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Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
The New Shudder
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Creole and Dialect Continua
Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects, and in a noncreole situation (PRC), documenting the acquisition of standard Chinese (Putonghua) by speakers of nonstandard var...
Wagner's Melodies
Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.
Media Reloaded
MEDIA RELOADED is an innovative and engaging student text for middle secondary media courses in Australia and beyond. It is also an invaluable resource for the development of visual literacy skills in the English classroom. Developed by experienced media educators with a passion for understanding contemporary media and technology both in and out of the classroom. Studies the contemporary media landscape, from both practical and theoretical perspectives, including media language, technologies, institutions, the role of audiences and the social values embedded in representations. Discusses how media and multimodal texts are produced and received by exploring genre; narrative; visual literacy; film and video; photography; representation; advertising and propaganda; text media; animation and gaming; and audio forms. Helps students consider the historical, social, and cultural factors that shape the meaning of texts. Explores how theory and practice works outside the classroom through profiles of prominent media practitioners and personalities.
Life of Goethe
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Four Stories
The 4 tales of this collection embody their author's skills as a humorist and a master of irony as well as his visions of supernatural elements amid ordinary settings. Contents include "Rat Krespel," "Die Bergwerke zu Falun," "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" and "Des Vetters Eckfenster," Hoffmann's last work and the pinnacle of his literary achievements.
Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
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Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany examines the dual transformation of institutions and ideas that led to the emergence of theology as science, the paradigmatic project of modern theology associated with Friedrich Schleiermacher. Beginning with earlier educational reforms across central Europe and especially following the upheavals of the Napoleonic period, an impressive list of provocateurs, iconoclasts, and guardians of the old faith all confronted the nature of the university, the organization of knowledge, and the unity of theology's various parts, quandaries which together bore the collective name of 'theological encyclopedia'. Schleiermacher's remarkably influent...
