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Spatial Readings and Linguistic Landscapes
Talking about space in literature and linguistics is a major challenge, not only for experts in the field of the humanities, but also for the broader public, searching for orientation clues on the vast book market. This volume offers a selection of studies which, even though reliant on shared instruments, apply these to different geographical spaces, uniting along an imaginary axis the East and the West, advancing challenging, serious and innovative analyses of prose, dramatic and film texts, belonging to literatures from various countries, but also references to the phenomenon of migration seen through the lens of spatial correspondence or the existence of a “third space” dimension in the field of teaching foreign languages. The journey the impassioned reader will undertake through this volume will undoubtedly offer both the pleasure of reading itself, and incursions into complementary cultures, an endeavour completed by the unique mechanism of a spatiality which produces knowledge. Any reading engaged in through the lens of space implicitly becomes a form of owning and assuming the latter.
Reise Know-How KulturSchock Rumänien
KulturSchock Rumänien ist der informative Begleiter, um Rumänien und seine Bewohner besser zu verstehen. Er erklärt die kulturellen Besonderheiten, die Denk- und Verhaltensweisen der Menschen und ermöglicht so die Orientierung im fremden Reisealltag. Unterhaltsam und leicht verständlich werden kulturelle Stolpersteine aus dem Weg geräumt und wird fundiertes Hintergrundwissen zu Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Religion und Traditionen vermittelt. Dazu: Verhaltenstipps A-Z mit vielen Hinweisen für angemessenes Verhalten, Verweise auf ergänzende und unterhaltsame Multimedia-Quellen im Internet, Literaturempfehlungen zur Vertiefung ... Aus dem Inhalt: - Vom Delta und den Bergen: wo die Uhren a...
Power and Literature
At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them. The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories. In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History.
The Black Envelope
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor."Reading 'The Black Envelope, ' one might think of the poisonous 'black milk' of Celan's 'Death Fugue' or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld's 'Badenheim 1939.' . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe."--"New York Times Book Review"
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Paul Celan
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Paul Celan moved to Bucharest, where he spent more than two years working as a translator at Carta Rusa publishing house. During that time he was introduced to poet and translator Petre Solomon and began a close friendship that would endure many years, despite the distances that separated them and the turbulent times in which they lived. In this poignant memoir, Solomon recalls the experiences he shared with Celan and captures the ways in which Bucharest profoundly influenced Celan’s evolution as a poet. He recounts the publication of the famous “Todesfuge” for the first time in the Romanian magazine Agora and his fertile connection with the Romanian surrealist movement. Through Solomon’s vivid recollection and various letters Celan sent to friends, readers also get an intimate glimpse of Celan’s personality, one characterized by a joyful appreciation of friendship and a subtle sense of humor. Translated from the original, Tegla’s edition makes this remarkable memoir available to a much-deserved wider audience for the first time.
The Best Medicine Is You
The #1 international bestseller In his appointments with patients, Dr. Saldmann noticed that illness was like a third person in the doctor-patient relationship. Patients expected him to prescribe medication to rid them of their illness or treat their symptoms, but didn't expect to have to change their behaviour. Medication alone, patients assumed, would do the work of healing. The Best Medicine Is You shows how small, basic changes—from eating chocolate in the morning to sleeping well at night—can improve your health, protect against disease, and help you lead a happier life. Your health is in your hands.
