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Queens of Crime: American and British female detective novels over the course of time
Female crime writers were not always given the same recognition as today. Edgar Allan Poe’s detective story ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue', written in 1841, is regarded as the beginning of the detective genre. In the following years, the genre was typically dominated by male authors. Since then considerable progress has been made, and female authors have created a very individual way of writing detective novels. However, experts still disagree on a clear definition of the female crime novel. The present study hopes to gain further insight into female detective novels coming from the USA and Great Britain. After giving basic information on the history of female detective novels and the ideal crime scheme, the study analyses the characteristics of female detective novels as opposed to male detective novels and the appeal of detective novels for women writers. Although female detective novels are not a separate sub-genre but rather a separate field within the genre of detective novels, women have given the genre new impulses.
The Digital Scholar: Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment
The forms and genres of academic communication have changed considerably over the past decades – from standardised ways of producing texts on/for paper to a (less?) standardised way of communication in Web 2.0. Published papers are now available to a greater number of readers, interaction among colleagues can take place in real time via written, audio or visual formats, and it has become much more comfortable for students as well as for those outside the scientific community to access academic information and to contact its authors. It seems, however, that many aspects of academic communication have not yet changed, and its participants – either in the „old“ or in the „new“ generation – are ill-equipped to work within the multimedia context. This volume, therefore, takes a look at academic communication in the multimedia environment, in order to throw light on how these processes are linked to new multimedia affordances, while at the same time encapsulating old genre conventions and participant interaction with the medium.
Rewriting the Ancient World
Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but also Jews and Christians, has been rewritten in popular fictions of the modern world. The fascination that ancient society holds for later periods in the Western world is as noticeable in popular fiction as it is in other media, for there is a vast body of work either set in, or interacting with, classical models, themes and societies. These works of popular fiction encompass a very wide range of society, and the examination of the interaction between these books and the world of classics provides a fascinating study of both popular culture and example of classical reception.
A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and other cultures of Latin America. From the siren-like Acuecuéyotl and the water animal Chaac to the class-conscious Oc and the god of light and darkness Xólotl, the magnificent entities in this volume belong to the same family of real and invented creatures imagined by Dante, Franz Kafka, C. S. Lewis, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, and J. K. Rowling. They are mined from indigenous religious texts, li...
Fachkommunikation im Fokus – Paradigmen, Positionen, Perspektiven
Die aus der Fachsprachenforschung hervorgegangene Fachkommunikationsforschung kann zahlreiche wegweisende Erkenntnisse im Themenspektrum < Sprache – Kommunikation – Kognition – Handeln – Kultur > für sich verbuchen. PARADIGMATISCH ist sie eng mit den Methoden der Interdisziplinarität verknüpft. In ihrer WissenschaftsPOSITION oszilliert sie zwischen Linguistik, Translationswissenschaft, Sachfachforschung und Kulturwissenschaft als eigenständige Disziplin mit einem Fokus auf der praxisnahen Angewandtheit. Sie reagiert sensibel auf die Belange der Öffentlichkeit und bietet kreative PERSPEKTIVEN für die fachliche Kommunikation sowie für deren Übersetzung in andere Kulturen. Der vorliegende ‚Tour d’Horizon‘ über PARADIGMEN, POSITIONEN und PERSPEKTIVEN dieser vernetzten Disziplin repräsentiert den aktuellen Stand fachsprachlicher Interessen, fachwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen und interdisziplinärer Angebote für die prosperierende Gesellschaft.
The Painter's Garden
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