- Table View
- List View
Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns
by Suzanne HobsonThis volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the twentieth and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless registered its importance in their work; a third group, including D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic to the Rationalist cause. All of these writers produced fiction that was experimental in form and, though few of them could be described as modernist, they shared with modernist writers a will to innovate. This book explores how Rationalist ideas were adapted and transformed by these experiments, focusing in particular on the modifications required to accommodate the strong mode of unbelief associated with British secularism to the notional mode of belief usually solicited by fiction. Whereas modernism is often understood as the literature for a secular age, Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture looks elsewhere to find a literature that draws more directly on secularism for its aesthetics and its ethics.
Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies: Voices from Colombia
by Carmen Helena Guerrero-NietoThis edited book presents a critical vision of language and education policies and practices in Colombia, examining neoliberal perspectives which influence the promotion of English at all levels in the Colombian educational system. Some of the chapters emphasize questions of language teacher recognition and empowerment, while others focus on both teachers and students’ visions of national policies, particularly with regard to colonial and Eurocentric discourses and subsequent discriminatory practices. The volume throws light on recent language and education policies and practices in a South American country where much current research in this area is published in Spanish but not in English, and it gives visibility to voices that are often missing from the global conversation around English language teaching (ELT). Making these voices heard is part of a decolonial project that gives legitimacy to "unauthorized outlooks", embodies knowledge, and focuses on presenting alternatives to second language teaching-learning and research practices from the Global North ontoepistemology. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of ELT, Language Policies and Planning, Applied Linguistics, and Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies. It also has international appeal, as its localized gaze can bring about important considerations regarding other local knowledges.
"Unaufhörlich Lenz gelesen...": Studien zu Leben und Werk von J. M. R. Lenz
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz ist ein äußerst produktiver Einzelgänger, dessen Werke sich den herrschenden ästhetischen Normen des 18. Jahrhunderts entziehen und auf die Moderne vorausweisen. Dieser Band behandelt bisher vernachlässigte Aspekte seines Werks, stellt aber auch Texte vor, die neuerdings Lenz zugeschrieben werden und analysiert unbekannte Handschriften sowie kaum bekannte biographische Details.
Unassimilable Feminisms: Reappraising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics (Breaking Feminist Waves)
by L. GillmanIn an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary texts, and popular cultural representations, Gillman advances a comparative theoretical model of identity and consciousness that foregrounds a naturalist-realist account. She demonstrates that reason and knowledge originate from diverse human practices enacted in the social and natural world and can be explained and justified entirely in terms of them.
Unarten: Kleist und das Gesetz der Gattung (Lettre)
by Andrea Allerkamp Matthias Preuss Sebastian SchönbeckIm Umgang mit Gattungen zeigen sich Konventionalität und Rebellion, Opportunismus und Widerständigkeit, Normativität und Anarchie des Schreibens. Vor dem Hintergrund der Gattungsfrage versammelt dieser Band kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Annäherungen an Kleist. Gattung wird in den Beiträgen nicht allein literaturgeschichtlich verstanden, sondern als philosophische, anthropologische, biologische, ästhetische und politische Kategorie diskutiert. Dabei rücken Figuren der Transgression, Restitution und Inkorporation von Ordnungssystemen ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Kleist verleiht der Gattungsfrage um 1800 ein neues Gewicht.
Unarchived Histories: The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world (Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories)
by Gyanendra PandeyFor some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to "madness" as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or "trifling." It is the status of being exiled within – by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental as to not even be noticed – that marks the unarchived histories investigated in this volume. Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, North and South America, and North Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of unfamiliar sources and insightful reconsiderations of well-known materials that lie at the centre of many current debates on history and the archive.
Unarchived Histories: The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world (Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories)
by Gyanendra PandeyFor some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to "madness" as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or "trifling." It is the status of being exiled within – by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental as to not even be noticed – that marks the unarchived histories investigated in this volume. Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, North and South America, and North Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of unfamiliar sources and insightful reconsiderations of well-known materials that lie at the centre of many current debates on history and the archive.
The Unappeasable Shadow: Shelley's Influence on Yeats (Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats)
by Adele M. DalsimerYeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the entity by which he was constantly pursued and with which he held frequent colloquy have been held under the critical microscope, and the shadow has emerged alternately as the course of human history, the poet’s alter-ego, his inner self, the natural man, or as anything that Yeats wanted but believed himself not to be. This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence that Shelley had on Yeats and this ‘shadow’. The study concentrates primarily on the complex influence of Shelley’s Alastor on Yeats, tracing the problems it suggests and the questions it raises from Yeats’s early, highly imitative poems through the austere, unromantic middle poems to the late poems where Yeats sees himself as the "last of the romantics". This title will be of interest to students of literature.
The Unappeasable Shadow: Shelley's Influence on Yeats (Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats #3)
by Adele M. DalsimerYeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the entity by which he was constantly pursued and with which he held frequent colloquy have been held under the critical microscope, and the shadow has emerged alternately as the course of human history, the poet’s alter-ego, his inner self, the natural man, or as anything that Yeats wanted but believed himself not to be. This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence that Shelley had on Yeats and this ‘shadow’. The study concentrates primarily on the complex influence of Shelley’s Alastor on Yeats, tracing the problems it suggests and the questions it raises from Yeats’s early, highly imitative poems through the austere, unromantic middle poems to the late poems where Yeats sees himself as the "last of the romantics". This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Unamuno's Theory of the Novel
by C.A. LonghurstMiguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain's greatest and most controversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, and later Rector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profile in his day, he wrote a large number of philosophical, political and philological essays, as well as poems, plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncratic novels, for which he coined the word nivola, that have attracted the greatest critical attention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become one of the most studied works of Spanish literature, such is the enduring fascination which it has provoked. In this study, C. A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to show that behind Unamuno's fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophical concept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom, identity, finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas on writing and reading and give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceiving fiction.
Unamuno's Theory of the Novel
by C.A. LonghurstMiguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain's greatest and most controversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, and later Rector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profile in his day, he wrote a large number of philosophical, political and philological essays, as well as poems, plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncratic novels, for which he coined the word nivola, that have attracted the greatest critical attention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become one of the most studied works of Spanish literature, such is the enduring fascination which it has provoked. In this study, C. A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to show that behind Unamuno's fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophical concept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom, identity, finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas on writing and reading and give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceiving fiction.
Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France
by Roger PearsonWhat is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next century French poetry enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and flowering, perhaps its greatest. But what of the poet's public influence? In 1881 the people of Paris processed for six hours past the home of Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 79th birthday, and in 1885 an estimated two million people witnessed his state funeral. But who or what were they acknowledging? Poetry or republicanism? Or perhaps their own power? For with each Revolution that passed—1789, 1830, 1848—French poets themselves felt increasingly marginalised. This study addresses the first part of this story and focuses on the role and function of the poet during the so-called Romantic Period. Beginning with an account of the literary climate in pre-revolutionary France it then maps the changes in that climate wrought by the events of the 1789 Revolution. It describes the new politico-literary agendas set by Chateaubriand and others on the monarchist Right, and by Staël and others on the liberal Left. Against this background it then analyses in detail the poetic output and public exploits of the three major French poets of the period: Lamartine, Hugo, and Vigny. The Romantic figure of the poet as prophet and magus is habitually dismissed as a cliché. But by focusing on the role of the poet as lawgiver this book reveals the rich and complex terms in which the public function of poetry was debated in post-revolutionary France - and how amidst the centenary celebrations of 1889, as Romanticism gave way to Symbolism, the poet as lawgiver continued to play a central part in that debate.
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
by Christopher HitchensA celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature. Instead, Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, and inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens. - Gore Vidal
Unaccustomed as I am...: The Wedding Speech Made Easy
by Michael ParkerAll wedding types will be catered for: big, small, religious, second marriage, atheist, straight, same-sex, church, field... All speakers will be addressed: bride, groom, father, mother, best woman and literally everyone in between... All eventualities will be planned for: mic failures, drunk guests, missing brides, smashed glasses, weeping FOBs, forgotten words... All of which will be delightfully and wittily illustrated, with a mix of little-known wedding facts and a whole host of inspirational (or not) quotations.
Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition)
by I. MackenzieThe author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.
Un-Mapping the Global South (Transdisciplinary Souths)
by Gero Bauer Nicole Hirschfelder Fernando ResendeThis book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.
Un-Mapping the Global South (Transdisciplinary Souths)
This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent exploration. It brings into conversation theories and interrogations of the "global south" with specific local studies, without presenting them as the romanticised "other" or as "non-western" narratives. As a bold initiation of future conversations on issues that both directly and indirectly affect ideas about the global south, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and global south studies.
The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics (Literatures of the Americas)
by Ellie D. Hernández Eliza Rodriguez Y GibsonExamining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
(Un)Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps: Representations of North American Indigeneity in Central Europe
by Sanja Runtić Jana Marešová Klára KolinskáThis book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture. Employing a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach and drawing on a range of media—from literature, comics, and film to photography, painting, and the performative arts—across different historical and cultural backgrounds, it aims to both contribute innovative scholarship on Indigenous studies in Europe and open a new avenue in the field by focusing on Central European settings that have received little or no critical attention to date. The book’s novelty also comes from its focus on the latest developments in the field, including the “Ravensburger/Winnetou controversy,” which swept across Europe in 2022, echoing the 2017 Canadian debate over Indigenous appropriation and free speech. It seeks to provide a sound reference and lay the groundwork for future scholarship by opening up a conversation on how Indigenous identities have been portrayed in Central European literature and media texts. To this end, it not only addresses generalized expectations about North American Indigenous people underlying (Central) European public discourse and imagination but also questions whether and to what extent some of the ingrained stereotypical views and practices, such as hobbyism, have been challenged in the face of Indigenous resurgence, rapidly changing media and information-sharing realities, and global cultural shifts. The closing interview with Métis playwright, actor, and director Bruce Sinclair underscores one of the book’s key goals—to spark an informed cross-cultural dialogue that will reveal the mechanisms of, as well as the contradictions and tensions inherent in, the politics of Indigenous representation in (Central) European cultural industries and encourage (Central) Europeans to confront their own cultural assumptions and attitudes.
Un Dimanche à la Maison class 1 - MIE
by Par Hanna Khodabocus"Un Dimanche à la Maison" présente une journée dans la vie de Kevin, un jeune garçon, et de sa famille lors d'un dimanche ordinaire. Le récit débute par les salutations matinales de Kevin à sa mère et sa famille avant de commencer sa journée. Il décrit sa routine quotidienne, partageant ses moments passés avec son frère, sa sœur, son père devant la télévision, et avec son grand-père dans le jardin. Pendant ce temps, sa grand-mère et sa mère se reposent sur la terrasse. Le livre souligne les activités familiales, les interactions et les responsabilités quotidiennes tout en mettant en avant les moments de détente et de partage. À la fin de cette journée, Kevin se prépare pour la rentrée scolaire du lendemain. Ce livre, conçu pour les jeunes lecteurs, offre un aperçu de la vie domestique typique d'une famille, encourageant les enfants à identifier et à comprendre les activités quotidiennes et les relations familiales.
Umweltkommunikation im Netzwerk: Perspektiven, Interessen und Strategien im Diskurs um das Wattenmeer (Organisationskommunikation)
by Lisa MarzahlLisa Marzahl widmet sich der Frage, wie Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft Umweltdiskurse beeinflussen, indem sie ihre Perspektiven, Interessen und Ziele miteinander ausspielen. In einer Fallstudie zum schleswig-holsteinischen Wattenmeer-Nationalpark zeichnet sie die Netzwerkarbeit und das Ausgleichen von Interessen zwischen Organisationen in diesem speziellen Umweltdiskurs nach und leitet daraus verschiedene Verhältnisse und Beziehungsarten sowie entscheidende Bausteine der Netzwerksteuerung ab, die für eine Zusammenarbeit von politischen Organisationen, Unternehmen sowie Umwelt- und Naturschutzverbänden im Umweltbereich entscheidend sind.
Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im interdisziplinären Zusammenspiel zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft: Jahrbuch des Instituts für moderne Fremdsprachen an der Naturwissenschaftlich-Technischen Universität Norwegens (NTNU) in Trondheim (ELECTRISCHER PROMETHEUS. Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im interdisziplinären Zusammenspiel zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft)
by Bernd NeumannIn diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen“ und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität gegründeten „Dritten Kultur“ als Zusammenschau von Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft. Dabei wird Kafka als ein Autor ernst genommen, dessen Nähe zu Autoren der Romantik (Kleist etwa als einer seiner „Blutsbrüder“) ihn dazu bestimmte, deren zentrales Interesse an der Elektrizität (in Form des Mesmerismus beispielsweise) zu teilen. Als eine Weiterführung hinein in die neueste Moderne gelangt Kafkas besondere Begegnung mit Einstein und dessen Relativitätstheorie zur Darstellung, deren Einwirkung insbesondere auf Kafkas Spätwerk dargelegt wird. Als moderne Spielform solch „electrisch“- transdisziplinär orientierten literarischen Schreibens wird diesen Ausführungen Botho Strauß` gegenwärtiges Novellenwerk zur Seite gestellt.
Umfragen als Anker?: Studien zur Wirkung rezipierter Umfrageergebnisse
by Steven SchuhMit Prognosen ist das so eine Sache. Als Doktorand gelangt man zu dieser Einsicht spätestens, wenn der erste anvisierte Abgabetermin für die selbstverständlich noch unvollendete Dissertation verstrichen ist und die eigentlich gut gemeinten Nachf- gen von Freunden und Bekannten diese Fehleinschätzung schmerzvoll spürbar machen. Erst viel später wagt man sich zu fragen, ob es vielleicht nur die letztlich allzu optimistische Prognose gewesen sein könnte, die den Glauben an einen erfo- reichen Abschluss lange Zeit getragen hat und ob es ohne sie vielleicht nie zu d- sem Vorwort gekommen wäre? Über die Fähigkeit von Prognosen, Ergebnisse in ihre Richtung zu beeinfl- sen, lässt sich jedenfalls trefflich spekulieren. Das vorliegende Werk zur Wirkung veröffentlichter Umfrageergebnisse kann dies nicht nur theoretisch dokumentieren, es lädt mit seinen empirischen Einsichten auch dazu ein. Zugleich macht diese Arbeit deutlich, dass wohl kein Politiker ausschließlich dank positiver Prognosen Wahlen gewinnen und keine Dissertation nur wegen ihnen Vollendung finden dü- te. Erfolg hat immer viele Väter. Deshalb möchte ich mich bei all den Menschen bedanken, ohne die es nicht möglich gewesen wäre, meine Dissertation im März 2008 dem Fachbereich 02 – Sozialwissenschaften, Medien und Sport der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz vorzulegen und meine Promotion abzuschließen. Mein erster Dank geht an Professor Dr. Christina Holtz-Bacha, die mich nach Abschluss meines Studiums ermuntert hat zu promovieren und mir jederzeit mit gutem Rat zur Seite stand. Bedanken möchte ich mich auch bei Professor Dr. Axel Mattenklott für sein Engagement als Zweitgutachter.
Umfrageforschung in der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Praxis: Eine Analyse zur Qualitätsprüfung demoskopischer Beweismittel in den Fällen irreführender Werbung (Sozialwissenschaft)
by Claudia GerstenmaierWerbung ist ein essentielles Mittel im Wettbewerb. Doch kann der Werbetreibende nach dem Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG) zur Unterlassung irreführender Angaben verpflichtet werden. Bei einem Rechtsstreit erlangen demoskopischer Gutachten über das Verständnis von Werbeaussagen prozessentscheidende Bedeutung. Dieses Buch stellt erstmals Prüfkriterien für die Beurteilung der Objektivität und Neutralität demoskopischer Gutachtens in der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Praxis auf.
Umberto Eco-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung
Umberto Eco war einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Der Name der Rose wurde er einem Weltpublikum bekannt, danach blieb er mit sechs weiteren Romanen sowie zahllosen Essays, Interviews und Zeitschriftenkolumnen präsent. Einen Namen gemacht hatte sich Eco jedoch bereits mit theoretischen Texten, u.a. seinem kontrovers diskutierten Offenen Kunstwerk sowie seinen Schriften zur Semiotik. Auch als Schriftsteller blieb Eco zeitlebens Literatur- und Kulturtheoretiker; bei kaum einem weiteren Autor des 20. Jahrhunderts ist das theoretische und literarische Schaffen ähnlich stark verknüpft. Das Umberto Eco-Handbuch bietet einen Wegweiser in alle Aspekte von Ecos vielfältigem Wirken. Dazu bietet es einerseits Übersichtskapitel zu allen theoretischen und literarischen Schriften Ecos, andererseits systematische Beiträge, die vielfältige Querbezüge aufzeigen, etwa zwischen Geschichte und Gegenwart, Semiotik und Kriminalroman, historischem Erzählen und Postmoderne.