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Leerstellen transmedial
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 243

Leerstellen transmedial

Durch die intensive Beschäftigung mit unzuverlässigem und komplexem Erzählen haben narratologische Konzepte in den vergangenen Jahren in der Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft an Popularität gewonnen. Nadine Dablé widmet sich einem bisher blind gebliebenen Fleck dieser audiovisuellen Narratologie: den Leerstellen. Dadurch rückt gerade das in den Blick, was fehlt, was unausgesprochen bleibt oder explizit verweigert wird. In einer deutlichen Modernisierung und Erweiterung der literaturwissenschaftlichen Leerstellentheorie beleuchtet die Studie vielfältige Auslassungsphänomene auf ihre transmediale erzählstrategische Verwendung hin.

Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools

During the Civil War, a Union colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Worse, courts-martial of all ranks increased by 400 percent in the winter months. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed ?Stumpy? because he tended to hide behind tree stumps during combat and a man tried for calling his superior a ?miserable reptile.? The gallery of offenders also includes a Vermont colonel who became a chloroform addict and a New York colonel who rode his horse into a barroom, ordered a brandy for himself and one for his horse, then fired his pistol through the ceiling. The stories of fifty misdeeds, along with a statistical exploration of twenty-two thousand other courts-martial, provide a pioneering study of the little-known world of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the often-bewildering dynamics between volunteer soldiers and their professional superiors.

Man Hunt Level 4 Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Man Hunt Level 4 Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack

Murder mystery story, with the police in a race against time to catch a serial murderer before he kills again.

Tarnished Eagles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Tarnished Eagles

Tells the stories of 50 Union colonels court-martialed for offenses such as drunkenness, insulting superiors, hiding during battles, and chloroform addiction. These stories, along with statistical exploration of 22,000 other courts-martial, provide a pioneering and amusing study of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the dynamics between soldiers and their superiors. Includes bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ercilla
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 318

Ercilla

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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High Tide in Tucson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

High Tide in Tucson

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid

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  • Published: 2013-07
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them, however, would survive to see the fall of the old regim...

Dynamics of Polyatomic Van der Waals Complexes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 527

Dynamics of Polyatomic Van der Waals Complexes

This publication is the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on the Dynamics of Polyatomic Van der Waals Molecules held at the Chateau de Bonas, Castera-Verduzan, France, from August 21 through August 26, 1989. Van der Waals complexes provide important model problems for understanding energy transfer and dissipation. These processes can be described in great detail for Van der Waals complexes, and the insight gained from such studies can be applied to more complicated chemical problems that are not amenable to detailed study. The workshop concentrated on the current questions and future prospects for extend ing our highly detailed knowledge of triatomic Van der Waals mole...

Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods used or made in America to illuminate issues such as tenancy, racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us literally from broken dishes to the international economy. Especially notable chapters examine how an archaeologist formulates questions about exploitation under capitalism, and how the study of artifacts reveals African-American middle class culture and its response to racism.

Un long voyage ou L'empreinte d'une vie Tome 32
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 290

Un long voyage ou L'empreinte d'une vie Tome 32

Octobre 1965. Louis et Pauline quittent enfin Grenoble, et emménagent dans leur villa des environs de Grasse, dont Vanda et Mario, des anciens du domaine, sont les gardiens depuis près de quatre ans. Ils emmènent avec eux Augusta, leur cuisinière, et leurs meilleurs amis, les Trolin père et fille. S'ils laissent les frimas de la capitale alpine pour le soleil de la Côte d'Azur, ils abandonnent aussi un appartement douillet pour un Escampobar en chantier. Le tout orchestré par Adeline, architecte d'intérieur et concubine de Coucke - cet ami avocat à qui ils doivent d'avoir sorti Oliver de prison. Car ils ont voulu transformer leur nouvelle demeure depuis la décoration intérieure ju...