Signs of the Time is an investigation into contemporary art theory and the philosophy of art from 1945 till postmodernism. The author treats important precursors such as Freud and Marx, and contemporary theorists and philosophers such as Gombrich, Lacan, Heidegger, Sartre, Althusser, Marcuse, Gadamer, Derrida, Eco, Barthes, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Lyotard. Various texts are discussed, criticized and related to movements in contemporary art and to contemporary artists. The author addresses students in the field of art history, communica-tions, aesthetics, art education, art history, communications, aesthetics, as well as the art lover. Art as a sign of the time reveals the hidden dimensions of the world in which we live.

Signs of the Time. (Lier & Boog)

Politics & Social Sciences

Elias, Willem

Philosophy

Editions Rodopi

The negotiation of meaning, or, the process of creating, sharing and repairing meaning, is central to communication and to all human social activity. The present volume investigates how speakers of a foreign language collaborate with each other and with native speakers to negotiate meaning in face to face interaction and it underlines how complex that process with its different communicative goals really is. The study further accounts for how the ability of foreign language speakers to negotiate meaning evolves as language is acquired. This book starts by reviewing the main second language acquisition research (SLAR) studies that have been conducted on the subject. An interdisciplinary qualitative framework based on interactive sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse/conversation analysis and ethnography of communication is adopted to investigate meaning processes. The present investigation has as its focal point the study of conversations conducted in Spanish, which means that an important gap within SLAR, which up until now has chiefly concentrated on analysing interactions in English as a second language, has been filled. This is a subtle and detailed investigation which provides much insight into the complex nature of how meaning is negotiated in a foreign language. The book is exceptional because of its broad and interdisciplinary perspective and because of its process-oriented qualitative approach. This study will be of interest to researchers in the field of language acquisition, teaching practitioners, teacher trainers, curriculum compilers and students of applied linguistics.

Collaborative Negotiation of Meaning (Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication)

Jauregi Ondarra, Kristi

Literature & Fiction

The Medieval Opus is a broad but detailed study of the art of imitation as rewriting that was practiced in medieval French texts and in texts in other languages influenced by French models. It contains the proceedings of a symposium on this topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval French as well as other medieval literatures influenced by French models. The range of texts is broad: from epic to romance and from lyric to late medieval lyrico-narrative genres. The authors teach in a number of countries in Europe and North America, and they represent a variety of approaches, ages, and critical perspectives on medieval rewriting. Two major concepts inform the papers: the bridge work and the specimen text. The bridge work (Tony Hunt's term) refers here two works that have identifiable links to others and that, by those links, reveals something of the art of writing for both works. Specimen texts are works representative of the art of imitation illustrated by the bridge works. The proceedings move beyond the analysis of a general art of composition to investigate original rewriting in specific works that serve as specimen texts. The goal of the proceedings has been to appreciate originality within the framework of the medieval art of literary writing.

The Medieval opus. Imitation, Rewriting And Transmission In The French Tradition. (Faux Titre)

Kelly, Douglas

Social Sciences

At a time when the world, Europe especially, is once more threatened by murderous conflicts between groups of people claiming ethnic and national identity as a basis for sovereignty over specific territories, it is timely to consider the part that literature has played and is playing in the creation of ethnic and national stereotypes. What role do such stereotypes have in literature? How are they created? From what materials are they constructed? What purpose do ethnic and national stereotypes serve? Can it ever be a useful one? Are they avoidable? Can we live without them? What can be done about the deleterious effects they may be thought to produce? Stereotyping is worldwide - is there a tribe, race and nation in existence which escapes being stereotyped by its neighbours? In what sense are these stereotypes accurate? How are these stereotypes reflected in and reinforced by literature? Should and can literature do anything about them? In Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice, literary scholars, as well as academics engaged in sociological and psychological research, consider these and other questions by examining the work of specific authors and the circumstances in which stereotyping plays such a crucial part.

Beyond Pug's Tour. (Dqr Studies in Literature)

Barfoot, C.C.

History & Criticism

From the contents: Le contexte culturel en Bretagne en 1700 (J. Balcou).- Lesage en 1715: l'evolution des idees morales (A. MacKenna).- Lesage romancier et le roman de son temps (H. Coulet).- Deux visions du theatre (D. Trott).- Lesage, l'amour et la foire (M.G. Evans).- Lesage parodiste (F. Rubellin).- L'enchassement dans Gil Blas (G. Campbell).- Lesage et la Nouvelle-France (F. Deloffre).

Lesage, Ecrivain (1695-1735).(Faux Titre 128) (French Edition)

Wagner, Jacques

@Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference examines the critical construction of postmodern fiction raising the question of whether the construction of postmodernism has sufficiently accounted for national difference. Geoffrey Lord argues that current meta-national conceptions of postmodernism need serious reconsideration to take national cultural contexts into account. Through a comparative investigation of the theoretical debate, literary traditions and close textual reading of a number of postmodern texts, Lord makes a persuasive case for his broad claim that national cultural differences are more persistent and powerful than usually allowed by established theories of postmodernity which claim a general collapse of traditional cultural orders and the meta-narratives that justify them.

Holy Scriptures In Judaism, Christianity And Islam.

Jerald D. Gort

VROOM, Hendrik M.

Designed to fill a large gap in American philosophy scholarship, this bibliography covers the first four decades of the pragmatic movement. It references most of the philosophical works by the twelve major figures of pragmatism: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George H. Mead, F.C.S. Schiller, Giovanni Papini, Giovanni Vailati, Guiseppe Prezzolini, Mario Calderoni, A.W. Moore, John E. Boodin, and C.I. Lewis. It also includes writings of dozens of minor pragmatic writers, along with those by commentators and critics of pragmatism. It encompasses literature not only concerning pragmatism as an alliance of philosophical theories of meaning, inquiry, belief, knowledge, logic, truth, ontology, value, and morality, but also as an intellectual and cultural force impacting art, literature, education, the social and natural sciences, religion, and politics.This bibliography contains 2,794 main entries and more than 2,000 additional references, organized by year of publication. 2,101 of the references include annotation. Its international scope is focused on writings in English, French, German, and Italian, though many other languages are also represented. Peter H. Hare contributed the Guest Preface. The introduction contains an historical orientation to pragmatism and guides to recent studies of pragmatic figures. This work is extensively cross-referenced, and it has exhaustive and lengthy author and subject indexes.

Pragmatism. (Value Inquiry Book)

John R. Shook

Back to the Present Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History Since 1798 (Costerus)

History

Lynch, Patricia A.

Europe

While the world seems to be getting ever smaller and globalization has become the ubiquitous buzz-word, regionalism and fragmentation also abound. This might be due to the fact that, far from being the alleged production of cultural homogeneity, the global is constantly re-defined and altered through the local. This tension, pervading much of contemporary culture, has an obvious special relevance for the new varieties of English and the literature published in English world-wide. Postcolonial literatures exist at the interface of English as a hegemonic medium and its many national, regional and local competitors that transform it in the new English literatures. Thus any exploration of a globalization of cultures has to take into account the fact that culture is a complex field characterized by hybridization, plurality, and difference. But while global or transnational cultures may allow for a new cosmopolitanism that produces ever-changing, fluid identities, they do not give rise to an egalitarian global village an asymmetry between centre and periphery remains largely intact, albeit along new parameters. The essays collected in this volume offer readings of literary, theoretical, and filmic texts from the postcolonial world. These texts are read as attempts to articulate the global with the local from a perspective of immersion in the actual diversity of life-worlds, focusing on such issues as consumption, identity-politics, and modes of affiliation. In this sense, they are global fragments: locally refractured figurations of an experience of world-wide interconnectedness. Contents *** Global Fragments: An Introduction *** Glocal Identities: Mapping, Itineraries, Memories*** Russell WEST PAVLOV: Contemporary Asian Australian Identities: Hsu Ming Teo s Love and Vertigo*** Anja SCHWARZ: Mapping (Un-)Australian Identities: Territorial Disputes in Christos Tsiolkas Loaded*** Mala PANDURANG: Understanding Departure: A Study of Select Pre-Migration Indian Female S

Global Fragments. (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order. Asnel Papers 10. (Cross/Cultures 90) (Asnel Papers, 90)

BARTELS

Anke and Dirk WIEMANN (Eds.)

British & Irish

This book responds to the Bush Administration position on the war on terror. It examines preemption within the context of just war ; justification for the United States-led invasion of Iraq, with some authors charging that its tactics serve to increase terror; global terrorism; and concepts such as reconciliation, Islamic identity, nationalism, and intervention. CONTENTS *** Foreword: G. Simon HARAK, S.J. *** Preface: Gail M. PRESBEY *** Introduction: Gail M. PRESBEY *** Part One: Terrorism Analyzed *** William C. GAY: The New Reign of Terror: The Politics of Defining Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism *** Jennifer L. EAGAN: Enforced Homogeneity or Mutual Difference? Luce Irigaray, the War on Terrorism, and International Peace *** Dianna TAYLOR: Responsibility and/in Crisis *** Part Two: Democracy as a Remedy for Terrorism *** Mar PETER***RAOUL: Jihad or the Beloved Community? Benjamin R. Barber on Terrorism and Global Democracy *** Richard PETERSON: Violence, Power, and Identity: What Are the Conditions of Terrorism? *** Peter AMATO: Crisis, Terror, and Tyranny: On the Anti***Democratic Logic of Empire *** Part Three: The United States War on Terrorism *** William C. GAY: Bushs National Security Strategy: A Critique of United States Neo***Imperialis *** Harry van der LINDEN: Would the United States Doctrine of Preventive War Be Justified as a United Nations Doctrine? *** Gail M. PRESBEY: Is the United States***led Occupation of Iraq Part of the War on Terror? *** D. R. KOUKAL: The Mortal God to which We Owe Our Peace and Defense *** Edward J. GRIPPE: Consequentialism, Negative Responsibility, and Sacrifice: Moral Dilemmas Posed by the Post***September 11th Shootdown Policy *** Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Jessica Lynch: Multiple Images, Multiple Realities *** Part Four: Terrorism Case Studies *** Oidinposha IMAMKHODJAEVA: Russia, Chechnya, and the Global War against Terrorism *** Joseph C. KUNKEL: Ethics of Terrorism and the Case of Colombia *** Rob GILD

Philosophical Perspectives on the "War on Terrorism". (Value Inquiry Books Series 188) (Value Inquiry Book Series, 188)

Politics & Government

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