This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has been influenced by, as well as it has influenced, literatures of other nations.
Exploring the effects of traveling, migration, and other forms of cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited collection explores the act of traveling and the representation of traveling by Irish men and women from diverse walks of life in the period between Grattan's Parliament (1782) and World War I (1914).
Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks.
The Politics of Broadcasting (1985) examines the state of broadcasting in a variety of Western democracies from a political viewpoint, written at a time when new telecommunications and information technology revolutionised television and radio.
How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in AmericaIn an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream.
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.
This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.
The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin's and Jacques Derrida's writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation.
Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of "e;the best that has been thought and said"e; in literature.
The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s.
Dieses Buch untersucht, wie phänomenologische Ansätze zu den Themen Verleiblichung, Wahrnehmung und gelebte Erfahrung innerhalb der Disability Studies, der Critical Race Theory und der Queer Studies diskutiert werden.
Diese intermedial und komparatistisch angelegte Studie analysiert Narrative der Essstörung im zeitgenössischen Film und in der Erzählliteratur der europäischen, nordafrikanischen und amerikanischen Romania.
This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing.
This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region.
"e;The Man, Shakespeare - And his Tragic Life Story"e; is a 1909 work by Frank Harris that explores the character of Shakespeare by analysing that of his most notable characters.
This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart.
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism.
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility.
This is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps.
Der vorliegende dreisprachige Band konzentriert sich auf Akte des transgressiven Handelns/Schreibens in ausgewahlten Texten europaischer Literaturen, deren Autoren sich durch Geschlecht, Nationalitat und Zeitrahmen unterscheiden.
Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century.
Broadcasting in Mexico (1979) traces the birth and growth of Mexico's broadcasting services against the background of its geographical, cultural, demographic, economic and political structure.
Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden.
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed.
The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings.
Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty.
Today's convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more.
