Peter lang dez 2010 (202 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Kulturzeitschriften 'Deutsche Rundschau' und 'Neue Rundschau' galten bereits den Zeitgenossen als die führenden Kulturorgane des Bildungsbürgertums im deutschen Kaiserreich. Unterhalb der zur Schau getragenen Gegensätze verband beide ein gemeinsames bildungsbürgerliches Ideen- und Wertefundament. Die Zeitschriftenbeiträge eröffnen einen Zugang zum Bildungswissen und zu den ästhetischen Konzepten im Bildungsbürgertum und zeigen, dass sich diese Gesellschaftsgruppe über Bildung und Kultur definierte und daraus ihre Identität und gesellschaftliche Stellung ableitete. Die wilhelminische Phase ist ein letzter Höhe- und zugleich Endpunkt dieser kulturellen Vergesellschaftung des Bildungsbürgertums. Vieles trug zu ihrem Ende bei. Im Zentrum standen die Entwicklungen in der Kunst, die der Wertegemeinschaft des liberalen Kulturmilieus den Kern entzogen, der sie zusammenhielt. Der Verlust ihrer Rolle als Kulturhüter wurde in beiden Zeitschriften seismographisch sensibel beobachtet. Als das bürgerliche Jahrhundert im Ersten Weltkrieg unterging, endete auch die große Zeit der Kulturzeitschriften. 316 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Marktnischen gewinnen im Zuge eines wachsenden Individualisierungsstrebens sowie der Weiterentwicklung und Verbreitung von Internettechnologien eine zunehmende Bedeutung. Bei der Positionierung von Angeboten abseits des Massenmarkts ist jedoch das Verständnis des Verhaltens der Nischennachfrager von essentieller Wichtigkeit. Denn insbesondere die individuellere Bedürfnisbefriedigung in Marktnischen erfordert fundierte Aussagen darüber, welche Faktoren die Einstellungen der Konsumenten gegenüber Nischenangeboten beeinflussen. Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit erfolgt die konzeptionelle Erarbeitung einer umfassenden Definition des Begriffs Marktnische. Anschließend untersucht der Autor auf Basis einer empirischen Studie den Einfluss von sozialpsychologischen und auf die individuelle Informationsverarbeitung bezogenen Determinanten auf die Nischenorientierung. Schließlich werden die sich aus den Untersuchungsergebnissen ergebenden Implikationen für die Marketingwissenschaft sowie die Unternehmenspraxis aufgezeigt. Die Arbeit leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis des Konsumentenverhaltens im Hinblick auf Marktnischen.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Die Problematik des Missbrauchs der aktienrechtlichen Anfechtungsklage bleibt trotz ständiger Bekämpfung durch Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung immer noch eine aktuelle Gefahr für die Aktiengesellschaften. Der Verfasser sieht eine von Anfang an bestehende Schwäche der bisherigen Lösungen darin, dass sie am Konzept der institutionellen Rechtmäßigkeitskontrolle durch Anfechtungskläger festhalten, und schlägt stattdessen die Beschränkung der Anfechtungsklage auf den Individualschutz des klagenden Aktionärs vor. Anschließend wird das Missbrauchspotenzial im geltenden Recht genau untersucht. Es folgen die Darstellung und Kritik der Missbrauchsbekämpfung de lege lata einschließlich der neusten Korrekturen des bislang wenig erfolgreichen Freigabeverfahrens durch das Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Aktionärsrechterichtlinie (ARUG), die der Verfasser ebenfalls nicht für ausreichend erfolgversprechend hält. Nach der Bewertung der Vor- und Nachteile weiterer Lösungsmöglichkeiten de lege ferenda wird schließlich ein eigener Vorschlag unterbreitet, wonach sowohl die Rechtsfolge als auch die Aussetzung der Eintragung bei der Anfechtungsklage nach dem Konzept der individuellen Verletztenklage reformiert werden sollten.; Dissertationsschrift.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is widely recognised that we are living through an 'age of the narrative'. Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with this trend by using life history and narrative approaches and methods. As we move on from the modernist period which prioritised objectivity into the postmodern regard for subjectivity, this resort to narrative is likely to become more apparent and explicit in academic as well as social and commercial discourse. One aspect of this narrative form which is commonly overlooked is that of the pedagogic encounter. This is the phenomenon which is addressed by all narrative and biographical research. Fundamentally reflecting and examining the narrative of our lives in the process of learning, this book provides a series of studies and guidelines for what we have termed 'narrative pedagogy.' It presents a resource for an exploration of those narrative processes that can lead to meaningful change and development for individuals and groups within a learning environment and in life-learning. This focus on life history allows us to identify and support routes to learning within the narrative landscape of learners and through these pedagogic encounters. 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Social Frontier is the most interesting and important educational journal to emerge from the Great Depression. First published in 1934 by a group of scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University that included George Counts and William Heard Kilpatrick, the magazine represented a conscious act of social and political reconstruction. With a strong «collectivist» orientation, the magazine was widely misperceived as communist in its approach. In fact, its editorial position called for a greater social role for teachers and a more just and equitable system of schooling. The magazine, which was published for a total of nine years, included articles by major educational and social thinkers of the period from John Dewey to Robert Hutchins and Harold Rugg. Within months of the magazine's first issue it came under attack by right-wing political groups, particularly the Hurst newspaper chain. The Social Frontier: A Critical Reader provides a selection of the most interesting and historically important articles from the magazine with a comprehensive introduction and critical commentaries on the selected articles, which are as timely today as they were when first published seventy-five years ago. 296 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In recent decades many countries have implemented neoliberal reforms that have had adverse consequences for unions. In Chile this process was particularly sweeping, having occurred under the right-wing dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Despite the transition to democracy in 1990, the labor relations system created by the Pinochet regime is still largely in place. Although a number of works have assessed the conditions of unionism in post-dictatorship Chile, little attention has been paid to the firm level, which is where most of the collective bargaining now takes place.This book takes a qualitative approach to examining the dynamics of collective bargaining at the firm level in democratic Chile by investigating the causes of variation in the bargaining outcomes of fifty-three unions in four firms in the banking, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications sectors. It seeks to explain both variation in individual union bargaining outcomes within firms and aggregate differences in outcomes between firms. The book also provides a systematic explanation of the decline of collective bargaining results among Chilean unions in general during the 1990s and early 2000s. 250 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture brings together work from various disciplines that explores the relationships among the everyday lives of boys and such media platforms as television, films, games, sports, music, urban and suburban culture, fashion, young adult novels, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube. Offering a comprehensive overview of boyhood studies, chapters consider questions about the current state of boyhood as it is represented in the popular media; the ways that boys are influenced by and work to influence popular culture; the ways that popular texts often reflect adult expectations, anxieties, and prejudices about boys and boyhood; and the ways that boys, teens, and young men are often able to reflect upon and to act, sometimes unpredictably, to resist, subvert, or re-imagine and re-create popular culture and media. The volume serves as a companion to Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, edited by Mary Celeste Kearney. 278 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have established a presence which has had political, cultural, and epistemological implications. This book focuses on contemporary, successful Black scholars in the academy: they have become tenured and promoted; been recognized as noteworthy scholars, researchers, and as excellent teachers; and have served in leadership capacities. Through autoethnographic narratives that illustrate and interrogate experiences about being in the academy as gendered, race, classed, and sexually oriented others, this book captures the diverse voices of Black men and women achievers who have not only survived, but also thrived. Their candor will inspire others to negotiate normative milieu and make manifest their legitimacy and right to belong. 262 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thinking Themselves Free presents humane, tender portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes the ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. The book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and the expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students who are different from the middle-class norm. Teachers of teen mothers describe with poignancy the young women's struggles to balance motherhood, work, and school, and suggest how schools could change to become more open to the diversity of life choice these women express. Because this book addresses the problems of struggling readers, working class students, and the teachers who serve them, its greatest audience will be among pre-service and in-service teachers and teacher educators interested in literacy education, qualitative research, education reform, gender equity, social justice, and the teaching of young adult literature. 184 pp. Englisch.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The public debate on democracy is often constrained within an alienating and disenfranchising narrative of opinion polls, campaign platforms, personalities and formal structures that generate legislation, all of which surreptitiously seems to trickle down to the classroom. Paul R. Carr asserts that democracy must be cultivated in a vigorous, conscientious, meaningful and critical way in and through education in order for it to have salience in society, especially within a neoliberal conjuncture that promotes limited space for epistemological interrogation of how we understand and are engaged in maintaining and/or transforming our societies. Building on the critical pedagogical work of Paulo Freire, Joe L. Kincheloe, and others, this book develops a framework for understanding how a thicker democratic education can be conceptualized and implemented in schools. The book aims to move the focus on democracy away from voting, and place it more properly on the importance of social justice and political literacy as a way of understanding what democracy is and, importantly, how to make it more relevant for all of society. The book concludes that another democracy is possible, as well as being desirable, and that education is the fundamental intersection in which it must be developed. 360 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Like the invention of the printing press, the Internet is radically transforming the most basic elements of modern civilization. The growing presence of digital technologies and the dramatic impact of networked collaboration constitute a new mode of information production that is reshaping many societies around the world. Underlying this socioeconomic restructuring is the critical importance of digital networks as platforms for creativity and innovation. This edited collection examines the current ways that mass collaboration intersects with sociocultural, technosocial and political changes in varied contexts, and questions their impact on established institutions and modes of production. New tools inevitably engender changes in the way people interact, communicate and collaborate; however, it is increasingly clear that information and communication technologies are now leveraging a democratic shift in a wide array of technological, political and social spaces. The dramatic success of mass collaboration in a multitude of contexts poses a challenge, not only to the dominant economic paradigm, but also to a broad range of received social science thinking. This collection interrogates established theories and concepts in the light of recent developments and builds upon emergent research and original empirical findings. 280 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How can Europe 2020, the EU's new Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, lead to a stronger Social EU with less poverty and greater social cohesion This book by a number of eminent scholars and experts is the first to attempt to answer this question.The adoption in June 2010 by EU leaders of a target to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020 is an important step forward. However, delivering on this and the Union's four other mutually reinforcing targets, and achieving the EU's ambitious social objectives, raises many political and technical challenges. These are examined in depth in this book.A key objective of the book is to take a critical look at and draw lessons from the past, 2000-2010 Lisbon Strategy. Another important objective is to explore the format and role of EU coordination and cooperation in the social field in the new EU governance framework, in a context marked by slow recovery after the global economic crisis. Finally, the book also makes proposals for the further reinforcement of this coordination and cooperation and for the improvement of the different instruments available at EU, national and sub-national levels.The analysis and concrete proposals presented in the book will be invaluable to policy-makers, researchers and other stakeholders interested in contributing to building a more Social EU. They will help to encourage new ideas and innovative approaches. 277 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, published by Peter Lang since 1975, is nowadays the largest series in the wide field of missiology, intercultural theology, and comparative religion/theology. The present editors decided to celebrate the publication of no less than one hundred and fifty volumes by evaluating and rethinking «intercultural theology». This book is meant to encourage Christian theology to be done more thoroughly, adequately, and effectively in the contemporary global and local setting. On the one hand, the volume offers new insights into the nature of doing biblical studies, church history, and systematic and practical theology as well as comparative theology, in an intercultural way. On the other hand, it argues for accomplishing interdisciplinary studies in the fields of theology and religion. 148 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book won the Ohio Professional Writer's, Inc. 2014 Communication Competition Award Now in its second edition, The Televiewing Audience is a user's guide for the only household appliance that doesn't come with one. Watching television seems relatively effortless - it is, after all, a major form of entertainment in the U.S. and overseas - yet this book argues that there is nothing simple about watching television; it is a learned activity which is in a constant state of revision and upgrading. Now more than ever, televiewing requires the generation and application of critical thinking to guide program selection, inform appreciation, generate greater pleasure, and inspire dialogue after consumption. This book is about becoming a more thoughtful and informed consumer, designed to shatter the anonymity of the televiewer, and to create a sense of community, for we rarely think of ourselves as instrumental in the televiewing experience or think of the experience as a shared event. Designed for courses related to broadcasting, media effects, media literacy, and audience studies, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which television influences the way we think about ourselves and our culture. It places us center-stage in the extremely complicated, competitive, creative, and costly endeavor that is television. 218 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Does women's experience matter for theological inquiry Elizabeth Johnson's premise is that it does, and that the failure of traditional Trinitarian doctrine to account for women's relationality results in a too radical distinction between God and the world. Drawing on feminist ethics and God-talk, transcendental experience, and panentheistic Trinitarian theology, she constructs an alternative relational ontology and Trinitarian female symbol. Is her integration of these multiple systems viable More importantly, can divine and human freedom, distinction and personhood be upheld within Johnson's framework Knowing God by Name is a critical assessment and evaluation of this approach, bringing Johnson into conversation with Catholic and feminist colleagues and with Karl Barth, whose Trinitarian theology of experience maintains the divine-creaturely distinction she challenges. It asks whether her combination of Rahnerian anthropology, panentheistic relational ontology and feminist God-talk is internally consistent and methodologically plausible. Knowing God by Name thoughtfully examines Johnson's claim to speak within the contours of historical, Trinitarian Christianity and her contribution to the life and language of the Church today. 310 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What role have translations from Hindi literary works played in shaping and transforming our knowledge about India In this book, renowned scholars, translators and Hindi writers from India, Europe, and the United States offer their approaches to this question. Their articles deal with the political, cultural, and linguistic criteria germane to the selection and translation of Hindi works, the nature of the enduring links between India and Europe, and the reception of translated texts, particularly through the perspective of book history. More personal essays, both on the writing process itself or on the practice of translation, complete the volume and highlight the plurality of voices that are inherent to any translation.As the outcome of an international symposium held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2008, India in Translation through Hindi Literature engages in the building of critical histories of the encounter between India and the 'West', the use and impact of translations in this context, and Hindi literature and culture in connection to English (post)colonial power, literature and culture. 308 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Junior Scholars book award for Cultural Studies in English, 2012 Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British colonialism in Ireland and India are marked by many commonalities, not least in terms of colonial and indigenous imaginings of the relationships between colony or former colony and imperial metropolis. Cinematic representations of Ireland and India display several parallels in their expressions and contestations of visions of Empire and national identity. This book offers a critical approach to the study of Ireland's colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into the operations of colonial, nationalist and postcolonial discourse. Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory and employing Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the author engages in close readings of a broad range of metropolitan and indigenous films spanning an approximately fifty-year period, exploring the complex relationships between cinema, colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism and examining their role in the (re)construction of Irish and Indian identities. 220 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -En 1930, el poeta y crítico literario dominicano Max Henríquez Ureña, en su ensayo El retorno de los galeones , indagaba acerca del origen de la influencia de la literatura hispanoamericana en los escritores europeos y, más concretamente, en los autores españoles.Las investigaciones presentadas en el Coloquio Internacional del Centre de Recherches sur l'Amérique Ibérique et l'Europe (Créamé) de la Universidad de Lieja el 11 y 12 de diciembre de 2008, recogidas en estas actas, constituyen un conjunto de respuestas originales sobre el tema, al relacionarlo con el viaje de América a Europa de personas, productos, conceptos y formas culturales, que abarcarían del barroco al tango, de la implicación latinoamericana en las guerras mundiales a las relaciones literarias, de inmigraciones a imágenes políticas.Así reunidas, las reflexiones que el lector encontrará en este libro van más allá de las divisiones disciplinarias impuestas por las tradiciones académicas, en la medida en que se vinculan con los campos de la historia, de la antropología y de los estudios literarios y culturales.Esta diversidad de miradas muestra, por tanto, el carácter poco uniforme de este movimiento de retorno, sugiriendo con ello la complejidad todavía latente en los viajes que hasta hoy en día siguen conectando ambos lados del Océano. 174 pp. Spanisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Este libro aborda uno de los aspectos más apasionantes de la actividad de traducir: el papel que desempeña el traductor en el mundo contemporáneo, caracterizado por la globalización, la hibridación y la asimetría. Partiendo de la desconstrucción de las definiciones esencialistas de la traducción, el libro se adentra en algunas situaciones de desigualdad entre lenguas y entre culturas que ponen en duda la tan traída y llevada neutralidad del traductor. 144 pp. Spanisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dynamics of International Advertising brings to light the unique challenges marketers face in developing and implementing successful campaigns globally. With a balance of theoretical and practical perspectives, this second edition takes the reader inside the dynamics of advertising as it functions within the international marketing mix. Updated with the most recent statistical information as well as current examples and case studies, Dynamics of International Advertising addresses the key issues that advertisers must keep in mind in creating effective communication programs for foreign markets: cultural norms and values, political and legal environments, economic policies, social contexts, and more. Both the process and product of international advertising are addressed, from research and strategy development to creative execution and media planning. Ethical concerns are highlighted as well. This is an ideal textbook for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in specialized courses dealing with international advertising or marketing. It is also an effective supplemental text for introductory advertising, marketing, or mass communications courses seeking to expand coverage of the international dimension. The book should prove useful to practitioners of international advertising, whether on the client side or within the advertising agency; researchers of international advertising and marketing will also find the text a valuable resource. 368 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -De l'étude de quelques auteurs classiques à l'analyse du rôle des illustrations, en passant par la bande dessinée et le théâtre pour les enfants, ce volume analyse le vaste champ de l'écriture pour la jeunesse. Différentes contributions se penchent sur la traduction de la littérature de jeunesse, et plus particulièrement sur sa nature intersémiotique. Elles abordent de la sorte la problématique de la voix du traducteur et les principes théoriques guidant ce-dernier, ou se concentrent spécifiquement sur diverses littératures nationales. Un dernier axe de réflexion, enfin, offre un aperçu sur la traduction audiovisuelle, ses principes théoriques, ses réalisations concrètes et ses effets du point de vue de la réception. Les contributions réunies dans ce volume sont en français, anglais et italien.The first section of this volume features a variety of essays on writing for children, ranging from studies of classic authors to an analysis of the role of pictures in children's books, to an examination of comics and theatre for the young.Subjects addressed in the second section include the intersemiotic nature of translating for children, the question of the translator's voice, the theoretical principles that best aid translators in the field of children's literature, as well as chapters exploring the idea of national literatures for the young. The third and final section offers insights into audiovisual translation for children. These contributions focus on theories and models for this kind of translational activity, as well as addressing a number of real-life cases and their reception.The volume features contributions in three languages: French, English and Italian. 348 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Beiträge im ersten Teil dieses Bandes befassen sich schwerpunktmäßig einerseits mit einer kritischen Beleuchtung der Tatsache, dass Afrika als Denkfigur und realer Kontinent seit der Kolonialzeit bis heute in literarischen Texten als monolithischer Block gesehen wird, und andererseits damit, wie in der Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen Textsorten durchaus Differenzierungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Regionen vorgenommen werden. Zwei Beiträge setzen sich kritisch mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten von Erzählungen Hans Grimms auseinander, weitere mit den Reiseberichten der Kolonialistin und Schriftstellerin Frieda von Bülow, mit der Autobiographie des nigerianischen Migranten Chima Oji Unter die Deutschen gefallen sowie mit Yoruba- und Koteba-Theaterinszenierungen, die den Einfluss von Brechts Theorien im westafrikanischen Kontext zeigen. Der zweite Teil präsentiert neue Perspektiven in Deutsch als Fremdsprache, nämlich die Notwendigkeit Landeskunde im kulturwissenschaftlichen Kontext zu verorten. Der dritte Teil wendet sich Themenbereichen zu, die die Breite germanistischer Forschung reflektieren: der Bedeutung von 'Welt' in Goethes Konzept einer Weltliteratur am Beispiel einer detaillierten Untersuchung kartographischer Beispiele sowie in einem zweiten Beitrag der Aktionsgruppe Banat aus den 1970er Jahren, die die zeitgenössische deutschsprachige Literatur in Rumänien entscheidend beeinflusst hat.The contributions in the first part of this volume critically highlight the fact that Africa as imaginary and real continent from colonial times until the present day was mostly viewed as a monolithic bloc in literary texts, but that on the other hand there are also some texts which view Africa as consisting of different and varied regions. Two contributions critically engage with different aspects of Hans Grimm's novellas while another, taking a postcolonial approach, investigates the picturesque travel writing of colonial writer Frieda von Bülow. An investigation of narrative constructions of identity in the autobiography by the Nigerian migrant author Chima Oji, published in German and a critical appraisal of the influence of Brecht's theories on epic theatre on Yoruba and Koteba plays concludes this section. Three contributions in the second part present new perspectives on the subject of German as a foreign language arguing by way of analysing the state of German Studies in various African countries and by drawing on examples gained through teaching practice, that the concept of 'Landeskunde' has to be reassessed within the context of cultural studies. The final part of the volume contains two contributions: one examines the meaning of 'World' in Goethe's concept of World Literature and argues that Goethe builds on a far-reaching geographical imagination that was taking careful account of the latest trends in European expansionism. The other undertakes a critical appraisal of the Aktionsgruppe Banat from the 1970s and its influence on contemporary German-Romanian literature. 180 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 'spatial turn' in recent discussions about the relevance of 'space' and 'place' in medieval literature inspired the editors to transcend the boundaries of Europe and extend their investigation to Pre-Columbian America and the Far East. The results are surprising. Since cultures across the world associated both islands and walled cities with notions of paradise, the investigations reveal striking commonalities, e.g., between Dante's Island of the Purgatorio and the island of Japan. In addition, several contributions outline visitor's reactions to and influence on medieval cities with similar results (Kyoto, Paris, Nuremberg). Thus the combination of interspatial approaches opens up unusual perspectives on bounded space (whether by walls or by water) in world literatures and history. 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines theatre within the context of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, with reference to a wide variety of plays, theatre productions and community engagements within and across communities. The author clarifies both the nature of the social and political vision of a number of major contemporary Northern Irish dramatists and the manner in which this vision is embodied in text and in performance. The book identifies and celebrates a tradition of playwrights and drama practitioners who, to this day, challenge and question all Northern Irish ideologies and propose alternative paths. The author's analysis of a selection of Northern Irish plays, written and produced over the course of the last thirty years or so, illustrates the great variety of approaches to ideology in Northern Irish drama, while revealing a common approach to staging the conflict and the peace process, with a distinct emphasis on utopian performatives and the possibility of positive change. 303 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How does American culture deal with its memories of the Vietnam War and what role does literature play in this process Remembering Viet Nam is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which authors of Vietnam War literature represent American cultural memory in their writings. The analysis is based on a wide array of sources including historical, political, cultural and literary studies as well as works on trauma. It begins with an examination of American foundation myths - their normative, formative and, most of all, their bonding nature - and the role institutions such as the military and the media play in upholding these myths. The study then considers the soldiers' and war veterans' minds and bodies and the stories they tell as key sites in the debates over the war's place in American cultural memory. The multilayered approach of Remembering Viet Nam allows the investigation of Vietnam War literature in its whole breadth including the debates instigated by the works examined and the influence these narratives themselves have on American cultural memory. Most importantly, the analysis uncovers why American foundation myths - despite their being thoroughly questioned and even exposed as cultural inventions by authors and reviewers of Vietnam War literature - can still retain their power within American society. 262 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -It is widely recognised that we are living through an ¿age of the narrative¿. Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with this trend by using life history and narrative approaches and methods. As we move on from the modernist period which prioritised objectivity into the postmodern regard for subjectivity, this resort to narrative is likely to become more apparent and explicit in academic as well as social and commercial discourse.One aspect of this narrative form which is commonly overlooked is that of the pedagogic encounter. This is the phenomenon which is addressed by all narrative and biographical research. Fundamentally reflecting and examining the narrative of our lives in the process of learning, this book provides a series of studies and guidelines for what we have termed ¿narrative pedagogy.¿ It presents a resource for an exploration of those narrative processes that can lead to meaningful change and development for individuals and groups within a learning environment and in life-learning. This focus on life history allows us to identify and support routes to learning within the narrative landscape of learners and through these pedagogic encounters.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is based on a symposium which took place in April 2009 and was part of a year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It presents ten essays by scholars from North America and Europe working in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences that endeavor to move the discipline of German-American studies away from the narrowly conceived historical investigation of the migration of ethnic Germans to America that has dominated the field for decades. The traditional understanding of what it meant to be German-American as well as the myths associated with the ethnicity, language, and literature of this large group of immigrants are thrown into question and reassessed, and potential directions for the future of the field - as it exists on both sides of the Atlantic - are posited. The novel approach of this volume examines German-American studies from historical, literary, cultural, geographical, and linguistic perspectives, among others, and seeks to redefine the field as the study of the total experience of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants as seen in a global, multicultural, and interdisciplinary context. 196 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Social Frontier is the most interesting and important educational journal to emerge from the Great Depression. First published in 1934 by a group of scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University that included George Counts and William Heard Kilpatrick, the magazine represented a conscious act of social and political reconstruction. With a strong «collectivist» orientation, the magazine was widely misperceived as communist in its approach. In fact, its editorial position called for a greater social role for teachers and a more just and equitable system of schooling.The magazine, which was published for a total of nine years, included articles by major educational and social thinkers of the period from John Dewey to Robert Hutchins and Harold Rugg. Within months of the magazine¿s first issue it came under attack by right-wing political groups, particularly the Hurst newspaper chain. The Social Frontier: A Critical Reader provides a selection of the most interesting and historically important articles from the magazine with a comprehensive introduction and critical commentaries on the selected articles, which are as timely today as they were when first published seventy-five years ago.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 296 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture brings together work from various disciplines that explores the relationships among the everyday lives of boys and such media platforms as television, films, games, sports, music, urban and suburban culture, fashion, young adult novels, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube. Offering a comprehensive overview of boyhood studies, chapters consider questions about the current state of boyhood as it is represented in the popular media; the ways that boys are influenced by and work to influence popular culture; the ways that popular texts often reflect adult expectations, anxieties, and prejudices about boys and boyhood; and the ways that boys, teens, and young men are often able to reflect upon and to act, sometimes unpredictably, to resist, subvert, or re-imagine and re-create popular culture and media. The volume serves as a companion to Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls¿ Media Culture, edited by Mary Celeste Kearney.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 278 pp. Englisch.…