Published by Peter Gmbh Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631728573 ISBN 13: 9783631728574
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume presents contributions of the Catholic-Lutheran International Conference held at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome in 2016. The scholars were invited to reflect together on the questions of forgiveness, conversion and penance in the context of the ecumenical dialogue that has been going on since the Second Vatican Council. Precisely because stemming from a deep rethinking of God's forgiveness, the movement that began half a millennium ago has borne diverse fruits in different traditions. Today, within the context of fraternal dialogue we may be able to recognize in a new way «the signs of God's mercy». This motivation allows us to discover, in this book, new itineraries and processes of the conversion to God which also leads to the rediscovery and the inauguration of authentic forms of penance, both ecclesial and personal. 210 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1433133857 ISBN 13: 9781433133855
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Minding Their Own Business: Five Female Leaders from Trinidad and Tobago is a narrative project that illuminates the historical legacy of entrepreneurship, self-employment, and collective economics within the African diaspora, particularly in the lives of five women leaders of African descent from Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean. By using the financial literacy lens as an analytical tool to interpret these biographies, this book documents the journeys of these independent business women, uncovers the literacy skills they employed, and describes the networking skills that they relied upon personally and professionally. The qualitative data collection methods utilized in this project help to identify lessons that will inform professionals, educators, and business and lay persons about the innovative ways in which teaching and learning take place outside of ¿formal¿ business schooling. Information gleaned from this study also serves to broaden traditional understandings of entrepreneurship and economic strategies inherited from majority African descended communities. Additionally, this book illuminates the creative and intellectual modes of learning within the Afrocentric communities that foster successful business practices. Finally, these five successful women pass on to interested learners their methods of modeling, encouraging, and celebrating the means by which independent business people make a positive impact on society. 150 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1433144085 ISBN 13: 9781433144080
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book provides a deeper understanding of the phone-based composing practices of youth and their implications for literacy learning. In the United States, smartphone use among teens is nearly universal, yet many youth who are avid digital composers still struggle with formal schooled literacy. The widespread and rapid embrace of smartphones by youth from all income levels has had a substantial impact on the way that young people approach the act of composing, yet to date, little to no work has explored digital photography and text curation through popular apps like Twitter and Instagram and their impact on literacy, including formal schooled literacy. As more schools are moving to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) models and lifting classroom bans on cellphones, classroom teachers need information about the affordances of phones for formal literacy learning, which this book provides. This book will also be of interest to those in courses in the fields of education, new literacies, cultural studies/youth culture, literacy studies, communication arts, and anthropology of education/social sciences. This book could be used in a course on online/Internet ethnography. It could also be used in a more general research methods course to illustrate the combination of online and offline data collection. Outside of research methods courses, it could be used in courses on literacies, digital literacies, youth culture, popular culture and media, or mobile learning.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631665172 ISBN 13: 9783631665176
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This collection of articles is the result of the research project «The Polish local society in the process of European integration ¿ a decade of experience», financed by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN). The aim was to investigate the process of integration in the EU of six selected local Polish communities. The same six communities had been studied ten years before, when Poland was preparing for the EU accession. The research was based on qualitative methodology. The results show that the knowledge of the EU in local Poland remains at a very low level. The exception is competence in the field of EU structural funds. These funds are the main factor which determines the positive attitude of Poles towards the EU and the Polish membership in it. At the same time the process of the construction of a European identity in terms of values remains very problematic. 116 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631731329 ISBN 13: 9783631731321
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is mapping the fields of modern output-oriented teaching, intercultural learning, and drama methods in the foreign language class. It explains that drama-based language learning transcends the usual learning scopes in its practical relevance and its far-reaching contextual implications. By including (inter-)cultural aspects, as well as human and civil rights issues, modern teaching can provide students with new frames of references and shifts their attention from an individualistic worldview towards a more tolerant perception of «the other.» The term of «cultura franca» hints at a liberation of cultural restraints and this is exactly what is indispensable in order to educate students to become the interculturally adept speakers our modern time needs. 172 pp. Englisch.
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Les lettres de Charles Gounod à la duchesse Colonna, sculptrice de renom sous le pseudonyme de Marcello, sont d¿un immense intérêt. De caractère intime, elles offrent également des informations sur les projets du compositeur (dont un opéra inachevé d¿après l¿histoire de Francesca da Rimini), les détails matériels de son activité, son manque d¿inspiration, ainsi que sur ses conceptions esthétiques et philosophiques. Entre la création de Roméo et Juliette en 1867 et la fuite de Gounod en Angleterre en 1870, les deux amis partagent leurs joies et leurs préoccupations tant artistiques que personnelles. Cet échange épistolaire enrichit considérablement la compréhension de la personnalité humaine et créatrice de Gounod, ainsi que de son milieu culturel.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Französisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631732090 ISBN 13: 9783631732090
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a comprehensive approach to interpreting Frank O¿Haräs highly influential work. Frank O¿Haräs poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art. The book includes historical contextualization as well as practical criticism. The author analyzes how Frank O¿Hara could be regarded. As a Modernist poet, or as one who realizes that the aesthetic of High Modernism is on the wane, and is preparing himself for a paradigmatic change. Earlier poems are best seen as Modernist/avant-gardist, while the later ones as no less vanguard forays into uncharted territory. While the book takes up issues such as mimeticism, realism and abstraction in both poetry and painting, the boredom of the new as seen by Walter Benjamin, and the representational potential of the camp aesthetic, the main emphasis is on practical criticism, modes of reading O¿Haräs ¿uvre. 142 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631734549 ISBN 13: 9783631734544
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is an investigation into the correlation between level of extroversion, orientation of locus of control and gender. Level of extroversion and gender are widely recognised as key factors influencing the process of Second Language Acquisition, although there remains much debate as to the nature of this influence. Locus of Control has equally been identified as a key predictor of success in academic learning. Taking these points into consideration, the authors analyze the correlation between these three key factors and success in reading and listening on students of English at the university level. The investigation includes both a quantitative analysis and qualitative explanatory interviews. 180 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631729391 ISBN 13: 9783631729397
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse by either highlighting the extra literary generative forces or by focusing on the intrinsic study of literary works. Rhetoric chiefly places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses whereas literary history predominantly examines the temporal succession of the literary systems or of the literary institution. The author focuses on the three sections: poetics, rhetoric, and literary history and provides an introductory study on the subject of reference. 170 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631731043 ISBN 13: 9783631731048
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. Virtual reality is connected to our current environment with multiple ties. It affects the everyday operation of the media and hence all of our lives. The authors connect the concepts of pictorial turn and virtual reality from different perspectives and disciplines, from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. 198 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1433134713 ISBN 13: 9781433134715
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. Much of this work was conceived and written during Obamäs initial presidential campaign, or relatively early in his two terms in office. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication. In each chapter, these eminent critics begin by summarizing the analysis and conclusions in their original essays on Obama, and then reflect on their previous conclusions, revising or extending them in response to developments since the publication of the original work. The chapters provide a glimpse into the inventional strategies of practicing critics and into some of the ways that that critical insights may evolve over time. Scholars rarely have an opportunity to publish essays that reflect on their own previous work, even though few resources can be of greater use to both beginning critics and to established scholars seeking to continue to hone and reflect on their critical practice. This book, then, makes an important contribution not only to the existing literature on the 44th president of the United States, but also and perhaps most significantly to the study of the art and craft of rhetorical criticism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 212 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1433142309 ISBN 13: 9781433142307
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators, Third Edition is a practical tool, intended for administrators dealing with students in higher education, focusing principally on four-year institutions. Addressing the ever-evolving relationship between higher education and the law, the book will provide the academic administrator with the means to knowledgably and confidently navigate the many legal threats and challenges facing colleges today. Focused on the 'hot' issues in higher education today, and using examples from real cases and scenarios from many institutions, the handbook provides sample policies, checklists, and advice that administrators can apply to a wide variety of situations, both preventatively and proactively. The Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators, Third Edition is a compendium of practical knowledge and guidance, useful to all administrators dealing with the legal minefield that is higher education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 308 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1433145707 ISBN 13: 9781433145704
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -How does academic jazz education impact the Black cultural value of soulfulness and esthetic standards in contemporary jazz music Through candid conversations with nine of the country¿s most highly respected jazz practitioners and teachers, What Is This Thing Called Soul explores the potential consequences of forcing the Black musical style of jazz into an academic pedagogical system that is specifically designed to facilitate the practice and pedagogy of European classical music. This work tests the belief that the cultural, emotional and esthetic elements at the very core of jazz¿s unique identity, along with the music¿s overt connection to Black culture, are effectively being 'lost in translation' in traversing the divide between academic and non-academic jazz spheres.Each interviewee commands significant respect worldwide in the fields of jazz performance and jazz pedagogy. Noteworthy subjects include: Rufus Reid, Lewis Nash, Nicholas Payton and Wycliffe Gordon¿along with the late jazz masters Marcus Belgrave and Phil Woods. Interviews are supplemented by original analysis of the nature and validity of these issues contributed by the author.What Is This Thing Called Soul offers a candid and objective look into pressing issues of race, culture and ethnic value in relation to both jazz music and jazz education. Sensitivity, marginalization and even a fear of offending others has limited open discussion of how the soul of jazz music can be lost in technical boundaries. What Is This Thing Called Soul is the first attempt to directly address such culturally urgent issues in jazz music.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631727658 ISBN 13: 9783631727652
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human trafficking and its root causes. The author analyzes human trafficking, which can be termed as «modern-day slavery» and in its complexity and dynamism ends up in the exploitation of the victims for the personal gains of a person or group of persons. A majority of the victims, especially women, end up in the sex industries. In most cases people are transported from the so-called underdeveloped to supposedly developed regions. As a result, women and girls are smuggled yearly from underdeveloped countries, for example Nigeria, to Europe and America. 252 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 2807604242 ISBN 13: 9782807604247
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Le monde est désormais entré dans l¿ère de l¿urbain, la majorité des habitants de la planète vivant en ville. Rassemblant les deux tiers de la population mondiale, l¿Asie concentre plus de la moitié des villes vulnérables dans le monde. Le thème de la ville durable en Asie s¿est donc imposé comme central pour cet ouvrage qui rassemble des contributeurs dont l¿expertise sur le développement urbain en Asie est reconnue, et qui viennent d¿horizons scientifiques, professionnels et géographiques divers.L¿éclairage interdisciplinaire des modes de fabrication de la ville durable en Asie permet de renforcer les connaissances sur ce domaine de recherche. Par ailleurs, l¿originalité de cet ouvrage est de ne pas se centrer sur un pays ou une ville particulière d¿Asie mais de proposer une série de contributions croisées sur de nombreux cas d¿étude et de laboratoires urbains hautement significatifs en Chine, Inde, Corée, Japon, etc.Ce livre s¿organise en trois parties : il étudie dans un premier temps les modèles théoriques existants, puis leur mise en application et finalement leur capacité à répondre aux urgences sociétales. Cette réflexion est également enrichie par les contributions du Pr. Klaus R. Kunzmann, l¿un des urbanistes les plus reconnus sur la scène académique mondiale, européenne et asiatique.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 424 pp. Englisch, Französisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3034330537 ISBN 13: 9783034330534
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Textbooks have long been considered a pivotal learning and teaching resource in classrooms. However, there is a paucity of research on how teachers use textbooks in relation to their beliefs, with analytic methods in such studies mainly restrained to content-based thematic analysis. To this end, from the perspectives of Halliday¿s (1994) systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and Vygostky¿s (1978) socio-cultural theory (SCT), this book explores how a Chinese college English teacher acts upon his beliefs and uses textbooks to mediate his students¿ English learning in his classroom.Drawing on constructs of the SFL-based appraisal and speech function as well as interview excerpts, the study reveals that in the textbook-based classroom the Chinese college English teacher acts upon his beliefs that are constructed by diverse contextual factors. Implications of this study include using SFL and SCT to explore educators¿ beliefs and practices and also providing effective teacher education for Chinese college English instructors to reshape their beliefs so that they are better prepared to use textbooks in classrooms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631671717 ISBN 13: 9783631671719
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book analyses how contemporary political science can develop as a structure of knowledge gathered by the individual sub-disciplines of political studies, as well as the remaining disciplines of social sciences. It helps to get a fuller understanding of political phenomena and to reconstruct the process of emergence of the global civilisation. The author reflects about the current state of research conducted by political scientists. The research is conducted within a few major research paradigms. This work presents a strategy of integrating knowledge about man and society. 194 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631732015 ISBN 13: 9783631732014
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book contains close readings of contemporary literary texts and art work by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America. The readings reveal a critical debate that understands reflections on the slave trade and current migrations from Africa to Europe as continuity since early modern history. This part of cultural history is firmly rooted in the Black Atlantic, although the book¿s primary concern is a discussion of situations in which water spirituality functions as a backdrop. This critical inquiry of social inequality and injustice is based on a theoretical framework that addresses migrations overseas and forced labor. Therefore, the readings are placed within the cultural tradition of seven countries: Brazil, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Principe, and Guinea-Bissau. 262 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631627513 ISBN 13: 9783631627518
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The volume is concerned with educational developments in small and microstates, a topic that has only relatively recently started to attract the attention it deserves. It is guided by the questions (i) if and how small and microstates deal with policy challenges to their education systems that are particularly important for their future development and (ii) whether there is something like typical «small / microstate behavior.» The volume seeks to contribute to a genuinely comparative approach to education in small and microstates. Moreover, widening conventional definitions of smallness, it aims to advance research in the field not only in a thematic but also in a theoretical perspective. Overall, the volume seeks to expand our understanding of small and microstates ¿ and by implication of big states as well ¿, especially regarding what is general and what is particular about their behavior. 284 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3034331134 ISBN 13: 9783034331135
Language: French
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Dans cet ouvrage, la méthode de l¿évaluation partenariale est développée et appliquée à des cas concrets de politiques publiques d¿éducation. Selon cette méthode, les parties prenantes aux politiques d¿éducation sont associées aux principales étapes de l¿évaluation. Cela permet aux partenaires sociaux d¿influer sur le processus, de s¿en approprier les résultats et d¿en faciliter leur mise en ¿uvre.L¿ouvrage expose tout d¿abord trois cas concrets d¿évaluations partenariales dont les étapes d¿analyse sont détaillées. Les perceptions et les réactions des parties prenantes y sont notamment relatées. Les évaluations sont ainsi décrites et vécues de l¿intérieur. L¿ouvrage effectue ensuite un retour critique en présentant les obstacles à l¿évaluation partenariale (et les manières de les lever) ainsi que les conditions préalables à une évaluation efficace.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 154 pp. Französisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631681216 ISBN 13: 9783631681213
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This case study deals with late Chos¿n dynasty works of narrative fiction modelled after Kuunmong (A Dream of Nine Clouds) by Kim Manjung (1637¿1692). The focus lies on a novel extant in two manuscripts: Sinj¿ng Kuullu (Revised augmented edition of the Nine Cloud Tower) and Sinj¿ng chaeja Kuun¿gi (Revised augmented caizi edition of the Story of Nine Clouds), short Kuullu/Kuun¿gi. While this study specifically discusses late premodern hypertexts of Kuunmong, it is also concerned with a set of broader questions regarding the diffusion, circulation, reception, and creative transformation of literary products of different languages on the eve of modernity in Sino-centric East Asia. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3034319150 ISBN 13: 9783034319157
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A major obstacle for the scholar of theatre is the ephemerality of a dramatic performance. How can we know the specifics of an event that has been and gone, an occurrence that can never be repeated This book proposes that by considering the use of songs within a dramatic production we can gain a deeper understanding of past performances, especially with regard to their communal reception. Why did a playwright employ a certain song How might it have affected an audience Arguing that certain song types constitute forms of collective memory, the author explores Irish theatre from the 1950s and 1960s to show that songs are a valuable means by which we can gauge changes in the popular consciousness. By necessity, songs mutate so that they can continue to express and affirm collective memories and therefore fit the zeitgeist of their socio-cultural contexts.Through its detailed research, this book demonstrates that retrospectively analysing the dramatic employment of well-known songs not only helps us better understand the performances and reception of a selection of Irish plays, but also challenges orthodox narratives of Éamon de Valeräs Ireland.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631733216 ISBN 13: 9783631733219
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Islamic financial industry is expanding rapidly into non-Muslim countries including Western Europe. The author analyses what the prospects of success for an Islamic mode of banking and finance in Germany are at the retail level. The quantitative study revealed that two-thirds of respondents were willing to switch to Islamic banking, and that Giro and savings bank accounts and mortgage financing products and services were most desired by the respondents. The qualitative study showed that the success of Islamic Banking and Finance in the United Kingdom is mainly due to the proactive role taken by regulators and London¿s role as an international financial center. Germany¿s regulatory model is different than that of the United Kingdom in that there are no market entry barriers, and the success of Islamic banking in Germany will largely depend on the operating model of Islamic financial institutions. 246 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1787072894 ISBN 13: 9781787072893
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book argues that ideology is a prism through which the work of Vladimir Nabokov needs to be considered. It is thus the first attempt to foreground questions of ideology and politics within a field that has historically been resistant to such readings.The perception of Nabokov as an apolitical writer is one which the author encouraged throughout the latter part of his career in his non-fictional writings and in the small number of well-rehearsed interviews that he gave. When questions of ideology and politics have arisen in scholarship, they have only been featured in passing or have merely re-confirmed the author¿s self-designation as an «old-fashioned liberal». When we consider that Nabokov lived through some of the most traumatic historical ruptures of the past century then this lack of reference to ideology in the critical literature appears quite revealing.Through the analysis of works which have previously received little attention as well as new perspectives on better known works, this book demonstrates how ideology and politics were ever-present and had an indelible effect on Nabokov's literary aesthetics. 222 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 303432264X ISBN 13: 9783034322645
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The voyage ¿ the quest, the odyssey, the expedition ¿ is one of the driving forces of civilisation. From ancient times to the present day, human beings have travelled through necessity (wars, persecutions, economic and political pressures), by vocation (religious and humanitarian) and for pleasure (tourism, culture and sport). A voyage intensifies our perception of self, leading us to define and redefine our identity in the liminal space where we are confronted with the Other. This often leads to a change of perspective in our attitudes to culture, identity and politics. The sea is an important feature of the geography of both Ireland and France, so it is perhaps unsurprising that voyages occupy such an important place in the history of both countries. This volume explores aspects of French and Irish society, past and present, through the prism of the voyage. The contributors focus on a wide range of topics, including cultural tourism, literature, gastronomy and sport, in order to trace the ebb and flow of the exchanges between these two countries and their continued influence on one another.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 390 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1787079430 ISBN 13: 9781787079434
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Albert Einstein (1879¿1955) is universally known as the father of the theory of relativity; however, he was also one of the most eminent pacifists of the first half of the twentieth century. Through his active, pragmatic and nuanced breed of pacifism, he sought to confront the dilemmas and problems stemming from the unstable political conditions of his time: the beginning of the Great War, the creation and failure of the League of Nations, the emergence of totalitarian regimes, the outbreak of the Second World War, the dawn of the Atomic Age, the escalation of the Cold War, the establishment of the United Nations with its apparent institutional weakness and the need for a world government. His reflections on the subject of peace led him into dialogue with the most prestigious figures of the political and cultural world: from Romain Rolland to Bertrand Russell via Georg Friedrich Nicolai, Sigmund Freud, King Albert I of Belgium, Léo Szilárd, Emery Reves and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (amongst others). This dialogue is further emphasized by the book¿s final section, an anthology of Einstein¿s writings and speeches, which significantly enriches this study. 258 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1787071596 ISBN 13: 9781787071599
Language: English
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A contribution to the ever-growing field of audiovisual translation studies, this volume investigates the processes involved in the translation of multilingual films, a media genre where language, culture and identity are closely interwoven. To explore the relationships that get established between audiovisual translation, linguistic diversity and identity, the book analyses a corpus of immigrant films portraying the South Asian diaspora, with the aim of determining how diasporic identity is then reconstructed for the Italian audience through dubbing and subtitling. A sociolinguistic analysis model is proposed that covers all linguistic levels, including the use of ethnolects and some fundamental discourse strategies, such as code-switching and code-mixing, thus illustrating how linguistic choices and language variation are socio-culturally symbolic. 256 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631734905 ISBN 13: 9783631734902
Language: English
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Beiträge dieses Bandes geben Auskunft, wie Forschung und Lehre am Institut für Translationswissenschaft (INTRAWI) aufgestellt sind, um mit der Entwicklung der Translationsbranche Schritt zu halten. Die fortschreitende Globalisierung und Digitalisierung stellt die Translation vor immer neue Herausforderungen. Die Arten der Translation und die Anforderungen an professionelle Übersetzer und Dolmetscher ändern sich rasant. Die Autoren betrachten unter anderem die Entwicklung der Translationswissenschaft und ihrer Theorien, analysieren Fragen der Terminologie in der Translation und Probleme an der Schnittstelle Digitalisierung-Translationsmarkt-Translationspraxis. Sie fokussieren auch Themen wie moderne Fachkommunikation, Audiovisuelle Translation sowie neue Fragen und Formen der Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschdidaktik. 312 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 3631729731 ISBN 13: 9783631729731
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886¿1945), a British author of spiritual fiction and non-fiction, a poet, playwright and a literary critic. It approaches his multidimensional narratives with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms such as the figure-ground organization, conceptual metaphors, conceptual blending, image schemata, scripts, cognitive narrative frames, narrative spaces, cognitive deixis, and empathy. The methodology not only stresses the role of the reader¿s conceptual and emotional involvement in the building of the story-worlds, but also reveals the novels¿ polyphonic character.'This book is a convincing and thought-provoking study of Charles Williams¿s fiction, which uncovers the unique, ambiguous senses of his works.'Prof. Grzegorz MaziarczykThe John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland 336 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1787070662 ISBN 13: 9781787070660
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Add to basketTaschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -'It was a great night for Mexico, as usual.' Donald Trump¿s words about Alejandro González Iñárritu on Oscars¿ night 2014 were a preview of his now-notorious attitude toward Mexicans: 'He¿s walking away with all the gold Was it that good I don¿t hear that. It was certainly a big night for them.' Although the future president¿s comments were offensive, for scholars interested in transnational film and literature his words were pure gold, for they raise questions about 'nation' as a category of representation. When we invoke 'Mexican cinema,' we imply that some kind of 'national cinema' exists ¿ but what is a national cinema Is the cinema made in the US a national cinema in the same way as that of Mexicös And is a film made by a foreigner in Mexico part of Mexican cinema What does it mean for a film or a literary work to cross a border And are borders to be defined in geographical terms only, or can they also be cast in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race, or language itself This book, in short, reflects on the implications of the term transnational in relation to film and literature conceived ¿ in any way, shape, or form ¿ as 'Mexican.' 332 pp. Englisch, Spanisch.