Peter lang peter lang jan 2004 (116 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of «Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen».In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of «Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen». In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice is a dynamic interpretation of transformational learning in education and therapy that brings together writers from various disciplines to recount their common experiences of being changed by those whom they mentor and guide. This book demonstrates that the reward for revealing vulnerabilities is a truly human connection that expands the roles of teacher and student, as well as therapist and client. By exploring contemporary concepts in reciprocal learning, the authors challenge and inspire their readers to examine their own engagement in the process of lifelong transformative learning. 214 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Word problems, or story problems, have been a part of mathematical education for the past 4,000 years. This book considers mathematical word problems as a genre, drawing on analytic theory from linguistics, literary criticism, and mathematics education. Raising the question, «what are word problems », this book addresses it by «taking a walk» around the genre to see it from many points of view, including the linguistic, the historical, and the pedagogical. A Man Left Albuquerque Heading East sheds light on the nature of genre in education and inspires teachers to use word problems in new ways, with different intentions. 172 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of «Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen». In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation. 148 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of «Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen». In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation. 148 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Twenty-first century engineering education must meet radically revised national accreditation standards, known colloquially as EC2000. This book shows paths forward for all faculty involved in the 'liberal education' of engineering undergraduates. Beginning with an exhortation for liberal education, it includes the EC2000 criteria and its historical origin, as well as example institutional and individual responses to these criteria - which include topics in communication, ethics and professional responsibility, contemporary issues, art and aesthetics, and the integration of engineering and the humanities. The variety of curricular responses presented indicate that this is a formative - perhaps even revolutionary - period in engineering education. 351 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The politically conservative educators of World War II dramatically and rapidly altered policies, programs, schedules, learning materials, classroom activities, and the content of academic courses. They motivated students to salvage materials, sell war stamps, grow crops, learn about wartime issues, and take pride in patriotism. They prepared millions of people for the armed services and the defense industries. These accomplishments were possible because the educators were supported by an unprecedented alliance that included teachers, school administrators, industrialists, military personnel, government leaders, and the President himself. After the war, conservative educators continued to portray themselves as home-front warriors waging a life-threatening battle against enduring global dangers. A terrified public accepted this depiction and continued to back them for decades. 316 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination Since 1500' in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole of the modern period.This volume highlights the ways in which cultural memory and historical consciousness have been shaped by experiences of discontinuity, focusing particularly on the reception of the Reformation, the literary and ideological heritage of the Enlightenment, and the representation of war, the Holocaust, and the reunification of Germany in contemporary literature and museum culture. 320 pp. Deutsch, Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Developing Countries Prize of the University of Gießen provokes academic contributions to the improvement of the living conditions in developing countries. This book is written to document the results of the interdisciplinary symposium The Role of Minorities in the Development Process which was held from October 28 to 30, 2002. Under which conditions are social groups regarded as minorities Do minorities always cause politically relevant problems or do they also have a positive effect on the economic and social development of a country What can politicians contribute to solutions aimed at preventing the exclusion of minorities in economic, religious or cultural respects or at least aimed at a lessening of said exclusions 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice is a dynamic interpretation of transformational learning in education and therapy that brings together writers from various disciplines to recount their common experiences of being changed by those whom they mentor and guide. This book demonstrates that the reward for revealing vulnerabilities is a truly human connection that expands the roles of teacher and student, as well as therapist and client. By exploring contemporary concepts in reciprocal learning, the authors challenge and inspire their readers to examine their own engagement in the process of lifelong transformative learning.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Word problems, or story problems, have been a part of mathematical education for the past 4,000 years. This book considers mathematical word problems as a genre, drawing on analytic theory from linguistics, literary criticism, and mathematics education. Raising the question, «what are word problems », this book addresses it by «taking a walk» around the genre to see it from many points of view, including the linguistic, the historical, and the pedagogical. A Man Left Albuquerque Heading East sheds light on the nature of genre in education and inspires teachers to use word problems in new ways, with different intentions.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 186 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume assembles the select proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in March 2002. The conference took its cue from the 'performative turn', which has put issues of performance and performativity at the centre of current academic debate in the humanities. The volume aims to show the ways in which German Studies have been turning towards questions of the performative in recent years. On the one hand, this involves an increased interest in the performing arts in the scholarship and teaching of German Studies and a growing understanding of the literary text too, as a performed process as much as a finished object, on the other, an incorporation of theories of performativity, not least in the area of gender and sexuality. The essays cover a range of performance media (theatre, film, performance art, photography) as well as the representation of turns or acts of performance in literary texts from Goethe to key contemporary writers. Together, they indicate exciting new ways forward for German Cultural Studies. 262 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The politically conservative educators of World War II dramatically and rapidly altered policies, programs, schedules, learning materials, classroom activities, and the content of academic courses. They motivated students to salvage materials, sell war stamps, grow crops, learn about wartime issues, and take pride in patriotism. They prepared millions of people for the armed services and the defense industries. These accomplishments were possible because the educators were supported by an unprecedented alliance that included teachers, school administrators, industrialists, military personnel, government leaders, and the President himself. After the war, conservative educators continued to portray themselves as home-front warriors waging a life-threatening battle against enduring global dangers. A terrified public accepted this depiction and continued to back them for decades.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 340 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Twenty-first century engineering education must meet radically revised national accreditation standards, known colloquially as EC2000. This book shows paths forward for all faculty involved in the «liberal education» of engineering undergraduates. Beginning with an exhortation for liberal education, it includes the EC2000 criteria and its historical origin, as well as example institutional and individual responses to these criteria - which include topics in communication, ethics and professional responsibility, contemporary issues, art and aesthetics, and the integration of engineering and the humanities. The variety of curricular responses presented indicate that this is a formative - perhaps even revolutionary - period in engineering education.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 386 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of «Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen».In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 148 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cet ouvrage constitue une nouvelle étape d'approfondissement dans l'étude des symboles initiatiques chez les As'ohendo du Congo-Kinshasa. Les auteurs, qui mènent depuis plusieurs années une recherche sur les symboles chez ce peuple, partent de 'la théorie des quatre critères', élaborée par C. Faïk-Nzuji, et l'appliquent au cas de l'expérience initiatique de Ngonga-ke-Mbembe, qui les a récoltés. Cette méthode repose sur la double articulation du signe - syntagmatique et paradigmatique - et tient compte des différents niveaux où se situe le symbolisme selon la conception des As'ohendo. La démarche des auteurs est initiatique, s'appuyant sur des exemples concrets saisis dans leur contexte réel. Les significations symboliques qu'ils fournissent relèvent davantage de la restitution exacte des explications reçues des initiés eux-mêmes que de l'interprétation générale.Cependant, la démarche proposée par la théorie des quatre critères garantit le recul nécessaire à tout chercheur pour comprendre et faire comprendre une attitude religieuse. Les interférences sémantiques y sont riches d'éclairages réciproques, et tirent profit de l'homogénéité culturelle due au champ limité de l'investigation. Le thème central, l'initiation, ramène ainsi, dans le détail du terrain et à travers les aspirations fondamentales de notre condition d'humains, aux grands archétypes de la mort feinte et de l'anticipation de l'au-delà, par la double épreuve du mutisme et de la cécité temporaires.Une fois de plus, ce modeste exercice a confirmé le fait que les symboles africains ont leur langage et leur mode de vie propre qui, d'eux-mêmes, offrent des méthodes appropriées pour leur décryptage, leur interprétation et leur compréhension. Enfin, on constate que l'aventure symbolique n'est rien d'autre que l'aventure humaine. 156 pp. Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The theory of comparative federalism asserts that federations require a second chamber for the representation of regional interests in central law-making. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the contribution of second chambers in parliamentary federations to this task. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate to what extent the two strongest parliamentary second chambers, the Australian Senate and the German Bundesrat are linked to the federal structures in which they are embedded. The study analyzes the contribution of the members of these second chambers in advancing interests that are linked to the regional constituents whom they represent or to the collective fiscal or administrative interests of a regional government with whom they are associated. The analysis underscores the largely 'executive' character of intergovernmental relations in parliamentary federations, a feature that corresponds with the composition of the German Bundesrat, but not of the Australian Senate. In the concluding chapter some preliminary observations are made as to whether our findings also generate interesting insights for the larger group of parliamentary second chambers in federal or quasi-federal states, such as the Belgian, Spanish and Canadian Senates, the UK House of Lords and the Indian Raiya Sabha. 428 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Purpose of this study is to establish whether or not it is necessary to exempt liner conferences from the regular mechanisms of European competition law by means of a group exemption. The main proposition of the author is that there is no need to allow liner conferences to engage in joint price fixing activities, with the consequence, that the corresponding exemption should be terminated. A first argument to that effect is that liner conferences constitute oligopolies and are harmful from an economic point of view. Secondly, the author concludes from an interpretation of the requirements laid down in Art. 81 III EC that the block exemption for liner conferences embodied in Art. 3 Regulation 4056/86 cannot be reconciled with the EC Treaty. Finally, the author looks at recent changes in U.S. antitrust policy on the issue of price fixing in the liner shipping industry as an aid to develop a future strategy for the European legislator on the issue of liner conferences.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 208 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains the keynote papers delivered at the First World Environmental Education Congress (FWEEC) held in Espinho, Portugal in May, 2003. The FWEEC gathered participants from 38 countries, offering an international platform for educators, scientists, researchers, scholars, politicians, technicians, activists, media and teachers to present and debate world wide issues in environmental education. The themes it deals with include environmental policies and education, media and communication, environmental activism and citizenship, local activities, sustainable agriculture and tourism, economics and sustainability, communication, evaluation techniques, teacher training and general aspects of research. The papers offer an up-dated overview of various trends related to international environmental education, including aspects of research, teaching and project based work. Due to its nature and international scope, this publication is of special interest to educators, scientists, researchers, politicians, technicians, environment activists, teachers and others, interested in the ways environmental education is seen and practiced all over the world. 272 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cet ouvrage collectif, qui rassemble les travaux d'un colloque tenu à la Maison Française d'Oxford en 2002 sous le titre 'Henri Petit et son cercle', a deux buts: mieux comprendre la contribution apportée par Daniel Halévy et sa collection Les Cahiers verts à la vie littéraire des années 20 et étudier les débuts littéraires d'Henri Petit et de son cercle en rapport avec le volume collectif Écrits (Grasset, Les Cahiers verts, 1927), à l'occasion des soixante-quinze ans de celui-ci. L'année 1927 est une année charnière. C'est celle du centenaire de la publication de la Préface de Cromwell, et le Romantisme est de nouveau à la mode. Le dernier numéro des Cahiers verts avant Écrits est consacré à Anna de Noailles, peut-être la dernière des Romantiques. Mais en même temps un renouveau du classicisme semble se dessiner. Quelle est la place de cette collection dans l'histoire de l'édition et de la littérature Et non seulement des Cahiers verts , mais de Daniel Halévy lui-même, dont le salon accueillait tant de personnalités de l'époque De quel bord les jeunes écrivains d' Écrits pencheront-ils Ils sont pratiquement inconnus à l'époque: Chamson, Malraux, Grenier, Petit. Parmi eux, ce dernier passe pour être le plus doué. Comment le situer par rapport à ses contemporains Une équipe franco-britannique des meilleurs spécialistes répond à ces questions. 194 pp. Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -To Be And Not to Be is a study of the interrelated concepts interpretation, iconicity and fiction as applied to works of art in general and literary narratives in particular. Two perspectives run through the book: a semiotic one, focusing on the work of art and what it stands for - represents, expresses, alludes to, etc. - and a psychological one, focusing on the audience's interpretation of the work.The book establishes an ongoing dialogue with recent research within analytic aesthetics, narratology and other relevant fields. In particular, the philosopher Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols has proved to be fruitful in the development of new and original concept formations with respect to interpretation, iconicity and fictionality.In the first part some fundamental questions of literary theory are focused on, foremost what is meant by 'intentional interpretation', the relation between literary interpretation and understanding of everyday spontaneous discourse as analyzed by Paul Grice, and how to locate aesthetic interpretation within the wider scope of interpretive practices. These discussions yield some conceptual tools deployed in the two following parts of the book. The second part opens with a suggestion on the concept of pictorial representation. This is generalized to apply to verbal and literary phenomena such as temporal matching, quotation, and uses of point of view in narratives. In the final part recent philosophical accounts of fictionality are discussed. 386 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume assembles the select proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in March 2002. The conference took its cue from the 'performative turn', which has put issues of performance and performativity at the centre of current academic debate in the humanities. The volume aims to show the ways in which German Studies have been turning towards questions of the performative in recent years. On the one hand, this involves an increased interest in the performing arts in the scholarship and teaching of German Studies and a growing understanding of the literary text too, as a performed process as much as a finished object, on the other, an incorporation of theories of performativity, not least in the area of gender and sexuality. The essays cover a range of performance media (theatre, film, performance art, photography) as well as the representation of turns or acts of performance in literary texts from Goethe to key contemporary writers. Together, they indicate exciting new ways forward for German Cultural Studies.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 262 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The theory of comparative federalism asserts that federations require a second chamber for the representation of regional interests in central law-making. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the contribution of second chambers in parliamentary federations to this task. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate to what extent the two strongest parliamentary second chambers, the Australian Senate and the German Bundesrat are linked to the federal structures in which they are embedded. The study analyzes the contribution of the members of these second chambers in advancing interests that are linked to the regional constituents whom they represent or to the collective fiscal or administrative interests of a regional government with whom they are associated. The analysis underscores the largely ¿executive¿ character of intergovernmental relations in parliamentary federations, a feature that corresponds with the composition of the German Bundesrat, but not of the Australian Senate. In the concluding chapter some preliminary observations are made as to whether our findings also generate interesting insights for the larger group of parliamentary second chambers in federal or quasi-federal states, such as the Belgian, Spanish and Canadian Senates, the UK House of Lords and the Indian Raiya Sabha.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 428 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book contains the keynote papers delivered at the First World Environmental Education Congress (FWEEC) held in Espinho, Portugal in May, 2003. The FWEEC gathered participants from 38 countries, offering an international platform for educators, scientists, researchers, scholars, politicians, technicians, activists, media and teachers to present and debate world wide issues in environmental education. The themes it deals with include environmental policies and education, media and communication, environmental activism and citizenship, local activities, sustainable agriculture and tourism, economics and sustainability, communication, evaluation techniques, teacher training and general aspects of research. The papers offer an up-dated overview of various trends related to international environmental education, including aspects of research, teaching and project based work. Due to its nature and international scope, this publication is of special interest to educators, scientists, researchers, politicians, technicians, environment activists, teachers and others, interested in the ways environmental education is seen and practiced all over the world.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Comment une poésie composée à partir d'un fonds de clichés a-t-elle pu envoûter des générations de lecteurs La magie de la métrique de Villon reste un domaine inexploré, faute d'une théorie cohérente du rôle de l'accent dans le Moyen Français. Puisque le contenu esthétique et philosophique du texte poétique dépend de ce niveau du texte où les éléments linguistiques (phonologiques, morphologiques, lexicaux) sont ordonnés par rapport aux catégories formelles (métrique, rime, répétition), il s'ensuit que la validité d'une lecture donnée dépend entièrement de la validité de sa prise analytique sur ce niveau-là du texte. Prenant appui sur la théorie qu'il a présentée dans Accent and Metre in French (Peter Lang, 1998, 2000) l'auteur pose les bases d'une lecture du Testament qui fait pleinement valoir les rapports des paliers formel et sémantique du texte. Toute lecture d'un texte en vers présuppose la réalisation de ses structures métriques par le biais au moins d'une sous-vocalisation inconsciente. En traçant l'évolution du texte récité dans le 'temps réel', ce livre cherche à présenter une théorie cohérente de la relation forme/signification dans le Testament qui puisse justifier l'attention que les lecteurs expérimentés ont toujours accordée à Villon. 184 pp. Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -To Be And Not to Be is a study of the interrelated concepts interpretation, iconicity and fiction as applied to works of art in general and literary narratives in particular. Two perspectives run through the book: a semiotic one, focusing on the work of art and what it stands for ¿ represents, expresses, alludes to, etc. ¿ and a psychological one, focusing on the audience¿s interpretation of the work.The book establishes an ongoing dialogue with recent research within analytic aesthetics, narratology and other relevant fields. In particular, the philosopher Nelson Goodman¿s theory of symbols has proved to be fruitful in the development of new and original concept formations with respect to interpretation, iconicity and fictionality.In the first part some fundamental questions of literary theory are focused on, foremost what is meant by «intentional interpretation», the relation between literary interpretation and understanding of everyday spontaneous discourse as analyzed by Paul Grice, and how to locate aesthetic interpretation within the wider scope of interpretive practices. These discussions yield some conceptual tools deployed in the two following parts of the book. The second part opens with a suggestion on the concept of pictorial representation. This is generalized to apply to verbal and literary phenomena such as temporal matching, quotation, and uses of point of view in narratives. In the final part recent philosophical accounts of fictionality are discussed.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 386 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Cet ouvrage constitue une nouvelle étape d¿approfondissement dans l¿étude des symboles initiatiques chez les As¿ohendo du Congo-Kinshasa. Les auteurs, qui mènent depuis plusieurs années une recherche sur les symboles chez ce peuple, partent de «la théorie des quatre critères», élaborée par C. Faïk-Nzuji, et l¿appliquent au cas de l¿expérience initiatique de Ngonga-ke-Mbembe, qui les a récoltés. Cette méthode repose sur la double articulation du signe ¿ syntagmatique et paradigmatique ¿ et tient compte des différents niveaux où se situe le symbolisme selon la conception des As¿ohendo. La démarche des auteurs est initiatique, s¿appuyant sur des exemples concrets saisis dans leur contexte réel. Les significations symboliques qüils fournissent relèvent davantage de la restitution exacte des explications reçues des initiés eux-mêmes que de l¿interprétation générale.Cependant, la démarche proposée par la théorie des quatre critères garantit le recul nécessaire à tout chercheur pour comprendre et faire comprendre une attitude religieuse. Les interférences sémantiques y sont riches d¿éclairages réciproques, et tirent profit de l¿homogénéité culturelle due au champ limité de l¿investigation. Le thème central, l¿initiation, ramène ainsi, dans le détail du terrain et à travers les aspirations fondamentales de notre condition d¿humains, aux grands archétypes de la mort feinte et de l¿anticipation de l¿au-delà, par la double épreuve du mutisme et de la cécité temporaires.Une fois de plus, ce modeste exercice a confirmé le fait que les symboles africains ont leur langage et leur mode de vie propre qui, d¿eux-mêmes, offrent des méthodes appropriées pour leur décryptage, leur interprétation et leur compréhension. Enfin, on constate que l¿aventure symbolique n¿est rien d¿autre que l¿aventure humaine.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Übersetzungskritik für Lyrikübersetzungen erörtert. Die Grundlage hierfür bilden Theorien der allgemeinen Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft. Von ihnen ausgehend wird das Übersetzungsziel speziell des Lyrikübersetzens abgeleitet. Gegenstand der praktisch durchgeführten Übersetzungskritik mit integriertem Übersetzungsvergleich ist das Gedicht Iva von Anna Achmatova. Durch die Untersuchungen wird bestätigt, was für eine Übersetzungskritik im Bereich der Lyrik bereits allgemein akzeptiert ist, dass ein detailliert ausgearbeitetes Analysemodell nur für den jeweiligen Text Gültigkeit hat, dass die Singularität eines literarischen Textes ansonsten nur eine Art methodischen Rahmen zulässt. Anspruch auf Allgemeingültigkeit erhebt hier das Arbeiten mit scenes und frames, da es beim Gedichtübersetzen um die Vermittlung von Stimmungsbildern geht. Spezifisch ist hingegen die Art der Ganzheit dieses Gedichtes, seine Zeit- und Handlungsstruktur. 110 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Genre faussement désuet, la poésie épique, loin de consister seulement en un poème célébrant les exploits d'un héros, apparaît comme un genre polysémique, échappant à toute réduction idéologique de type nationaliste, donnant accès à une subtile représentation de soi dans ses rapports à l'Autre, renaissant sans cesse hors de ses frontières génériques. Dans ses formes stylistiques, liées à l'oralité ou au passage à l'écrit, populaires ou savantes, ou dans ses effets de sens (le 'travail' épique, la 'poétique de la fixité', la représentation du monde), sa modernité, historique ou théorique, est incontestable.L'ouvrage se propose d'explorer diverses formes modernes de la poésie épique selon un axe qui suit la Route de la Soie (d'Europe en Extrême-Orient, en passant par l'épopée arabe et persane). En émerge l'hypothèse de l'épopée comme genre universel, ou reposant du moins sur un 'fondement anthropologique' commun.Cette synthèse comparatiste, fruit du travail de chercheurs de différentes nationalités, spécialistes de littératures, de langues, d'histoire de l'art, ou de musicologie, renouvelle l'approche du genre grâce à l'ampleur des domaines linguistiques et culturels mis en relation, et à l'originalité des outils d'analyse proposés. 482 pp. Französisch.…