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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation. In 2009, Ireland had the highest birth rate in Europe, with almost 24 per cent of births attributed to the new Irish. By 2013, 17 per cent of the nation was foreign-born. Ireland has always been a culturally diverse space and has produced a series of high-profile mixed-race stars, including Phil Lynott, Ruth Negga and Simon Zebo, among others. Through an analysis of screen visualizations of the black Irish, this study uncovers forgotten histories, challenges the perceived homogeneity of the nation, evaluates integration, and considers the future of the new Ireland. It makes a creative and significant theoretical contribution to scholarly work on the relationship between representation and identity in Irish cinema. This book was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Irish Studies. This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. Exploring key film and TV productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation, making a significant theoretical contribution to scholarly work on representation and identity in Irish film. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of facially disfigured First World War combatants in France, Germany and Great Britain. The analysis undertaken in this book uncovers how the wounded perceived and presented themselves and how they were perceived and represented by others. Artistic and literary representations are considered, along with initiatives carried out by hospitals, the government and the combatants fellow countrymen. With an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this study illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. It illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Cold War Narratives reveals the power that representations, understood as both cultural production and public discourse, have held in shaping the imaginaries of early Cold War America. By engaging conflicting accounts of the 1950s as either affirmations of a prosperous and confident nation (in TV shows, popular sociology, and advertising) or as critiques of a society in the throes of fear, rebelliousness, and inequality (in film, literature, and media), this study sheds new light on the ambivalent imaginaries of the American 1950s. Pitting visions of the Red Scare and of nuclear proliferation against narratives of an upbeat nation, eager to suburbanize and to adopt the new ethics of televised consensus, Cold War Narratives illustrates how Americas leading metaphors of conformity shaped problematic gender roles, domesticity and consumption in the 1950s. It also exposes how dissenting voices to the Cold War consensus converged around the affirmation of specific identitarian discourses, especially highlighting the agency of youth and of the rising civil rights movement, and the way in which these two entered into unprecedented dialog through new discursive formations such as beat culture and rock n roll. By engaging conflicting accounts of the 1950s as either affirmations of a prosperous and confident nation (in TV shows, popular sociology, and advertising) or as critiques of a society in the throes of fear, rebelliousness, and inequality (in film, literature, and media), this study focuses on the ambivalent imaginaries of the American 1950s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: Wie neu. neue Ausgabe. 342 Seiten ; 22.5 cm x 15 cm, 480 g Tadelloses Exemplar. ISBN 9783034322577 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 477.

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Befriedigend. XII, 235 S. Verheilter Wasserschaden - gewellt und verfärbt, aber nicht verklebt oder verschimmelt. Akzeptables Arbeitsexemplar. - Contents: The background and educational setting of the College English Test (CET) in China Previous studies of test impact The design and conduct of the study Uses made of the CET results The impact of the CET on learning and teaching The impact of the CET on students ethical conduct Stakeholders perceptions of the fairness of the CET CET results and the interaction of impact factors. ISBN 9783034317047 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 338.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. With increasingly globalised markets, changing consumer preferences and the steady development of technologies influencing food trade flows, safety and quality concerns have triggered the development of new forms of global (food) governance. Since its creation in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has succeeded in providing a multilateral legal framework for the development of regulatory practices through its multiple agreements. Similarly, the continuing importance of regional and bilateral trade agreements, such as in the European Union and in Switzerland, has enhanced WTOs accomplishments through a comprehensive and dynamic set of international rules and standards for trade. However, the changing trends in the production and distribution of food products have questioned the effectiveness of the regulatory status quo. This book addresses the legal aspects of the current global architecture for food governance, particularly with regard to the role of international standards. In doing so, this work attempts at mapping the implications of domestic food measures in international trade law. Since its creation in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has succeeded in providing a multilateral legal framework for the development of regulatory practices through its multiple agreements. This book addresses the legal aspects of the global architecture for food governance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. VIII, 272 S. A Futurist Digest: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Alimentary Rhetoric -- Le Roi Bombance: Between a Dyspeptic Dystopia and an Embryonic Utopia -- Past Ingredients for Future Foods: Traces of Fourier's "Gastrosophie" in The Futurist Cookbook -- An Appetite for Matter: Sex and the Inorganic in F.T. Marinetti's Erotic Short Stories -- "Sweet Steel": the "morale antropofaga" in F.T. Marinetti's Patriotismo insetticida. Romanzo d'avventure legislative -- Modernist Effacements: Aldo Palazzeschi's Consuming Bodies -- Relieving Manoeuvres: Aldo Palazzeschi's ; riflessi -- Vanishing Acts: Kafka's A Hunger Artist and Palazzeschi's Il codice di Perelà -- Starving to Get Full: Aldo Palazzeschi's La piramide -- On Voraciousness: Aldo Palazzeschi's Interrogatorio della Confessa Maria -- Hard to Swallow: Two Fictions by Paola Masino and a Play by Massimo Bontempelli -- Indigestible Fictions: Paola Masino's Fame and Massimo Bontempelli's La fame -- Feeding on Stale Bread and Books: Paola Masino's Nascita e morte della -- massaia -- How to Cope with the Bites of Modernity: Two Literary Recipes by Massimo Bontempelli and Luigi Pirandello -- Learn to Play or Be Eaten: Massimo Bontempellis Gente nel tempo -- Milk and Blood: Nursing Capitalism in Luigi Pirandello's La balia. ISBN 9783034309714 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the silent invasion of surveillance technologies into everyday life. The book contends that when it comes to the changing relationship of the visible and the invisible, the connection between seeing and not being seen is an exchange conditioned by physical and social settings that create certain possibilities for visibility and visuality, yet exclude others. The richness and complexity of this cultural framework means that no single discipline or interdisciplinary approach could capture it single-handedly. Invisibility Studies begins this conversation by bringing together scholars across the fields of architectural history and theory, art, film and literature, philosophy, cultural theory and contemporary anthropology as well as featuring work by a collective of artists. Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the invasion of surveillance into everyday life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and unsayable foundations of human perception and expression, prior to objective points of view and scientific notions. It is this aspect of modernism that this book brings to the fore. The essays presented here bring into focus the contemporary face of ongoing debates about phenomenology and modernism. The contributors forcefully underline the intertwining of modernism and phenomenology and the extent to which the latter offers a clue to the former. The book presents the viewpoints of a range of internationally distinguished critics and scholars, with diverse but closely related essays covering a wide range of fields, including literature, architecture, philosophy and musicology. The collection addresses critical questions regarding the relationship between phenomenology and modernism, with reference to thinkers such as Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Michel Henry and Paul Ricoeur. By examining the contemporary philosophical debates, this cross-disciplinary body of research reveals the pervasive and far-reaching influence of phenomenology, which emerges as a heuristic method to articulate modernist aesthetic concerns. Presents the viewpoints of a range of internationally distinguished critics and scholars, with diverse but closely related essays covering a wide range of fields, including literature, architecture, philosophy and musicology. This book addresses critical questions regarding the relationship between phenomenology and modernism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse used by the media in different social contexts reflected the diversity of ideologies and cultural values with which the Olympic flame was imbued. A corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis (DHA-CDA) is applied to media discourse in the United Kingdom and in China to examine the complexity, contradiction and conflicts in linguistic interpretations of Olympic ideology. Corpora drawn from the China Daily, BBC News and The Guardian are described, interpreted in their linguistic contexts, and then explained in terms of the broader historical and socio-political contexts surrounding the dynamic life of the Olympic torch relay. This unique study sheds light on the significance of the Olympic Games for East-West media discourse and analysis. Using a corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis, the author analyses the representation of the 2008 Olympic torch relay in the British and Chinese media, shedding light on the importance of the Olympic Games for EastWest media discourse and analysis. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Questo volume si propone di aggiornare la mappa della produzioneletteraria ottocentesca di argomento filellenico, stabilendo un confrontocon autori la cui opera non e stata ancora sufficientemente studiatada tale prospettiva. Partendo da una necessaria contestualizzazionestorico-culturale, i saggi raccolti sottopongono ad esame segmentispecifici dell'attivita letteraria di Vincenzo Monti, Andrea Mustoxidi, Ugo Foscolo, Cristina di Belgiojoso, Giuseppe Pecchio e Vito DomenicoPalumbo, letterati ottocenteschi che s'ispirano in modi differenti agliavvenimenti della rivoluzione greca del 1821. Lo scopo generale e diapprofondire la conoscenza di una stagione particolarmente prolificadella storia letteraria italiana, fornendo una nuova chiave di lettura deldenso clima d'interscambio venutosi a creare tra Italia e Grecia nelcorso del XIX secolo. Nove sono i contributi che compongono il libro. L'intreccio coerenteche ne risulta di ragguagli storici, prospettive d'insieme e affondiparticolareggiati sui principali alfieri del filellenismo italiano conferiscea questa silloge una compattezza tale da distinguerla da altre piueterogenee proposte sul medesimo argomento. Il volume si propone di aggiornare la mappa della produzione letteraria ottocentesca di argomento filellenico, analizzando il contributo ideale alla causa risorgimentale greca venuto da V. Monti, U. Foscolo, A. Mustoxidi, G. Pecchio, C. di Belgiojoso, V.D. Palumbo, nel denso clima d'interscambio tra Italia e Grecia che caratterizza il XIX secolo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The book Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Auto-biographies is composed of over 30 essays written by prominent researchers worldwide belonging to the Second Generation and Third Generation of Holocaust offspring. Each essay traces the authors path to a research profession, focusing on the influence of their familys Holocaust background at various crossroads of their life. The book Researchers Remember: Research As an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, A Collection of Academic Autobiographies is composed of over 30 chapters written by prominent researchers worldwide who belong to the "Second Generation" and "Third Generation" of Holocaust offspring. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allows us to glimpse otherworldliness, arousing the political imagination. With an activist voice that is impassioned yet adherent to scholarly rigour, Playing it Queer provides an original and compelling ethnographic account of the relationship between popular music, queer self-fashioning and (sub)cultural world-making. This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style. Contextualised within a detailed history of queer sensibilities and creative practices, including camp, drag, genderfuck, queercore, feminist music and club cultures, the authors rich empirical studies of local performers and translocal scenes intimately capture the meaning and value of popular musics and (sub)cultural style in everyday queer lives. Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Tapa blanda. Zustand: New. GROOM, E., ED.: METHODS FOR TEACHING TRAVEL LITERATURE AND WRITING. EXPLORING THE WORLD AND SELF. PIETERLEN, 2005, vii 182 p. , 270 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (NB-6-2) 270 gr. Libro.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut. 3rd edition. 220 S. Cover slightly rubbed. - Summary: Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond explores the practice of theatre in communities and social institutions with marginalised groups. It shifts between contexts and countries to examine different ways that theatre has been applied to a wide range of social issues. Theatre projects in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom are analysed to argue for a complex and questioning view of the practice. Initiatives in prisons, developing countries, war situations and participatory research projects become the sites to interrogate the claims that applied theatre can be a theatre for social change. Many practitioners and researchers have witnessed powerful applied theatre projects but nonetheless struggled to articulate the reasons for the projects success. This book uses the questions inspired by that perplexity to create a case for applied theatre as a major area of contemporary theatre practice. - Contents: Preface: 'Applied', a preface to 'theatre' -- Introduction: 'Making a break for it' -- On the matter of action -- Theatre in bewilderment -- Atelier Théâtre Burkinabé: applied theatre and the bourgeois gentilhomme -- Theatre action research: a democracy of the ground -- Becoming ethical -- Conclusion: Theatre garlands. ISBN 9783039115389 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 338.…

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. 215 S. Etwas eselsohrig. - Diego Rascón-Moreno: Combining Global Issues and English Teaching Rick Sampedro: We Teach, We Touch the Future - Global Issues in ELT Juan Ramón Guijarro-Ojeda: Queering English Studies: Paving the Way for Social Justice Jesús Romero-Trillo: How Shall I Call You? Language Identity and Otherization in Conflict Resolution Ventura Salazar García: The Classification of African Languages: Historical Development and Theoretical Implications Bill Phillips: Global Citizenship, Ecocriticism and the Teaching of Literature Maya G. Vinuesa: Their Songs of Exile, Their Drums of Loss: On (Un)translatable Odysseys José M. Yebra: Gender Politics and Sexual Dissidence in Literary Studies Nieves Pascual: Pedagogy of the Oppressed Eater: Teaching Laura Esquivels Íntimas suculencias María Martínez Lirola: Teaching Visual Grammar and Social Issues in an English Language Course: An Example Using Multimodal Texts on Immigrant Minors from a Spanish Newspaper. ISBN 9783034312554 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 315.…

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. 270 S. Teil italienisch. - LITA LUNDQUIST Le discours rapporté et ses marques : des réflexions théoriques et didactiques à la mise en application sur la plateforme NaviLire -- DENIS LE PESANT Sur les introducteurs de discours rapporté au style direct -- LÉDA MANSOUR Discours direct et représentation de la parole intérieure -- DOMITILLE CAILLAT Le discours rapporté direct dans les conversations orales: un système de balisage multimodal -- EMILIA CALARESU I segnali indiscreti: il riconoscimento délia rappresentazione e ricostruzione di discorsi (o discorso riportato) -- FRANCESCA PAGANI "Une histoire d'eau", une histoire rapportée. Pour une perspective didactique intégrant un texte multimédia dans NaviLire: les enjeux du court-métrage de Godard -- CÉCILE DESOUTTER La représentation du discours rapporté dans des procès-verbaux de réunion en français et en italien -- CAROLINE MELLET / FREDERIQUE SITRI Les formes interprétatives de représentation du discours autre dans le genre du compte rendu: analyse de différents types d'indices -- SHIRLEY CARTER-THOMAS / ELIZABETH ROWLEY-JOLIVET Rapporter la voix de l'autre dans les articles de recherche en anglais: problèmes et enjeux pour le chercheur francophone -- FANNY RINCK Comment gérer les sources dans un article de recherche? Un scénario didactique pour les apprentis-chercheurs -- JULIE LEFEBVRE La note en bas de page: indice et marque dans la représentation du discours autre -- SYLVIE PLANE / FABIENNE RONDELLI / CHRISTINE VENERIN Variations, fidélité, infidélité: l'écriture et la réécriture de discours rapportés par déjeunes scripteurs -- PAOLA POLITO / ERLING STRUDSHOLM Il gesto che si fa parola. Modalità di testualizzazione del non verbale. ISBN 9783034312929 Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Even though the democratic decline has been deemed a global phenomenon, the question of how it manifests itself in the postcommunist world and how it varies across different regions with divergent levels of democratic consolidation has not been sufficiently addressed yet. This book tries to fill the gap and examines the causes and nature of the deteriorating quality of democracy in Central Europe as well as the reversal or stagnation of democratization processes in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. The political elite plays a key role in initiating legislative changes that may lead to democratic backsliding. Its constant commitment to the rule of law and to the practice of selfrestraint in securing the independence of judiciary and the rights of political opposition appears hence indispensable for sustainable liberal democracy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and into the role of the intellectual elite in the complex processes of deconstructing colonial heritage and (re)constructing national identity in a multinational or multiethnic state. Their testimonies provide a parallel narrative that complements the many fictional narrators found in Angolan and Mozambican novels, short stories and poems. The authors interviewed in the book are Luandino Vieira, Ana Paula Tavares, Boaventura Cardoso, José Eduardo Agualusa, Ondjaki and Pepetela from Angola; and João Paulo Borges Coelho, Marcelo Panguana, Mia Couto, Paulina Chiziane, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and Luís Carlos Patraquim from Mozambique.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation. In 2009, Ireland had the highest birth rate in Europe, with almost 24 per cent of births attributed to the new Irish. By 2013, 17 per cent of the nation was foreign-born. Ireland has always been a culturally diverse space and has produced a series of high-profile mixed-race stars, including Phil Lynott, Ruth Negga and Simon Zebo, among others. Through an analysis of screen visualizations of the black Irish, this study uncovers forgotten histories, challenges the perceived homogeneity of the nation, evaluates integration, and considers the future of the new Ireland. It makes a creative and significant theoretical contribution to scholarly work on the relationship between representation and identity in Irish cinema. This book was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Irish Studies. This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. Exploring key film and TV productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation, making a significant theoretical contribution to scholarly work on representation and identity in Irish film. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of facially disfigured First World War combatants in France, Germany and Great Britain. The analysis undertaken in this book uncovers how the wounded perceived and presented themselves and how they were perceived and represented by others. Artistic and literary representations are considered, along with initiatives carried out by hospitals, the government and the combatants fellow countrymen. With an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this study illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. It illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This book is about the tumultuous and even passionate relationship between New Education and Educational Sciences, which are regarded as an inseparable couple, intrinsically linked and surprisingly fruitful. Yet they remain irreconcilable and are mutually contradictory in a number of their elements and characteristics. Do Educational Sciences offer a scientific base or ideological support for New Education? Do the numerous new educational initiatives and reforms provide a laboratory for Educational Sciences or alternatives to the new scientific paradigms? Is this at the risk of their merging? And what is the price of these tensions? Specialists in the history of Educational Sciences and New Education from various geographical, cultural and disciplinary horizons explore the complex links between this powerful reforming movement and the nascent disciplinary field that emerged during the first half of the 20th century. Cet ouvrage analyse les relations tumultueuses - passionnelles meme - de l'Education nouvelle et des Sciences de l'education: un couple indissociable - intrinsequement lie et d'une etonnante fecondite - autant qu'inconciliable, nombre de leurs presupposes et caracteristiques se contredisant mutuellement. Les Sciences de l'education offrent-elles la base scientifique ou l'appui ideologique de l'Education nouvelle ? Les nombreuses experiences et reformes educatives constituent-elles des laboratoires des Sciences de l'education ou des alternatives aux nouveaux paradigmes scientifiques ? Au risque de leur fusion ? Au prix de quelles tensions ? Des specialistes de l'histoire des Sciences de l'education et de l'Education nouvelle d'horizons geographiques, culturels et disciplinaires divers explorent les rapports complexes entre ce puissant mouvement reformiste et le champ disciplinaire naissant durant la premiere moitie du 20e siecle. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Cold War Narratives reveals the power that representations, understood as both cultural production and public discourse, have held in shaping the imaginaries of early Cold War America. By engaging conflicting accounts of the 1950s as either affirmations of a prosperous and confident nation (in TV shows, popular sociology, and advertising) or as critiques of a society in the throes of fear, rebelliousness, and inequality (in film, literature, and media), this study sheds new light on the ambivalent imaginaries of the American 1950s. Pitting visions of the Red Scare and of nuclear proliferation against narratives of an upbeat nation, eager to suburbanize and to adopt the new ethics of televised consensus, Cold War Narratives illustrates how Americas leading metaphors of conformity shaped problematic gender roles, domesticity and consumption in the 1950s. It also exposes how dissenting voices to the Cold War consensus converged around the affirmation of specific identitarian discourses, especially highlighting the agency of youth and of the rising civil rights movement, and the way in which these two entered into unprecedented dialog through new discursive formations such as beat culture and rock n roll. By engaging conflicting accounts of the 1950s as either affirmations of a prosperous and confident nation (in TV shows, popular sociology, and advertising) or as critiques of a society in the throes of fear, rebelliousness, and inequality (in film, literature, and media), this study focuses on the ambivalent imaginaries of the American 1950s. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. XII, 207 S. This book is about the importance of understanding the world-wide phenomenon of religion and about the positive role Christianity can play in making the most of modern personal and social life. Religions are the oldest, most enduring and sophisticated ways in which human beings have understood the mystery and purpose of their existence. They are remarkably successful at this as their sheer endurance testifies. They deal with life itself, ethics, aesthetics, happiness, sadness, suffering, mystery and death. This is a list of some of the factors which are protean to human experience. ISBN 9783034309554 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned Seven Dreams collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John Franklin, the contemporary American character Subzero risks his life in the Arctic, looking for a way to transcend the history of colonization and his personal limitations. He ventures out on the permafrost of his memory, both private and collective, haunted by history as he revisits the Gothic genre. Deploying the poetry of an anachronistic errand into the white wilderness of snow and ice, in the wake of Herman Melvilles Captain Ahab and Edgar Allan Poes Arthur Gordon Pym, the narrator plays with avatars of the author as an explorer, a historian, a cartographer and a sketch-artist to encounter otherness, whether Inuit women or men, or fellow travelers who exchange with the authorial figure in his search for meaning. This critical analysis uses close-reading, ecocriticism, cultural studies and comparative literature to examine an innovative novel of the post-postmodern canon, by one of the finest contemporary American authors. This critical study offers a port of entry into Vollmanns fiction. The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel, and the venture of the 19th-century English explorer John Franklin, revisiting the Gothic genre. This analysis uses close-reading, ecocriticism, and comparative literature to examine a major novel of the post-postmodern canon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This book provides a critical and context-sensitive reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of Merce Rodoreda, through the perspectives of art and film theory, feminism, literary criticism, spatial studies, and nationalist theory. The text approaches Rodoreda as a Catalan woman writer whose work engages with and explores formulaic and normative notions of the gendered body in a particular cultural, geographical and political space. The study covers four main areas: corporeality as surface, image and texture; the relationship between the body and space; the idea of the culturally and politically constructed body as limit; and the concept of the abject or open body. The author places Rodoredas work in dialogue with a range of texts, media, modes of representation and discourses in order to examine how her artistic vision is both integrated with and a mediator of material experience in the twentieth century. This book provides a critical reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of the Catalan writer Merce Rodoreda. The author considers art and film theory, feminism, literary criticism, spatial studies and nationalist theory, and explores notions of the gendered body in a particular cultural, geographical and political space. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This book recovers the stories of two remarkable Victorian working men. Thomas Cooper and Arthur ONeill were both imprisoned for seditious offences in 1843. The friendship they formed in Stafford Gaol lasted for fifty years. These two men wanted to be remembered as Chartist prisoners but, talented and energetic, they also made their marks in other areas. Cooper was the author of a famous poem, The Purgatory of Suicides, and of novels; he knew well Thomas Carlyle and Charles Kingsley, and came into contact with Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Dickens. Later in life he became a lecturer in defence of Christianity. ONeill worked with Joseph Sturge and Henry Richard for peace and international arbitration, attending a number of international peace conferences. An important contribution to Chartist studies, this book also examines in detail artisan literary activity, pacifism and Christian apologetics in Victorian Britain. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allows us to glimpse otherworldliness, arousing the political imagination. With an activist voice that is impassioned yet adherent to scholarly rigour, Playing it Queer provides an original and compelling ethnographic account of the relationship between popular music, queer self-fashioning and (sub)cultural world-making. This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style. Contextualised within a detailed history of queer sensibilities and creative practices, including camp, drag, genderfuck, queercore, feminist music and club cultures, the authors rich empirical studies of local performers and translocal scenes intimately capture the meaning and value of popular musics and (sub)cultural style in everyday queer lives. Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This study extends the long-established notion of Grass's 'Danzig Trilogy' to that of the 'Danzig Quintet' - a literary project of epic proportions, which explores the evolution of Germany's relationship to its Nazi past over a period of forty years. The interlocking stories of Die Blechtrommel (1959), Katz und Maus (1961), Hundejahre (1963), oertlich betaeubt (1969) and Im Krebsgang (2002) are mediated by the memory and language of seven first-person narrators. Using the dual conceptualisation of memory developed by Freud and Lacan - 'reliving' versus 'recollecting' the past - the author shows how these narrators' accounts assert the reality of the Holocaust (as well as German wartime suffering), while highlighting the reluctance of ordinary Germans to admit their involvement in the Nazi regime. This delineation of the complex relationship of three generations to their history is deepened by the intertextual nature of the quintet. Using the theory of Peter Brooks, Umberto Eco, Shoshana Felman and Hayden White, the study explores how Grass's textual strategies encourage the reader to view all five works as one overarching narrative, while simultaneously avoiding any literary or historical closure. In the process, the study places each book in the context of its moment of production, and also considers the implications of Grass's belated admission, in August 2006, that he served with the Waffen-SS during the final months of World War Two. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Tapa blanda. Zustand: New. BERGER, S.: CUATRO TEXTOS AUTOBIOGRAFICOS LATINOAMERICANOS. YO, HISTORIA E IDENTIDAD NACIONAL EN A. GERCHUNOFF, M. AGOSIN, A. BIOY C. PIETERLEN, 2004, ix 123 p. , 300 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (ND-1) 300 gr. Libro.