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The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms
The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which wer...
The Creation of Reality
Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes". In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the imaginative examination of personal certainties and the certainties of others, of ideologies great and small. The focus of the debate is on the author's thesis that our understanding of journalism and, in particular, the education and training of journalists, would profit substantially from constructivist insights. These insights instigate, the claim is, an original kind of scepticism; they provide the underpinnings of a modern type of didactics oriented by the autonomy of learners; and they supply the sustaining arguments for a radical ethic of responsibility in journalism.
Consumer Citizen as a Media Project
The current book asserts that reality television serves a broader social purpose than simple entertainment. Instead, this type of programing can best be understood as a revealing exposition on contemporary politics, culture, and social issues. Reality television addresses many different social groups. The book primarily examines the social and political messages conveyed by reality television to its viewers. Focusing on the notion of consumer citizenship, the study analyzes the German television program Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Germany seeks a Superstar) as a reflection of contemporary social and political issues in Germany. Dissertation. (Series: Kulturwissenschaft / Cultural Studies / Estudios Culturales / Ã?Â?tudes Culturelles, Vol. 53) [Subject: Media Studies, Popular Culture, German Studies]
Internetfernsehen
Nach der Gründung von YouTube (2005) häuften sich Publikationen zum vermeintlichen Ende des Fernsehens. Das "alte" Medium Fernsehen - so die These - hätte ausgedient und würde von den "neuen" Internetvideos abgelöst. Der Boom dieser Onlinevideos hatte eine stark ausdifferenzierte Angebotslandschaft zur Folge, die im vorliegenden Buch erstmals in ihrer Breite kategorisiert und analysiert wird. Basierend auf der Analyse beschreibt die Autorin die Medialität des Internetfernsehens und untersucht die Auswirkungen auf das traditionelle Fernsehen. Nicht ob es Fernsehen in Zukunft geben wird, sondern wie, ist dabei Kern der Fragestellung. 0.
Werbung als Vermittler mythischer Narration
Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, aufzuzeigen, auf welche Weise und mit welcher Intention Werbung auf der formalen und inhaltlichen Ebene mythische Narration vermittelt. Die Untersuchung gliedert sich in drei Teile. Teil A setzt sich mit dem Phänomen Mythos im Allgemeinen auseinander und bildet die notwendige Basis für die intendierte Darstellung mythischer Narration in der Werbung. Gegenstand von Teil B ist die formale Vermittlungsebene mythischer Narration in der Werbung. Hier stelle ich die Narrationssysteme Mythos und Werbung einander gegenüber, um zu untersuchen, inwieweit diese beiden Erzählsysteme auf der Strukturebene analog funktionieren und sich die Werb...
Kritisches Denken
Kritisches Denken ist ein zentrales Werkzeug geisteswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens. Eigenes Urteilsvermögen zu stärken und kritisches Denken zu wagen, gehört zu den wichtigsten übergeordneten Zielen eines geisteswissenschaftlichen Studiums. Diese Metakompetenz verleiht speziellen Kompetenzen erst ihren Sinn. Die Beiträge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen gehen der Bedeutung dieser unverzichtbaren Fähigkeit für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen nach und zeigen auf, welche Ausprägungen kritisches Denken in den Geisteswissenschaften disziplinspezisch annehmen kann.
The Politics of Humour
The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of Humour examines how works such as satirical magazines and comedy films were used both to reaffirm group identity and to exclude those who did not belong. The essays in this collection analyse the political and social context of comedy in Europe and the United States, exploring topics ranging from the shifting targets of ethnic jokes to the incorporation of humour into wartime broadcasting and the uses of satire as a means of resistance. Comedy continues to define the nature of group membership today, and The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.
Signs of Time
US prime time television drama of the earlier broadcast era featured self-contained storylines and (mostly) amnesiac protagonists. This changed with the arrival of what television scholar Horace Newcomb termed cumulative narrative: Prime-time series of a new era adopted narrative features more typical for daytime soap opera, and leading characters began to remember where they came from. This study explores the organisational patterns and generic implications leading to the rise of cumulative storytelling. It also points to further venues of analysis for backstory narratives and diegetic memory in general.
