This new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English directly opposite the German.“Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world...”– Choice
The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
Collective Creativity combines complex and ambivalent concepts. While 'creativity' is currently experiencing an inflationary boom in popularity, the term 'collective' appeared, until recently, rather controversial due to its ideological implications in twentieth-century politics. In a world defined by global cultural practice, the notion of collectivity has gained new relevance. This publication discusses a number of concepts of creativity and shows that, in opposition to the traditional ideal of the individual as creative genius, cultural theorists today emphasize the collaborative nature of creativity; they show that 'creativity makes alterity, discontinuity and difference attractive'. Not the Romantic Originalgenie , but rather the agents of the 'creative economy' appear as the new avant-garde of aesthetic teams, groups and collectives in business and science, in art and digital media who work together in networking clusters to develop innovative products and processes. In this book, scholars in the social sciences and in cultural and media studies, in literature, theatre and visual arts present for the first time a comprehensive, inter- and transdisciplinary account of collective creativity in its multifaceted applications. They investigate the intersections of artistic, scientific and cultural practice where the individual and the collective merge, come together or confront each other.
Band 23 (2020/2021): (V)erdichtete Leben. Literarische Lebensmuster in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
Der Tagungsband der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft untersucht die Rolle von (Auto)biographie im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit, fokussiert auf die Verbindung zwischen realem Leben und literarischer Darstellung. Die Beiträge beleuchten höfische Romane, Lieddichtung und geistliche Literatur, einschließlich der deutschen Mystik. Analysen erstrecken sich über verschiedene Lebensbeschreibungen, von Ulrich von Liechtenstein bis Kaiser Maximilian I. Themen wie höfische Selbstinszenierung, Exempelhaftigkeit und die Funktion ritterlicher Kämpfe in der Literatur werden umfassend behandelt.