peter lang jul 2023 (146 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Los factores de empuje que existen en determinados países llevan a que un gran número de personas decidan emprender un viaje en busca de mejores condiciones de vida y, en muchos casos, el país donde llegan o por donde entran a Europa es España. La interpretación social o para los servicios públicos es una modalidad de interpretación que permite que estos inmigrantes puedan tener acceso a información y servicios públicos, como la educación, la sanidad, los programas de acogida que tienen muchas ONG, la justicia y los trámites relativos a la protección internacional. Esta monografía recoge las características de estos servicios públicos y ONG en las que pueden desempeñar su trabajo los intérpretes, facilitándoles información para contextualizar sus intervenciones y proponiendo algunas acciones formativas. 130 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La obra Recursos prosódicos en la marcación discursiva tiene como propósito dar cuenta de los fenómenos prosódicos que utilizan seis usuarios de la variedad del español tapatío a fin de marcar el discurso en un corpus de entrevistas sociolingüísticas. Dichas entrevistas se aplicaron a seis informantes de 18 a 35 años con un nivel de instrucción alto.Por un lado, los informantes recurrieron a movimientos ascendentes de la curva melódica, saltos tonales y escalonamiento descendente a fin de marcar el discurso. Por otro lado, los informantes se sirvieron de ascensos en las sílabas finales del segmento discursivo anterior a ciertos marcadores discursivos y descensos en las sílabas iniciales de los propios marcadores para reforzar los valores pragmático-discursivos de los marcadores en cuestión. 156 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La presente obra ofrece una mirada profunda y reflexiva sobre la innovación educative en diferentes niveles educativos en el contexto de la pandemia. A partir del cuestionamiento ¿qué estrategias de innovación se pusieron en acción durante la crisis educativa COVID-19 , se pretende abordar de forma exploratoria la respuesta educativa a esta problemática desde la heterogeneidad de las contribuciones científicas en el contexto de México. La finalidad es contribuir a la comprensión y solución de las problemáticas derivadas del cierre de las escuelas desde el studio de las afectaciones emocionales, pedagógicas y de participación, pero también desde el análisis de las posibilidades educativas que surgen en este contexto desafiante. Se comparte al lector un cúmulo de experiencias, estrategias y propuestas educativas para reflexionar sobre la praxis educativa para afrontar una coyuntura de cambios sociales en los diferentes niveles educativos. Se aborda reflexivamente las dimensiones subjetivas de las y los agentes educativos durante la pandemia COVID-19 y su impacto en la innovación educativa, al dar cuenta de sus realidades educativas y sociales.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 194 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen está dedicado a las representaciones artísticas de los paisajes del agua en Andalucía. Un grupo internacional de investigadores proporciona las claves de interpretación de dichos paisajes en literatura y en diferentes artes visuales (como la fotografía, el cine, la pintura, la escultura, la arquitectura y los videojuegos), indagando en la hermenéutica simbólica y en la función estético-social de los mismos, a través de la aplicación de cuestionamientos mitocríticos, geopoiéticos, ecopoéticos y ecocríticos. De esta manera, partiendo de una reflexión sobre los paisajes literarios y artísticos del agua, en su dimensión ética, estética, histórica y antropológica, se observa cómo dichos espacios de cultura, aunque, a menudo, inspirados en medios naturales finitos y espacios reales, han sido, sobre todo, ¿tramados¿ por la subjetividad del ser humano como paisajes interiores o espacios primordiales. Lo cual nos invita no solamente a historiar o preservar el paisaje del agua como bien primordial en un contexto de crisis medioambiental, sino también a urdir futuras proyecciones como horizonte esperanzador alternativo de la humanidad.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 198 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El libro investiga las funciones terapéuticas del espacio en tres novelas de Marcela Serrano, Antigua vida mía (1995), El albergue de las mujeres tristes (1998) y Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1999). Para estos fines se emplea la metodología de los paisajes terapéuticos, originaria de la geografía, cuya aplicación al análisis de la literatura ha sido escasa hasta la fecha. Serrano crea las narrativas de la enfermedad a través de las cuales se manifiestan las contradicciones de las transformaciones posmodernas y de la transición democrática chilena junto con sus consecuencias para las mujeres y yuxtapone estas reflexiones críticas con la poética espacial, que acentúa el carácter curativo de los lugares y su rol en la reconstrucción de la identidad femenina. 240 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book reveals to you the true meaning of Jihad in Islam. Our approach is based on the neurocognitive theory of meaning. This study is my attempt to give snapshots of how a scientific religious interpretation might look if we tried to do that. The whole point of a cognitive approach to religion is to aid us in gaining access to the conceptual network that the religious text is based on so that we can, in some extended sense of the term, understand the way we should understand it. 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the end of the Second World War, the role of the United States in the international arena has been closely linked to the stability of its security alliance system. For strategic reasons, one of the major goals for the U.S. foreign policy has always been preventing the rise of a hegemonic power in Eurasia. Actually, history and geopolitics tend to show that the global balance of power strictly depends on dynamics, threats and acting players in Eurasia. Despite Chinäs growing global influence, it is in Asia-Pacific that the Chinese quest for power has played out more vividly. In this framework, the partnership between Russia and China represents a source of worries for the West as a whole and, more specifically, the gravest strategic threat to U.S. overseas interests.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -There is mounting evidence throughout the world that democracy is in retreat. This can be stopped and repaired by infusing it with action, beliefs, and knowledge. This book offers a powerful prescription to stop the democracy deficit disorder: authentically engaging young people throughout our democracy. Through critical thinking and substantive actions, adults can become allies to young people. This will lead to authentic youth engagement, which will make democracy more meaningful, purposeful, and sustainable than ever before.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Paul Butler¿s monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer¿s aesthetic approach. ¿The Deep Well of Want¿ of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core of the life journey of both writer and photographer. Paul¿s exquisite photos allow us a special entry into ¿McGahern Land¿, whose landscape and people nurtured the writer¿s creative inspiration. This indispensable study will deepen McGahern readers¿ understanding of what lies at the core of his artistic quest.»(Eamon Maher, TU Dublin)This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the imagery of artist Paul Butler. Traumatic events in the lives of both McGahern and Butler shaped their paths, creating a want to write in McGahern and a want to create imagery in Butler. Butler explores the difficult and complex childhood that the two shared, and through a series of beautiful images that he himself has created in McGahern¿s own part of Ireland, he draws parallels between them and, as Eamonn Wall says in his Preface, produces a rich and life-affirming appreciation of literature, art and imagery.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Tan largo me lo fiáis, popularizado como El burlador de Sevilla, es la versión original del mito de Don Juan. Su autor, Andrés de Claramonte, escribió otra comedia dramática ambientada en la misma época (mediados del siglo XIV) publicada indistintamente a nombre de Lope de Vega y de Calderón, que editamos también en este volumen como complemento.El tema de un gran señor que seduce y engaña a varias doncellas bajo promesa de matrimonio es típico del teatro de Claramonte. En ambos casos se juega con elementos metateatrales que refuerzan el sentido ejemplarizante de las obras. Trasladar la acción al siglo XIV permite distanciar un problema moral y político alejándolo de la actualidad de su tiempo.La importancia del mito de Don Juan, en estas dos obras emparentadas, permite comprender los orígenes del mito del seductor. 288 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Didactique du lexique, terminologie et linguistique de corpus sont les axes autour desquels s¿articule cette étude. Nous nous penchons, en particulier, sur l¿enseignement explicite et structuré du lexique spécialisé pour le français L2, en relation avec le développement non seulement de la compétence strictement terminologique, mais aussi avec la compétence « méta », relevant de la maîtrise du fonctionnement des termes. Après l¿identifi cation d¿un noyau de notions métaterminologiques, notre objectif principal est de proposer des pistes méthodologiques pour leur enseignement basé sur l¿exploitation des corpus spécialisés, dans la conviction qüune synergie effi cace peut s¿instaurer entre la compétence métaterminologique et l¿exploitation d¿une ressource numérique pour des fi ns didactiques. Des applications possibles sont proposées relativement au domaine du commerce.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La mujer suicida se convirtió en una imagen recurrente en la imaginación decimonónica a lo largo de toda Europa, pues encapsulaba una ideología que subrayaba la fragilidad femenina y su tendencia a la locura a la vez que erotizaba y fetichizaba el cadáver como objeto artístico. La respuesta de las escritoras ante semejante estereotipación no se hizo esperar. Este trabajo analiza las representaciones literarias del suicidio femenino en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en España y Gran Bretaña, prestando especial atención al modo en que las narrativas femeninas coincidieron en tratar este tema desde una óptica diferencial que hacía de este tema uno político por medio del que denunciar la desigual situación social de las mujeres y desmantelar el cliché en torno a la feminidad y la locura. 336 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This dissertation investigates the influence of large family shareholders on financial decisions and the performance of listed firms in Germany. This country is especially interesting, as the German corporate governance system is considered less investor- friendly with a limited influence of shareholders on managerial decisions. Based on the incentive structure of family blockholders and their influence in corporate boards, the four studies offer a novel approach to analyzing the financial behavior of family firms. They use a hand-collected panel dataset identifying blockholders and every board position in 278 corporations. The dissertation demonstrates that the degree of family involvement in boards significantly influences working capital and earnings management as well as stock market performance and provides contributions for academia and practitioners alike. 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -En el presente tomo se recogen diversas experiencias actuales de reconocidos investigadores en el campo de la traducción al español y la didáctica del español. Con él pretendemos acercar tanto a alumnos como a profesores a las últimas tendencias en estos campos. La temática, como observará el lector, es amplia y variada y responde a preguntas que surgen en el aula. Una vez reconocida la necesidad de profundizar sobre los aspectos aquí presentados, los investigadores que participan en este volumen han desarrollado, guiados por su experiencia y espíritu científico, interesantes estudios y reflexiones sobre los temas que les ocupan. El marco en el que se inscriben todas estas aportaciones pertenece a los ámbitos de la didáctica del español y la traducción al español en el contexto académico. 266 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro es el último volumen, de una serie de cuatro, que forman parte de un proyecto de refundación conceptual del pensamiento en América latina. El presente trabajo se ocupa entonces de reconsiderar la noción de empiria, de experiencia y de inmediatez a la luz de las condiciones del antropoceno en la periferia. Por lo mismo se cuestiona, como ya fue el caso en los volúmenes anteriores, toda concepción universal de los conceptos y análisis. Este libro asume de hecho la ausencia de nociones clásicas como frontera, país o sociedad, entre otras. Como también era el caso de los volúmenes anteriores de la serie, este libro supone que la emancipación intelectual es inherente a la reflexión acerca de la inteligibilidad de lo viviente y noviviente.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 382 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Considered by many the most talented continuator of the Nashville Agrarians, Melvin E. Bradford occupies a special place in the history of modern Southern conservatism. Bradford challenged established views of the founding, nature, and political tradition of the American Union and, most controversially, the 'myth' of Abraham Lincoln. His writings substantially expanded the cultural and intellectual vision of the Agrarians by adding a new political dimension, and provided vitality and intellectual weight to the Southern conservative tradition. Bradford¿s scholarship can significantly contribute to a more multifaceted and nuanced understanding of American history, tradition, and identity. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Bradford¿s political thought. 180 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The sound of a city is a cultural phenomenon based on the characteristic relationship between music and the cultural specificity of a given urban area. It occurs when artists from a region create music, which is so unique, it becomes indisputably linked with its place of origin in the public discourse. The link becomes so strong, the phenomenon¿s name derives from the name of the city. There were numerous examples of such sounds in popular music history, including the Nashville Sound with its specific country music, the psychedelic rock of the San Francisco Sound, Prince¿s the Minneapolis Sound, or the Seattle Sound is also known as grunge. This publication explains the terms in which we should research, analyze, interpret, and define the sound of a city. 210 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The bipartite work titled Philosophical and Translatological Wanderings in Moominvalley explores Tove Jansson¿s renowned children¿s classic to illumine its inherent double-address mode. Part one discusses the plentiful philosophi-cal hypotexts of the Moomin series, ranging from Parmenides to Westermarck and geared to an adult readership. Part two examines the Polish translation of anthroponyms, humour and cuisine terms as central to the Moominvalley idiom and the poetics of the saga. By identifying translation techniques and linguistic shifts, the author provides comparative insights into how the source and target texts address their respective audiences. By highlighting the triumphs and failures of the Polish Moomin books, the argument spells out the implications of double address for translation and translation studies. 230 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians, with over 500 strictly sequentially organized conceptual and linguistic correspondences between Acts and Galatians. This hypertextual dependence on Galatians explains numerous surprising features of Acts. Critical explanations of these features, which are offered in this monograph, ensure the reliability of the new solution to the problem of the relationship between Acts and the Pauline and post-Pauline letters. 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La Revolución Francesa marcó un hito en el pensamiento sobre la nación alemana. El reclamo de validez universal de sus principios de libertad, igualdad y fraternidad se conjugó con el universalismo proclamado por el Sacro Imperio Romano de la Nación Alemana. El gesto cosmopolita de la reflexión en torno a Alemania cede sin embargo ante la necesidad histórica de crear el estado nacional. El Geist alemán se repliega ante la voluntad de poder y la fuerza de las armas. A hierro y sangre se produce la anhelada unificación alemana. 524 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Recent years have seen educationalists turning to Emmanuel Levinas when considering the relationship between ethics and education. While it is true that Levinas never speaks of ethics in relation to the practice of classroom education, nonetheless, for Levinas, ethics is a teaching, and learning can only take place in the presence of the Other. This book considers how, within the constraints of the Irish primary school education system, teachers can develop a Levinasian approach to teaching, that affords both them and the children they teach multiple opportunities throughout the school day to take up their ethical responsibility for each other as Other. Beginning from a Levinasian understanding of learning and teaching as constituting primordially relational and ethical events, and weaving the philosophies of Levinas, and the educationalists he inspires, into the approaches of philosophy with children, restorative practice, and PAX, this book suggests a unique approach to ethics in Irish primary school classrooms. The focus of this book, then, is on both the philosophical underpinnings that anchor teaching as a Levinasian, and a consideration of what practical approaches could be employed by the Levinasian teacher.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Tony Lyons¿s study restores Thomas Wyse to the prominent place where he belongs ¿ as one of the most consequential and far-seeing educational thinkers in nineteenth century Ireland. Long a neglected figure, everybody interested in the history of Irish education will profit from this work.»(Professor James Kelly, St. Patrick¿s College, Dublin City University)This is the first major work on Thomas Wyse, and his plans for education reform. It places him, first and foremost, as an educationist, particularly between the years 1830 to 1845. The book draws upon his firm conviction that a national system of education should have a legislative foundation; a solid legal bedrock creates permanency, and, this coupled with universality, was a true national system. Not for him, narrow nationalism: his understanding had greater scope, including all social classes and all ages from primary education, to intermediate, to university and supplementary education. The book bears testimony to and conveys explicitly the core of these ideas. The book is an academic biography of a man who used his good office to explore the prevailing political atmosphere at the time and to produce a programme which would augment and reform education provision in Ireland and the wider United Kingdom. The book amplifies the key elements of Wyse¿s educational thinking, and the reader should find the analyses throughout the book both beneficial and enlightening.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 298 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland¿s ¿secret history¿ of women to war memoirist Christabel Bielenberg¿s luminous prose; from the vaulting ambition of Éilís Dillon¿s historical fiction to hunger striker¿s Bobby Sands¿ favourite poet, the now unsung Ethna Carbery, he takes us on a bracing journey from the Troubles to Brexit. Drawing on contemporaneous criticism, Dawe revitalizes 35 years of cultural history into urgent news from the literary front.»(Mary Morrissy, Novelist and former associate director of the writing programme, University College Cork)Politic Words reflects five decades of writing about and discussing Irish literature, both inside the university classroom and in various literary and academic forums. Part one concentrates upon Irish women writers, their influence and example including Edna Longley, Eavan Boland and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin alongside the achievements of younger contemporaries such as Lucy Caldwell and Leontia Flynn. Part two develops some of the historical settings and themes of part one while exploring the social and political legacies of traumatic Irish historical events such as the Great Famine, and its representation in the fiction of William Carleton and reimagined by later interpreters including Benedict Kiely. The collection concludes with a series of readings of Irish culture and politics in terms of the legacy of the Troubles, the impact on Ireland of Brexit and renewed calls for Irish reunification. Politic Words is the final part of a trilogy of studies by Gerald Dawe published by Peter Lang in their Reimagining Ireland series.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book attempts an innovative exploration of the connection between humour and scepticism in the English literary canon. Defining humour as a capability, or better put, as a dunamis, it looks into its ¿energeiac¿ forms of actualisation in the English literary imagination from Chaucer to Sterne. Refraining from attributing an essentialist tone and mode to the theoretical and critical reception of English humour, and also humour in a wider context, it works instead within a literary nominalist framework where it is explored as a literary phenomenon that sides with the living, the multifarious, and the experiential dimensions of human action. In doing so, it develops a broader argument concerning the nominalist overtones of English humour where its prominent scepticism purports an epistemological break with the dominant forces of universalism; an argumentative force which cyclically acquires its tenets from the preliminary discussion that focuses on the dynamicism of humour. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and early modern times. This book reflects the objective approach of trained historians in its skilled deployment of source documents. Throughout these pages, we meet with wandering friars and the lay faithful, some for the first time. The contributors are international scholars. Each enquires into a specific area of study from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. In particular, this reveals that travel in its various forms represented an intrinsic link between the four great mendicant orders: Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans. Until recently, mendicant historiography was written by and for members of each respective order.The contents are grouped thematically into three sections. The first considers the significance of travel in mendicant writings about the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. The opening chapter examines the Old Testament traditions of the Carmelites, followed by two essays on fifteenth-century Italian Franciscans. These emphasise how travel was essential for Observant renewal to succeed. The second section of the book concentrates on early modern Spain. Travel was not limited to the outward journey. The humanist poetry of the Augustinian friar, Luis de León, attended to the inner journey of the soul during this life. The next chapter draws attention to interrelations between laity and clergy. This provides insights into the soul¿s journey into death according to the behaviour of the lay faithful. In the third section, we find the fact-finding journeys of Bartolomé de las Casas on land and sea, in defence of native peoples in the New World. The volume closes with a study of a Dominican friar who followed his own path rather than the accepted routine of travel for friars. By exploring a wide range of experiences over five centuries, this book shows that travel contributed to religious development in many parts of the world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«In Reflections on the Veracruz son jarocho, guitarist-ethnomusicologist Randall Kohl brings something special to the surging feast of scholarship treating Mexicös renowned regional music, the son jarocho. Part history and part cultural analysis, and both qualitative and quantitative in approach, the book explores music as music, music as business, and music as a dynamic expression of Mexican social history. Professor Kohl of the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa interweaves original research with a half century of scholarship to chart key vectors in the evolution of a music, a culture, and a region.»(Daniel Sheehy, PhD, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture; Interim Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings; Director & Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)«While most of the recent English-language scholarship on son jarocho has focused on its use as a platform for activism and identity formation in the US, Randall Kohl¿s Reflections on the Veracruz son jarocho takes a refreshing look at the genre¿s practice in its home state of Veracruz. This work offers an excellent introduction to the genre for the unfamiliar, including son jarochös history, revival, style traits, subgenres, and recent fusions with other idioms. This is a wide-ranging and accessible book, and an important contribution to our growing understanding of this rich regional tradition.»(Gregory Reish, Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University)«Randall Kohl's deep understanding of son jarocho shines through in this book. Built on years of ethnographic immersion in the musical community of Xalapa and its environs, this book expertly traverses the textual, performative and cultural terrain of this important musical vernacular of Mexico. This first book in English on the son jarocho will be an invaluable resource for both scholars and general readers with an interest in the genre.»(Anandam Kavoori, Professor, Department of Entertainment and Media Studies, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA)Once associated principally with the Veracruz countryside, the son jarocho music and dance tradition is now establishing itself as a twenty-first-century urban practice caught in a struggle between firmly established customs and newly adaptive strategies. This book presents an overview of the music¿s history and musical characteristics along with specific looks at its texts, iconography, past and present academic trends and other details. It also examines the recently closed local centro de cultura, La Casa de Nadie, as a focal point for son jarocho activity in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world¿s situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political economy more obvious, this complicated canon is becoming increasingly important: no longer just a minor literary genre, but rather a crucial aid to thinking about our social systems. The better we understand utopian narrative strategies, the more fully we can put them to use, so Popov¿s excellent study is timely and interesting.»(Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future)«Alexander Popov¿s Zone Theory deftly guides us through the thickets of utopian theory and shows us why we should care, with fresh and convincing readings of a variety of science fictional texts. The writers explored here range from the usual suspects¿Le Guin, Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson¿to some not usually classed as utopian or dystopian, such as John Crowley and Brooke Bolander. Popov builds on the work of Tom Moylan and Fredric Jameson while adding important perspectives such as considering utopia as a hyperobject and using utopian theory to read the incongruous, unresolvable Zones of science fiction such as the Strugatskys¿ Roadside Picnic and Jeff VanderMeer¿s Southern Reach trilogy. I am happy to do as Popov suggests: to read utopias not only as ongoing processes rather than finished blueprints, as Moylan has taught us, but also to see them as a way of learning about the world. Utopia, says Popov, is 'an apparatus for registering difference at the level of societal organization' and thus is always open to new discoveries and new antinomies: anti-utopias lead to anti-anti-utopias and so on without end.»(Brian Attebery, Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University, author of Stories about Stories: Fantasy & the Remaking of Myth)Zone Theory reinterprets utopia as an unceasing dialectic between totality and novelty which keeps on discovering new subjectivities and genres. Through close readings within a wide corpus of SF works, it meditates on utopian forms such as critical utopia, critical dystopia, heterotopia, atopia and ecotopia, ultimately tying them to the notion of anti-anti-utopia: a form of forms capacious enough to house a permanently open multiplicity of beings.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Kilpeläinen¿s engaging journey through Baldwin¿s postcategorical utopian thought shows how this writer¿s under-appreciated later works foresee today¿s heated ideological and philosophical debates. From political unconscious to Afrofuturism, this book maps Baldwin¿s Black queer wisdom: Labels and essentialized identities easily ¿become instruments of power,¿ dividing and alienating societies, cultures, and individuals.»(Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Professor of American Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan)«This study is an important and timely analysis of Baldwin¿s later novels. Kilpeläinen¿s writing is sophisticated and eloquent, and his critical framework is startlingly clear and illuminating. Seizing on Baldwin¿s ¿incessant urgency,¿ he advances an authoritative, convincing argument that will add enduringly to our collective appreciation of Americäs prophetic witness.»(D. Quentin Miller, Professor of English, Suffolk University, Boston)This book examines the dialectic of ideology and utopia in three novels by James Baldwin. Taking Fredric Jameson¿s seminal theory of the political unconscious as its point of departure, Dr Pekka Kilpeläinen conceptualizes Baldwin¿s writing in terms of the impulse of postcategorical utopia, where the ideological categorizations based on race and sexuality, in particular, are challenged by the utopian impulse to imagine alternative futures. The readings of three of Baldwin¿s novels probe into the questions of ideological and utopian spatialities, transgressive interracial and same-sex relationships, and critiques of both Western modernity and its black counterculture. Baldwin¿s denouncement of the oppressive effects of identity categories penetrates his entire oeuvre, from his early, critically acclaimed work to his later, often ignored novels. Seen through the lens of postcategorical utopia, the urgency of Baldwin¿s vision gains a new sense of immediacy and relevance.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 326 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -How can musical meaning be conveyed without words Starting with the landscape in which instrumental music developed traits parallel to language, this book explores a performance framework that connects qualities derived from rhetorical and dramatic elements and the model of the singing voice in Classical and Romantic solo piano music. These traditions were shared by composers, performers and pedagogues but have gradually fallen into obscurity. Rhetoric provides a guide for logical organization and persuasion, dramatic plot and character influence form and musical content, while singing offers a natural model for expression and inflection. Historical and aesthetic information along with literary and musical aspects are presented here to inform current performance practice.Composers consciously employed rhetorical figures and expected performers to recognize and apply them in performance. Thinking of music in terms of plot and character cultivates habits of purposeful direction and clear definition of individual thematic material. Literary comparisons inspire the imagination and can be useful in addressing more complex aesthetic issues, such as organic quality in art, the concept of unity in diversity, memory, evolution and incompleteness. The desire to achieve vocal expressivity at the keyboard is a unifying factor that transcends the differences between varying types of pianos across time. These concepts have practical application to modern performance training, and a wider pianistic pedagogical context is explored in the final chapter, advocating for an integrated and meaningful approach to performance.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is a selection of writings on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari¿s philosophy and its connection with language learning. The authors are global experts in the field of language learning and schizoanalysis and have been collaborating on projects concerning Deleuze and Guattari for over two decades. They are the only scholars who have consistently applied Deleuze and Guattari to language learning. In addition to lecturing and co-writing on this topic, they have been working on projects concerning social ecology and the Anthropocene across the globe. This book attempts to put their multifaceted writings on language learning and teaching into systematic order.Bradley and Cole offer a thoughtful and timely look at the intersections between the abstraction of philosophical theory and the pragmatic reality of language learning. As such, this book introduces the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and its use in the field of language learning in the tertiary education sector and elsewhere.The authors demonstrate how Deleuze and Guattari inform language learning and teaching in creative, unpredictable, and sometimes rupturing ways. The book introduces empirical research from Australia, Canada, the United States, and Japan that combines Deleuze's thought, literacies and multiliteracies theory to explain how students frequently have breakthroughs but, more often than not, have breakdowns in language learning. This book argues that the Deleuze and Guattari philosophical approach endeavours to understand the relationships between literacy, the literary, and literature use, and it extends multiliteracies into the multiple literacies theory of affect to develop an understanding of the complexities of learning ¿ its breakdowns and hopefully its breakthroughs.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 286 pp. Englisch.