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International Journalism
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 44.00A concise, engaging analysis of international journalism and foreign correspondence, from the acclaimed author of the bestselling Get Me A Murder A Day! (2009, 2nd Edition). A cutting edge book from a star author in journalism. more...
WissensWelten
Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2010; US$ 42.04Hauptbeschreibung Welche gesellschaftlichen Funktionen werden dem Wissenschaftsjournalismus zugeschrieben? In welches Interessengeflecht ist er eingebettet, welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus für den Qualitätsbegriff? Was lässt sich aus den medialen Karrieren bestimmter Themen lernen, was wissen Journalisten über ihr Publikum, welche Rolle spielen... more...
Le sublime du quotidien
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988; US$ 128.00Une phénoménologie de la quotidienneté révèle des moments de fracture esthétique. L'interruption du sublime engendre des instants d'allégresse et de bonheur, et confirme notre sentiment d'existence. L'aisthèsis quotidienne transcende de loin l'eidétique du regard et de la lumière; elle n'est comblée... more...
Literary Modernism and Beyond
LSU Press 2009; US$ 18.95In Literary Modernism and Beyond, Richard Lehan tracks the evolution of modernism from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its recent incarnations. In this wide-ranging study, Lehan demonstrates how and why the ?originary vision? of modernism changed radically after it gained prominence. With critical discussions on a wide variety of major... more...
Weltliteratur
J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2011; US$ 53.86Hauptbeschreibung Vielfältige Konzepte der Weltliteratur. Im Kontext der Globalisierung ist 'Weltliteratur' ein zentraler Terminus. Die Geschichte des Begriffs geht jedoch viel weiter zurück: Von Goethe als Gegenmodell zum wachsenden Nationalismus seiner Zeit entworfen, entstanden in der Folge eine Fülle von heterogenen Literaturkonzepten, die ein... more...
Auctor Ludens
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 113.00This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy. The absence... more...
Fictional Realities
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 180.00This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and unreality. The first two chapters survey the thinking... more...
Polymorphous Domesticities
University of California Press 2012; US$ 39.95Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers?Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J. R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in their lives as well as in their works. Not only... more...
Thinking on Thresholds
Anthem Press 2011; US$ 99.00Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art. more...









