Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war-making, moving from frameworks of perception and intelligence gathering, through to liberation/occupation, and on to the aftermath of conflict.
This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies - one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots - from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system.
This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities.
This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities.
Verfaultes Korn im Brot, gepanschter Wein, Pferdefleisch in der Lasagne, Hühner im Käfig oder Metallspäne in der Milch – die Liste der Lebensmittelskandale ist lang.
This book is inspired by the authors work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: What IfOn the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.
Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment - the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming - and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace.
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political centrists.
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political centrists.
This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways.
This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways.
Mit jährlich mehr als sechs Millionen Besucherinnen und Besuchern und einer länger als 200-jährigen Tradition ist das Münchner Oktoberfest das weltweit größte und nahezu älteste säkulare Volksfest, welches über eine enorme Strahlkraft weit über die bayerischen und deutschen Grenzen hinaus verfügt und die internationalen Vorstellungen über deutsche Wesensarten prägt.
The Simpsons are not only the world's most famous TV family; they arealso the protagonists of one of the longest-lasting animation programs inUS television.
Die Familie ist keine konfliktfreie Zone, sondern ein Ort, an dem Generationen und ihre jeweiligen Weltsichten aufeinander prallen, an dem Genderrollen erlernt, vielleicht auch hinterfragt werden, an dem Werte und Normen vermittelt und soziale Kompetenzen trainiert werden.
El concepto de lo monstruoso revela las conductas, cualidades y pulsiones que una cultura tema y reprime porque vulnera la pervivencia de su sistema hegemónico.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Eine Liebeserklärung an Bremen und Bremerhaven – Johann-Günther König hat Texte aus zehn Jahrhunderten zu einer anschaulichen Literaturgeschichte komponiert.
En este libro, Julio-César Mateus nos conduce a una inmersión en las obras de un extenso número de autores para comprender la evolución del pensamiento sobre la educación mediática en todos sus aspectos y a través del tiempo.
This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial but often invisible role that translators have played in making this genre widely available.
Este libro problematiza la construcción de representaciones televisivas estigmatizantes en telediarios emitidos por canales de aire de Salta, San Salvador de Jujuy, Tucumán, Chaco, Corrientes y Misiones.
The new, second edition of this successful Handbook explores the growing and evolving field of Chinese media, offering a window through which to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communications within the contexts of globalisation and regionalisation.
Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art.
This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition.
A culturally sensitive and rewarding new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and EuropeIn this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy.
Esta visita guiada a los chismes más deliciosos de la historia de la literatura, de las artes y de la historia a secas, tiene como cicerone y maestro de ceremonias a Edgardo Cozarinsky, que ha demostrado ya en muy distintos géneros y registros su inteligencia, su veracidad y su rigor.
