peter lang jul 2008 (239 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This introduction to the fundamentals of Native American women's studies first looks at several definitive topics created by the western cultural notion of feminism, and western historical and religious perspectives on women. These include ecofeminism, gender roles and work, notions of power, essentialism, women's leadership, sexualities, and spirituality in light of gender. The book then discusses these concepts and their history from a traditional Native American point of view. Foremost among the questions that Native American Women's Studies addresses are: How have Native American women governed their nations How was/is the divine creatrix expressed in Native American social systems Most significantly, this book sheds light on the radical differences between the indigenous understanding of human experience in terms of gender, and that held and created by western culture. 134 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who broadcast themselves over the web for the general public while trying to cultivate a measure of celebrity in the process. The book¿s over-arching question is, «What does it mean for feminists to speak about the personal as political in a networked society that encourages women to ¿represent¿ through confession, celebrity, and sexual display, but punishes too much visibility with conservative censure and backlash » The narrative follows that of the camgirl phenomenon, beginning with the earliest experiments in personal homecamming and ending with the newest forms of identity and community being articulated through social networking sites like Live Journal, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. It is grounded in interviews, performance analysis of events transpiring between camgirls and their viewers, and the author¿s own experiences as an ersatz camgirl while conducting the research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel is a welcome addition to the literary criticism in a field that deserves more critical study - African American children's and young adult literature. This book is a close-reading textual study of major issues and themes in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written by both well-known and lesser-known African American women writers, written primarily from an African American perspective and primarily, but not exclusively, for an African American female audience. Representative works by Candy Dawson Boyd, Rita Williams-Garcia, Deborah Gregory, Rosa Guy, Virginia Hamilton, Mildred Pitts Walter, and Jacqueline Woodson are analyzed. Each chapter investigates cultural, social, and/or psychological issues examined by the writers that are prevalent in the actual lives of African American girls. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the way transnational media companies have entered the Chinese entertainment market. Based on the author's ethnographic work and over 100 interviews with senior executives in global media corporations, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Viacom's MTV Channel, and Nickelodeon and News Corporation's Channel V, the book analyzes the concrete globalization/localization strategies of these corporations and how they cope with the various political and economic constraints of working in China. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -As multinational elites vie for economic and cultural dominance, neoliberal socio-economic policies are, in effect, not only reconfiguring political economies, but the ways in which culture is being produced and represented. In light of the global impact of these forms of domination, this collection of informed international scholarship examines world-hegemonic engagements with culture in all spheres of contemporary cosmopolitan life: the personal, the public, the popular, and the institutional. 370 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. Their essays explore a diverse range of the concepts, policies and practices of digital literacy, and discuss how digital literacy is related to similar ideas: information literacy, computer literacy, media literacy, functional literacy and digital competence. It is argued that in light of this diversity and complexity, it is useful to think of digital literacies ¿ the plural as well the singular. The first part of the book presents a rich mix of conceptual and policy perspectives; in the second part contributors explore social practices of digital remixing, blogging, online trading and social networking, and consider some legal issues associated with digital media.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 330 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Drawing on evidence from a longitudinal study of Canadian children¿s emotional experiences within the grade-school classroom, this book considers the nature and significance of such experiences for children¿s development and well-being. Within the learning context of the classroom, the girls and boys share their experiences of self, emotional understandings, and social relations through interviews and social cognitive tasks. The chapters provide scholarly analysis and practical information for those who agree that emotions are paramount to children¿s comprehensive development. The book concludes by describing the practical implications and applications of its findings for parents, teachers, and caretakers of children, including how to help children learn about and negotiate emotions in themselves and in their interactions with others. 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen se centra en el tema de la fraseología y consta de dos apartados. En el primero se exponen cuestiones de morfosintaxis y un balance sobre el estudio de las colocaciones, principalmente del español. La inclusión o exclusión de las colocaciones del ámbito de la fraseología, su potencial sintagmático combinatorio, su uso y frecuencia en el lenguaje jurídico, médico y coloquial, así como su tratamiento lexicográfico, son otros de los aspectos tratados. En el segundo apartado del libro se abordan temas de fraseografía desde una perspectiva teórica y práctica, especialmente en cuanto a las técnicas específicas para la elaboración de diccionarios idiomáticos monolingües y bilingües. Asimismo se muestran los avances en la macro y microestructura de estos diccionarios gracias a la lingüística de corpus. 336 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -How and why do policies change The author addresses this question by examining the renewable electricity policies of five European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) over the last thirty years.Employing a comparative approach that is qualitative yet consistent and rigorous, she describes how these countries¿ policies changed over time, whether incrementally or comprehensively, and shows how those changes may be explained, citing political, economic, social, and technological factors. 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -On the move and being transformed. People and knowledge, just like ideas and institutions, travel around the world and change as they do. It is a classic problem in Comparative Education and we do have a contemporary interpretation of it. Currently, we have the generalised discourse of globalisation about 'the cause' of contemporary movements. We have new vocabularies for some of the social processes that may be involved: time-space compression, globalisation, new transnational identities, post-colonialities, and also all sorts of saturating and unproblematic catchwords. We also have some assertions about the educational prospects which must follow from such a cause and such processes - the forthcoming triumphs of e-learning, new forms of knowledge management, better and better skill-formation systems (and so on). This book presents the outcomes of the 21st Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Granada, in Summer 2006, and brings together studies by twenty-five international leading scholars and new researchers from the scientific fields of education, sociology, economics, and anthropology who thoroughly explore our contemporary reading of what is global, the way we comparatively understand this world of new mobilities and old beliefs and stabilities, in which we witness new movements of persons and peoples, scientific ideas and religions, information and information systems, government and management models, as well as the commodification of available identities. 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Un peu partout dans le monde, notamment en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, la croissance dite « urbaine » se fait aujourd¿hui par « la banlieue » qui, en termes d¿espace vécu, doit se conjuguer au pluriel. Cet ouvrage s¿interroge donc, dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, sur ce que signifie concrètement la vie en banlieues. Les auteurs, européens et canadiens, ont choisi de croiser leurs regards et leurs approches pour dépasser des stéréotypes devenus par accoutumance des archétypes de la banlieue : un espace conformiste de la classe moyenne en Amérique du Nord versus un espace marginal et marginalisé en Europe ; un havre paisible pour la vie familiale versus un lieu de transgression pour les jeunes en rupture avec l¿éducation familiale. La réalité dépasse ces fictions urbaines : les travaux les plus récents montrent l¿existence de sortes de prototypes de l¿urbanité en banlieue. On pourrait presque parler de « banlieusité »¿ 194 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Kabarettist, Librettist und Filmschauspieler Fritz Grünbaum (1880-1942) prägte wie kein anderer Künstler die Wiener Vergnügungskultur der 1920er und 1930er Jahre, die im Mittelpunkt der hier versammelten Originalbeiträge steht. Beschrieben wird Grünbaums engeres kulturelles Umfeld, kritisch hinterfragt werden seine Selbststilisierung und die von ihm kolportierten Anekdoten. Weitere Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Frage nach Unterhaltung und Raum sowie mit den Formen und Genres dieser Kultur - Varieté und Zirkus, Revue, politische Unterhaltungskultur und Unterhaltungstonfilm. Ein Vergleich der Wiener mit der Berliner Vergnügungsszene dient der Kontextualisierung von Grünbaums Schaffen und rundet den Band ab. 132 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In 2005 the European Commission and the Turkish government started their investigation of the adaptation of Turkish legislation to European law. But public opinion remains sceptical and a thorough discussion among European and Turkish proponents is still needed. Apart from the many beliefs, ideals and prognoses that circulate about the past and future of Europe as well as Turkey, the negotiations continue and different scenarios and time-frames are being developed. In the end, it is the question of the otherness of Turkey to Europe that constitutes the core of the discussion and may offer the start of an answer. To put forward the arguments for and against Turkish accession to the European Union, the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp organised a two-day academic workshop held in June 2006 in Antwerp. This publication gathers together the opinions of Turkish and European scholars and diplomats about the socio-economic, cultural-religious and political arguments being used in the discussion. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -L'ouvrage a pour objet l'étude d'un objet mal identifié, la PME, dans l'espace européen et sur le long terme. Qu'est-ce qu'une PME Les PME existent-elles Ces questions débouchent sur de profondes divergences qui soulignent l'extrême hétérogénéité du groupe et qui affaiblissent l'utilité opérationnelle du concept. L'ambiguïté du concept est d'autant plus problématique que les PME sont au coeur d'un très grand nombre d'enjeux tant dans le domaine économique que dans le domaine social et politique. Les PME sont-elles un facteur de freinage de l'économie ou une force d'entraînement Un lieu d'épanouissement humain ou un espace d'exploitation de la force de travail Le foyer d'une culture de la concurrence ou celui d'une culture corporatiste Le support des traditions démocratiques ou celui des dérives autoritaires C'est à ces questions que l'ouvrage tente de répondre, en s'inscrivant dans une démarche pluridisciplinaire et comparatiste. 326 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die deutschen Juden faßten die Spielfilmproduktion der NS-Zeit - bis auf die reinen Tendenzfilme - offenbar nicht als ein Derivat des sie bedrohenden antisemitischen Regimes auf. Einzelzeugnisse, so von Victor Klemperer, teilweise bisher unveröffentlicht, Ilse Aichinger, Carl Zuckmayer, Gottfried Reinhardt u.a., vor allem aber die Erfolge der Filmbühne des Jüdischen Kulturbundes 1938-41 bezeugen eine durchweg zustimmende Aufnahme des überwiegenden, tendenzfreien Anteils der deutschen Filmproduktion. Der vom jüdischen Publikum empfundenen Affinität entsprach eine durchgängige Kritik der NS-Filmpolitik, nicht zuletzt von J. Goebbels selbst, an deren noch deutlich vom «liberalistischen» Geist der Weimarer Zeit geprägten Grundzug. Ein Anhang belegt den maßgebenden Anteil jüdischer Filmproduzenten und -künstler am bisher durchweg als «präfaschistisch» eingeschätzten nationalen Historienfilm der Jahre 1930-32. 132 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader is a rich resource that deals comprehensively with the many aspects of the complex topic of disability studies in education. For nearly two decades, global attention has been given to education as a human right through global initiatives such as Education for All (EFA) and the Salamanca Statement. Yet according to UNESCO, reaching the goals of EFA remains one of the most daunting challenges facing the global community. Today, millions of the world¿s disabled children cannot obtain a basic childhood education, particularly in countries with limited resources. Even in the wealthiest countries, many disabled children and youth are educationally segregated from the nondisabled, particularly if they are labeled with significant cognitive impairment. International agencies such as the United Nations and the World Bank have generated funds for educational development but, unfortunately, these funds are administered with the assumption that «west is best», thereby urging developing countries to mimic educational policies in the United States and the United Kingdom in order to prove their aid-worthiness. This «McDonaldization» of education reproduces the labeling, resource allocation, and social dynamics long criticized in disability studies. The authors in this volume explore these subjects and other complexities of disability and the politics of education. In doing so, they demonstrate the importance and usefulness of international perspectives and comparative approaches.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 690 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The limits imposed on economic modeling by the representative agent hypothesis have prevented dynamic analysis from fully exploring the links between the micro and macro level of the economic system. This book presents developments and applications of the innovative techniques of dynamic stochastic aggregation, first proposed by Masanao Aoki, through an implementation in a New Keynesian financial fragility framework. The introduction in macroeconomics of statistical mechanics tools, such as mean-field interaction, statistical entropy and master equation, constitutes a step toward a new definition of microfoundation and allows an integrated modeling of the relationships between micro financial variables and aggregate indicators. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human well-being. The four empirical essays of this book add to the general debate concerning dynamics of growth, poverty and inequality over the past 40 years from four different dimensions. The first chapter analyses the dynamics of the cross-country per capita income distribution and the existence of convergence clubs. The second chapter focuses on the dynamic development of the global income distribution and resulting implications for global income convergence, poverty reduction, pro-poor growth and the evolution of global inequality within and between countries. The third chapter investigates the deterministic relationship between ethnic fractionalisation and growth in a macro cross-country regression framework. Finally, the fourth chapter adds to the understanding of micro determinants of growth and poverty in the context of Indonesia. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die sozialdemokratisch-grüne Regierung unter Führung Gerhard Schröders war angetreten mit den Versprechen und dem Wählerauftrag, die Lebensverhältnisse breiter Bevölkerungsschichten qualitativ zu verbessern, soziale Gerechtigkeit nach 16 Jahren Kanzlerschaft von Helmut Kohl wiederherzustellen und die Arbeitslosigkeit signifikant zu senken. Doch dann entpuppte sich die Reformpolitik als massivstes Sozialkürzungs- und Umverteilungsprogramm zu Lasten einer Mehrheit der eigenen Anhänger- und Wählerschaft seit Bestehen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Auf Basis einer Leadership-Analyse wird den Ursachen für die Widersprüchlichkeit zwischen den sozialen Worten und praktischen Taten in Schröders Regierungszeit nachgegangen. 412 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Interesse am Deutschlandbild der Polen hat unter den aus Groß- und Zentralpolen, Galizien und Wolhynien stammenden Deutschen eine historische Dimension. Während es in den Jahren bis 1945 darum ging, welches Bild sich die polnischen von ihren deutschen Mitbürgern machen, so hat sich dies anschließend gewandelt. Das Bild des ehemaligen Nachbarn verschmilzt auf Seite der Polen mit kollektiven Vorstellungen vom Nachbarstaat und seinen Bürgern. Daneben tritt eine polnische (Teil-)Wahrnehmung der ehemaligen deutschen Mitbürger als Verräter, Eindringlinge, Kolonisten oder Volksdeutsche. Eine andere Kategorie stellen Persönlichkeiten aus der vornationalen Zeit ¿ Veit Stoß und Nikolaus Kopernikus ¿ dar, die sowohl von den Deutschen als auch von den Polen für ihre Kultur beansprucht werden. Das vorliegende Buch, das aus einer Tagung in Herne im Herbst 2007 hervorgegangen ist, liefert zehn Beiträge zur musealen Darstellung der Geschichte der Deutschen in Polen und zum polnischen Deutschlandbild, die chronologisch von der Sachsenzeit über das 19. Jahrhundert und die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bis zur unmittelbaren Gegenwart reichen und lokal betrachtet so verschiedene Orte umfassen.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 214 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The volume is based on papers given at the London Symposium ¿Vienna Meets Berlin: Culture in the Metropolis Between the Wars¿ which took place at the Institute of Germanic Studies in December 2001.The book surveys the cultural links between Vienna and Berlin with a focus on the inter-war years and some post-1945 continuities. It includes a centenary tribute to Ödön von Horváth and contributions on theatre, film, journalism (the feuilleton in particular), literature, music and socio-political issues. Together, the studies can be read as a narrative of interaction between the two capital cities. The industrial and modern Berlin of the 1920s proves an irresistible magnet for many Viennese, whose letters and journalism time and again reflect on the differences between the cities. The year 1933 marks the political cut-off point, when in many cases exile becomes the predominant theme.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 302 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book shows how the beautiful landscape paintings of Meindert Hobbema, a seventeenth-century painter of the Dutch Golden Age, are in accord with the thought of Martin Heidegger, a twentieth-century philosopher, on beauty and truth. Since little is known about Hobbema's life, this work concentrates on ideas that are central to Heidegger's philosophy of art and beauty and the way these ideas are attuned to Hobbema's landscapes. Heidegger holds that the beauty of a great work of art calls out from that work and is firmly linked to the disclosure of hidden truths concerning essences of beings. This book illustrates in detail that beauty and such truths indeed call out from Hobbema's paintings. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is about authority, more precisely, about figures of authority. The editors have put together an international group of renowned scholars to discuss the emergence of modern notions of authority from different angles. Modern authority is no longer legitimated by status and social position, but rather by institutional affiliation and performance. To research the genealogy and intricacies of this kind of authority, the chapters in this volume cast a closer look at the various institutional actors on whom authority has been bestowed. The authors use a case study approach to look at the instances in which modern authority emerged, was ridiculed, contested, or even failed. Taken together, the individual contributions shed new light on the intricate relationship between the subjects and their organisations; they challenge any Whig historiography of rationalisation and modernisation, and they help us to rethink the inter-relationship between modern and even postmodern institutional arrangements on the one hand, and their subjects on the other. 324 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Social constructionists argue that our inner selves and our actions in the world are socially produced. Meta-realists, on the other hand, say that human consciousness is stratified, and not socially shaped at all levels. How do the human acts of creativity and resistance illuminate these different perspectives on human consciousness This book explores theories of self and agency through a critical discourse analysis of the accounts of five British artists talking about their motivations, their creative processes and their experiences of the practices and institutions of visual art. Throughout the analysis the author considers how we voice dimensions of being that are ¿beyond¿ language, and how these words impact on our sense of self and actions. The concept of self realisation is at the centre of this book and is critically examined. The analysis also explores the construction of social identities through family relations and institutional art practices and the media. It shows how they can provide solidarity for those who risk breaking social norms, but at the same time build barriers of difference. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book aims to revise the traditional interpretation of William Golding¿s fiction. The author investigates Golding¿s complicated metaphors which fluctuate so widely as to make consistent readings almost impossible. The study reveals that these fluctuating metaphors are created around a void, which is depicted not only as a gap but also as an impenetrable dark spot, or a counter-gaze. The characters in Golding¿s fiction endeavour to symbolise the void, but it ultimately resists symbolisation.Mainly from the perspective of semiotics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, the book looks at the way in which the elements excluded from the symbolic system react against it and leave this void. The author then focuses on the void¿s significance in the creation of unique metaphors. 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Building on constructivist approaches to international relations this book develops a narrative theory of identity, action and foreign policy, which is then applied to account for the evolution of Finnish foreign policy. The book adopts an innovative approach by showing how foreign policy orientations need to be seen as grounded in overlapping and competing sets of identity narratives that reappear in different forms through history. By emphasising the dynamism implicit within identity narratives the book not only challenges traditional rationalist materialist approaches to foreign policy analysis, but also the current tendency to depict the story of Finnish foreign policy, identity and history as one of a gradual move towards a Western location. Rather the book emphasises elements of multiplicity and contingency, whilst re-establishing foreign policy as a highly political process concerned with power and the right to define reality and national subjectivity. 330 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Adult and Continuing Education has become a field of action, reflection, and research all over the world. To learn from successful models developed worldwide, this book documents and discusses the progress of comparative adult education ¿ aims, contents, methods, obstacles, and prospects. The first part examines basic questions of comparative adult education. The contributions offer a deeper understanding and include warnings of obstacles and pitfalls. They help to design research by building up on the theoretical framework developed in prior research. The second part presents experiences and «lessons learned», suggesting advice and warnings for successful comparative work. The studies in the third part illustrate research methods as well as topics important to researchers in various regions of the world. Descriptions of international institutions in the last part may assist to use their assistance and services. 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Bardolatry», that whimsical term referring to Shakespeare's rise to canonical status as well as to his worshippers' adulation, solidified within the theatrical discourses of the eighteenth century and the British Romantic era. Celestine Woo examines the era's four most celebrated Shakespeare performers in London - David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, and Edmund Kean - arguing that they broadened and altered the boundaries of Shakespearean discourse in specific ways, offering and modeling novel paradigms by which to apprehend Shakespeare, and thus contributing to the growth of bardolatry as a discursive phenomenon. Using Pierre Bourdieu as a model, Woo traces the development of Shakespearean discourse as a field of cultural production, shaped by these actors. By examining their disparate approaches to performing Shakespeare, she reveals that Shakespeare as an icon became commodified, politicized, gendered, and increasingly appropriated within literary and dramatic discourse as a result of the influences of these four performers. Her analysis deepens our understanding of the processes by which Shakespeare was institutionalized as a figure representing national character, human nature, and the breadth of human experience. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Presented in an epistolary form addressed mainly to the African American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954), evolution, history and destiny constitute the main themes of this book. Destiny, the controlling theme, is defined as an ideal of transcendent unity toward which a people strives in successive generations. Destiny includes four modalities: the ethnic, the national, the world, and the cosmic. Destiny is both immanent and transcendent, the one pertaining to the actual world, the other, to the ideal world. Part I focuses on the first three modalities, devoting special attention to the ethnic experiences of Africans/African Americans, their history, identity, and appellations, including «African American,» «Black,» «Negritude» and the novel appellation, «Africantude.» Although focusing on the experiences of Africans and African Americans, the destiny model is applicable to all people. Another novel term explored is «Destinicity,» a synthesis of both the destiny and ethnic ideals of a people. In Part II, the emphasis is on the collaborative works of the author and Dr. Manohar A. Tilak, a chemist. Here the cosmic mode, the physical-biological universe, is described as having undergone unique phases of evolution: robotic evolution is now occurring and will give rise to new artificial «beings» to which Destinicity ethics are applicable. 414 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a new reading of Miguel de Cervantes¿s play La destrucción de Numancia (c.1583), analysing the work in relation to theories of empire in sixteenth-century Spain, in the context of plays written immediately before the rise in popularity of Lope de Vega and the comedia nueva, and the playwright¿s innovative use of dramatic techniques in this transitional period of Spanish drama. Dramatic writers have always used the stage as a medium through which they could comment on current events involving politics, religion, philosophy, and society; Cervantes was no exception. His discourse concerning imperial expansion in La Numancia has resulted in many conflicting interpretations of the play¿s meaning. This book explores the dramäs thematic and generic ambiguities, as well as Cervantes¿s representation and interpretation of the historical record in the creation of his characters and his portrayal of the fall of Numancia in 133 BC to the Roman army of Scipio Aemilianus. Finally, this study addresses the significance of seemingly intentionally unclear discourse in reference to La Numancia and the turbulent political and religious environment of late sixteenth-century Spain. 250 pp. Englisch.