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What Newspapers, Films, and Television Do Africans Living in Britain See and Read?
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95Sociologists can learn a lot from studying a groups media consumption patterns. In this study, Ogunyemi researches what stories are most resonant with Black Africans living in England. The book tries to discover whether or not this minority group adopts normative approaches to media coverage, by not only consuming but participating in media.... more...
The Singer on the Shore
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2006; US$ 29.95Two central themes run through this new collection of authoritative and undogmatic essays: the Jewish experience and that of the work of art as a toy to be used for dreaming and playing rather than as a window to the world. The collection includes three essays on the Bible, as well as pieces devoted to Twelfth Night , Rembrandt's self-portraits,... more...
Race, Racism and Sports Journalism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Beginning with a theoretical discussion of race, sport and media, this book critically examines issues of race, racism and sports journalism and offers practical advice on sports reporting, including a discussion of guidelines for ethical journalism. In a series of case studies, representations of race will be explored through historical and contemporary... more...
Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00The literary magazine The New Age broughttogether a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the FirstWorld War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. Byclosely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's studyengages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists... more...
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht
Felix Meiner Verlag 2003; US$ 18.62Hauptbeschreibung Kants Anthropologie (1798) galt lange als eine bloß popularphilosophische Schrift von allenfalls propädeutischem Wert. Dabei erfüllt sich die Leistung der Anthropologie keineswegs nur in einer vorphilosophischen Verständigung über das theoretische und praktische Vermögen des Menschen. Nur die anthropologische Reflexion verleiht... more...
Cultures of Environmental Communication
Springer 2012; US$ 54.99Sara Nofri combines several research methods (multilingual bibliographic research, quantitative content analysis, semiotic text analysis, interviews to journalists) and a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspective for investigating environmental communication in the daily quality press of Germany, Italy, Sweden and UK. She provides an in-depth portrait... more...
Style in Theory
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 19.99What, in theory, is style? How has style been rethought in literary theory?' Drawing together leading academics working within and across the disciplines of English, philosophy, literary theory, and comparative literature, Style in Theory: Between Philosophy and Literature sets out to rethink the important but all-too-often-overlooked issue of... more...
Gelesene Wirklichkeit
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 16.52Hauptbeschreibung Steht es dem Schriftsteller frei, einen historischen Stoff in einem literarischen Text nach eigenen Maßgaben zu verändern? Von Platon bis Philip Roth reicht das Spektrum der Texte, anhand derer Ruth Klüger dieser Fragestellung nachgeht. Was ist wahr? - Wie steht es um das Verhältnis des geschichtlichen Faktums zum Erzählen davon?... more...
Life Writing and Political Memoir - Lebenszeugnisse und Politische Memoiren
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 38.47Hauptbeschreibung Dieser Band fasst internationale interdisziplinäre Forschungsbeiträge zu »Memory Studies« zusammen und enthält aktuelle Ergebnisse zur Diskussion über Memorien, Autobiographien, politische Erinnerungen und »Life Writing«. Der Band liefert eine Fülle neuer Erkenntnisse wie Erinnungen gesellschaftliche Diskussionen prägen und unser... more...
The Things I've Seen
Liberties Press 2013; US$ 11.65Lara Marlowe, the Washington correspondent of The Irish Times, has witnessed more than her share of history in three decades as a foreign correspondent. She has reported with clarity and fearlessness on the main conflicts of our era, from the civil war in Lebanon to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the ongoing... more...









