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Pararealities: The Nature of Our Fictions and How We Know Them
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 158.00The World News Prism
Wiley 2011; US$ 41.95Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events. Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle East Expands the discussion of news systems... more...
Uses of Literature
Wiley 2011; US$ 35.95Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary... more...
Dwars
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00Max du Preez het ?n helse storie om te vertel. Tydens sy loopbaan as ?n hardegat-joernalis is hy drie keer afgedank; sewe keer weens laster gedagvaar; dertien keer krimineel aangekla en het hy drie vliegtuigongelukke, twee sluipmoordpogings en ?n bomaanval oorleef. Hy was in Soweto op 16 Junie 1976, hy was ooggetuie van die losbandige partytjies van... more...
Cyberfactories
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two accelerating phenomena: cybernization (machines play a more and more central... more...
Brief Encounters
The Voices of North Carolina 2011; US$ 4.99A fascinating, informative and sometimes hilarious anthology of the lifes work of Ed Silverman, a man who starred in the first tier of broadcast journalism for over half of the 20th Century. While the majority of Ed's reminiscences deal with people like Elvis Presley, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Grace Kelly, Howard Cosell, Mohammad Ali, Rocky Marciano,... more...
Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984; US$ 158.00After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or ?imitation? regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher?s translation of and introduction to Aristotle?s Poetics , and , in the thirties, through... more...
Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 113.00The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of power in the use of verbal and visual signs. Topics discussed include mimesis and power in Plato's Ion, rhetoric and erotics in Petrarch's thought; the... more...
Network Journalism
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Drawing on current theoretical debates in journalism studies, and grounded in empirical research, Heinrich here analyzes the interplay between journalistic practice and processes of globalization and digitalization. She argues that a new kind of journalism is emerging, characterized by an increasingly global flow of news as well as a growing number... more...
Der Ursprung des Konzepts um 1800
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 168.00Kunstreligion [art religion] has been an established term since Schleiermacher's Speeches on Religion (1799). However, the origin of the concept is not to be found in the theology of Schleiermacher but rather in its cultural-philosophical sources, i.e. in the derationalization of "Kunst" [art] in the context of autonomy-aesthetics, which likens aesthetic... more...









