The current debate about factual and counter-factual assertions and news suggests that there is a distinguishable boundary between fact and fiction. However, things are more complicated than this, despite all the need to adhere to facts and to insist on the value of truthfulness. Societies are always also built on cultural imaginations, which to a […]
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In Germany, future teachers of foreign languages do not only develop their language proficiency, but they also study linguistics, literary studies and foreign language pedagogy (didactics, as it is termed in Germany). Since, at most German universities, all of these are autonomous disciplines, this raises questions of interdisciplinary correspondences, coordination and interrelatedness between all of […]
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That’s a happenstance, as George R.R. Martin terms it: On almost the same day on which our special issue on fantasy fiction of the renowned German Teaching English as a Foreign Language Journal (Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch) came out, George R.R. Martin, world-famous author of The Song of Fire and Ice novels (on which the […]
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Even until today there has been a persistent view that Shakespeare’s plays negotiate universalisms in a time-transcending manner (love, hate, enmity, death). Regularly, these assumptions must serve as reason that Shakespeare “is still contemporary”. That’s more than astonishing, considering he died exactly 400 years ago. The societal and political order, which he so distinctly presents […]
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A lecture by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet and Dr. Judith Hofmann as part of the GCSC lecture series „Key Topics in the Study of Culture“, November 25th, 2013 In the first part of the lecture, an introduction into the format of sitcoms will be presented to the students. Based on Robert J. Thompson’s criteria for […]
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