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In his work Limit Experiences, Jacek Leociak addresses questions that are fundamental to the twentieth-century experience: How can we represent such traumatic events as the Holocaust? Was Lyotard correct when he claimed that reality had succumbed to the gas chambers? How can we describe the «indescribable»? Moving seamlessly through such topics as the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the carpet bombing of Dresden, and Jews left for dead in th...

A useful and provocative book that collects the diverse and related practices of theatre makers and theatre professionals deserving of greater attention from artists, teachers and scholars. (Willie White, Director of Dublin Theatre Festival and President of IETM) Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland is an important contribution to the fields of Irish theatre and performance studies, and gender and performance in Ireland....

Der Sammelband versammelt Beiträge der internationalen literaturwissenschaftlichen Konferenz "Die Darstellung Südosteuropas in der Gegenwartsliteratur", die 2017 an der Universität Zadar, Kroatien stattfand. Die Beiträge spiegeln die aktuelle literarische Produktion in Verbindung mit dem Thema Südosteuropa wider und zeigen die große Bandbreite verschiedener Ansätze in der Darstellung positiver und negativer gesellschaftlicher und kultureller V...

This Festschrift marks the 50th anniversary of the Dallas Goethe Center, a nonprofit educational and cultural arts organization, dedicated to advancing German culture and language in North Texas. Founded in 1965, the Dallas Goethe Center serves the community by developing an appreciation and understanding of German art, drama, music, language, literature, and history, and cultivates mutual understanding between the people of German-speaking co...

Written during a time characterized by catalyzing Indigenous environmental movements such as Idle No More, political upheaval, and the final years of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Protest as Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Indigenous Environmental Movements was motivated by Gregory Lowan-Trudeau's personal experiences as an activist, educator, and researcher. Insights from interviews with activists and educators in a variety ...

The book features a detailed analysis and interpretation of «The Saragossa Manuscript» (1964) by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The interpretative key is the director's reference to the aesthetics of various art trends, starting with baroque, through romanticism, symbolism, surrealism and the culture of Orient. The artistic references named here which to a high degree can be brought down to quotations and hints (the composition of stop-frames referring t...

«The translations in this volume give theatre companies in Ireland and elsewhere access to some of the most exciting new writing for the stage happening in Romania. May the productions follow!» (Karen Fricker, Founding editor-in-chief, Irish Theatre Magazine) «Four of the most promising Romanian playwrights, young and very young, are in this collection, each one with a specific way of seeing the Romanian reality, each one with a style of com...

«Tom's ludic spirit is the perfect vehicle for theatrical exploration, the playfulness never eclipses a real seriousness to his work.» (Lynne Parker, Artistic Director, Rough Magic.) «One of the most creative dramatic writers working today.» (Kevin Reynolds, RTÉ.) «I have always enjoyed the fun, inventiveness and sharp social comment in Tom Swift's plays. This book is an invaluable record of that work, for all those interested in daring,...

This is both a memoir of childhood trauma and a searing work of social criticism. Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in Ireland. The aim of the study is to situate tough personal experiences in lifeworld contexts for the purpose of changing powerful beliefs and practices. The author contends that psychological discip...

The word «parasite» evokes nearness and feeding: the Greek parasitos is «one who eats at the table of another». In biology, a parasitic organism is the beneficiary of an unequal relation with its host. The social parasite, too, is one recognized or misrecognized as the unproductive recipient of one-way exchange. In communications theory, meanwhile, static or interference («parasite», in French) is the useless information which clouds the chann...

This book brings together essays from scholars working on the first century of French print culture, with a particular focus on the networks formed by authors, editors, translators and printers in the earliest years of print technology. The volume is structured around the themes of collection and translation. The first part of the book examines the gathering of sources, the creation of anthologies and collections and the efforts of collectors ...

Iconic Russian writer Anton Chekhov is recognized as the most translated and produced playwright in the world after William Shakespeare-that is, he is the most produced and most highly regarded modern playwright in English translation. Chekhov's style models our behaviors and aspirations in alluring and intricate ways, unmatched in playwriting. His plays determined Realism in language and acting practice from the late 19th century to the prese...

Communicating Memory & History takes as its mission the job of giving communication history its full due in the study of memory. Taking three keywords-communication, history, and memory-representing related, albeit at times hostile, fields of inquiry as its point of departure, this book asks how the interdisciplinary field of memory studies can be productively expanded through the work of communication historians. Across the chapters of this b...

Communicating Memory & History takes as its mission the job of giving communication history its full due in the study of memory. Taking three keywords-communication, history, and memory-representing related, albeit at times hostile, fields of inquiry as its point of departure, this book asks how the interdisciplinary field of memory studies can be productively expanded through the work of communication historians. Across the chapters of this b...

This edited collection explores ways to better understand the rhetorical workings of political executives, especially the United States president. Scholars of the presidency, rhetorical theorists and critics, and various authors examine the ways in which presidents use the institution, the media, and popular culture to instantiate, expand, and wield executive power.

Der Heimatbegriff wird in europäischen Gesellschaften unter dem Einfluss wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, sozialer Mobilität und weltweiter Migration von Menschen auf der Flucht vor Krieg und Armut neu reflektiert und als eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Entwicklung der persönlichen Identität verstanden. Wie bedeutsam die Diskussionen über Heimat und wie unterschiedlich Heimatkonzepte sind, zeigt sich bei den derzeitigen a...

Soll das Urheberrecht im Internet Verbotsrecht oder Teilhaberecht sein? Diese kritische Grundfrage nach der ratio legis stellt der Autor und diskutiert ein rechtlich und ökonomisch fundiertes Lösungsmodell. Angesichts automatisierbarer Abrechnungsmöglichkeiten entfällt im Internet zunehmend der Bedarf nach Kontrolle über die Werkdistribution. Stattdessen kommt es darauf an, Urheber stärker in Wertschöpfungsspielräume zu integrieren. Das derzei...

Unlautere Verhaltensformen im Gesundheitswesen standen in den vergangenen Jahren vielfach im Blickwinkel von Rechtsprechung, Gesetzgebung und juristischer Literatur. Der Autor untersucht in seinem Buch umfassend, welche Formen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Vertragsärzten und Krankenhäusern die Effizienz im Gesundheitswesen steigern können und unter welchen Umständen eine zu enge Zusammenarbeit strafrechtliche Sanktionen nach sich ziehen kann. Di...

Why does human music sound the way it does? To better understand this, the authors look at the human and even animal ability for mimicry, at existing acoustic niches and introduce the idea of at least three habitats for music. Is there a unified sound quality for music created indoors, for song sung outdoors, and for music produced with electric signals? Whidden and Shore seek answers from music ethnography, from the closed space of medieval c...

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