Comparative literature

People Best New BookThe inside story of the making of Mean Girls - and our enduring 20-year obsession with itReleased in 2004, iconic teen comedy Mean Girls remains as relevant now as ever.

An introduction to one of Latin America's most important authors.

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared cosmopolitan affinities, including Arne Garborg, Hamlin Garland, Madison Grant, and Lathrop Stoddard.

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets.

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'.

Im vorliegenden Band, der aus einem internationalen Klagenfurter Symposion hervorging, werden die Stellung des Subjekts und die Entwicklung der Subjektivität vom Spätmittelalter(Dante) bis zur Postmoderne auf komparatistischer und interdisziplinärer Ebene untersucht.

Where do Canadian content requirements come from?

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts.

Originally published in 1985, this book surveys developments in cable television in the major industrialised countries with chapters specifically authored on each area.

Narratives of Mediterranean Space: Literature and Art across Land and Sea presents a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives of movement and migration produced in Italian, Arabic and French.

This two-volume set examines recent presidential and vice presidential debates, addresses how citizens make sense of these events in new media, and considers whether the evolution of these forms of consumption is healthy for future presidential campaigns-and for democracy.

For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning.

Dem sentimentalen Roman haftet wie keiner anderen Gattung das Vorurteil der trivialen Schwärmerei an, die sich vermeintlich besonders unter Frauen ausbreitet.

Feminism and Popular Culture maps the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism.

Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media.

This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s.

This volume revisits Genette's definition of the printed book's liminal devices, or paratexts, as 'thresholds of interpretation' by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660).

In der ersten umfassenden Untersuchung zum Bücherverleih und zu den Bibliotheken in Schweizer Gefängnissen und Justizvollzugseinrichtungen zeigt Thomas Sutter auf, wie Organisation, Strukturen und personelle Faktoren die Gefängnisbibliotheksarbeit beeinflussen und welche Lektüremodalitäten in Gefangenschaft an Bedeutung gewinnen.

Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction.

This collection of essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of audiovisual translation, both as a means of intercultural exchange and as a lens through which linguistic and cultural representations are negotiated and shaped.

Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait.

This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes' plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time.

Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative?

A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, tradition is a word everyone uses but few address critically.

This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony.

Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin.

Writing Hollywood highlights the writing process in the production of television drama and comedy series in the U.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book examines and illustrates the use of design principles, design thinking, and other empathy research techniques in university and public settings, to plan and ethically target socially-concerned transmedia stories and evaluate their success through user experience testing methods.

Marijke Amado kann auf eine beeindruckende Medienkarriere zurückblicken.

This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis.

Telecommunications: A Systems Approach (1976) uses two extended case studies, of public telephone and television systems, in order to introduce the basic ideas of telecommunication systems.

This book tells the story of diverse online creators - women, ethnic and racial minorities, queer folk and those from hardscrabble backgrounds - producing low budget, high cultural impact web-series which have disrupted longstanding white male domination of the film and TV industries.

Broadcasting in the Netherlands (1977) analyses Dutch broadcasting, describing the historical traditions of Dutch society, the ways in which radio and TV were set up, and shows how changes in Dutch politics, culture and economy - as well as technological innovation and liberalisation - have posed a set of challenges for the country.

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity.

Wie reist man heute in historische Räume wie Galizien und vor allem wozu?

Der vorliegende Band enthält Beiträge zur Problematik der Grenzen und ihrer Erscheinungsformen im Modus literarischer Texte.

Drawing from theories of the political economy of communication, this book offers readers a comprehensive data-rich assessment of contemporary sports television and its evolution.

Broadcast Sound Technology (1995) covers the basic principles of all the main aspects of the broadcast chain, including microphones and loudspeakers technology, mixing consoles, recording and replay (analogue and digital) and the principles of stereo.

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin.

This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change.

Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Minds Alive explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries, archives, and public institutions in the digital age.