Wolfgang Emmerich

Von den mittelalterlichen Sängern und Epikern über Martin Opitz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, über Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner und Bertolt Brecht bis Günter Grass, Martin Walser, Uwe Tellkamp, Herta Müller und Ursula Krechel. Alle namhaften Schriftsteller sind erfasst: Die Literaturgeschichte fängt Lyrik, Roman, Prosa und andere literarische Gattungen und Strömungen im Spiegel der Epochen ein, zeigt die Autorinnen und Autoren, ihr Schaffen und den Literaturbetrieb in enger Verflechtung mit dem gesellschaftlichen, kulturellen und politischen Zeitgeist. Ein lebendiges Nachschlagewerk, das durch die gelungene Verknüpfung von Text und Illustrationen bei Neugierigen und Kennern gleichermaßen für großes Lesevergnügen sorgt. - Die Neuauflage schreibt die Kapitel zur Gegenwartsliteratur und zum Literaturbetrieb fort.

Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. This includes a final chapter, written for this latest edition, on the consequences of the reunification of Germany in 1990. Thoroughly interdiscipinary in method, the work also reflects recent developments in literary criticism and history. Highly readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature succeeds in making the literature of the past as immediate and engaging as the works of the present. It is both a scholary study and an invaluable reference work for students.

The pay-offs for creating distributed applications are in achieving portability, scalability and fault-tolerance. In order to simplify building software that performs robustly regardless of platform or network infrastructure, a new strata of 'middleware' has been created. This book provides a conceptual framework within which to describe object-oriented middleware for the integration of distributed objects. UML is used to explain distributed systems concepts. Presenting both an extended case study and smaller illustrative examples, there are plenty of coded examples in Java, C++, CORBA IDL and Microsoft IDL, which reflect the reality of today's multi-language heterogeneous systems. This is a book for developers who are new to programming in distributed environments. It also supports a variety of courses where the central theme is object-oriented development with middleware technologies. The book shows the middleware concepts and principles using examples taken from: * OMG/CORBA * Microsoft COM * Java/RMI On the accompanying website (http://www.distributed-objects.com) are exercises, sample solutions and working code for the examples. This site is also designed for instructors to assist them with course development and delivery.

Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. This includes a final chapter, written for this latest edition, on the consequences of the reunification of Germany in 1990. Thoroughly interdiscipinary in method, the work also reflects recent developments in literary criticism and history. Highly readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature succeeds in making the literature of the past as immediate and engaging as the works of the present. It is both a scholary study and an invaluable reference work for students.