peter lang peter lang okt 2012 (309 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Latinoamericanos nómades: Cortázar y Bryce Echenique trata de la experiencia del exilio y la obra de dos autores con un vínculo especialmente fuerte con las culturas europeas. Se analizan las novelas Rayuela y La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña, como formas específicas del relato de exilio o de migración, como también los ensayos de Cortázar y las Antimemorias de Bryce. Cortázar y Bryce Echenique, por diversas razones, se pueden considerar como exiliados en América Latina. Ellos viven, al menos parcialmente, el exilio europeo como un retorno a la cultura entendida como propia, a la vez que se intensifica desde el exilio su relación con los respectivos países de origen. En la ensayística cortazariana se encuentran diferentes discursos e identificaciones varias, en cambio, en las Antimemorias de Bryce, se reflejan desarraigos y el desdoblamiento y la fragmentación del personaje principal. 160 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Inspired by recent work in positive psychology, Positive Communication in Health and Wellness gives scholarly attention to what¿s going right in people¿s communication lives. The book harnesses a dispersed ¿ but powerful ¿ body of communication scholarship that has at its center a focus on building healthy communication contexts and generating wellness. By organizing and representing contemporary communication scholarship in the area of positive communication in health and wellness, the essays in this book will inspire collective action and further scholarship that highlights the potential for flourishing health, enhanced well-being, and greater human fulfillment through positive communication. This book will be useful in health communication courses as well as those in relational and organizational communication.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 362 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award 2013.Winner of the National Communication Association (NCA) Philosophy of Communication Division¿s award for Best Book.An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning explores a world beyond information accumulation, stressing meaningful engagement with existence. Meaning is composed between and among persons, ideas, and activities of communicative engagement. Meaning is central to the study and practice of philosophy of communication, providing story-laden guidance.The book examines philosophical differences between Boss and Zorba, following the development of their friendship in Zorba the Greek. Their story helps to exemplify the meaningful coordinates of philosophy of communication established in each chapter. The authors claim meaning as the pivotal conceptual terrain for philosophy of communication. This book offers a rationale for the pragmatic necessity of philosophy of communication in understanding the «how» and the «why» of orchestrating meaning from information and discourse throughout our communicative lives.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 314 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Mention the state of Vermont and images of maple syrup, scenic mountains, and progressive politics come to mind. But in addition to skiing, farming, and fall foliage, there is also a startling history of racial and religious intolerance and bigotry. Burlington is known as the birthplace of John Dewey, whose enlightened views about education reached far beyond the Green Mountains to impact schools. Yet there exist many unsavory examples of equitable education deferred for a small but growing population. Black males, especially, have not been treated fairly ¿ suffering in silence as a disproportional number are shunted away from opportunities such as college-prep courses and instead, into special education, the principal¿s office, and out the door due to suspension. This book seeks to answer the question: What is truly going on for Black males in Vermont public schools Only those who were students in public schools across the state can really answer that question, and their perspectives help shed light on the condition of Black males in predominantly white rural spheres experiencing similar shifts in racial demographics across the nation. 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions is the first volume in a new series of the same name. The book is devoted to the comparative study of contemporary mysticism, bringing together papers presented as part of the 2008-2009 research group on the sociology of contemporary Jewish mysticism in comparative perspective, convened at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Chapters written by leading scholars of Jewish, Buddhist and Christian Mysticism address the dramatic global proliferation and transformation of mystical traditions in recent decades. The volume seeks to establish the study of contemporary mysticism on a sound scholarly basis, employing the analytical tools of the social sciences, and using comparative methods in order to gain global perspective. This important volume will be suited for courses on contemporary or classical mysticism, comparative religion, sociology and anthropology of contemporary culture, psychology of religion, Jewish studies and Buddhist studies and social theory.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book won the Literacy Research Association¿s 2014 Edward B. Fry Book AwardThe contributors to this edited volume examine the simultaneous implementation of critical and digital literacies and explore ramifications for the development and assessment of critical digital literacies (CDL) curricula across educational contexts. We ask: How has the increasing ubiquity of digital literacies in and out of school affected our definitions of critical literacies And how have our ever-changing perceptions of critical literacies affected how we define, teach, and engage in digital literacies We believe that there is crucial work to be done at these intersections, work that builds upon the extensive bodies of critical and digital literacies research. Some issues and questions that chapters address are:What is negotiated, gained, or lost in the process of combining the critical and the digital Where is the power located ¿ and who is silenced, and how ¿ in CDL approaches Can CDL practices disrupt classroom routines in constructive and engaging ways How has the divide between audience and participant, and the notion of collective intelligence, been challenged and redefined by CDL How do CDL practices impact youths¿ identity constructions The essays in this volume present a balance between current issues and promising future opportunities and directions. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book won the North American Sport Sociology Society¿s 2013 Outstanding Book Award.Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling is a critical ethnography of health, physical education and the schooling experiences of urban youth. The subjects of health and physical education are compulsory in most schools internationally, but many contemporary practices in these subjects reinforce rather than challenge the stereotypes that urban youth are only physically talented and, subsequently, uninterested in schooling achievement. This book questions those practices and instead suggests that, if taught in critical ways, these subjects offer a particularly cogent space of hope and achievement for urban youth. The use of critical ethnography enables an in-depth account of urban youth in the subjects of health and physical education at school. This book thus explores the complex potential for health and physical education as key sites of learning for marginalized urban youth, examining these disciplines as subjects that are both politically fraught and also spaces of hope.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book utilizes the theory of intersectionality to focus on the divergent identities and experiences of marginalized groups and to analyze the ways these experiences infiltrate the classroom. It examines teaching and learning as integrated and synergistic practices and highlights the personal and institutional power dynamics existing between scholars and students.Starting with the premise that institutions of higher education must pay attention to the ways intersecting identities and structures of privilege and disadvantage enter all educational settings, the contributors to this text represent a range of academic disciplines and they are both scholars and students. This approach demonstrates that ideas related to teaching and learning should not follow models that separate teachers, students, and disciplines, but rather that significant learning occurs in the areas where they overlap. Each chapter provides pedagogical strategies and methods for classroom practice that facilitate student learning, equitable classroom environments, and a social justice agenda.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the importance of empathy in developing an action-based social consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn¿t argue for a specific way of pursuing an empathy connected to mind, body, and spirit: She acknowledges that just as artists work in various media, each with their own process for sharing how they think and feel about a particular topic or moment, each individual may arrive in their own way at a deep, spiritual, close identification with the experiences of the other. Writings of Healing and Resistance encompasses a variety of forms: autoethnography, ethnodrama, poetic inquiry, and critical essay, as well as scholars¿ work in a number of disciplines including communications, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, educational leadership, African American studies, and cultural foundations. 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This provocative and groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to propose the concept of Eco-ability: the intersectionality of the ecological world, persons with disabilities, and nonhuman animals. Rooted in disability studies and rights, environmentalism, and animal advocacy, this book calls for a social justice theory and movement that dismantles constructed «normalcy», ableism, speciesism, and ecological destruction while promoting mutual interdependence, collaboration, respect for difference, and inclusivity of our world. Eco-ability provides a positive, liberating, and empowering philosophy for educators and activists alike.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hop¿s Li¿l Sistas Speak explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality, and privilege. The thriving atmosphere of Atlanta, Georgia serves as the background against which these youth consume Hip Hop, and the book examines how the city¿s socially conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern-flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery. Intertwined within the girls¿ exploration of Hip Hop and coming of age in Atlanta, the author shares her love for the culture, struggles of being a queer educator and a Black lesbian living and researching in the South, and reimagining Hip Hop pedagogy for urban learners.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book¿s predecessor, Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education (Peter Lang, 2000), sparked a decade of meaningful scholarship on the educational experiences and academic outcomes of African American males. Black Sons to Mothers proffered seminal contributions to the academic literature on the achievement gap, differential instruction, and minority schooling, and inspired further research ¿ countless books, articles and reports written since about the educational challenges and successes of African American males directly reference the work.Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice continues, extends, and advances the research and conversations introduced in Black Sons to Mothers. The chapters in this volume were commissioned by the Alphas in the Academy Committee (AAC) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. The AAC addresses issues incident to collegiate life, employment in higher education, and postsecondary performance among African American males. This book reflects the fraternity¿s unshakable commitment to improving the contexts and outcomes of African American males in educational settings, and identifies important new territory for the next decade of scholarship on this critical topic.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Allocating scarce medical resources has become an important topic in public discussion. In the German statutory health system we are facing a situation of lacking adequate funds for all needs. The financial restrictions force us to use resources wisely. This emphasizes the need of general allocation rules and criteria applied in medical allocation situations. The purpose of this work is to implement and interpret properties of cooperative bargaining theory to special allocation situations in medicine. The author shows how the concepts of Nash and Kalai/Smorodinsky can be applied to a medical allocation problem and discusses implications of their properties and solutions for the German health system. 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Understanding and minimizing problematic relationships in the workplace are goals shared by those who work in and lead organizations as well as those who study organizations. This volume explores troublesome behaviors and patterns that shape relationships (e.g., hostility, bullying, incivility, and ostracism), presents insights gained from in-depth work on contexts and frameworks (e.g., telework, bureaucracies, cultural dimensions, and tokenism from a feminist perspective), and addresses the potential to restore these relationships to greater wellbeing (e.g., resilience, positive communication, civility, and forgiveness). Written by leading experts on problematic relationships in the workplace, this volume combines scholarship with applications that will be valuable in any organization. The new contributions in this second volume of Problematic Relationships in the Workplace extend the first volume¿s work by exploring cutting-edge and emerging issues in the field.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 358 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen compila una selección de trabajos, realizados en su mayoría por investigadores del Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Andrés Bello de la Universidad de La Laguna, que versan explícita o implícitamente sobre las interdependencias entre lengua, cultura y cognición. Estas contribuciones, que se presentan dispuestas alfabéticamente, se insertan en líneas de investigación bien definidas en el ámbito de este centro investigador, líneas que conciernen a aspectos lingüísticos generales y particulares: a la fonética, la gramática, la lexicología, la fraseología, la dialectología, a los aspectos sociolingüísticos, variacionales y pragmático-discursivos, a los lexicográficos, los historiográficos, los traductológicos, los psicolingüísticos o los didácticos, de una amplia nómina de lenguas como el español, el inglés, el alemán, el latín o el mancañá. 324 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book has won the Jean Blondel PhD award of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and was nominated for the Annual PhD Prize of the Dutch and Flemish Political Science Associations.Theories on ethnic conflict tend to work on the premise that a deeply divided public opinion undermines democratic stability, and that conflict-ridden polities are not fertile ground for the development of a strong democracy. Democratic stability in divided societies is seen to be endangered whenever the demos plays too prominent a role, so the commonly formulated solution is that citizens should remain passive.This book addresses the role of citizens in such divided societies while they are facing political conflict. It offers interesting new perspectives on the potential of deliberative democracy as a viable alternative in the case of deeply divided polities. The author uses cutting-edge data from a deliberative experiment in Belgium, where he gathered Flemings and Walloons to discuss the future of the country at a moment when the tensions between the linguistic groups were at an historic high. His findings are insightful and interesting for deliberative theorists and practitioners, as well as for scholars of ethnic conflict. 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The volume aims to illuminate the issue of Jewish identity in the context of its pre-Holocaust European origins and post-Holocaust American and Israeli settings. Jewish experience and identity construction in Europe, America and Israel are presented through diverse perspectives: Merchant of Venice in the light of Levinas¿ ethics, Italian Jews in the 20th century, German-speaking Jewish authors in the Nazi 1930s, the Hassidic culture of learning, the representation of contemporary Poland in Jewish photography, Jewish life in America in a kashrut observing Orthodox neighbourhood, Kaballah in feminist cyberpunk fiction by Marge Piercy, constructing Jewish identity in British fiction in novels by Will Self and Muriel Spark, and Israeli films focusing on ethical solutions to political problems. 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. The key idea that frames the book is the assumption concerning the culture-creating functions of such dichotomies as containment/incontinence, interior/exterior, cleanliness/contamination, and demarcation/boundlessness, and their role in the process of defining the notion of modern subjectivity. These assumptions are based on a conviction that categories traditionally identified with corporeality do not exist in separation from the discourse of subjectivity. What is more, the corporeal metaphors might constitute an inscription and record of its norm-creating practices. Arguing that the subject can be construed as a textual product of the imagery of solid body boundaries, this study comprises a gradually unfolding story of the poetics of the body/self. 166 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This highly topical book deals with the new frontiers of digital television addressing the challenges it faces as a result of the upsurge of new and converging digital technologies. In a world which has developed online interactivity and new roles for its users, a new scenario of the domestic sphere is emerging where television has lost its dominance within audiovisual products to the Internet, videogames, tablets, mobile phones, and more. Contemporary digital television is thus a field where different platforms, languages and formats compete in order to become the dominant standard for the future. In this new TV ecosystem audiences are negotiating their identities and are implementing practices of use which are redesigning the entire processes for TV production and consumption. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der norwegisch-dänische Philosoph und Naturforscher Henrich Steffens (1773-1845) hat den größten Teil seines Lebens in Deutschland zugebracht ¿ er war Professor in Halle, dann in Breslau und schließlich ab 1832 in Berlin. Seine Autobiographie Was ich erlebte (10 Bände, 1844) gilt als eine vorzügliche Quelle für die Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Romantik. Im Wintersemester 1802/03 hielt er die erste Serie von philosophischen Vorlesungen, in denen er seinen Kopenhagener Zuhörern seine Naturphilosophie vermittelte. Diese hatte er, ausgehend von Spinoza und insbesondere von Schelling, sich während seiner ersten Jahre in Deutschland erarbeitet, als er in Jena mit dem Kreis der «neuen Schule», also der Jenaer Universalromantik, zusammentraf und im sächsischen Freiberg seine früher in Kopenhagen begonnenen Studien der Mineralogie fortsetzte. Er ging in seiner Philosophie über Schelling hinaus, da er Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft intensiver zu verbinden wußte, als es jener getan hatte. Für die dänische (und später auch für die schwedische) Literatur hatten diese Vorlesungen große Bedeutung. Darüber hinaus können sie als ein Kompendium romantischer Naturphilosophie gelesen werden. Diese Vorlesungen werden hier zum ersten Mal ins Deutsche übersetzt. Die Vorbemerkung skizziert Heinrich Steffens in seiner Biographie, seinen Vorbildern, seiner Wirkung und in seinen Vorlesungen. 164 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Through a detailed reconstruction of American rearmament programs to Italy from the birth of NATO through the implementation of multilateral military assistance during the early 1950s, this research challenges the idea that the end of reconstruction marked a striking American shift from economic aid to defense policies. The case study of Italy highlights the impact that the defense procurement contracts had both on monetary stability and balance of payments, as well as the integration of the Italian products within the infant European trade area. This monograph demonstrates that through military assistance the United States promoted balance of payments equilibrium and expansionary domestic aggregate demand to lay down the foundation of a mass consumption market. Furthermore, this work makes the point that the Italian elites resorted to Italy¿s industrial role as production source for NATO to both export manufactured products to the West European economies and import high added value instrumental goods from the U.S. markets. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. EFNIL, the network of the central language institutions of all states of the Union and several other European countries, promotes the enhancement of individual plurilingualism of the people in Europe as an important prerequisite for European multilingualism. The EFNIL conference hosted 2011 by the British Council in London was devoted to the discussion of how individual plurilingualism is being achieved by language education in Europe. In this volume, several general reflections on the main topic are followed by a critical discussion of present language instruction in the United Kingdom and reports on foreign language education in various other countries. Reports on four current projects that aim to describe the present linguistic diversity of Europe follow. A detailed interim report on the results of one of these projects (ELM) concludes the book. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Addressing a range of music examples and texts, the fifteen essays in this volume explore the interaction between both conceptions of time and space and the intermedial relationship between words and music. This intermedial experimentation may serve to adopt the spatio-temporal attributes of the other medium or to comment on a form¿s own mediality. It has much to say about processes of literary and musical composition and reception, the role of tradition and intertextuality, and the medial constellation in which these works situate themselves. The articles here collected testify to the success of the first conference of the Word and Music Association Forum, founded in 2009 to offer graduate students and post-docs a forum for presenting and discussing work in word and music studies. 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The development of a fully fledged European Public Sphere is seen by many as the solution to the legitimation crisis the European Union is suffering today. It is conceived as a space in which a Europe-wide debate about the current economic, social and political crises can take place and through which solutions can be developed.This book proposes a new multi-disciplinary approach to discuss the European Public Sphere, arguing that it should be approached as a complex and interlinking concept, considering issues such as identity, citizenship building and multi-level governance structures and actors, and that it should not be analysed merely from the traditional perspectives of information and communication policies.The volume presents both academic papers and more policy-oriented contributions, offering perspectives from scholars, politicians, consultants and administrators to give the reader a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the European Public Sphere. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Philosophy as a discipline has not only been distinct and crucial but also consistent in the enduring search for practical solutions to human problems. This study discusses the role philosophical enquiries and postulations can play in the practical reconstruction of Africa. It identifies the continent¿s peculiar and diverse challenges as arising mostly from effects of Western intervention in African history and argues for a restoration of the heritage immanent in Africäs oral tradition. The author prefers an African philosophy rooted in a critical reappraisal and appropriation of Africäs oral literature which not only possesses a treasure of philosophical ideas and principles but can also be employed in meeting the challenges confronting Africa and in sustaining development there. He, consequently, defends the theory of intracultural dialogue as the best possible option towards a practical reconstruction of Africa in an African manner. This dialogue can be initiated and sustained with the help of philosophical hermeneutics and through the method of ordinary-language philosophy. The intracultural dialogue is seen as the necessary foundation for a meaningful, productive, and realistic intercultural dialogue. 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Eyes deep with unfathomable histories is a quotation taken from the poem by Pauline Melville entitled «Homeland». This volume was inspired by two areas: the first one was the writings of Pauline Melville, a British novelist, a poet and actress with Wapisiana (South American Indian) ancestry, and the second by Canadian magic realism. The majority of the articles in the collection focus on a variety of aspects of magic realism in contemporary Canadian literature in English, which abounds in texts representative of the mode; but some also approach magic realist texts by British novelists and US playwrights. The authors of the articles come from Europe and North America, and include established scholars, such as Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, who has been writing about developments within magic realism in Canada and beyond for almost thirty years, and Hartmut Lutz, an authority on Canadian Native literatures; as well as promising young scholars. They approach classics of magic realism, such as novels by Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch and Angela Carter, but also more recent texts by Joan Clark, Bernard Assiniwi, Rachel A. Quitsualik, Thomas King, Rawi Hage, Margaret Sweatman, Lilian Nattel, Susanne Swann and Eden Robinson among others. 164 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie¿s eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdie¿s idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main tenets of phraseo-stylistics are addressed. Then the physical presence of idiomatic expressions in Salman Rushdie¿s novels is examined and, finally, through close readings and textual analyses of Salman Rushdie¿s works, the functionality of idioms employed by the author in his prosaic works is determined. This study establishes Salman Rushdie¿s prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts. 294 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Black tile in Canadäs mosaic has long been neglected ¿ in historiography, literary criticism and public discourse. African-Canadian literature sets out to correct this absence. This study provides an in-depth look into the fiction of one of African-Canadian literature¿s foremost writers, Lawrence Hill. His novels provide a counter-memory, an antidote to the forgetfulness and neglect which often characterize Canadäs attitude towards its Black minority both past and present. Dominant collective memory versions are thus corrected to reflect a more faithful Canadian mosaic. Whether it is the enslavement of Blacks in Canada, de facto segregation or racial profiling ¿ Hill narrates histories which have rarely been told before. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hill¿s historical fictions. 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Masculinity is one of the key issues at stake in contemporary writing and gender studies. In their novels, Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe both consistently make masculinity a prominent thematic and ideological concern. This study is the first full length scholarly work to take their work and their treatment of masculinity as its focus. How do these American authors critique the representation of masculinity within popular culture in Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland, A Man in Full and The Bonfire of the Vanities How do popular images of masculinity function for individual men and the way they experience their masculinities A Dangerous Fiction investigates the ways in which Chabon and Wolfe strip masculinity of any illusion of an essential nature and expose it as something highly culturally dependent and explains how these novels suggest to understand masculinity in the contemporary world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 260 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Michel Butor, one of the earliest exponents of the French New Novel, is known for experimenting with narrative voice (the second-person narration in La Modification), focalization (the changes in narrative perspective in Degrés), and the treatment of genres (L¿Emploi du temps).L¿Emploi du temps (1956) is a quintessential nouveau roman for it is about a novel within a novel. In Critical Essays on Michel Butor¿s L¿Emploi du temps, Sudarsan Rangarajan examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective. Engaging contemporary theorists ¿ Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others ¿ the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. From the analysis of the beginnings and the function of narratees to the study of rhetoric, the journalistic discourse, the hybridization of the detective and the Gothic genres, the figure of the flâneur, and postcolonialist concepts (the elite and the subaltern), the essays provide new insights into one of the greatest twentieth-century novels.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.