The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek offers a synoptic overview of Star Trek, its history, its influence, and the scholarly response to the franchise, as well as possibilities for further study.
This book examines how the current era of "e;convergence"e; has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance.
This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dass Finanzkrisen tiefe gesellschaftliche Vertrauenskrisen auslösen und ganze Länder in den Ruin treiben können, ist keineswegs erst seit den ökonomischen Turbulenzen der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte bekannt.
Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of 'what is television now?
How English has become a language of the people in Indiaone that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today.
Communications Systems (1999) examines various communications systems using satellites, and includes much information on coding and modulation systems such as MOBIC, digital SNG systems, mobile phones, MPEG, MPEG4 capabilities and Hypermedia, the Grand Alliance TV systems, MUSE and how it is used in Japan, the European and North American Digital Video Broadcasting Systems, MMDS and Digital Audio Broadcasting.
This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature.
The focus of this study in comparative criticism is close analysis of Dostoevsky's first literary publication-his 1844 translation of the first edition of Balzac's Eug?
A deep dive into the world of online and multimedia longform storytelling, this book charts the renaissance in deep reading, viewing and listening associated with the literary mind, and the resulting implications of its rise in popularity.
This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space.
While the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences, failure is still broadly understood on an individual level, while its broader causes and consequences receive little attention.
Eberhard Lämmert: Einführung Eckart Goebel: Stationen der Erzählforschung in der Literaturwissenschaft Hilmar Frank / Tanja Frank: Zur Erzählforschung in der Kunstwissenschaft Peter Diezel: Narrativik und die Polyphonie des Theaters Jörg Schweinitz: Zur Erzählforschung in der Filmwissenschaft Janina Klassen: Was die Musik erzählt Gregor Gumpert: Erfahrung eines Augenblicks.
Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their own and others' sexual identities.
This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East-West exchanges and cultural dialogues.
Unter den zahlreichen Spaziergängen der deutschsprachigen Literatur widmet sich diese Studie der Erkundung einer ganz speziellen Form von Spaziergang: dem des Schriftstellers.
This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction.
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 argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle English literary texts and, furthermore, that this concept permeates other manifestations of memory as written by authors in a variety of genres.
This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science.
Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the translational norms of contemporary Italian dubbing practices.
The research presented in this book, originally published in 1986, looks to pinpoint the psychological processes involved in the media violence-aggression relation.
Broadcasting in Ireland (1978) outlines the historical and sociological background of Ireland to place the progress of its broadcasting service in the context of its post-independence development.
This book explores how the television industry is adapting its production culture and professional practises of scheduling to an increasingly non-linear television paradigm, a testing ground where different communicative tools are tried out in a volatile industry.
Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistanceBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy.
Dieses Buch untersucht, ausgehend von einer der bedeutendsten technikphilosophischen Positionen der deutschen Nachkriegsmoderne, die diffizile Interaktion von aktueller Kultur und Technik.
