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Unternehmerische Ernährungskommunikation und -verantwortung: Eine konstruktivistische Betrachtung im Kontext von Nachhaltigkeit
by Tina BartelmeßTina Bartelmeß untersucht Ernährungskommunikation von Unternehmen der Lebensmittelwirtschaft aus einer sozialkonstruktivistischen Perspektive. Anhand einer empirischen Studie zeigt sie neue Rollen und Funktionen der Ernährungskommunikation vor dem Hintergrund der Ziele einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung des Ernährungssystems auf. Dabei beleuchtet die Autorin insbesondere das Verhältnis zwischen unternehmerischer Verantwortungswahrnehmung und Kommunikation in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit. Sie untermauert die Notwendigkeit einer kommunikativen Wende in der Ernährungskommunikationsforschung.
Unternehmensreputation und Stakeholder-Loyalität (neue betriebswirtschaftliche forschung (nbf) #356)
by Sabrina HelmVor dem Hintergrund aktueller Ansätze der Reputationsforschung analysiert Sabrina Helm Entstehung, Veränderung und Auswirkungen des Rufes von Unternehmen. Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung stellt sie die Bedeutung des guten Rufes für einen zentralen Erfolgsindikator von Unternehmen heraus: die Loyalität von Kunden, Aktionären und Mitarbeitern.
Unternehmensnachfolge (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law #12)
by Karin E. M. Beck Christine Osterloh-KonradDas Buch gibt einen Überblick über aktuell zu berücksichtigende zivil- und steuerrechtliche Fragen bei der Unternehmensnachfolge sowie über mögliche Entwicklungslinien. Im Einzelnen werden das steuerliche „Schicksal" von Verlusten in der Unternehmensnachfolge, neue Herausforderungen für die Unternehmensbewertung im Rahmen der neuen Erbschaftsteuer, die Pflichtteilsproblematik bei der Unternehmensnachfolge, aber auch Fragen der grenzüberschreitenden Verschmelzung und Exit Taxes behandelt.
Unternehmenskultur und Unternehmensidentität: Wirklichkeit und Konstruktion (Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation #5)
by Nina JanichDie Autoren setzen sich aus sprach- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher, aus psychologischer und wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit den Begriffen Unternehmenskultur und Unternehmensidentität auseinander. Themen sind u.a.: Gestaltung und strategische Bedeutung von Unternehmenskultur; Widerspiegelung in der Unternehmenskommunikation; Zusammenhang von Unternehmensidentität und Werbung; interkulturelle Prozesse und Konflikte.
Unternehmenskultur als Erfolgsfaktor der Corporate Identity: Die Bedeutung der Unternehmenskultur für den ökonomischen Erfolg von Unternehmen
by Gregor SchönbornFür Unternehmen sind die Unternehmenskultur und die Identifikation ihrer Mitarbeiter von Bedeutung, weil deren Veränderung eine Wirkung auf die Corporate Identity und einen möglichen Einfluss auf die Leistungsbereitschaft der Mitarbeiter haben. Die Gestaltung der Corporate Identity gilt als subtiles Integrationserfordernis mit hohen Anforderungen. Sie gehört zu den erfolgskritischen Aufgaben des Kommunikations-Managements und stellt einen differenzierenden Wettbewerbsfaktor dar. Gregor Schönborn identifiziert Steuerungsfaktoren einer Unternehmenskultur auf Grundlage einer Stichprobe von 47 Unternehmen. Dabei analysiert er schrittweise einen hypothetischen Zusammenhang zwischen Unternehmenskultur und wirtschaftlichem Erfolg. An den Praxisthemen ‚Nachhaltigkeit’ und ‚Employer-Branding’ demonstriert Gregor Schönborn außerdem modellhaft, wie Unternehmenskultur als identitätsstiftendes Konstrukt zum Prozesserfolg im Change Management beitragen kann.
Unternehmenskritische Kampagnen: Politischer Protest im Zeichen digitaler Kommunikation (Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie)
by Sigrid Baringhorst Veronika Kneip Annegret März Johanna Niesyto"Gendreck weg", "Lidl ist nicht zu billigen", "Mit Tempo in die Armut": Politische Protestakteure appellieren in netzgestützten Kampagnen zunehmend an die Macht politisierter Konsumenten. Normverletzungen bekannter Markenfirmen werden skandalisiert und wirtschaftliches Handeln von Unternehmen wie Verbrauchern moralisch und politisch aufgeladen. Im netzbasierten unternehmenskritischen Protest zeigt sich eine Vielfalt innovativer, nicht institutionalisierter Formen politischer Partizipation, in denen die Grenzen zwischen öffentlicher und privater Sphäre ebenso verschwimmen wie zwischen kollektivem und individualisiertem Handeln. Neue Deutungsmuster einer wertorientierten 'Lifestyle-Politik' mit dem Einkaufswagen werden in aktuellen Formen netzvermittelter Mobilisierung und Vernetzung politischen Protests artikuliert. Der Band präsentiert eine umfassende Studie unternehmenskritischen Protests im deutschsprachigen Web und spürt dem Wandel von Protest in Online- und Offline-Räumen komplexer Kampagnenkommunikation nach: Inwiefern bietet das Internet neben politischen und ökonomischen Strukturen eine mediale Gelegenheitsstruktur für konsumeristische Protestpolitik, die auch über nationalstaatliche Grenzen hinausreicht?
Unternehmenskommunikation in Geschäftsbeziehungen: Business-to-Business-Kommunikation als Teil der funktionalen PR-Forschung (Organisationskommunikation)
by Helena StehleSowohl Forschung als auch Praxis zu Unternehmenskommunikation und Public Relations (PR) gehen auf Beziehungen zwischen Unternehmen bislang kaum ein, obwohl die Vernetzung in zahlreichen Märkten voranschreitet und Firmen vor neue Herausforderungen stellt. Die Unternehmenskommunikation kann dabei nicht nur Vertrieb und Marketing unterstützen, sondern – je nach Beziehungstyp und -situation – konstitutiven Charakter aufweisen, d. h. unmittelbar den Aufbau und Erhalt von Beziehungen berühren. Auf Basis der PR- und Interorganisationsforschung sowie strukturationstheoretischer Überlegungen erarbeitet Helena Stehle neue Konzepte für die Unternehmenskommunikation und PR. Das weit verbreitete Verständnis von Unternehmenskommunikation als Organisationsfunktion wird damit um eine Modellierung als Beziehungsfunktion ergänzt.
Unternehmensführung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Grundlegung einer Theorie der Unternehmenskommunikation und Public Relations (Organisationskommunikation)
by Ansgar ZerfaßMit der dritten Auflage dieser mehrfach ausgezeichneten Studie ist eines der zentralen Werke der deutschsprachigen PR-Forschung wieder verfügbar. Der Autor entwickelt eine Theorie der Integrierten Unternehmenskommunikation, die Erkenntnisse aus Kommunikationswissenschaft, Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Organisationstheorie und Öffentlichkeitssoziologie mit Hilfe eines einheitlichen, wissenschafts- und sozialtheoretisch stimmigen Fundaments zusammenführt.
Unternehmensführung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Grundlegung einer Theorie der Unternehmenskommunikation und Public Relations (Organisationskommunikation)
by Ansgar ZerfaßMit der zweiten Auflage dieser mehrfach ausgezeichneten Studie ist eines der zentralen Werke der deutschsprachigen PR-Forschung wieder verfügbar. Der Autor entwickelt eine Theorie der Integrierten Unternehmenskommunikation, die Erkenntnisse aus Kommunikationswissenschaft, Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Organisationstheorie und Öffentlichkeitssoziologie mit Hilfe eines einheitlichen, wissenschafts- und sozialtheoretisch stimmigen Fundaments zusammenführt.
Unter Narren: Eine Untersuchung ‘satirewürdiger Zustände’ vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert
by Karima LaniusDie Studie analysiert ausgewählte deutschsprachige Satiren, die Figuren des Narren enthalten und den Zeitraum vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert widerspiegeln. Dadurch sollen der Forschung neue Vorschläge gemacht werden, wie die Satire erfasst werden kann. Die Untersuchung orientiert sich an den Satiretheorien von Ulrich Gaier und Jörg Schönert sowie an der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns. Im Zentrum stehen folgende Satiren: Helmbrecht (um 1250–1280), Des Teufels Netz (um 1414–1420), Das Narrenschiff (1494), Der Abentheuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668/9), Geheime Nachricht von D. Jonathan Swifts letztem Willen (1751–1755) und Das Leben Junker Hansens, eines Landelmanns (1760). Auf der Basis der vergleichenden Analyse dieser Satiren werden folgende Konstanten für das Satireverständnis gewonnen: 1. Zweckgerichtetheit und Moral, 2. bildungsbedürftiger Mensch und gesellschaftliche Ordnung, 3. Aggression/Negativierung bzw. Missachtung/Verachtung und 4. satirische Markierung.
Unter Mediatisierungsdruck: Änderungen und Neuerungen in heterogenen Handlungsfeldern (Medien • Kultur • Kommunikation)
by Tilo Grenz Gerd MöllUnter dem Stichwort Mediatisierung wird in der aktuellen Forschung die Frage behandelt, wie sich im Zuge des Eindringens einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher (digitaler) Medien in den Alltag Aktivitäten, Interaktivitäten, Rituale, Normalitäten und Konventionen verändern. Die Besonderheit dieses Bandes für Fragen der Mediatisierung besteht in der ausdrücklichen Nähe zur Empirie, da jeder Beitrag diesen medieninduzierten Wandel kultureller Aktivitäten an einem jeweils konkreten Gegenstand nachzeichnet. Gleichwohl ist diese breite Palette von untersuchten mediatisierten Welten nicht nur als Ausdruck kontextspezifischer, sondern auch – und vor allem – als Ausdruck feldübergreifender Mediatisierungsphänomene zu verstehen.
Unter Druck: Die journalistische Textwerkstatt; Erfahrungen, Analysen, Übungen
by Friederike HerrmannAuch erfahrene und erfolgreiche Journalisten quälen sich mit ihren Texten. Sie flüchten zum Blumen gießen, brüten endlos über Formulierungen, schreiben zum fünften Mal den gleichen Satz. Stilratgeber helfen da nicht weiter: Sie sagen zwar, wie gute journalistische Texte aussehen sollen - aber nicht, wie man sie schreibt. Dieses Buch schließt eine Lücke: Journalistinnen und Journalisten verschiedener Medien reflektieren ihre Schreiberfahrungen; sie erzählen von den Schwierigkeiten und dem gelegentlichen Glück des Textens. Sie folgen dem Prinzip, dass der Austausch von Erfahrungen mehr helfen kann als kluge Ratschläge. Analysen zum Schreibprozess und Übungen des Creative Writing runden den Band ab. Mit Beiträgen von Marie-Luise Scherer, Angelika Overath, Udo Zindel und vielen anderen.
Untamable Texts: Literary Studies and Narrative Theory in the Books of Samuel (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by Greger AnderssonThe prime and "unique" contribution of this study is the meta-theoretical approach according to which a popular method of analysis and interpretation regarding the books of Samuel is discussed an evaluated critically. This is an important and necessary discussion, because interdisciplinary studies must not be reduced to a mere application of individual theoreticians or theoretical concepts on new objects, which are assessed only by their ability to produce "new" interpretations or solve problems (as those observed by the historical-critical approach). It is also essential for an academic study to discuss the validity of a certain theory or method. Furthermore, it is also important that the theory is discussed and tested in relation to narrative texts. Questions considered include "Do the texts of the Bible have forms that do not comply with the frames interpreters assume? What aims and agendas do literary or narrative methods serve in the hands of biblical interpreters? The main goal of this study is to attempt a better understanding of the biblical texts and their influence and meaning.
The Unswept Room (Cape Poetry Ser.)
by Sharon OldsThe Unswept Room is a dazzling collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and rhythm, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humour. From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the transformative power of marital love, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical and emotional sensations seldom confronted in poetry. These are poems that strike for the heart, as Sharon Olds captures our imaginations with unexpected word play, sprung rhythms and the disquieting revelations of ordinary life. Writing at the peak of her powers, this greatly admired poet gives us her finest collection.
Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen (Non-ser.)
by Lynnette PorterMost criticism of The Lord of the Rings trilogy emphasizes the most likely heroes in the tales: Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf, and even Sam. From popular to scholarly literature, the women and smaller characters often go overlooked. But our notions of what makes a hero have altered since September 11, and sometimes the most unlikely people can come to embody all that we look up to and admire in a person. Here, Lynnette Porter examines what we mean when we talk about heroes, and for the first time illustrates the heroic qualities that can be found in the women and other beloved, though less-celebrated, characters in the The Lord of the Rings books and movies. She takes a critical look at the importance of literary and cinematic heroes in general, emphasizing the roles of Merry, Pippin, Galadriel, Eowyn, Arwen, Legolas, and Gimli, who can all be considered heroes despite their relatively smaller roles. She shows, ultimately, that our attraction to and celebration of heroes does not have to be limited to the leading man, but rather that women and youth often display essential characteristics of true heroes.Bringing together a discussion of both the books and the movies, Porter reveals for readers the heroic nature of several characters in The Lord of the Rings who have been ignored in terms of their status as heroes. Nevertheless, these female and youthful characters have received incredible popular acclaim and illustrate the shift in the way the Western movie-going public identifies and glorifies heroes. While other stars may have outshone the likes of Merry and Pippin, Arwen and Galadriel, Porter redirects the spotlight on these favorites of the books and movies to show us how the roles they play, the actions they take, and the behaviors they display are worthy of our praise and admiration. This unique and refreshing perspective adds dimension to our understanding of The Lord of the Rings phenomenon.
The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell: The Novels from Burmese Days to Nineteen Eighty-Four
by Loraine SaundersIn a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that Orwell's novels have been undervalued as works of art, she offers extensive textual analysis to reveal an author who is in far more control of his prose than has been appreciated. Persuasively demonstrating that Orwell's novels of the 1930s such as A Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying are no less important as literature than Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Saunders argues they have been victims of a critical tradition whose practitioners have misunderstood Orwell's narrative style, failed to appreciate Orwell's political stance, and were predisposed to find little merit in Orwell's novels. Saunders devotes significant attention to George Gissing's influence on Orwell, particularly with regard to his representations of women. She also examines Orwell's socialism in the context of the political climate of the 1930s, finding that Orwell, in his successful negotiation of the fine balance between art and propaganda, had much more in common with Charlie Chaplin than with writers like Stephen Spender or W. H. Auden. As a result of Saunders's detailed and accessible analysis, which illuminates how Orwell harmonized allegory with documentary, polyphonic voice with monophonic, and elegy with comedy, Orwell's contributions to the genre of political fiction are finally recognized.
The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell: The Novels from Burmese Days to Nineteen Eighty-Four
by Loraine SaundersIn a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that Orwell's novels have been undervalued as works of art, she offers extensive textual analysis to reveal an author who is in far more control of his prose than has been appreciated. Persuasively demonstrating that Orwell's novels of the 1930s such as A Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying are no less important as literature than Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Saunders argues they have been victims of a critical tradition whose practitioners have misunderstood Orwell's narrative style, failed to appreciate Orwell's political stance, and were predisposed to find little merit in Orwell's novels. Saunders devotes significant attention to George Gissing's influence on Orwell, particularly with regard to his representations of women. She also examines Orwell's socialism in the context of the political climate of the 1930s, finding that Orwell, in his successful negotiation of the fine balance between art and propaganda, had much more in common with Charlie Chaplin than with writers like Stephen Spender or W. H. Auden. As a result of Saunders's detailed and accessible analysis, which illuminates how Orwell harmonized allegory with documentary, polyphonic voice with monophonic, and elegy with comedy, Orwell's contributions to the genre of political fiction are finally recognized.
Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares, Revised Edition: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture
by NA NAUnspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, films such as In and Out and My Own Private Idaho, and hardcore porn adaptations of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet? Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare.
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-BradyThis book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America. She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism. Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-BradyThis book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America. She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism. Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.
Unspeakable: The Autobiography
by John BercowUnspeakable is John Bercow's characteristically forthright and incisive account of his unique vantagepoint into British politics. Containing verdicts on many of the leading figures of this era, from Tony Blair to David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, Bercow explores and explains the ways in which he has sought to democratise the business of Parliament, using the Speakership to champion the rights of backbench MPs and hold the government to account.In his own words, "I made friends and enemies alike, but from start to finish I sought to do the right, rather than the convenient, thing and to be a decent public servant." From the start, Bercow tackles head-on his regretted fascination with definably right-wing attitudes and describes his inexorable march to more progressive thinking since his election as Member of Parliament for Buckingham in 1997. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the business of politics and how our democracy is - or should be - run, with fascinating insights into Bercow's family background and early interest in politics.When Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31st October, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, and had created a vacancy of huge importance. As Speaker since 2009 he had a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British history, presiding over the Commons while it had to contend with key issues such as austerity in the light of the financial crisis; the coalition government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats; and of course the most intractable problem of all - how to deliver on the 2016 referendum decision that Britain should leave the EU.
Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality
by Rachel Hope ClevesThe sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood intergenerational sex can be seen with startling clarity in the life of British writer Norman Douglas (1868–1952), who was a beloved and popular author, a friend of luminaries like Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence, and an unrepentant and uncloseted pederast. Rachel Hope Cleves’s careful study opens a window onto the social history of intergenerational sex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing how charisma, celebrity, and contemporary standards protected Douglas from punishment—until they didn’t. Unspeakable approaches Douglas as neither monster nor literary hero, but as a man who participated in an exploitative sexual subculture that was tolerated in ways we may find hard to understand. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, police records, novels, and photographs—including sources by the children Douglas encountered—Cleves identifies the cultural practices that structured pedophilic behaviors in England, Italy, and other places Douglas favored. Her book delineates how approaches to adult-child sex have changed over time and offers insight into how society can confront similar scandals today, celebrity and otherwise.
Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality
by Rachel Hope ClevesThe sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood intergenerational sex can be seen with startling clarity in the life of British writer Norman Douglas (1868–1952), who was a beloved and popular author, a friend of luminaries like Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence, and an unrepentant and uncloseted pederast. Rachel Hope Cleves’s careful study opens a window onto the social history of intergenerational sex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing how charisma, celebrity, and contemporary standards protected Douglas from punishment—until they didn’t. Unspeakable approaches Douglas as neither monster nor literary hero, but as a man who participated in an exploitative sexual subculture that was tolerated in ways we may find hard to understand. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, police records, novels, and photographs—including sources by the children Douglas encountered—Cleves identifies the cultural practices that structured pedophilic behaviors in England, Italy, and other places Douglas favored. Her book delineates how approaches to adult-child sex have changed over time and offers insight into how society can confront similar scandals today, celebrity and otherwise.
Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11
by Peter C. HermanUnspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Steven Spielberg refer to terrorist acts as beyond comprehension, “a deed without a name,” but they do not stop there. Instead of creating works that respond to terrorism by providing comforting narratives reassuring audiences and readers of their moral superiority and the perfidy of the terrorists, these writers and filmmakers confront the unspeakable by attempting to see the world from the terrorist’s perspective and by examining the roots of terrorist violence.
Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11
by Peter C. HermanUnspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Steven Spielberg refer to terrorist acts as beyond comprehension, “a deed without a name,” but they do not stop there. Instead of creating works that respond to terrorism by providing comforting narratives reassuring audiences and readers of their moral superiority and the perfidy of the terrorists, these writers and filmmakers confront the unspeakable by attempting to see the world from the terrorist’s perspective and by examining the roots of terrorist violence.