peter lang peter lang aug 2003 (66 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Conservative Sixties tells «the other story» of America in the era of left-wing protests, countercultural experiments, and a civil rights revolution. Ten original historical essays focus on Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, the John Birch Society, the Minutemen, «Moral Mothers and Goldwater Girls», «Cowboy Conservatives», «National Politics versus Community Interest», «Below-the-Belt Politics», and the «Politics of Law and Order». The Conservative Sixties demonstrates that throughout the 1960s, right-wing activists organized at the grass-roots, re-thought their priorities, discovered new allies, and prepared to defeat liberals in the political and cultural arenas. This history of the 1960s puts the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, and George W. Bush ¿ as well as the conservative turn of Congress and the American people ¿ into historical perspective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Based on a two-year critical ethnography, Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy, and the Reconstitution of Power demonstrates the potential of a performative conceptualization of whiteness ¿ a way of seeing whiteness in production, in the process of reiteration. This book builds on prior studies by searching for the repetitions of whiteness in our daily communication. The move to the performative is an explicit detailing of whiteness in and through the repetitious acts that work to reconstitute whiteness as a communicative ideal. Performing Purity creates a critical space of dialogue, shifting the conversation to how we make race, as a construct, matter.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Multimodal Literacy challenges dominant ideas around language, learning, and representation. Using a rich variety of examples, it shows the range of representational and communicational modes involved in learning through image, animated movement, writing, speech, gesture, or gaze. The effect of these modes on learning is explored in different sites including formal learning across the curriculum in primary, secondary, and higher education classrooms, as well as learning in the home. The notion of literacy and learning as a primary linguistic accomplishment is questioned in favor of the multimodal character of learning and literacy. By illustrating how a range of modes contributes to the shaping of knowledge and what it means to be a learner, Multimodal Literacy provides a multimodal framework and conceptual tools for a fundamental rethinking of literacy and learning.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This publication describes the usage of languages in the multilingual society of Ethiopia. It is based on empirical studies conducted in nine states of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1997 and 1998. A research team of German and Ethiopian scholars surveyed about 3,500 high school students from 35 Ethiopian towns regarding their language behaviour. The data on the distribution of mother tongues and second languages are published here for the first time and are representative for a typical Ethiopian town. These data outline the development of multilingualism over three generations (students/parents/grandparents) and elucidate factors which promote the spread of multilingualism. The frame for the representation and explanation of the data is an adapted model of the social network theory. 134 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -L¿objet du colloque organisé début 2002 par le Groupe de recherche sur la péninsule ibérique du Centre d¿histoire de l¿Europe du XX siècle (Fondation nationale des sciences politiques) ¿ la révolution des ¿illets portugaise et la transition espagnole ¿ a certes déjà donné matière à nombre de travaux. Mais il s¿agit soit de réflexions globales sur le passage à la démocratie, historiques ou politologiques, soit de recherches spécifiques sur chacun de ces processus de démocratisation. C¿est donc son caractère comparatiste qui fait l¿originalité de cette approche, qui se veut résolument historique mais revendique l¿enrichissement d¿échanges pluridisciplinaires.Phénomènes de démocratisations tardives après que les systèmes parlementaires institutionnalisés au XIX siècle eurent débouché sur la même caricature de parlementarisme, après que des coups de force eurent balayé les régimes républicains, ouvrant la voie à une longue dictature, ces deux évolutions ont en fait différé profondément. Au Portugal, l¿Etat nouveau a cédé d¿un coup à la rébellion d¿officiers progressistes las d¿une guerre coloniale sans issue, et la révolution pacifique a permis de bâtir la démocratie sur des fondations nouvelles. En Espagne, le glissement du pouvoir autoritaire à l¿Etat de droit a été conduit par des hommes issus de l¿ancien appareil dirigeant et, même si en 1977 le changement a donné lieu à une concertation avec l¿opposition, le mécanisme de démocratisation a bien pris la forme pendant deux ans d¿une transition octroyée.La comparaison porte d¿abord sur l¿exercice politique même de passage à la démocratie, posant la problématique de la légitimation de ce nouveau régime, avant de déboucher sur la confrontation des deux modèles de transition péninsulaires et sur leur écho extérieur. 294 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Mittelpunkt der in diesem Band gesammelten Arbeiten stehen zwei verbundene Fragen: die nach der Darstellung geschichtlicher Prozesse in Goethes Faust und die nach der besonderen Theaterform, in der diese Darstellung erfolgt. Faust wird verstanden als tragikomisches Welttheater, dessen zentraler Gegenstand die bürgerliche Gesellschaft in ihrer geschichtlichen Bildung ist, in einer zweiten Dimension der Prozeß der europäischen Zivilisation von seinen archaischen Ursprüngen bis in die historische Konstellation der Moderne. Die Hauptstudien werden von einer Reihe ergänzender Texte begleitet. Sie betreffen Goethes Weltanschauung, das Zeitalter Goethes als Epochenprofil, Tragödie, Komödie und Tragikomödie als Gattungsbegriffe, Positionen der Forschung, den Streit um Faust. Methodisch versuchen diese Arbeiten, das Instrumentarium philologischer Analyse mit dem geschichtlicher Deutung zu verbinden. Zugleich folgen sie einem theoretischen Interesse: der Frage nach der besonderen Erkenntnisart von Literatur. 396 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der uralte Pilgerweg zum heiligen Berg Kailash ist auch das Siedlungsgebiet der Rang-Shauka, die auf eine lange Handelstradition im Himalaya zurückblicken können. Im bikulturellen Milieu zwischen der hinduistischen und der buddhistischen Tradition pflegen die Rang-Shauka ¿ auf der Grundlage mythologischen Wissens ¿ aufwendige Opferkulte, führen Eingeweidebeschauungen durch und zelebrieren schamanische Riten. Ihr Glaubenskosmos erlaubt es, das Konzept der «sakralen Landschaft» mit modernen, sozio-ökologischen Strömungen in Einklang zu bringen. Seit November 2000 sind die Rang-Shauka Bürger des neugegründeten indischen Bundesstaates Uttaranchal, an dessen Formierung sie maßgeblich beteiligt waren. Die Studie fußt zum überwiegenden Teil auf Primärdaten, die über Jahre hinweg auf Basis verschiedenster diskursiver Methoden gesammelt wurden. Im Zentrum steht die soziokulturelle Dynamik einer semi-nomadischen Gesellschaft. 240 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Bei der Kommunikation im Internet nehmen Suchdienste eine herausragende Rolle ein. Sie verschaffen einen Überblick über Informationen und vermitteln den Zugang zu ihnen. Ihr Schutz durch die Kommunikationsgrundrechte des Grundgesetzes ist Gegenstand der Untersuchung. Ein Schutz durch die Pressefreiheit wird bejaht.In der Arbeit wird die Bedeutung der Pressefreiheit für die Ausgestaltung der wettbewerbsrechtlichen und urheberrechtlichen Haftung beleuchtet. Es geht dabei um die Haftung für eigene Rechtsverletzungen und um die Mithaftung für Rechtsverletzungen Dritter. Die wettbewerbsrechtliche Haftung der Suchdienste kann ¿ bei verfassungskonformer Auslegung der einschlägigen wettbewerbsrechtlichen Bestimmungen ¿ eingeschränkt werden, ebenso die urheberrechtliche Haftung für Rechtsverletzungen Dritter. Für das Urheberrecht wird im Bereich der Haftung für eigene Rechtsverletzungen die Notwendigkeit aufgezeigt, die Haftung von Suchdiensten durch eine neue urheberrechtliche Schranke zu begrenzen. 324 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wagner hätte, wie er einmal schrieb, seine Dramen gern als «ersichtlich gewordene Taten der Musik» bezeichnet. Was er damit meinte, hat bis heute noch keiner richtig erklärt. Es geht um die Frage, wie ¿klingende Tonfolgen¿, die wir in erster Linie hören, plötzlich etwas in uns bewirken können, das uns «ersichtlich» wird. Diese vom Hören zum Sehen erweiterte Wahrnehmungsform ergibt sich daraus, daß jede Musik durch ihren Ablauf eine Bewegung in der Zeit und durch ihren Tonhöhenwechsel eine solche im Raum gestaltet. Durch ihren Bewegungsausdruck löst sie im Bewußtsein des Hörers ¿Bildvorstellungen¿ (Assoziationen) aus. Der vorliegende Untersuchungsbeitrag bestimmt fast 90 Themen, jene noch immer so genannten «Leitmotive» des Rings, erstmals nach ihrem durch Assoziation «ersichtlich gewordenen» Ausdruck und bezieht sie ¿ so eng, wie es bisher noch niemals möglich war ¿ auf das aus ihnen hervorgehende dramatische Geschehen und dessen Personen. 324 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Diese Arbeit befaßt sich mit der Thematik der Urheberrechtsverletzungen im Online-Bereich, wobei der Schwerpunkt der Ausführungen auf der Frage der strafrechtlichen Verantwortlichkeit von Providern liegt. Um das Verständnis der in diesem Zusammenhang auftretenden rechtlichen Problemkreise zu erleichtern, wurde den zwei vielfältige Rechtsfragen betreffenden Hauptabschnitten eine Darstellung der technischen Möglichkeiten multimedialer Kommunikation vorangestellt. Hierauf folgt eine Untersuchung der im Internet üblichen Kommunikations- und Datenübermittlungsformen auf ihre urheberrechtliche Relevanz, die schließlich in eine Untersuchung der Provider-Verantwortlichkeit für diese Vorgänge, insbesondere auf der Grundlage der novellierten Verantwortlichkeitsregelungen des TDG, mündet. 288 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In 1937 the Supreme Court revolutionized American constitutionalism, sharply restricting the states' powers and expanding those of the national government. In following years the civil rights movement caused further change, challenging American life with its demands for equal rights under the Constitution and protection by the federal government. The Vietnam War expanded and then contracted presidential power. In 2001, attacks organized by followers of Osama bin Laden on American cities revived presidential power, leading to new challenges to America's constitutional heritage. This volume assembles the most important documents from American constitutional history from the depths of the Great Depression to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. Through these important documents, American constitutional power can be seen surging and waning, but always responding to the drama of world events. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Curriculum: A River Runs Through It is a collection of William M. Reynolds' essays from 1982-2002. These essays explore curriculum theory from hermeneutics and phenomenology to poststructuralism. There is a pervasive thematic force that flows through the author's work: a persistent voice desiring change in the ways we school our children and conceptualize curriculum. It is a voice that questions what is taken for granted and does so in a manner rich with possibilities for those facing the lived experience of schools every day. 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Women's Work, the Family, and Social Policy focuses on the issue of women's work in Italy as seen in the context of the last three decades of the twentieth century and against the backdrop of changes that have been occurring since the late sixties in women's status in society and family. Using a comparative approach, the contributors analyze trends in women's employment, their motivations to work, the impact on fertility and family patterns of working women, strategies to conciliate work and children, effectiveness of social policy, and the effects of women's work on family's income and income distribution. This book looks at women's work from the point of view of the human capital thus being mobilized and its wide-ranging impact on society and the economy. 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this groundbreaking book, media and time theorist Robert Hassan looks at the effects of the nexus between neoliberal globalization and the information technology revolution upon the production and dissemination of knowledge in technologically advanced societies. This nexus has created what Hassan calls an 'information ecology', an environment that affects the individual, culture and society in the same dialectical ways as the natural and built environment. Significantly, this information ecology generates its own temporality, that of 'network time', a digitally compressed and accelerated time that has 'sped up' society dramatically since the late 1970s. Network time has changed the mechanics and institutions of knowledge production in society to an unprecedented degree and extent. How we think, what we think, and what we consider to be 'useful' and 'legitimate' knowledge is changing in ways (and at a rate) that poses serious problems for mass culture and civil society. 187 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -During the Harlem Renaissance, competing rhetorics of racial uplift centered upon concerns regarding class identification and the process of acculturation into American society. This book demonstrates how the practice of motherhood and the organization of household relations operated to address the pressing issues facing the black community of the early twentieth century. An exploration of such literary constructs as the tragic mulatto, the passing phenomenon, and the mammy result in a revitalized understanding of how the influences of racial intolerance, sexual oppression, and class ideology combined to provoke a model of resistant black maternity in the early modern era. 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Contemporary Sociological Theory is an atypical book, in that it is the expression of a sociology that is oriented toward praxis as well as being active. It combines rigorous research with facts, including the intention for a dialogical utopia. Is something like this possible - the professional sociologist asks, smiling mockingly, denying the possibility. But this broad intention is presented in the book, joining theory with critique and empirical research with praxis, in such a charming way that it grabs its readers and captures them under its spell. To whom is this book addressed Clearly it is to sociology students, but it also has the objective of reaching those who do not plan on studying sociology. It is especially appropriate for social movements, which the book tries to involve in a theoretical dialogue, to be used to strengthen their daily struggles. If it were true that social movements need more theory in order to increase their capacity for political action, this book would imply an essential conclusion to this end. (From the Preface by Ulrich Beck) 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The impact and influence of their school experiences and of their teachers on children and their subsequent beliefs and values are unknown. This book attempts to capture what is in the hearts and minds of teachers and mentors as they provide mind-forming experiences for children. In their own voices, teachers describe why the environment is an important component of their educational practice - why it is even more important than traditional school subjects such as science. Conservative moral principles, not unbridled emotions, guide their behavior as responsible professionals who care deeply about children and their future. 262 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This anthology crosses disciplines to explore the use of images as modes for creative and critical inquiry. Researchers in the fields of literacy, physical education, and special education describe and critique how they have used images with students of various ages and backgrounds to evoke personal interpretations, deconstruct cultural messages, examine processes of oppression, and imagine alternative ways of acting in the world. Through this book, the contributors hope to inspire educators to explore the use of images in critical and creative pedagogy as well as in their personal lives and to encourage researchers to push methodological boundaries through the use of 'multiple forms of representation' (Eisner, 1993). 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Even in crowded metropolitan areas, Japan's temple precincts preserve not only architecture, but the garden traditions of earlier centuries as well. To step into a temple garden is, in effect, to tread the paths of Japanese aesthetic history. This time travel experience is not unlike venturing into a medieval church situated in a modern Western metropolis. The recognized religious traditions survive in the layout and rationale of Japan's gardens: Shint , Buddhist, and Confucian. This book explores the distinct priorities and vocabularies of these traditions as expressed in the elements of garden design, historically tracing their shared features and their interactions at particular sites. Amply illustrated, it orients the reader to the different functions of gardens, such as whether they are to be looked at or walked in. 209 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Betriebliche Vorschlagswesen (BVW) bietet den Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung die Möglichkeit, einzeln oder in Gruppen eigene Ideen zu äußern und durch konkrete Vorschläge ökonomische, technische, soziale und ökologische Verbesserungen im Betriebsgeschehen zu bewirken. In diesem Buch (6. Auflage), das auf den Erkenntnissen aus zahlreichen empirischen Studien basiert, werden konkrete Empfehlungen zur Erhöhung der BVW-Effizienz gegeben. Hauptansatzpunkte sind dabei die innerbetriebliche Werbung, das Anreizsystem für Einreicherinnen und Einreicher, die Organisation des BVW und seine Verknüpfung mit anderen Instrumenten der Innovationsförderung. Besonders hervorgehoben werden die Weiterentwicklungschancen und -notwendigkeiten des klassischen BVW zu einem modernen Verbesserungsmanagement. 218 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book brings together nine original essays from Pynchon scholars around the world whose work furthers the debate concerning the nature of perceived shifts in the sensibility, style and subject-matter of Pynchon's fiction from The Crying of Lot 49 to Mason & Dixon . Of particular concern is the complex relationship between Pynchon's challenging and evolving oeuvre and notions of postmodernity which this volume's focus on Pynchon's most recent fiction helps bring up-to-date. Five of the collection's essays examine the writer's achievement in Mason & Dixon and were first presented in 1998 as papers at King's College, London, as part of International Pynchon Week. The volume includes contributions from renowned Pynchon scholars such as David Seed, David Thoreen and Francisco Collado Rodríquez, and offers perspectives on Pynchon's achievement in The Crying of Lot 49 , Vineland and Mason & Dixon which view those works in relation to a fascinating variety of subjects such as hybridity, mapmaking and representation, the work of Marshall McLuhan, American comic traditions, metafiction, madness in American fiction, science and ethics. Reconfirmed throughout is the ethical seriousness of a writer who remains one of American literature's most fascinating, important and ever elusive figures. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book consists of a thorough introduction and 12 essays specially written for a joint conference of British and German scholars held at the University of Warwick (U.K.) in 2000. The papers draw on the German and British experience of human rights in the development of law. From an English perspective the conference and the collection of essays coincide with the coming into force of the Human Rights Act in October 2000, a defining moment in English legal history. The German contributions address the question of human rights in a broader European context as well as on the background of half a century's experience with human rights in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the jurisdiction of the Federal Constitutional Court which had a significant impact on various fields of law. 231 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Montherlant - worthless amoral aesthete - or sensitive literary philosopher This book takes a brand new look at his work and system of values. The author places Montherlant in the context of French twentieth-century literature and thought, with reference to the literary and philosophical movements of the century. She further describes the legacy of this prolific writer, whose literary standing is contested by some but whose importance in French twentieth-century literature and philosophy is beyond dispute. The stage for an analysis of Montherlant's oeuvre is set through an examination of his essays and not Elektronisches Buch, in relation to the writings of Plato, an important source. Montherlant, like many other writers of his generation, sought an ideal of heroism, explored in his early novels, which was destroyed by the horrific wars of the twentieth century. Through subtle argument and detailed textual analysis, this book demonstrates the complex and contradictory nature of a philosophy which advocates pleasure and joie de vivre, while espousing a nihilistic vision. 262 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Simone de Beauvoir's fiction is a largely unexplored field. This book offers new readings of her whole fictional corpus, using psychoanalysis as a critical lens. Vehemently anti-Freudian at the beginning of her career, Beauvoir denied the validity of his theories; however, her fiction hints at a different tale. It is the untold Beauvoirean story this book sets out to tell. Firstly, using her own autobiographical admissions it examines her resolute resistance to psychoanalysis and offers possible reasons for her initial violent disavowal of its concepts. Secondly, it traces her explicit engagement with psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline through a chronological examination of her fiction. Finally, it employs psychoanalytic literary theory as a magnifying lens through which to view her entire fictional output, while also offering new interpretations of her most underread texts. 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Journalism, Volume II: 1846-1848, the definitive scholarly edition, is a volume in «The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman», the Whitman «Writings» that «every library should own» (Choice). The Journalism reprints Whitman editorials, articles, reviews, and other prose matter from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The Journalism has reliable texts, substantial annotation, thorough textual tables, and a comprehensive index. Providing essential documents, The Journalism is indispensable for understanding the genesis of Leaves of Grass and the views and milieu of America's greatest poet. The volume, moreover, is useful in such areas as history, journalism, American studies, and popular culture. Whitman's journalistic writings cover a wide range of subjects: war, slavery, politics, government, economic matters, labor, immigration, social concerns (crime and punishment, poverty, minority rights, women's rights, health, education), the press, religion, literature, drama, music, and art. 502 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Band enthält die Beiträge des Kolloquiums 'Chromatische und enharmonische Musik und Musikinstrumente des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts' (gemeinsame Tagung der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis und des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts Basel vom 9.4.2002). Ein internationaler Spezialistenkreis liefert darin Einblicke in instrumentenkundliche und kompositorische Fragen, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Übersetzungen zeitgenössischer Quellen. Hinzu kommen drei weitere Aufsätze freier Thematik und die Schweizer Musikbibliographie für das Jahr 2001 (von Andreas Fatton, Basel). 397 pp. Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As Lucas Malet, Mary St. Leger (Kingsley) Harrison (1852-1931) published seventeen novels and many short stories during a dramatic time of change for women. A daughter of Charles Kingsley, Malet was compared favorably with George Meredith, Henry James, and George Eliot. Praised for her craftsmanship, she shocked readers with daring treatments of seduction and betrayal, illicit love, disability, despair, and gender politics. Malet's work spans the Victorian, fin-de-siècle , Edwardian, and modernist periods and makes contributions to realism, naturalism, aestheticism, Gothic, and modernist experimental writing as well as to gender politics and lesbian studies. Once one of England's most critically acclaimed writers, she counted Henry James and Thomas Hardy among her friends, even influencing their fiction. Although her novels were books of the year in 1891 and 1901 ( The Wages of Sin and The History of Sir Richard Calmady ), she died in penury. Drawing extensively from unpublished archives, this biography contributes the essential framework for the burgeoning study of Lucas Malet's fiction. 522 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In recent years, most academic studies of the books of Kings have concentrated on how they were written. Most scholars analyse the way in which the character of Solomon is depicted in 1 Kings 1-11. Some see Solomon as being portrayed favourably at the start but negatively by the end of the opening section of Kings. Based on such an understanding of Solomon, these scholars argue for the Josianic redaction theory which states that Kings was written in the reign of King Josiah (640-609 BC). Others, believing that the author generally disapproves of Solomon, argue that Kings was the work of a single author at the time of the Exile (587-539 BC).Against this background, the main concern of this study is to establish how Solomon really is characterised. The book argues the need for an appropriate methodology to evaluate Solomon adequately, and proposes rhetorical criticism . Applying this to the Solomon story, the study breaks new ground in looking at how the narrative was intended to persuade .From an analysis of how persuasion is used in several aspects of the text - unit, arrangement and style, argument, situation - the book concludes that Solomon is not evaluated simplistically in Kings but rather that his character is described in a variety of different and ambivalent ways. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Im Zentrum der Beiträge steht die Erforschung des soziolinguistischen Phänomens 'deutsche Sprachinsel' unter kontaktlinguistischem, sprachhistorischem, dialektologischem und sprachpolitischem Aspekt. Die vielfältigen linguistischen und soziolinguistischen Entwicklungen, die deutsche Sprachvarietäten außerhalb des deutschen Sprachraums durchlaufen, konvergieren dabei letztlich in dem Gegeneinander von Spracherhaltung und Sprachverlust. The focus of the essays is the investigation of the sociolinguistic phenomenon of German linguistic enclaves with respect to language contact, language history, dialectology and language politics. The multifaceted linguistic and sociolinguistic developments, which German language varieties separated from the German-speaking homeland undergo, converge in the final analysis in the juxtaposition of language maintenance and language loss. 328 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular importance to the literature of the double, having produced, among other works, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Woman in White and Rebecca. Each also rejected the prevailing social order of his or her time, a factor that plays an important role in determining how the double is represented and treated. The literary theory of romance narrative structure follows the hero's journey through a dark 'descent' to a happier 'ascent', but this journey is shown to apply to a largely masculine identity. On the other hand, the rise of the female persona and her relation to the double is a progression that is clearly charted through the works of Stevenson, Collins and du Maurier. It shows an extraordinary alteration in the structure of traditional romance narrative, and leads to an exploration of new ways in which the imprisoned female character may be able to free herself and become whole. 306 pp. Englisch.