Peter lang sep 2018 (222 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The first collection of its kind, this anthology documents a radically different geography and history of science fiction in the world. Western, specifically Anglo-American, SF is not the only hub of the global trade of alternative realities and futures. Rather it is but only one of several competing flows and circuits of distribution, contacts, influence, translation, adaptation, and collaboration, across space and time. The essays collected here focus on arguably the biggest and most influential of those competing hubs: the socialist world and its extensive cultural networks across the global South and East. Written by scholars from around the world, the chapters address the «other» transatlantic of the Caribbean, Latin America, African America, and the Soviet Union; the surprising multitude of transnational networks behind the Iron Curtain; and asymptotic and subterranean discourses across Russia, India, and China. Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East is intended for scholars, students, and fans interested in science fiction, popular culture, comparative literature, film studies, postcolonialism, techno-science, translation studies, and the literature and cultures of China, Cuba, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, and Russia. 247 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware Französisch, Portugiesisch, Spanisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The contributions collected in this book provide a wide range of perspectives on and prospects for the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), and explore various contexts where ELF is used predominantly: Academic and research settings as well as teacher and general population education, including pronunciation teaching. The chapters look at ELF data and concerns taking into consideration the areas of phonology, grammar, pragmatics alongside more specific, sociolinguistic ones such as attitudes and identity. The chapters also seek to invoke and provoke further discussion and research on the complex and multifarious forms of the «Englishes» that people are using around the world in their daily encounters in English. Accordingly, most of the studies described in the chapters orient their methodology and discussion to a particular macro- or micro-context of intercultural communication (IC), as the main scope of the exploratory work presented here is not so much the system of ELF, but the pragmatics of communication and its strategies. The specific interest of this volume thus lies in bridging the gap between two distinct areas of scholarship, ELF studies, on the one hand, and IC studies, on the other, and in doing so from a «semiperipherical» European perspective and from a view of ELF as social practice. 387 pp. Englisch.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo conocer y examinar normas y estrategias que están presentes en el acto de habla de las peticiones tanto del español limeño como del español cusqueño. En el marco teórico se desarrollan conceptos teóricos de la Pragmática, de los actos de habla y de la cortesía verbal. El procedimiento metodológico contó con la participación de 100 personas provenientes de Cusco y Lima, y el manejo de tres instrumentos de recopilación de datos: los cuestionarios para completar el discurso, los juegos de rol y los reportes verbales. Los resultados finales señalan que existen diferentes estrategias para hacer frente a la inseguridad al hacer la petición. La autora explica el porqué estas estrategias forman parte de una cortesía de la duda, típica de la sociedad peruana, y que las posibles interpretaciones son: la existencia de un clima de informalidad y desconfianza que ya se reconoce en el interlocutor. Entonces se tendrá que convencer al oyente que lo que se dice es verdad. Otra posible interpretación es la inseguridad e incertidumbre social a causa del conflicto cultural entre criollos e indígenas que se agudizó con la migración interna y el terrorismo.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study focuses on Antonio Tabucchi's texts in, on and through translation. It combines an analysis of the ways his texts have been translated into other languages with an examination of the way his translations, critical essays and fictions reflect on the value and possibilities of translation. The book suggests that using translation as a means through which to approach Tabucchi's works enables us to both develop new perspectives on Tabucchi's texts and to reflect on some key issues in translation studies. These include the way we think about the intersections between translation and other forms of writing, between translation and space, between translation and memory, between translation as process and product. This study combines a broad mapping of Tabucchi's travelling texts with more detailed textual analysis of selected works themselves. One of the study's major innovations is the analysis of a new body of interviews with Tabucchi's translators from across Europe, Asia and America. The interviews, conducted as part of the study, offer fascinating new perspectives on the transnational movement of the same (often Eurocentric) texts between and across languages as well as revealing the possibilities and challenges the translation process offers in different linguistic and cultural spaces worldwide. 282 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Cultural Metamorphoses in Contemporary Italian Cinema explores four different areas of study in contemporary Italian cinema: the migrants' social struggle, the decline of the middle class, the isolation of the elderly, and gender inequality. This book focuses on four films produced between 2007 and 2013, specifically Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet, 2011), Giorni e nuvole (Days and Clouds, 2007), Pranzo di ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch, 2008), and Viaggio sola (A Five Star Life, 2013), examining a slice of contemporary Italian cinema to highlight specific socio-economic changes within the country over the past decade. Italian filmmakers Andrea Segre, Silvio Soldini, Gianni Di Gregorio, and Maria Sole Tognazzi concentrate on themes that refer to 'metamorphoses' to exemplify several Italian societal changes deeply affected by economic challenges and strongly rooted in male-dominant ideology. These Italian filmmakers reevaluate cultural traditions and societal roles by depicting unconventional narratives and identities in their films and giving 'voice to the voiceless.' 136 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Los estudios presentados en este libro, que tienen como hilo conductor la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua en diferentes etapas históricas (del siglo XVII al XIX) y en diferentes contextos culturales y lingüísticos, convierten en actual un territorio que merece ser explorado desde diferentes perspectivas: cuestiones de metalenguaje, aspectos de producción textual y ecdótica, como planteamientos que pueden conducir a un conocimiento exacto tanto desde el punto de vista conceptual como filológico. Sirve de contextualización la presentación de textos inéditos que, de este modo, se incluyen en una serie de experiencias metodológicas y formativas a través de la comparación entre lenguas y tradiciones gramaticográficas diferentes. 276 pp. Spanisch.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo conocer y examinar normas y estrategias que están presentes en el acto de habla de las peticiones tanto del español limeño como del español cusqueño. En el marco teórico se desarrollan conceptos teóricos de la Pragmática, de los actos de habla y de la cortesía verbal. El procedimiento metodológico contó con la participación de 100 personas provenientes de Cusco y Lima, y el manejo de tres instrumentos de recopilación de datos: los cuestionarios para completar el discurso, los juegos de rol y los reportes verbales. Los resultados finales señalan que existen diferentes estrategias para hacer frente a la inseguridad al hacer la petición. La autora explica el porqué estas estrategias forman parte de una cortesía de la duda, típica de la sociedad peruana, y que las posibles interpretaciones son: la existencia de un clima de informalidad y desconfianza que ya se reconoce en el interlocutor. Entonces se tendrá que convencer al oyente que lo que se dice es verdad. Otra posible interpretación es la inseguridad e incertidumbre social a causa del conflicto cultural entre criollos e indígenas que se agudizó con la migración interna y el terrorismo.; Dissertationsschrift.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the Bible, the land of Israel is more than a piece of ground. It is a theological symbol, because it was an essential part of Israel's practice of its relationship with God. The land is connected to a lifestyle and to the carrying out of religious acts, like the sacrifices and the celebrations. Aspects of this are the use of the land and the enactment of ecological and humanitarian obligations. In this volume, we concentrate on the religious viewpoints, especially how the promised land can be seen from the Old and New Testament perspective. Before practical conclusions are drawn, it is important to have a good overview of the subject in the entire Bible. The chosen approach is historic-canonical and implies that we use the order of Bible books from the Hebrew canon. Two additional chapters show the Jewish and Islamic viewpoints.This book has received the Franz Delitzsch Award 2018. 403 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Im Bereich des sog. Insolvenzsteuerrechts ist die umsatzsteuerrechtliche Einordnung der Verwertung durch den Insolvenzverwalter gem.166 InsO von besonderer praktischer Bedeutung. Die Autorin setzt sich kritisch mit den unterschiedlichen Auffassungen von Rechtsprechung, Literatur und Finanzverwaltung auseinander und befasst sich eingehend mit der Frage, wie die Verwertung im Rahmen des166 InsO in das Regelungssystem sowohl des Insolvenz- als auch des Steuerrechts dogmatisch einzuordnen ist. Die Problematik wird anhand der unionsrechtlichen Bestimmungen der Mehrwertsteuersystem-Richtlinie im Zusammenhang mit den nationalen Grundlagen des Insolvenz- und Steuerrechts umfassend aufgearbeitet. 168 pp. Deutsch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mit ihren Debütromanen, zwischen 2005 und 2012 erschienen, haben sich Alina Bronsky, Olga Grjasnowa, Nino Haratischwili, Eleonora Hummel, Katerina Poladjan und Julya Rabinowich eindrucksvoll und dauerhaft als deutschsprachige Autorinnen etabliert, eine große Leserschaft gewonnen und die Gegenwartsliteratur um eine 'postsowjetische' Komponente bereichert. Der Band liefert nicht nur eine literaturwissenschaftliche, insbesondere narratologische Analyse der weitgehend autobiografisch fundierten Romane, sondern erhellt auf interdisziplinär kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Grundlage auch historische Ursachen, Hintergründe und aktuelle Probleme des Migrationsprozesses, den all diese Autorinnen als Kinder, Jugendliche oder junge Frauen erlebt haben und der als Wurzelgrund ihres literarisch ambitionierten und gelungenen Schreibens anzusehen ist.«Dies ist der [.] seriöse und umfassende akademische Versuch, eines der interessantesten Phänomene der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur in seiner Vielschichtigkeit zu erfassen. Während die bei Publikum und Kritik außerordentlich erfolgreichen deutschsprachigen Romane und sonstigen Werke einer beträchtlichen Gruppe von Autorinnen der jüngeren und mittleren Generation aus den postsowjetischen Staaten in der Tageskritik ein breites und lebhaftes Echo fanden, auch mit namhaften Preisen ausgezeichnet wurden, hat sich die germanistische Literaturwissenschaft in Deutschland und Europa erst sehr vereinzelt, und in den USA offensichtlich noch gar nicht mit dieser Thematik befasst. Diese Arbeit leistet und liefert insofern echte Grundlagenforschung.» Prof. Dr. Jochen Vogt 314 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Seit den Entscheidungen des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte in den Fällen «Demir und Baykara» sowie «Enerji Yapi-Yol Sen» wird die Rechtmäßigkeit des in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geltenden Streikverbots für Beamte heftig diskutiert. Diese neu aufgekommene Diskussion nimmt der Autor zum Anlass zu untersuchen, ob das in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geltende statusbezogene Streikverbot für Beamte mit dem nationalen Recht sowie mit den völker- und europarechtlichen Vorgaben vereinbar ist. Schwerpunktmäßig wird dabei der Frage nachgegangen, ob das statusbezogene Beamtenstreikverbot gegen Art. 11 EMRK verstößt. Abschließend wird zudem ein Lösungsvorschlag entwickelt, wie die Rechtslage in Deutschland mit den gesetzlichen Vorgaben in Einklang gebracht werden kann. 269 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Polish Doctor and Pedagogue Janusz Korczak comes from a Jewish family. Though he did not join a religious community he was familiar with the biblical tradition, as is the author, a Christian theologian. The biblical tradition understands life as a gift, which provokes joy. Education means to live together with children as people with respect to their rights. Korczak lists the Child's Right to Die, the Right to Today, and the Right to be what it is. These rights contain the children's self-determination as a person, so that 'they can fly'. The Author reflects the education of her three children with these thoughts. There are no educational recipes or ideals. The understanding of life and time, responsibility, forgiving, belief in God and prayer, death and finitude are discussed. 94 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Self-leadership has emerged as an important theory to substitute for designated leaders through utilizing the potential of every single employee. Studies that investigate the antecedents of this concept have generally focused on dispositional factors and neglected the contextual influences. This research aims to fill this gap by conducting two sequential studies. The quantitative part focuses on transformational leadership and high-performance work systems as situational and also on proactive personality as a dispositional antecedent of self-leadership. As outcomes, work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior are investigated. For the second part, in-depth interviews are conducted to broaden the set of possible antecedents and consequences of self-leadership. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus-a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation-that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. White Jesus was constructed by combining empire, colorism, racism, education, and religion; the by-product is a distortion that reproduces violence in epistemic and physical ways. The authors distinguish White Jesus from Jesus of the Gospels, the one whose life, death, and resurrection demands sacrificial love as a response-a love ethic. White Jesus is a fraudulent scheme that many devotees of Jesus of Bethlehem naively fell for. This book is about naming the lies, reclaiming the person of Jesus, and reasserting a vision of power that locates Jesus of the Gospels in solidarity with the easily disposed. The catalytic, animating, and life-altering power of the cross of Jesus is enough to subdue White Jesus and his patronage.White Jesus can be used in a variety of academic disciplines, including education, religion, sociology, and cultural studies. Furthermore, the book will be useful for Christian institutions working to evaluate the images and ideologies of Jesus that shape their biblical ethics, as well as churches in the U.S. that are invested in breaking the mold of homogeneity, civil religion, and uncoupling commitments to patriotism from loyalty to one Kingdom. Educational institutions and religious organizations that are committed to combining justice and diversity efforts with a Jesus ethic will find White Jesus to be a compelling primer. 146 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is now more than a quarter of a century since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published their first comprehensive report on the dangers posed by anthropogenic global warming. Over the last twenty-five years the weight of evidence about the causes and consequences of climate change has become compelling. The solutions are fairly simple-we must switch to more sustainable and efficient forms of energy production. And yet they remain elusive-globally we produce significantly more greenhouse gases now than we did back in 1990. The sad truth is that this inaction has made climate change inevitable-the only question that remains is whether we can prevent it spiraling out of control. How do we explain this colossal global failure The problem is political rather than scientific: we know the risks and we know how to address them, but we lack the political will to do so. The media are pivotal in this equation: they have the power to set the public and the political agenda. Climate Change and the Media, Volume 2 gathers contributions from a range of international scholars to explore the media's role in our understanding of the problem and our willingness to take action. Combined, these chapters explain how and why media coverage has, to date, fallen short in communicating both the science and the politics of climate change. They also offer guidance about how the media might shift from being the problem to becoming part of the solution. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere, main character Campbell Cote Phillips-a successful university professor, mother, and wife-faces the question 'what would she give up to have everything else ' Her comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn (an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbell-along with a cast of characters across different generations-whose stories are portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of immortality. Blood's Will is about love and desire, but it is also about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities.As Noel Gough writes, 'Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of curriculum studies during the last three decades, encapsulated by Madeleine Grumet's formulation of curriculum as 'the collective story we tell our children about our past, our present, and our future.'' Situated as a story embedded in the four stages of currere, the journey of the book's main characters exemplifies the journey of recursion: the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetic. Blood's Will is an example of speculative fiction that 'can contribute to an aspect of effective deliberation that Schwab called 'the anticipatory generation of alternatives'' (Gough). This book is a useful reading for courses examining roles of narrative, fiction, and currere as fields of inquiry. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Children's Environmental Identity Development: Negotiating Inner and Outer Tensions in Natural World Socialization draws inspiration from environmental education, education for sustainability, environmental psychology, sociology, and child development to propose a theoretical framework for considering how children's identity in/with/for nature evolves through formative experiences. The natural world socialization of young children considers not only how the natural environment affects the growth and development of young children but also how children shape and influence natural settings. Such childhood relations with the environment are explicitly linked to familial, sociocultural, geographical, and educational contexts. While the book is theoretical and will be of interest to academics and students, the use of accessible language, vignettes, and figures will make it useful to teachers, policy-makers, parents, and others genuinely concerned with children's relationships with other humans and the natural world. 164 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Vigilant God by Horton Davies, a non-conformist minister who taught in the Religion Department of Princeton University and attended church regularly, is a reconsideration of the belief that God is still active in history. It is a reassessment of the theology of Providence in the thought of four major Christian theologians (Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Barth) and of their views on predestination, theodicy, and free will, leading the author to consider the role it might have for the future of humanity. The book starts with a sketch of the biblical sources relating to Providence, predestination, election, and reprobation. Davies sees Augustine's doctrine of Providence and his view of evil as privatio boni, as greatly influenced by Plato and his followers. He dwells on Aquinas the man, his life and his character, open to Aristotle and his Jewish and Arab commentators, before plunging into the structure of his encyclopedic thought and works. Davies appreciates Calvin's regard for Scripture as a means of illumination of the Spirit, but rejects the pastor's views on predestination as tyrannical and unjust, and believes that Barth's positive insistence on God's universal mercy is necessary against the horrors perpetrated in the twentieth century. 154 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book tries to answer the question how the identity and cultural values of individuals are being modified by the Internet and its global culture. It is based on unique research projects focusing on foreign students and their way of communicating in the new media. The aim is to explore the relationship between the cultural affiliation of young Internet users from Poland, Germany and Ukraine and their attitudes as well as communication behaviour in Internet interactions.The author presents an in-depth analysis of network communication and its influence on possible changes of cultural identity. Creating an alternative platform for discussions, network communication becomes a place for a new type of identification - a cosmopolitan one. It is also the frame in which self-reflection and modification of cultural identity take place. According to the author, the social media thus might also be perceived as a tool for building tolerance with respect to the cultural differentiation of the world. 162 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book of the Year Award for the International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association (NCA). Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance is a much-needed book in a time when Muslim women are speaking out but also embodying White femininity. This book focuses on how Whiteness travels through Muslim women's bodies, who in turn reenact or resist White womanhood, by examining three relevant archetypes: the Oppressed, the Advocate, and the Humanitarian Leader. The author aims to demonstrate the necessity of archetypal criticism as a method that can teach the reader or student how to deconstruct dominant discourses in the media. This book aims to address intercultural, gender, intersectional and critical communication courses but is also suited for those in the general public who wish to understand the deceptive nature of the media. Thus, at a time where Muslim women are being used as media objects by Western media, this book is crucial in analyzing how readers can begin to uncover dominant ideologies that are carried through and by Muslim women. 204 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Where the Agricultural Revolution harnessed domesticated animals for pastoral farming, and the Industrial Revolution leveraged machines for factory production, so today the Computational Revolution is advancing computers to augment human intelligence. Indeed, many now argue that the promise of exascale computing and the slow migration towards a computational society may represent a new threshold in human history. This 'transcension' of earlier stages of tool-mediated work and learning foreshadows a momentous change in the kinds of cities we might build, the kinds of medicine we might practice, and the kinds of education we might provide. What is perhaps most surprising about the current Computational Revolution, however, is its expanding reach. The question that many now ask is 'what is the trajectory of this human-machine symbiosis ' It would appear that we are on the cusp of a sea change in our capacities to augment human intelligence. But what is the future of work and learning Will augmented intelligence help us in transforming a waning industrial society These are the kinds of questions that we explore in Augmented Intelligence: Smart Systems and the Future of Work and Learning. 256 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Polish Doctor and Pedagogue Janusz Korczak comes from a Jewish family. Though he did not join a religious community he was familiar with the biblical tradition, as is the author, a Christian theologian. The biblical tradition understands life as a gift, which provokes joy. Education means to live together with children as people with respect to their rights. Korczak lists the Child's Right to Die, the Right to Today, and the Right to be what it is. These rights contain the children's self-determination as a person, so that 'they can fly'. The Author reflects the education of her three children with these thoughts. There are no educational recipes or ideals. The understanding of life and time, responsibility, forgiving, belief in God and prayer, death and finitude are discussed. 94 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Adonis, the beautiful youth, born of the myrrh tree, loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone, hardly needs any introduction. His legend, of Oriental origin, spread early and rapidly to Greece and Italy. In Athens, his cult is attested as early as the 5th century, though representations of him in the arts remain surprisingly rare. Not so in South Italy, where from the early 4th century on his myth inspired some of the greatest vase-painters, especially in Apulia. As the present systematic and richly illustrated analysis of his representations in South Italian Vase-painting, shows, Adonis played in Magna Graecia a much more important role than had hitherto been suspected.Internationally recognized as the expert on South Italian Vase-painting, Alexander Cambitoglou has co-authored with Arthur Dale Trendall the fundamental work on its main school: The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, I: Early and Middle Apulian (1978) and II: Late Apulian (1982), and First and Second Supplement to The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (1983 and 1991). With Chr. Aellen and J. Chamay he has published Le peintre de Darius et son milieu in 1986 and again with J. Chamay in 1997, Céramique de Grande Grèce. La collection de fragments H. A. Cahn, and in 2006 Le don de la vigne: vase antique du baron Edmond de Rothschild (Matteo Campagnolo co-author). More recently, the two first Australian CVA fascicules have appeared in which he presents, with M. Turner as co-author, the collection of red-figured pottery from Apulia held by The University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum (fasc. 1: 2008, 2: 2014). His work on Adonis' plants has just come out in J. Chamay's translation: Les plantes d'Adonis. Essai (Etudes genevoises sur l'Antiquité. Cahiers vol. 2, 2018). 138 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is often repeated that we live today in a 'post-truth' world. But this problem has a long history. Greek philosophers investigated the origins of truth (and the will to truth) in hope to separate truth from illusion. But already Machiavelli equated the concept of truth with the notion of what seems to be true. And today Perhaps, we are paying the price of naivety. In this book, the author approaches the idea of deliberative democracy with reservation, attempting to expose the vain hopes rooted in the Enlightenment tradition, which placed the desire for truth at the fore, and relegated the desire for illusion to the shadows. The book encourages reflection on the appeal of deception in a world which has become the media's 'grazing ground'; a world which rejects metaphysics in favour of pragmatic theories, thereby transforming politics into a sphere where truth is replaced with 'narrative'. 150 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book presents the Tatar community in a new perspective, with its rituals and strategies that allow it to maintain the identity and distinguish itself, using categories of performance and performativity which - despite problems with normative definitions - have permanently entered a dictionary of culture analysis. The author describes and analyses Tatar religion-based customs and traditions, key moments of human life, as well as selected aspects of everyday life, which may be considered within the category of performances of identity. Tatar performances are deeply rooted in religion: Islam is a fundamental part of their identity and element of distinction. Following and performing the religious rules is strictly connected with the notions of ethnic identity and self-identification. Religious performances also serve them to preserve the figure of a Muslim Tatar.This book is a unique work documenting the life of the Tatar ethnic minority. 290 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains a collection of papers which deal with Romance linguistics from the perspective of discourse and interaction. Some contributions cover areas such as spoken corpora, speech and linguistic description, and phonetic aspects of speech. Others focus on multimodality, pragmatics, and conversation and discourse, and there are also contributions which deal with speech and sociolinguistics, and speech in multilingualism/bilingualism. This volume is multilingual, containing as it does contributions written in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. 204 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz considers the poetry of Milosz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author employs critical debates about Milosz in American and English literature to reshape the image of his reception. The book masterfully elaborates Milosz's poetics of perspectivism with a new method of analysis based on the category of authorial persona-between reception, poetics, and close-reading-separate from the literary persona. Each chapter encapsulates introductory information about Polish literature and moves beyond the horizon of Western expectations about Central European writers. Milosz's most discussed poems reveal new provocative power in the context of T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, William Blake, and Friedrich Nietzsche.To date, no work comprehensively examines Milosz's self-proclaimed contradictory nature and the nomadic quality of his works. As a result, scholarship remains scattered in diverse areas of interest, moving Milosz to the margins of world literature, instead of cherishing the diversity of perspectives he championed, among other places, in his Nobel Lecture. Without properly appreciating the poetics of contradiction proposed by Milosz and a critical analysis of his process of self-situation, we narrow his impact on literature only to Polish poetry, effectively allowing for a petrification of his innovative methods. The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz remedies this gap by revealing that, in contrast to Polish and American literary reception, Milosz was an eccentric eulogist of the concept of a multi-perspectivist persona. Through close examinations of Milosz's poetry, we learn that he develops a method of oscillating between ideas in search of lasting symbols common to all, beginning unfailingly with his current perspective. After all, Milosz persistently placed himself outside of the consensus and maneuvered the subject matter of his works to such an extent that his works became his philosophy of literature and the way of life. 244 pp. Englisch.…