peter lang peter lang mai 2005 (143 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The color of the book¿s cover alludes to the time and context in which this important volume originated: the 3 Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women¿s Day at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At that time ¿orange alerts¿ were issued by the United States to create a climate of fear and thereby stifle any critical debate of its foreign and domestic policy. The feminist thinkers presented in this volume are alert that such a critique is needed. They draw on the various languages of their fields to address wide-ranging topics and key questions in feminist politics, theory and philosophy. They all confront the state of urgency concerning the role of women in all classes of society, in all fields of research and the academy. This unique collection ranges across disciplines; as such the four major topics ¿ aesthetics and female representation, love and psychoanalysis, care and ethics, the different understandings of ¿women¿ ¿ represent current topics of cross-disciplinary interest for Women¿s and Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the presentation of, and attitudes to, the Second World War in post-war West German prose fiction. The fierce public reactions which some of these works provoked at the time of their publication are taken into account in this study since their reception provides a picture of the psychological relationship West Germany had with its wartime past in the immediate post-war period and beyond. Writers of Unterhaltungsliteratur and Trivialliteratur are often studied within their own genre, but, this book sets such writers alongside their canonical colleagues. This approach opens up the possibility of considering whether the strategies adopted to influence contemporary society, to reflect that society and to come to terms with the Second World War are determined by the classification of these works as Kitsch or Kunst. The authors included are Alfred Andersch, Heinrich Böll, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Heinz G. Konsalik, Theodor Plievier and Erich Maria Remarque. The selected works deal specifically with the German soldier and officer, the fighting fronts, the home front and the connections between the German army and the National Socialist regime. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics. Employing the statistical technique of binary logistic regression, this book presents a new method of analysing non-discrete categories in linguistics with reference to the grammatical notion of gradience and the principle of parsimony. The focus is particularly on the grammatical factors influencing the choice between use and non-use of the definite article ¿ a well-known issue of uncertainty in modern English. The study also concentrates on multi-word organisation names, which have been little studied, although they occur frequently in newspaper language and have special characteristics of their own. By making precise predictive statements about the conditions under which the definite article is preferred or dispreferred, the book is also able to shed light on the theory of linguistic performance. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is about how to implement creative competition within an organization. It examines the conditions under which internal competition can promote knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing. The book describes a number of studies of sales departments in Japanese firms. Sales departments in Japanese firms were studied because internal competition is getting fiercer in these departments following the recent introduction of performance-based compensation. Exploratory case studies of ORIX Corporation and Japan Computer were conducted in order to generate research hypotheses. To gather quantitative data and test the hypotheses drawn from the case studies, a questionnaire survey of sales departments of Japanese firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was carried out. The findings reported in the book shed new light not only on internal competition theory, but also provide new insights into the theories on knowledge creation and intra-organizational conflict. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Notre étude s¿est intéressée au rapport entre la situation singulière et la norme existante ou inexistante. A la question de savoir pourquoi ne pas appliquer tout simplement et toujours la norme et cela de manière acribique, nous avons cherché la réponse dans l¿éthique appliquée de Paul Ricoeur: en l¿occurence dans sa sensibilité à l¿intersubjectivité dans la complexité du processus même de l¿application et dans l¿émergence des impasses que peuvent engendrer la rigidité de la morale de l¿obligation ou des apories que seule la référence à la notion de la sagesse pratique, médium entre le cas singulier et la norme, peut résoudre. 216 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Es ist immer auch anders möglich, vor allem anders als man denkt. So müsste ein Leitsatz Dadas heißen, wenn es denn einen gegeben hätte. Nicht Logik, Verstand und Weitblick, schon gar nicht Regeln oder Ideale bestimmen Dadas Weltsicht, es ist die Kontingenz und mit ihr die Hingabe an das Nichts als einen Zustand völliger Wertfreiheit und Indifferenz.Dieser birgt, so offenbart es die dadaistische Anti-Kunst, eine Fülle an Möglichkeiten, die bisher Undenkbares, Unsagbares und Unfassbares in Beziehung zueinander setzen kann ¿ ganz nach dem Prinzip des Zufalls, der Intuition und der Spontaneität des Einzelnen und ganz entgegen der traditionellen Forderung nach dauerhafter Bedeutung und Sinnhaftigkeit der Kunst für die Allgemeinheit. Der künstlerische Ausdruck des Dadaisten steht für sein innerstes Empfinden und für sich selbst, keinesfalls aber für eine allgemeine Sehnsucht nach einem einheitsstiftenden Ideal, worauf die Moderne doch allzu gerne vertrösten wollte.Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht eben dieses Moment der Inversion genauer zu fassen. Verschiedenen einheitsorientierten Weltordnungsmodellen des 19. Jahrhunderts stellt sie Dada als ein Phänomen gegenüber, das stattdessen für das Erleben der Vielheit im Hier und Jetzt plädiert.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 178 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Industrialisierung, Internationalisierung, Rechtsprechung und Rechtslehre ¿ mit diesen Schlagwörtern fasst der Autor die Entwicklungen zusammen, die zur Verabschiedung des Urheberrechtsgesetzes vom 19. Juni 1901 geführt haben. Anhand zeitgenössischer Literatur und der Auswertung der im Bundesarchiv Berlin überlieferten Materialien zur Gesetzgebung stellt die Arbeit die Entwicklungsschritte des Gesetzes zwischen den Jahren 1870 und 1901 dar. Ausführlich behandelt der Verfasser die Arbeit des Reichsjustizamtes an dem Gesetz und die Reaktionen auf die verschiedenen Interessengruppen. Der Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels und Einzelpersonen wie Richard Strauss und Cosima Wagner seien beispielhaft als Akteure genannt, die gerade bei der Vorbereitung des Entwurfs großen Einfluss ausübten. 216 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die im übersetzungswissenschaftlichen Rahmen vorgenommene Kontrastierung des Sprachenpaars Deutsch-Türkisch führt die Relevanz der Übersetzung bei der interkulturellen Interaktion vor Augen. Durch den Überblick über die Geschichte der literarischen Übersetzung und den theoretisch fundierten Übersetzungsvergleich ausgewählter literarischer Werke berühmter deutscher und türkischer Autoren wird ersichtlich, welche bedeutende Rolle der Übersetzungstätigkeit bei der Annäherung der deutschen und türkischen Kulturgemeinschaften zukommt. Die Untersuchung ist aber nicht nur auf den kulturspezifischen Aspekt begrenzt, sondern versucht auch, durch die Darstellung von Schwierigkeiten, die beim deutsch-türkischen bzw. türkisch-deutschen Übersetzungsprozess auftreten, eine Orientierung bei der Bewältigung von Übersetzungsproblemen zu liefern. 224 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Gibt es ein pädagogisches Konzept, das in einer globalisierenden Gesellschaft eine erfolgreiche Schuledukation gewährleisten kann Dieser Frage nachzugehen, scheint nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund von Pisastudien und ihren Ergebnissen aktuell und lohnenswert. Ausgehend von globalen Interdependenzen kommt der Begriff Bürgergesellschaft mit seinen Möglichkeiten zu aktivem, handlungsorientiertem Lehren und Lernen ins Blickfeld. Es werden Denkmuster und Ansätze der vormodernen, modernen und postmodernen Pädagogik befragt, die zur Lösung der Frage nach einem pädagogischen Konzept beitragen könnten. Ob die hier gefundenen Ansätze sich auch für eine Pädagogik der Globalgesellschaft eignen, soll am Beispiel Indien eine Untersuchung von Dokumenten indischer Primarerziehung, national bedeutsamen reformpädagogischen Modellen und aktuellen Projekten erbringen. 264 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Fraktionslose Ratsmitglieder haben nach Auffassung der Verwaltungsgerichte kein Recht auf Ausschussmitgliedschaft, obwohl das gemeindliche Ausschusswesen ähnlich wichtig ist wie auf Bundestagsebene. Hauptargument ist die fehlende Parlamentseigenschaft des Rates. Auch innerhalb des Schrifttums herrscht Uneinigkeit darüber, ob ein derartiger Anspruch besteht. Diese Arbeit nimmt eine Gegenüberstellung der Merkmale der Vertretungsorgane auf staatlicher bzw. kommunaler Ebene sowie der Statusrechte ihrer Mitglieder vor. Es werden Grundsätze für die Übertragbarkeit parlamentsrechtlicher Regelungen ins Kommunalrecht aufgestellt und konkret auf das Ausschussmitgliedschaftsrecht fraktionsloser Ratsmitglieder angewendet, das im Ergebnis bejaht wird. 336 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das beginnende neue Jahrtausend war der Anlass, weshalb sich am internationalen Musil-Kolloquium in Saarbrücken 2001 Experten die Frage stellten, inwieweit nach der Musil-Renaissance der 80er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts der Autor seine Aktualität noch wahren konnte. Vier Hauptthemen wurden behandelt: Die Zeitgenossenschaft Musils, die Musil-Rezeption in verschiedenen Kulturbereichen, der Autor als Brückenschlag zwischen Anfang und Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts, sowie die Aktualität seiner Schriften. 382 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Salzburg ist das älteste, seit 798 bestehende Erzbistum im Deutschen Sprachraum. Dieses Nachschlagewerk enthält die Lebensbilder aller Salzburger Bischöfe (seit 696), der erzbischöflichen Landesherren, der Erzbischöfe und Weihbischöfe mit einem kurzen Abriss zur Salzburger Kirchengeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Chronologische Listen aller Generalvikare, Wappen und Wappenzeichen sowie auch Schriften-, Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis dienen der Vollständigkeit und ergänzen das biographische Lexikon. 416 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In welchem Sinne bestimmt und bedingt es die Lektüre, wenn man Robert Musil als Philosoph, als Natur- oder Kulturwissenschaftler, vielleicht sogar als Linguist, oder doch vorrangig als Schriftsteller auffasst Der vorliegende Band setzt es sich zum Ziel, anhand von «anderen» und in ihrer Ausrichtung voneinander abweichenden Lektüren die zahlreichen und höchst unterschiedlichen Methodologien, die sich zurzeit mit Musils Werk beschäftigen (Rhetorik, Narratologie, Ideen- und Geistesgeschichte, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft, Editionskritik, Philosophie, etc.) miteinander zu konfrontieren. Angesichts der inhärenten Interdisziplinarität und Interdiskursivität des ¿uvres kann Musil als exemplarischer Testfall für eine in ihrem Objektbereich und in ihrer (methodologischen) Orientierung einmal mehr verunsicherte Literaturwissenschaft betrachtet werden. Die einzelnen Beiträge zu diesem Band bieten editionsphilologische Überlegungen, Mikroanalysen von Figürlichkeitsformen und Erzählverfahren, Überlegungen zur Rezeption und zur Denkbarkeit von möglichen philosophischen und literarischen Bezügen und können als interdisziplinäre Antwort auf die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Literatur zu anderen Diskursen verstanden werden. 350 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Shakespeare's works are constantly being translated into new contexts, a fact which demonstrates the vitality of his plots in contemporary settings. Shakespeare Translated looks at the way certain plays - particularly Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , Othello , and King Lear - have been recontextualized into films like O and King of Texas , or television shows such as 'The Gilmore Girls', 'Cheers', and 'Clueless'. This book illustrates how Romeo and Juliet is the most shamelessly appropriated of Shakespeare's scripts for contemporary use because its plot fits so neatly into the teenage culture that has burgeoned since the late 1950s. Shakespeare Translated looks at what has happened to Shakespeare, for better or - more often - for worse, as the new millennium begins. 173 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A Morning After War fills a critical gap in C. S. Lewis biographies with unprecedented detail by tracing Lewis's wartime service, relationships, and earliest publications. Probing war's traumatic destruction upon Lewis's romantic expectations of tranquil life, this book surpasses literary analyses of Lewis's work by asserting a comprehensive definition of war literature. Equally, scholars and students of World War I, war literature, trauma studies, and C. S. Lewis will find this work an invaluable reassessment of central assumptions in their fields. Not least, here finally is the young C. S. Lewis preceding his usual and often idolized personas. 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Political activists with radical ideas often find themselves shut out of the mainstream news media. Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream is designed for activists who want to take on that challenge. Based on the author's experience as a journalist, activist, and academic, this book offers insight into radical politics and mass media and then moves on to describe practical strategies for breaking into the mainstream. Illustrated by the author's own opinion columns published in daily newspapers, Writing Dissent explains how journalists work and how activists can successfully work with them. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Professional Development School (PDS) movement has been a major vehicle for the simultaneous renewal of Pre-K-12 education and the teaching profession for nearly twenty years. This second volume in a series created by Towson University goes beyond 'start up' stories and presents data-based discussions on a variety of topics about PDS implementation and assessment, including PDSs in specialty areas, such as music and physical education, mentoring, teacher development, standards, accountability, and sustainability. Chapters are written by researchers who presented their work at the Second National Professional Development School Conference sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education's Professional Development School Network, and who represent public and private colleges and universities and school districts in Maine, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Kansas, and Missouri, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Whether writing from the perspective of rhetoric or political science, scholars of presidential communication often assume that the ultimate meaning of presidential rhetoric lies in whether it achieves policy success. In this book, David Michael Ryfe argues that although presidential rhetoric has many meanings, one of the most important is how it rhetorically constructs the practice of presidential communication itself. Drawing upon an examination of presidential rhetoric in the twentieth century - from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton - Ryfe surveys the shifting meaning of presidential communication. In doing so, he reveals that the so-called public or rhetorical presidency is not one fixed entity, but rather a continuously negotiated discursive construct. 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X-Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction based on television characters, creating and maintaining online communal relations, and organizing cyberspace in a way that marks it out as alternative to that which surrounds it. 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Readin' + Writin' for the Hard-Hat Crowd explores the history of an urban public university from its conception in 1964 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The reader views this place in time through the lens of the evolving nature of «freshman English», an introductory curriculum that began as four semesters of Great Books. The author, herself among those once labeled «the hard-hat crowd», received an undergraduate education similar to that experienced by her contemporaries at elite private colleges. Yet, while this school, once considered a poor man's Harvard, was founded with a mission to provide academic equity, the curriculum evolved to one that responded to pressure for relevancy and practicality. 142 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -By embracing a rapidly changing digital world, the so-called millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines, between high- and low-brow media culture, and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies, this book blends theories of an attention economy, generational differences, communication technologies, and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging, shape-shifting portfolios, critical inquiry, and media production. 235 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Fear and Trembling Shock and Awe Which set of statements best describes the emotions surrounding the assessment of writing ability in educational settings This book - the first historical study of its kind - begins with Harvard University's 1874 requirement that first-year student applicants submit a short composition as part of the admissions process; the book concludes with the College Board's 2005 requirement for an essay to be submitted as part of the new SAT®: Reasoning Test. Intended for teachers who must prepare students to submit their writing for formal assessment, administrators who must make critical decisions based on test scores, and policy makers who must allocate resources based on evaluation systems, On a Scale provides a much-needed historical and conceptual background to questions arising from national attention to student writing ability. 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book features African American women playwrights from 1875 to 2000, with an emphasis on the late nineteenth century, a period rarely treated in regard to women's drama. Highlighting the lesser-known Pauline Hopkins, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Eulalie Spence, and May Miller, and the well-known Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ntozake Shange, Peculiar Passages argues that these playwrights' efforts define a tradition characterized by quick-change mobility, sensitivity to vernacular forms, and dedication to intertextual dialogue. Situating the plays within a broader context, the book also connects them to minstrelsy, the Passion Play, and the Black Arts Movement. 306 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The color of the book's cover alludes to the time and context in which this important volume originated: the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating International Women's Day at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At that time 'orange alerts' were issued by the United States to create a climate of fear and thereby stifle any critical debate of its foreign and domestic policy. The feminist thinkers presented in this volume are alert that such a critique is needed. They draw on the various languages of their fields to address wide-ranging topics and key questions in feminist politics, theory and philosophy. They all confront the state of urgency concerning the role of women in all classes of society, in all fields of research and the academy. This unique collection ranges across disciplines; as such the four major topics - aesthetics and female representation, love and psychoanalysis, care and ethics, the different understandings of 'women' - represent current topics of cross-disciplinary interest for Women's and Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This series seeks to illuminate, highlight, and spotlight (intercultural) communication in the world of business. In order to conduct any business, relationships need to be established which are primarily reciprocal relationships - whether between employer and employee, or provider and customer. Since business relationships are essentially human relationships, they rely on communication. Thus, an understanding of fundamental human communication principles serves to explain, comprehend, and foster business relationships. The texts included in this book cover various topics in general and intercultural communication that have direct relevance to the world of business. 422 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Gesher Theatre opened in 1990 as a marginal immigrant troupe in Tel Aviv, and soon became one of the most popular innovative theatres in Israel. It has now achieved international acclaim. However, because its bilingual performances and multicultural cast challenge cornerstones of Zionism, the mainstream Israeli media constantly debate Gesher's position. Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel - A Study of Cultural Colonization discusses Gesher's history and analyzes its controversial media reception. What emerges is an extension of postcolonial theory to new cultural contexts, leading to a groundbreaking model of interethnic relations. This book will be of value to scholars of cultural studies and immigration, as well as to anyone interested in contemporary Israeli culture. 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Shakespeare's works are constantly being translated into new contexts, a fact which demonstrates the vitality of his plots in contemporary settings. Shakespeare Translated looks at the way certain plays - particularly Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear - have been recontextualized into films like O and King of Texas, or television shows such as «The Gilmore Girls», «Cheers», and «Clueless». This book illustrates how Romeo and Juliet is the most shamelessly appropriated of Shakespeare's scripts for contemporary use because its plot fits so neatly into the teenage culture that has burgeoned since the late 1950s. Shakespeare Translated looks at what has happened to Shakespeare, for better or - more often - for worse, as the new millennium begins.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 186 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the presentation of, and attitudes to, the Second World War in post-war West German prose fiction. The fierce public reactions which some of these works provoked at the time of their publication are taken into account in this study since their reception provides a picture of the psychological relationship West Germany had with its wartime past in the immediate post-war period and beyond. Writers of Unterhaltungsliteratur and Trivialliteratur are often studied within their own genre, but, this book sets such writers alongside their canonical colleagues. This approach opens up the possibility of considering whether the strategies adopted to influence contemporary society, to reflect that society and to come to terms with the Second World War are determined by the classification of these works as Kitsch or Kunst . The authors included are Alfred Andersch, Heinrich Böll, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Heinz G. Konsalik, Theodor Plievier and Erich Maria Remarque. The selected works deal specifically with the German soldier and officer, the fighting fronts, the home front and the connections between the German army and the National Socialist regime. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This comparative study examines the prose writings of the best-known cosmopolitan authors of the Third French Republic: the modernists Jean Giraudoux, Valery Larbaud and Paul Morand, and the best-selling popular writer Maurice Dekobra. It investigates what constituted the 'cosmopolitanism' that they publicly proclaimed between the World Wars, a classification which has been widely accepted by commentators ever since. In particular, it considers whether conventional definitions of cosmopolitanism - as an unproblematic attitude of xenophilia coupled with wanderlust, or as an ecumenical humanism - can co-exist with the blind spots and prejudices of its practitioners. This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the writers' identity politics based on their approach to Otherness (gender, race, nationality, political affiliation) as well as to formal innovation. It argues that cosmopolitanism is the organizing principle for their literary and existential attempts at cultivating authentic Selfhood. Through its socio-political embeddedness, this cosmopolitanism reveals the ideological and cultural preoccupations of the day. 285 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the most radical conceptual shifts in postmodern debates about art has been the dismantlement of the very idea of a work of art, its unity and ontological status. The move from work to text has entailed far-reaching questions concerning the status and function of the artist or author, the role of interpretive communities, and the constitution of texts as intertexts. By concentrating on the author as reader, the present volume explores the process of writing in terms of textual visions and revisions undertaken by the author him- or herself. Tracing an author's foot- or fingerprints along the multiple versions of a text does not only alert us to the fact that a printed text may not be the first version, nor may it be the final, let alone finished, version; more radically, it suggests that works of art are fleeting products within a fluid process of transformations. 260 pp. Englisch.