The volume "The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments" responds to the growing interest in the scientific study of the Memory of the World Programme (MoW) and its core concept of documentary heritage, which has received little attention from scholarship so far. This sixth publication in the Heritage Studies Series provides a first collection of differing approaches (including reflected reports, essays, research contributions, and theoretical reflections) for the study of the MoW Programme, offering a basis for follow-up activities. The volume, edited by Ray Edmondson, Lothar Jordan and Anca Claudia Prodan, brings together 21 scholars from around the globe to present aspects deemed crucial for understanding MoW, its development, relevance and potential. The aim is to encourage academic research on MoW and to enhance the understanding of its potential and place within Heritage Studies and beyond.

The volume "The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments" responds to the growing interest in the scientific study of the Memory of the World Programme (MoW) and its core concept of documentary heritage, which has received little attention from scholarship so far. This sixth publication in the Heritage Studies Series provides a first collection of differing approaches (including reflected reports, essays, research contributions, and theoretical reflections) for the study of the MoW Programme, offering a basis for follow-up activities. The volume, edited by Ray Edmondson, Lothar Jordan and Anca Claudia Prodan, brings together 21 scholars from around the globe to present aspects deemed crucial for understanding MoW, its development, relevance and potential. The aim is to encourage academic research on MoW and to enhance the understanding of its potential and place within Heritage Studies and beyond.

The volume assembles the papers held at a symposium organised by the Heinrich Heine Institute (DA1/4sseldorf), 20-22 October 1992, in cooperation with the Equipe Transferts Culturels of the CNRS (Paris) and the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico (Trent). They deal with the processes of cross-frontier cultural and scientific transfer from the 18th to the 20th century (with special emphasis on the 19th century). The scope of the treatment ranges from individual cases to broader overviews. The approach is not only international but also interdisciplinary, ranging from literature to historiography and the history of scientific institutions and branches of science.

This volume is designed as an aid to research into international connections in the poetry of the present day. It covers the scholarly studies published between 1945 and 1988 pertaining to the reception (in the broadest sense of the term) accorded in German-speaking areas to poetry written in other European languages, with special reference to the relation between this body of poetry and poetry in German. New is the broad range of languages (approx. 35) from Eastern and Western Europe and the Americas.

Die hier vorgelegten Studien zielen darauf ab, komparatistische Vorarbeiten zu einer Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik im 20. Jahrhundert zu leisten, moglicherweise auch einer internationalen Geschichte der modernen Lyrik den Weg zu bereiten, indem sie das Verhaltnis zwischen nationalen Traditionen und internationalen Einflussen in der Geschichte der neuesten deutschen Lyrik untersuchen. Vermittlung und Rezeption der franzosischen und nordamerikanischen Gegenwartslyrik seit 1920 stehen im Zentrum des Interesses, doch werden weitere Poesien mitberucksichtigt. Dabei werden am Beispiel wichtiger auslandischer Dichter wie Apollinaire, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.C. Williams, F. O'Hara sowie die Surrealisten u.a. die im deutschen Sprachraum fur die moderne Lyrik verzogerten Moglichkeiten der Vielfalt studiert."