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Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition
by F. Boers S. LindstrombergEmpirically validated techniques to accelerate learners' uptake of 'chunks' demonstrate that pathways for insightful chunk-learning become available if one is willing to question the assumption that lexis is arbitrary. Care is taken to ensure that the pedagogical proposals are in accordance with insights from vocabulary research generally.
Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought)
by Tobias BoesThe Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country’s cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist’s journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism’s aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann’s The Epigones, Gustav Freytag’s Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus among them—that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.
Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters
by Tobias BoesIn Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.
Über „dumme Bürger“ und „feige Politiker“: Streitschrift für mehr Niveau in politischen Alltagsgesprächen
by Christian Boeser Karin B. SchnebelDas Niveau in politischen Alltagsgesprächen ist oftmals weitaus niedriger, als es dem Niveau der Diskutanten entsprechen würde. In dieser Streitschrift geht es den Autoren nicht nur darum, diese Behauptung zu belegen, sondern vor allem auch darum, deutlich zu machen, dass dies ein Problem darstellt für die Qualität von Politik und die Qualität von Demokratie, mithin für die Qualität des Zusammenhalts unserer Gesellschaft. Wenn insbesondere die Bürger sich ihrer Verantwortung nicht stellen, führt dies zu einer stärkeren Abschottung der Politiker und zu einer "feigen" Politik. Wir brauchen daher eine politische Alltagskultur, welche die Komplexität von Politik ernst nimmt und den Politikern nicht von vornherein jede Seriosität abspricht.
The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition
by Ancius BoethiusBoethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. THE CONSOLATION was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante.
The Consolation of Philosophy
by Anicius Manlius BoethiusIn this highly praised new translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating verse and prose sections in the Latin original, allowing us to appreciate the Menippian parallels between the discourses of literary and logical inquiry. His prose translations are lively and colloquial, conveying the argumentative, occasionally bantering tone of the original, while his verse translations restore the beauty and power of Boethius’s poetry. The result is a major contribution to the art of translation. Those less familiar with Consolation may remember it was written under a death sentence. Boethius (c. 480–524), an Imperial official under Theodoric, Ostrogoth ruler of Rome, found himself, in a time of political paranoia, denounced, arrested, and then executed two years later without a trial. Composed while its author was imprisoned, cut off from family and friends, it remains one of Western literature’s most eloquent meditations on the transitory nature of earthly belongings, and the superiority of things of the mind. In an artful combination of verse and prose, Slavitt captures the energy and passion of the original. And in an introduction intended for the general reader, Seth Lerer places Boethius’s life and achievement in context.
Organisation als Nachrichtenfaktor: Wie das Organisatorische den Content von Fernsehnachrichten beeinflusst
by Claus-Erich BoetzkesBei der Nachrichtenselektion spielt ein Faktor eine erhebliche Rolle, der von der Wissenschaft bisher wenig beachtet wurde - der Faktor "Organisation". Das Organisatorische beeinflusst die Themenauswahl. Es bestimmt nicht selten die Art und den Umfang der Berichterstattung. Doch das Organisationale findet hinter den Kulissen statt und bleibt deshalb dem Außenstehenden meist verborgen. Claus-Erich Boetzkes ist Moderator bei der Tagesschau. Er konnte deshalb die Vorgänge im Innersten einer TV-Nachrichtenredaktion beobachten und analysieren. In seiner Publikation zeigt er, dass Organisation ein eigener Nachrichtenfaktor ist. Die Nachrichtenwert-Theorie muss um diesen Aspekt ergänzt werden. Die Arbeit gründet auf dem Ilmenauer Ansatz nach Paul Klimsa und ist Teil eines Forschungsprojekts der TU Ilmenau.
Narrative Care: Biopolitics And The Novel
by Arne De BoeverIf the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy's Remainder, it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel's biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the contemporary novel include?
States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald
by Arne De BoeverIn the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. Â De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception. Â
States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald
by Arne De BoeverIn the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.
Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice
by David E. Boeyink Sandra L. BordenThis book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethical theories or principles. This book goes beyond the traditional approaches of many other journalism textbooks by using cases as the starting point for building ethical practices. Casuistry, the technical name of such a method, develops provisional guidelines from the bottom up by reasoning analogically from an "easy" ethical case (the "paradigm") to "harder" ethical cases. Thoroughly grounded in actual experience, this method admits more nuanced judgments than most theoretical approaches.
Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice
by David E. Boeyink Sandra L. BordenThis book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethical theories or principles. This book goes beyond the traditional approaches of many other journalism textbooks by using cases as the starting point for building ethical practices. Casuistry, the technical name of such a method, develops provisional guidelines from the bottom up by reasoning analogically from an "easy" ethical case (the "paradigm") to "harder" ethical cases. Thoroughly grounded in actual experience, this method admits more nuanced judgments than most theoretical approaches.
The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 3. Medieval Poetry: 1400-1500 (Oxford History of Poetry in English)
by Julia BoffeyThe Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.
Cleared For Take-Off: A Memoir
by Dirk BogardeFirst published in 1997, Cleared for Take-Off is the seventh and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirsDuring his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also felt, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the war's end, when these youthful, but hardened comrades-in-arms were dispersed to find their feet in a traumatised world. Less than a year after demob, Bogarde found himself starring in his third feature film with car, chauffeur and five-storey house in Chester Row. He had somehow 'arrived' in the movies.
Historische Diskursanalyse der Literatur: Theorie, Arbeitsfelder, Analysen, Vermittlung (Historische Diskursanalyse der Literatur)
by Klaus-Michael BogdalIm Spektrum der neuen Literaturtheorien hat sich - auch international - die Historische Diskursanalyse als eine Forschungsrichtung etabliert, die programmatisch detaillierte Textanalyse mit historischer Darstellung verbindet. In diesem Band werden die theoretischen Grundlagen zur Diskussion gestellt und mit den Themen Männerbilder, Identität-Alterität, Gegenwartsliteratur und Technik- und Körperphantasien exemplarisch vier Forschungsfelder abgesteckt. Den Mittelpunkt des Bandes bildet die diskursanalytische Erschließung einer zentralen literaturwissenschaftlichen Kategorie: des Autor-Subjekts. Einen Ausblick auf die Applizierbarkeit Historischer Diskursanalyse in den Bereichen Bildung, Erziehung, Schule und Literaturunterricht schließt den Band ab.
Zwischen Alltag und Utopie: Arbeiterliteratur als Diskurs des 19. Jahrhunderts
by Klaus-Michael BogdalIn dieser Studie vermittelt der Autor durch die "archäologische" Freilegung der Arbeiterliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts neue und überraschende Ansichten einer uns fremden und fernen Kultur. Dabei wird die Literatur nicht isoliert betrachtet, sondern in den Kontext der veränderten Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen der industrialisierten Gesellschaft gestellt. Der Autor untersucht mit Blick auf die Diskussionen um die entstehende Arbeiterkultur, in welcherWeise sich die Alltagserfahrungen in der Literatur niederschlagen. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bildet die systematische Einordnungder Arbeiterliteratur in die Literatur dieser Zeit. In Textanalysen wird nachgezeichnet, welcher literarischer Muster, welcher Allegorien und Mythen sich die "neue Klasse" bedient, um sich gegendie Irrationen der Politik, der Kultur und des Alltags eine kollektive Identität zu erarbeiten. Der Band demonstriert zugleich auch die Eignung diskursanalytischer Methoden für die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung.
New Formalist Criticism: Theory and Practice
by F. BogelNew Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.
Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945 (Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace)
by Anna BogenThe rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights.
Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945 (Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace #5)
by Anna BogenThe rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights.
Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, Part II: Volume IV
by Anna BogenThe years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that had swept through the higher education system in the late nineteenth century. Among these narratives, a significant subgroup focused on the lives of women students, newly admitted to the structures of higher education system, their presence still stridently, and sometimes even violently, opposed, especially at Oxbridge. These novels and short stories collected here, largely unknown today, were widely discussed and debated in the public sphere during the early twentieth century, contributing not only to the formation of public knowledge and opinion about education through cultural figures like the ‘Girton Girl’ or the ‘undergraduette,’ but also sparking debate about many wider social and cultural issues, from the place of the women writer in the literary scene to the emergence of new discourses around psychology and the body. The majority have not been reprinted since their original publication, and until now have been rarely available to scholars. The publication of Women’s University Narratives, 1890-1945, therefore, provides a major new resource for scholarship in many areas, including women’s studies, educational history, and literary and cultural modernism.
Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, Part II: Volume IV
by Anna BogenThe years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that had swept through the higher education system in the late nineteenth century. Among these narratives, a significant subgroup focused on the lives of women students, newly admitted to the structures of higher education system, their presence still stridently, and sometimes even violently, opposed, especially at Oxbridge. These novels and short stories collected here, largely unknown today, were widely discussed and debated in the public sphere during the early twentieth century, contributing not only to the formation of public knowledge and opinion about education through cultural figures like the ‘Girton Girl’ or the ‘undergraduette,’ but also sparking debate about many wider social and cultural issues, from the place of the women writer in the literary scene to the emergence of new discourses around psychology and the body. The majority have not been reprinted since their original publication, and until now have been rarely available to scholars. The publication of Women’s University Narratives, 1890-1945, therefore, provides a major new resource for scholarship in many areas, including women’s studies, educational history, and literary and cultural modernism.
Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, Part II: Volume II
by Anna BogenThe years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that had swept through the higher education system in the late nineteenth century. Among these narratives, a significant subgroup focused on the lives of women students, newly admitted to the structures of higher education system, their presence still stridently, and sometimes even violently, opposed, especially at Oxbridge. These novels and short stories collected here, largely unknown today, were widely discussed and debated in the public sphere during the early twentieth century, contributing not only to the formation of public knowledge and opinion about education through cultural figures like the ‘Girton Girl’ or the ‘undergraduette,’ but also sparking debate about many wider social and cultural issues, from the place of the women writer in the literary scene to the emergence of new discourses around psychology and the body. The majority have not been reprinted since their original publication, and until now have been rarely available to scholars. The publication of Women’s University Narratives, 1890-1945, therefore, provides a major new resource for scholarship in many areas, including women’s studies, educational history, and literary and cultural modernism.
Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, Part II: Volume II
by Anna BogenThe years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that had swept through the higher education system in the late nineteenth century. Among these narratives, a significant subgroup focused on the lives of women students, newly admitted to the structures of higher education system, their presence still stridently, and sometimes even violently, opposed, especially at Oxbridge. These novels and short stories collected here, largely unknown today, were widely discussed and debated in the public sphere during the early twentieth century, contributing not only to the formation of public knowledge and opinion about education through cultural figures like the ‘Girton Girl’ or the ‘undergraduette,’ but also sparking debate about many wider social and cultural issues, from the place of the women writer in the literary scene to the emergence of new discourses around psychology and the body. The majority have not been reprinted since their original publication, and until now have been rarely available to scholars. The publication of Women’s University Narratives, 1890-1945, therefore, provides a major new resource for scholarship in many areas, including women’s studies, educational history, and literary and cultural modernism.