peter lang jul 2011 (254 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Das Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch wendet sich an diejenigen, die an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen studieren oder wissenschaftlich arbeiten wollen und deren Muttersprache nicht Deutsch ist. Voraussetzung für die Arbeit mit diesem Buch ist ein fortgeschrittenes Sprachniveau (C1). Angestrebt wird eine souveräne Beherrschung der Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch und damit eine wissenschaftskommunikative Kompetenz auf hohem Niveau (C2). Das Buch ist geeignet für studienbegleitende oder -vorbereitende Kurse an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen sowie für den weltweiten Einsatz an Universitäten, deutschen Auslandsschulen oder Sprachinstituten. Es bietet aufgrund seiner Reichhaltigkeit und durch den Lösungsschlüssel im Internet motivierten Lernern auch die Möglichkeit zum Selbststudium.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Teaching Joe L. Kincheloe is one of a handful of recent books posthumously moving Kincheloe¿s work further into the twenty-first century. Written and edited by Kincheloe¿s former students and colleagues, the book underscores the depth and breadth of his extraordinarily productive career. In an era marked by the ruling elite¿s desperation as U.S. power wanes globally, this work opens up transformative ways of seeing conducive to challenging the technocratic, imperialistic purpose of the dominant forms of education. Kincheloe would surely have been pleased to see this ¿ among his many postformal contributions ¿ counter-hegemonically providing critical pedagogy with the theoretical and practical strength to contribute to the global uprising currently challenging the imperialist project of wealth extraction and cultural domination around the world. Teaching Joe L. Kincheloe will only gain relevance as the global movement against authoritarianism intensifies and citizens search for new ways to better understand their worlds and the historical development of their own identities.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Creatively and rigorously blending historical research and contemporary data from various disciplines, this book cogently and comprehensively illustrates the problems and opportunities the American nation faces in education, economics, and the global arena. The authors propose a framework of transformation that would render American culture no longer a culture of conflict, but one whose purpose is to achieve metacultural cohesion. The book illustrates how this change is imperative if we are to ensure that our nation and its individual members thrive domestically ¿ and if we are to enhance our global competitiveness and contributions, geopolitically and otherwise, throughout this century and beyond. Transforming America is a welcome foundational text for teachers and students in education and the social sciences at both undergraduate and graduate levels.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Theories of Communication is the realization of a project begun in the 1970s with Marshall McLuhan and now brought to completion by his son, Eric McLuhan. This collection of short essays assembles theories of communication from a diverse range of famous people ¿ from Thomas Aquinas and Francis Bacon to Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound ¿ and ends with an essay on Marshall McLuhann¿ own theory of communication. While the majority of the essays have been previously published, all are seminal pieces in the field. Their presence together in one volume is a significant contribution to the overall task of understanding culture and communication in our time, and will appeal to both scholars and students interested in the work of Marshall McLuhan.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the United States. Divided into seven sections that focus on biculturalism, racism, culture and schooling, language rights, Latino issues, the politics of the body, and a public pedagogy of dissent, the essays forcefully speak to the multiple ways in which the dominant culture shapes and perpetuates widespread inequalities and social exclusions, at the expense of oppressed populations. Spanning twenty years, this timely collection not only provides deeply unique political insights on important theoretical and practical concerns, but also offers the reader a historical glimpse into the literary evolution of one of the foremost radical education scholars of our time. Along with the intellectual ingenuity of her scholarly arguments, Darder beautifully weaves each section together with her poems of dissent. A Dissident Voice should be read by every student, professor, administrator and educated reader interested in alternative voices in education. 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -New literacies have many functions in schools and learning, but science and mathematics education are among the contexts where their full potential has yet to be explored. This book both illustrates and critically analyzes the practice of blogging and its possibilities for fostering different ways of communicating, interacting, learning, and thinking in these subjects. Grounded in empirical data gathered from teachers and students using blogs in a variety of contexts, the book examines which specific uses of blogging can be most conducive to transforming science and mathematics classrooms into places that are more equitable and just ¿ places that invite and nurture new, more social, comprehensive, and authentic forms of participation and learning. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Introduzione al commercio italiano: An Introduction to Business Italian, now in its second edition, represents a new approach in teaching Italian with a focus. Readings are prepared or selected for their emphasis on business and social life. Comprehension questions and communicative exercises of a functional nature present the student with a situation that he or she must resolve. The exercises are varied and stimulating, hence fostering progressive and positive development of oral and written skills. This text meets the needs of today¿s communication-oriented student and offers materials which will enhance student interaction. Introduzione al commercio italiano will provide the student with the necessary skills to enter the business world of today.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Is the major crisis that began in 2008 nearing the end Governments and analysts have time and again announced that. Yet this diagnosis remains very premature even now. The level of unemployment is still high in many countries. While the massive aids provided by the States to the economy have allowed them to avoid the collapse of the economic system, they have paradoxically exposed the States to their own failure. Many countries in Europe are in precarious situations. Far beyond Europe the role played by the State is in question. Which measures must be taken by the public authorities in order to remedy the economic crisis Are we witnessing the emergence of a new form of regulation How will the general interest be carried and defended in future How have the relations between the State and citizens changed What are the national or continental variations on these themes Through international comparisons, specialists from Europe, Africa and the Americas linked to CIRIEC International bring new answers to these important questions.La crise majeure débutée en 2008 est-elle terminée Gouvernements et analystes l¿ont annoncé à maintes reprises. Pourtant, ce diagnostic reste aujourd¿hui encore très prématuré. Le taux de chômage demeure élevé dans de nombreux pays. Car, si les aides massives apportées par les États à l¿économie ont permis d¿éviter l¿effondrement du système économique, elles ont paradoxalement exposé les États à leur propre faillite. Plusieurs pays d¿Europe sont dans des situations précaires. Bien au-delà de l¿Europe, le rôle joué par l¿État est en question. Quelles mesures doivent être prises par les autorités publiques pour remédier à la crise économique Assiste-t-on à l¿émergence d¿un nouveau mode de régulation Comment est désormais porté et défendu l¿intérêt général Comment les rapports entre l¿État et les citoyens sont-ils transformés Quelles sont les variations nationales ou continentales sur ces thèmes C¿est à ces questions communes que différents spécialistes d¿Europe, d¿Afrique et des Amériques liés au CIRIEC international répondent dans cet ouvrage dans une perspective comparée. 338 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema is a collection of studies on filmic dystopias: Goto, the Island of Love; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Stalker; Videodrome; Sexmission; Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes; Kingsajz; Equilibrium; V for Vendetta; Children of Men; The Aerial. Employing a variety of theoretical perspectives (from cultural semiotics to post-structuralist approach), the authors analyse films from different cultural, linguistic and political contexts, demonstrating the interplay between the formulaic dystopian facade and narratological inventiveness, heightened intertextuality, and generic hybridity. The contributors also explore the ways in which dystopian cinema adapts the motifs and techniques borrowed from classic literary dystopias. 190 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Research into the complex phenomenon of multilingualism is rapidly increasing. This book looks at multilingualism through its interfaces with language policies, language attitudes and issues of language awareness and identity. The aim is to examine the dynamic processes that lead or hinder the development of such phenomena. One of the scopes of the volume is to represent the complexity of the multilingual speaker by shedding light on different multilingual settings in the world. The chapters of this volume tackle the topic from a sociolinguistic perspective by showing how multilingualism is dynamically constructed. They provide empirical research on language learning in different multilingual environments in the world as well as practical suggestions for the investigation of multilingualism and the improvement of its education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the impact of classical Chinese literature on Mao Zedong¿s political rhetoric and his vision of a tripolar geopolitical landscape at the peak of the Cold War. The historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which two weaker sovereign powers (Shu and Wu) collude to defend themselves against the dominance of another power (Wei), is here identified as a particular inspiration for Mao in building a Sino-Soviet alliance in opposition to the powerful United States. This classical Chinese text provided Mao with a framework for understanding the complexity of global politics, establishing a balance with the two superpowers, and gaining diplomatic autonomy in Chinäs development.This study traces Maös use of a tripolar policy throughout his leadership, including the role of the Korean War in isolating China, the influence of Sino-US hostility on Maös Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, and the initiation of ¿ping-pong diplomacy¿ with the United States to counteract the Soviet threat. The author offers an original insight into Maös navigation of US and Soviet pressures while promoting socialist modernization in China.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Irish National Theatre Society began its centenary in 2004 with ambitious theatrical events at home and abroad. By the end of the year, however, the company was close to financial ruin, culminating in its dissolution and subsequent reestablishment. The financial crisis was only one element of controversy during the centenary year. During this period, the remit of the Abbey Theatre as a house for the performance of Irish identity and new Irish writing was brought into question. While debates unfolded over the artistic and financial crises, many commentators queried the very nature of, or need for, a national theatre in twenty-first-century Ireland.Examining organizational issues such as finance and public policy, as well as wider questions about the representation of Irishness on the national stage and the shaping of collective memory through commemoration, this book questions the way that the private concerns of the Irish National Theatre reflect greater issues within Irish society. Drawing together personal interviews, government documents, media sources and comparative studies from the history of the Republic, the author interweaves current and past crises of the Abbey Theatre with the social, cultural and financial anxieties of an evolving Ireland.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Historical fiction, whether for young or adult readers, enjoys immense popularity in Ireland. History itself has been subject to ongoing cultural, political and historiographical debate in a rapidly changing Irish society. This interdisciplinary study examines the fervent discussion and explores how fictional texts introduce their young audience to controversial historical events. History in Irish Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults focuses on contemporary fiction that deals with two major events in Irish history ¿ the Great Irish Famine (1845-49) and the Easter Rising of 1916. It covers a wide variety of novels, including works by Marita Conlon-McKenna, Morgan Llywelyn, Elizabeth Lutzeier, Michael Morpurgo, Siobhán Parkinson, and Gerard Whelan. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book examines, in line with the demands of the Aarhus Convention, the participation opportunities for civil society organizations in the area of environmental protection at the European Union (EU) Institutions throughout the policy cycle as a whole. The study aims at alleviating the paradox that arises in litigation in environmental matters before the European Court of Justice. For this purpose, the current standing rules are assessed and potential reforms are discussed in detail. Based on the rules existing in, for instance, the EU Member States and the USA, the author formulates a proposal for a new article in the Statutes and Rules of Procedure of the European Court of Justice to allow for the submission of amicus curiae briefs. 314 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -«This collection of articles is a sociolinguistic response to the recent explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. Identity is central to all human beings as we are all concerned with how to conceive of ourselves, present ourselves and comprehend our relationships with others. The book tackles the problem of how personal identity is made visible and intelligible to others through language, and how this may be constrained. Part One, Emblematic identities, focuses on the construction of self-definitions based on various forms of group identities, including national and ethnic ones. Part Two, Multicultural Identities, looks at negotiation of identities in multicultural contexts involving relations of power, drawing on examples from Europe and the Americas. Finally, Part Three, Emergent Identities, collects empirical studies based on a close reading of texts in which identities are being articulated and negotiated.» (Hanna Püaczewska, University of Regensburg) 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -For centuries, migration has been part of Polish history. In recent decades, however, migration patterns have intensified and undergone significant changes, especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90 and Poland¿s accession to the European Union in 2004. This collection of essays is the first to explicitly address the cultural impact of Polish migration to three European countries that have absorbed the major part of the recent exodus: Germany, Ireland, and UK. The volume analyses cultural activities of Poles abroad, explores topical trends in Polish migrant literature, and discusses the representation of migrants in film. By opening up a decidedly cultural perspective, the essays hope to break new ground and enrich the scientific discourse on migration in the European context. 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ageing and broader socio-economic developments are challenging European societies in manifold ways, not least in how they are dealing with the need for long-term care. In the growing body of comparative long-term care literature, Central and South Eastern Europe has so far been widely neglected. This book covers eight countries in this region, namely Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The book provides an overview of common and diverse demographic and socio-economic challenges, whilst analysing the current situation in the organisation, provision and financing of long-term care and the roles of family, civil society, private sector and the state. It also discusses relevant trends and prospects in a broader comparative perspective. 242 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book concentrates on one of the major concerns of the United Nations: world peace. Aiming to trace the development of the concept of peace from the foundation of the UN until today, the book investigates on what conceptual understanding the UN was instituted in 1945 and what notion of peace has become apparent in subsequent UN policy as it is performed by the primary UN organs. Along the lines of this research program, the book seeks to reveal the changing underlying assumptions about how a peaceful world order looks and how it should be brought about. Beyond these aspects of semantic change, the book also explores the institutional dimension of this organizational concept by carving out how it is anchored in functional-normative structures of the world organization, its policy, and rhetoric. It builds on an interdisciplinary approach of institutional analysis and conceptual explanation that combines interpretive methods from international law scholarship, conceptual history and policy analysis. 370 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature ¿ primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland ¿ as well as in the related fields of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature. These international collaborations inform and contribute to the present volume, which addresses the heritage bequeathed to medieval English language and literature by the classical world.This volume explores the development of medieval English literature in light of contact with Germanic and Old Norse cultures, on the one hand, and Romance languages, on the other. The book includes a comparative study of Beowulf in the Germanic context, discusses aspects of Piers Plowman and its tradition, and offers philological approaches to Chaucer (especially his Troilus and Criseyde). The articles assembled here collectively suggest how the torches of classical learning were carried from continental Europe to illuminate the pages of medieval English literature. 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book brings together new essays on six of the most important British and American writers who lived in or visited Spain in the 20 century and whose work bears the impact of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. On the occasion of the 75 anniversary of its outbreak, the new angle on the relations between these authors and Spain is the examination of the mutual bond and its fruits from the point of view of life-writing. The six writers ¿ five British and one American ¿ are presented in chronological order of their birth: Gerald Brenan, Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Stephen Spender and Laurie Lee. Their autobiographies, or what they wrote about their lives in or in relation to Spain, are contrasted with the often multiple biographies that were written on them.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 334 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Forging the Methodology that Enlightened Modern Civilization presents a review of two millennia of human strivings to attain a more realistic understanding of the universe and humans¿ place in it. The earliest attempts were mythical accounts invoking miracles and intentional explanations involving spirits, angels, and gods. It was the ancient Greeks who first achieved a more rational understanding of the world as shown in their prescient theories of evolution, atomism, heliocentrism, and physical cosmologies.Later developments include the supernatural worldview of the medieval period, followed by the Arabic renewal of the Greek achievements by translating their manuscripts and emulating their research. This endeavor led to the scholastics of the Renaissance reviving and revising Aristotle¿s worldview, and to the introduction of some of the crucial concepts of later classical science. The latter, inaugurated by Copernicus¿ defense of heliocentrism followed by the remarkable discoveries of Kepler, Gilbert, Harvey, and Galileo, culminated in Newton's universal laws, forces, cosmology, and optical theory, which formed modern classical science. Newton¿s deterministic cosmology of absolute space and time persisted until the introduction of quantum mechanics and Einstein¿s relativity theories in the twentieth century. This book clearly establishes that there is an inevitable conflict between science and religion and why science is prevailing.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 174 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is pervasive in French-American relations. A historical perspective to contemporary issues regarding the French-American connection helps us to come to terms with some of the pressing problems currently facing France and the United States and to view some key literary texts in a new light. 154 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The work deals with the increasing penetration of IT that corporations have to deal with, and that has particular impacts on the research on strategic management accounting. This book serves as an instruction for the practitioner to select particular controlling tools for a specific purpose. It provides a valid selection of common software tools to support the managerial decision-making process such as activity-based costing and balanced scorecard software including dashboard solutions. The software has been evaluated by deriving necessary information requirements from theory which in a second step have been tested in the software itself providing an evaluation of over 40 software programs and over 90 tools. To conduct the evaluation, manuals representing the software capabilities have been analysed and a conjoint measurement was used to benchmark different software programs. 346 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -James Tate is one of Americäs most respected and senior poets, whose influence is increasingly widespread. However, his whimsical play has long challenged critics to read him with any depth. After winning the Yale Prize in 1967 for his first book, The Lost Pilot, published when he was just twenty-three, Tate has since gone on to win major literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Tanning Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of American Poets.This is the first monograph dedicated to Tate¿s ¿uvre. The author provides a practical reading theory for Tate, complete with contextual frameworks. Close readings of Tate¿s work are informed by the purposeful purposelessness of Kant, the surrealist debt to Breton, and the problems and pleasures of language as explored by Derrida. Tate¿s great achievement is no less than a reconfiguring of the modern American lyric as a poetry of dramatic and dialogic narrative. Composed out of ¿odds and ends . of no great moment¿, as the poet himself writes, Tate¿s work extends the varied American traditions of writers such as William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, John Berryman, and John Ashbery.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A religious reformation occurred in the Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries which scholars often call Christianization. Examining evidence relevant to Roman Africa of this period, this book sharpens understanding of this religious revolution. Focusing on the activities of Augustine and his colleagues from Augustine¿s ordination as a priest in 391, to the fall of the Emperor Honorius¿ master of soldiers, Stilicho, in 408, it proposes Catholicization as a term to more precisely characterize the process of change observed. Augustine and Catholic Christianization argues that at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century Augustine emerged as the key manager in the campaign to Catholicize Roman Africa by virtue of a comprehensive strategy to persuade or suppress rivals, which notably included Donatists, Arians, Manichees, and various kinds of polytheism. Select sermons from 403 and 404 reveal that Augustine¿s rhetoric was multivalent. It addressed the populus and the elite, Christians and non-Christians, Catholics, and Donatists.Key sources examined are selected laws of the Theodosian Code, the Canons of the African Council of Catholic Bishops, Augustine¿s Dolbeau sermons (discovered in 1990), Contra Cresconium, as well as other sermons, letters, and treatises of Augustine. This book clarifies our perception of Augustine and Christianity in the socio-religious landscape of Late Roman Africa in at least three ways. First, it combines theological investigation of the sources and development of Augustine¿s ecclesiology with sociohistorical tracing of the process of Catholicization. Second, an account of the evolution of Augustine¿s self-understanding as a bishop is given along with the development of his strategy for Catholicization. Third, Augustine is identified as resembling modern political «spin-doctors» in that he was a brilliant spokesperson, but he did not work alone; he was a team player. In brief, Augustine influenced and was influenced by his fellow bishops within Catholic circles.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Use of Exodus in Hebrews illustrates how traditions and hermeneutics have significantly determined people¿s valuations of the relationship between the Old and New Covenants in Hebrews. By showing how the author of Hebrews uses the canonical revelation from Exodus to argue rhetorically, ontologically, and hermeneutically that Jesus Christ is the New Covenant priest in the heavenly tabernacle, this book offers an epistemological lens from Exodus to identify the correct view of the relationship between the Old and New Covenants.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Since CIUTI Forums are intended to bring vocational university institutes into contact with the professional world to permit exchanges of experience, this 2010 FORUM (United Nations, Geneva) addressed once again the fact that new political and economic blocs have crystallised in recent decades that are more or less economically linked with one another (EU, ASEAN, MERCOSUR, ECOWAS, etc.). This should not, however, be interpreted in a purely politico-economic context, since consideration must also be given to cultural globalization, which renders intercultural dialogue necessary supported by qualified translators and interpreters who were gaining an important role as language mediators.In accordance with CIUTI¿s wishes, the contributors focused on the effects of the new political and economic global scene from different perspectives, among them the issue of effective and efficient training supported by novative approaches. The tasks of language services of the European Commission, the Russian Federation and Central Asia were dealt with, Asiäs driving forces in translation and interpreting were highlighted, namely China and its ASEAN neighbours. Finally, an attempt was made to create a link to economic geography which would make it possible to determine which regions favour the translation industry, which specialised areas have become leaders of international trade and which language combinations would be advisable.This book contains contributions in English, French, and German. 418 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This study proposes a comparative accounting framework for assessing cost recovery of water supply and sewerage services for households and agriculture in line with the requirements of Article 9 of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). It provides an integrative analysis of the partly contradictory objectives of Article 9 and the Directive¿s approach to cost recovery. The book defines cost categories and accounting guidelines in line with the specific requirements of WFD Article 9. On this basis, an integrative framework for analysing different financing schemes for water services provision and their compliance with the objectives of Article 9 is developed, along with a pragmatic approach for the incorporation of environmental and resource costs in the overall cost recovery analysis. 378 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What makes a world author How did Homer become a «cosmopolitan» author How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader How do past and more recent translations of Dante¿s Commedia help us to rethink the changing definitions of world literature How did the Alexander romance adapt to an Islamic context How did Tassös epic adapt to a later cultural context dominated by the «Turkish Fear» What shaped the West¿s first impression of The Tale of Genji How does the Ovidian myth of Arachne migrate from Japan to the Caribbean What are the foundational metaphors at the root of Goethe¿s weltliteratur paradigm What happens when cultures import canonical texts for lack of their own By what process does an eccentric writer reconstruct a new foundational text from heterogeneous fragments of other cultures How did literary criticism contribute to the canonization of the Thousand and One Nights in Western literature What is left of the primacy of the national language when writers are published simultaneously in various translations How do modern misreadings shape our understanding of national epics and ensure their survival World literature, first intuited in Goethe¿s foundational idea of weltliteratur as literature that seeks to transcend national boundaries, is viewed here in its essential mobility and migratory capacity, which relies on the centrality of the reading act. This volume focuses on foundational texts as they are read across cultures, languages and historical contexts. Its goal is to reflect on canonical texts ¿ from Homer¿s Odyssey to Murakami¿s Genji, from Cervantes to Mayan hieroglyphs, from Dante to Coetzee, from Goethe to Lezama Lima, from the Thousand and One Nights to Jorge Luis Borges ¿ in a global perspective: how they are translated, appropriated, transformed, how they travel across different cultures and languages, their foundational status evolving accordingly in a post-European world.Foundational Texts of World Literature includes contributions by Gerardo Aldana, Sandra Bermann, Piero Boitani, Michael Emmerich, Azadeh Yamini Hamedani, Stefan Helgesson, Paulo Lemos Horta, Juan Pablo Lupi, Peter Madsen, Ulrich Marzolph, Suzanne Saïd, Evanghelia Stead, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, and Richard Van Leeuwen.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 238 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Life Histories of Bahá¿í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century is an unprecedented study of the essential features of living a Bahá¿í life, examining contributions and experiences of a diverse group of Canadian women and men in a new religion through a sociological framework and a women-centred perspective.The key figures in the Bahá¿í Faith, early female heroes, major teachings of the religion, and Canadian Bahá¿í history are detailed. A background on social history and the feminization of religion also provides a context for twentieth century Canadian life. Drawing upon Western religious and secular thought and practice, theories and social attitudes about the nature of woman and the Bahá¿í perspective on these topics are explicated.These stirring narratives, historical and contemporary, provide a compelling perspective on social processes and interactional dimensions of Bahá¿í community life. The life histories also illustrate, in poignant, humorous, and inspiring ways, how these notable Bahá¿ís «story» themselves along the way.The teachings of the Bahá¿í Faith are remarkably forward looking. One of the foundational principles is the oneness of humanity, and an integral part of this oneness is the equality of women with men. Lay readers and students of religion, sociology, and women¿s and gender studies, will be interested in how members make meaning of these teachings on equality and how women¿s participation in the Bahá¿í institutional system is promoted and maintained. 242 pp. Englisch.