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Forcing Nature
In the dominant world-view of the Western Middle Ages, natura evoked divine power as manifested in creation. Nature was an all-pervasive force, synonymous with God and his visible handiwork, but also a cosmic principle associated with fate and predestination in the Neoplatonic tradition. This volume of student essays tackles nature in a range of physical and metaphysical guises, always centred on its representation in medieval English literature. It contains studies of the visible natural world in elegiac, homiletic, and apocalyptic literature, but it also addresses other faces of nature, from the naked human form to the medieval reception of ancient ideas about free will, and closes with a comparative analysis of the nature of wisdom in Old English and The Lord of the Rings.
Students’, Graduates’ and Young Professionals’ Critical Use of Online Information
This book addresses the topic of online information for everyday personal and professional use by students, graduates, and young professionals. It focuses on the development of the job-related use of online information by young professionals in their practical phases of education (traineeship/practical year) in the domains of law, teaching, and medicine. The research conducted in this context investigates the general and domain-specific use of online resources in educational contexts and examines the effectiveness of an innovative digital training approach in enhancing skills required for the competent use of online information. For this purpose, the presented research uses a yet unprecedent...
Vergemeinschaftung und Distinktion
Die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung populärkultureller Formate wie der TV-Serie hängt nicht nur von den ästhetischen Medienprodukten selbst ab, sondern auch von ihrer kommunikativen Verarbeitung in der Interaktion. Dabei bieten Serien in hohem Maße ein identitäts- und gemeinschaftsstiftendes Potential, dem sich die vorliegende Studie aus gesprächsanalytischer Perspektive widmet. Anhand von videographierten Gesprächen über Serien und Serienrezeption zwischen Schüler/-innen wird erörtert, wie sich die Teilnehmenden miteinander vergemeinschaften und voneinander abgrenzen, in welchem Zusammenhang dabei interaktive Bewertungskonstruktionen und der relative Wissensstatus stehen und welchen E...
