholly memorable tale.” —Kirkus (starred review)From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller’s attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find her lost child in the east.His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, intent on reclaiming and settling ancestral lands to the East. Among them, Kaspar encounters Svenja, a woman whose eyes, hair, and even voice remind him of Birgit. Beside her is a red-haired, slouching, fifteen-year-old girl. His granddaughter? Their worlds could not be more different— an ideological gulf of mistrust yawns between them— but he is determined to accept her as his own.More than twenty-five years after The Reader, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping novel that powerfully probes the past’s role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

A Novel

The Granddaughter

Anschließend an bisherige Forschungserkenntnisse zu Robert Musils Rezeption und Integration der Bibel in seinem literarischen wie essayistischen Œuvre untersuchen die Beiträge des Bandes interdiskursive Vernetzungen zwischen Dichtung und Religion(swissenschaft) bzw. Literatur und Theologie aus historischer wie systematischer Perspektive. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei neben allgemeinen biblischen Bezügen Musils Verständnis von "Gott" in der gesamten Bandbreite: zwischen dessen Abwesenheit oder Fehlen in der weiteren Nachfolge Nietzsches einerseits und dessen All- oder gar Übergegenwart in - sei es mathematisch oder künstlerisch - säkularisierter Form andererseits. Aus diesem Changieren zwischen Hoffnung auf Parusie und Erwartung der Apokalypse lässt sich eine Ahnung gewinnen, welchen Erkenntnisgewinn sich der österreichische Schriftsteller von dem versprach, was er gegen Ende seines Lebens unter dem Stichwort "Laientheologie" skizzierte.

"Laientheologie" zwischen Dichtung und Religion

Robert Musil und die Bibel

Agatha Christie Library

The inspiration for the Netflix original series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter, and Martin Freeman!A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, Seven Dials.Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences.For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .

The inspiration for the Netflix original series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter, and Martin Freeman! A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, Seven Dials.Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .

The Official Authorized Edition

Seven Dials [TV Tie-in]

'A searing, beautiful book' KILEY REID, bestselling author of SUCH A FUN AGESusan 'Zuzu' Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she's always dreamed of - a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and Agnes has been off for a long time, and she can't help but wonder 'what if'.What if she had chosen to live with her father instead of her mother after their divorce? To pursue art over law? And, most importantly, to pursue her feelings for her male best friend from college, Cash, instead of marrying Agnes?When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, over a single wintery weekend, the questions in Zuzu's mind become too loud to ignore. She grapples with the choices she's made and the knowledge that she doesn't have infinite time to make changes in her lifeThe Other Wife speaks to unfulfilled desires and the euphoric nostalgia that's particular to the beginning of middle age; it is heartfelt and daring in its reckoning with the quest for joy.'Tender, wise, and thoroughly compelling' R.O. Kwon, author of THE INCENDIARIES'A marvellous study in how much desire lives in memory, in nostalgia and in fantasy' THE WASHINGTON POST

The Other Wife

Philosophical ideas explained through the story of Neville Adenauer.

Letters of Neville Adenauer

A writing professor asks her students to share a childhood memory. They are stranded: all they can recall are family videos, photos resurfaced by an algorithm--moments already framed before they became memories at all.For the last one hundred years, technology has shaped not only how we communicate but how we experience time itself. But today the amassing of big data, the speed of problem solving, and the ubiquity of smartphones and AI threaten to upend our relationship to space and time. The past returns to us only in curated feeds and automatic reminders: an unceasing, untethered stream of content. Might we, in retaking control of our narrative threads, regain agency over our hours, our days, and the stories of our lives?Claire Messud's urgent manifesto argues that we must recapture our futures from the digital forces that consume us, and reclaim what makes us most human.

Reclaiming the Stories of Our Lives

Time, Now

James Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten literary fantasist. Frederic Prokosch was a fantasist. His first novel, The Asiatics, was a stylish account of a man hitchhiking across an Asia that was more dream than reality. Praised by T. S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, and W. B. Yeats, it was a tremendous success, never to be replicated in Prokosch's long career. In the 1940s, he moved to Europe, away from what he called the "middle-class and fancy dullness" of midcentury American letters, writing novels of a highly romantic kind, playing squash and tennis, collecting butterflies, and printing deluxe limited editions of poems he admired. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1982, Prokosch returned to the literary limelight with Voices—a self-proclaimed memoir framed by his childhood in Middle America and his old age in the South of France, made of short chapters about his encounters with famous figures, whose every word he seems to recall. Voices, too, is a work of fantasy. But if Prokosch's portraits are not strictly true to life, they come alive as few portraits do. Whether he is playing tennis with Ezra Pound or retrieving Marc Chagall's wallet from the Grand Canal, sharing a beer with Bertolt Brecht or a steam bath with W.H. Auden, Prokosch hypnotizes the reader with his ability to capture these artists' cadences and characters, creating a masterpiece of imaginative memoir.

James Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten literary fantasist. Frederic Prokosch was a fantasist. His first novel, The Asiatics, was a stylish account of a man hitchhiking across an Asia that was more dream than reality. Praised by T. S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, and W. B. Yeats, it was a tremendous success, never to be replicated in Prokosch's long career. In the 1940s, he moved to Europe, away from what he called the "middle-class and fancy dullness" of midcentury American letters, writing novels of a highly romantic kind, playing squash and tennis, collecting butterflies, and printing deluxe limited editions of poems he admired. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1982, Prokosch returned to the literary limelight with Voices—a self-proclaimed memoir framed by his childhood in Middle America and his old age in the South of France, made of short chapters about his encounters with famous figures, whose every word he seems to recall. Voices, too, is a work of fantasy. But if Prokosch's portraits are not strictly true to life, they come alive as few portraits do. Whether he is playing tennis with Ezra Pound or retrieving Marc Chagall's wallet from the Grand Canal, sharing a beer with Bertolt Brecht or a steam bath with W.H. Auden, Prokosch hypnotizes the reader with his ability to capture these artists' cadences and characters, creating a masterpiece of imaginative memoir.

Voices

This book explores the field of Comparative Law, examining legal principles across different jurisdictions to highlight similarities, differences, and evolving trends. By comparing legal frameworks from various countries, it helps clarify complex legal concepts and their real-world implications.It covers a wide range of topics, including constitutional law, transformative constitutions, environmental law, family law, child rights, and the role of artificial intelligence in legal systems. The book also looks at how different legal traditions shape policy and decision-making, offering a broader perspective on global legal developments.With a focus on best practices and legal harmonization, this book provides meaningful insights for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in how laws interact across borders.

This book explores the field of Comparative Law, examining legal principles across different jurisdictions to highlight similarities, differences, and evolving trends. By comparing legal frameworks from various countries, it helps clarify complex legal concepts and their real-world implications. It covers a wide range of topics, including constitutional law, transformative constitutions, environmental law, family law, child rights, and the role of artificial intelligence in legal systems. The book also looks at how different legal traditions shape policy and decision-making, offering a broader perspective on global legal developments.With a focus on best practices and legal harmonization, this book provides meaningful insights for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in how laws interact across borders.

Bridging Legal Systems

Comparative Law and Global Justice

"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine "A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form."&nbsp;--The New York Times A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find someone that could change her life forever Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure—yet, somehow, finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, where she develops a new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated. Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness—having fun with men, but never committing to one. Then she meets Robbie and Abie, and finds her philosophy sorely tested. A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood. Abie is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed. With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks, worryingly, a lot like love. Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling—a story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love, and wondered why.

"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine "A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form."&nbsp;--The New York Times A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find someone that could change her life forever Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure—yet, somehow, finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, where she develops a new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated. Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness—having fun with men, but never committing to one. Then she meets Robbie and Abie, and finds her philosophy sorely tested. A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood. Abie is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed. With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks, worryingly, a lot like love. Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling—a story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love, and wondered why.

The End of Romance

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