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  1. Chapter 12 This in-between : How families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness : Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Author: Kitzinger, Celia Clare; Kitzinger, Jenny
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Basingstoke

    Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of... more

     

    Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

     
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  2. Vitality and Dynamism : Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition
    Contributor: Bratt, Kirstin (Publisher); Elbousty, Youness (Publisher); Stewart, Devin (Publisher)
    Published: 20140901
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press, Leiden

    Post-colonial theory recognizes that European and American scholars have traditionally defined the themes that are of interest in literary criticism; in Moroccan studies, these themes have tended toward questions of migration, identity, secularism,... more

     

    Post-colonial theory recognizes that European and American scholars have traditionally defined the themes that are of interest in literary criticism; in Moroccan studies, these themes have tended toward questions of migration, identity, secularism, and religious fanaticism typically questions regarding Morocco in its relationships with colonizing nations. This book intends to re-define the themes of interest in Moroccan studies, looking toward more local themes and movements and relationships of sub-cultures and languages within Morocco. Questions in this volume regard concepts of the self, conflicting discourses, intersections of self-identity and community, and Moroccan reclamation of identity in the post-colonial sphere.

     
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    Contributor: Bratt, Kirstin (Publisher); Elbousty, Youness (Publisher); Stewart, Devin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789087282929
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    Subjects: Literary studies: post-colonial literature
    Other subjects: Literature; Arabs; Berbers; Maghreb; Moroccans; Morocco
  3. Arbeit. Philosophische, juristische und kulturwissenschaftliche Studien
    Author: Baer, Josette; Rother, Wolfgang
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Schwabe Verlag, Basel

    We may consider labour as boon or bane ‒ man’s existence is not conceivable without labour. The expulsion from the Garden of Eden can be understood as a punishment for the consumption of the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, but it can... more

     

    We may consider labour as boon or bane ‒ man’s existence is not conceivable without labour. The expulsion from the Garden of Eden can be understood as a punishment for the consumption of the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, but it can likewise be interpreted as the perfection of God’s creation. Hence only beyond Eden, God’s creature becomes man. He or she becomes human by cultivat-ing the earth, by working. Labour is not only a necessary evil in order to secure existence, nor does it serve as a means for self-preservation, but also for self-fulfillment. Labour is the epitome of the ability of self-being and thus of man’s liberty. Mögen wir Arbeit als Fluch betrachten oder als Segen – das Sein des Menschen ist ohne Arbeit nicht denkbar. Man kann die Vertreibung aus dem Garten Eden als Strafe für den unerlaubten Genuss der Frucht vom Baume der Erkenntnis ver-stehen, man kann sie aber auch als Vollendung der göttlichen Schöpfung deuten. Denn erst jenseits von Eden wird das Geschöpf Gottes Mensch. Er wird Mensch, indem er die Erde bebaut, indem er arbeitet. Arbeit ist nicht nur ein notwendiges Übel zur Sicherung der Existenz, sie dient nicht nur der Selbsterhaltung, sondern auch der Selbstentfaltung. Arbeit ist der Inbegriff des Selbstseinkönnens und damit der Freiheit des Menschen.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary theory; Humanities; Philosophy; Political science & theory
    Other subjects: law; philosophy; arbeit; rechtswissenschaft; history; political science; literaturwissenschaft; politische wissenschaft; philosophie; labor; history of literature; geschichte; Kinderarbeit; Langeweile
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (212 p.)
  4. Anklang und Widerhall: Dostojewskij in medialen Kontexten
    Contributor: Goes, Gudrun (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Die Deutsche Dostojewskij-Gesellschaft (DDG) verfolgt das Ziel, das Werk Fjodor Michajlowitsch Dostojewskijs (1821-1881), des weltweit immer noch wirkmächtigsten russischen Autors, in Deutschland zu verbreiten und über aktuelle Trends vor allem der... more

     

    Die Deutsche Dostojewskij-Gesellschaft (DDG) verfolgt das Ziel, das Werk Fjodor Michajlowitsch Dostojewskijs (1821-1881), des weltweit immer noch wirkmächtigsten russischen Autors, in Deutschland zu verbreiten und über aktuelle Trends vor allem der deutschsprachigen Dostojewskij-Rezeption zu informieren. Die Gesellschaft hat eine wichtige Scharnierfunktion zwischen Fachwissenschaft (Russischer bzw. Slawischer Philologie) einerseits und dem anhaltend großen Kreis deutschsprachiger Dostojewskij-Leserinnen und -Leser. Zur Zielgruppe gehören Hochschulinstitute und -dozenten ebenso wie Theologen, Psychologen, Philosophen, Mediziner, Gymnasiallehrer, Volkhochschuldozenten und andere interessierte Laien. Das Jahrbuch der DDG dient in erster Hinsicht der Publikation der Vorträge der Jahrestagungen der Gesellschaft, die stets einem bestimmten Themenkreis gewidmet sind. Daneben erscheinen in ihm aber auch neuere wissenschaftliche oder populärwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen zum Thema des jeweiligen Bandes oder zu Dostojewskij allgemein. In den fast drei Jahrzehnten seines Bestehens konnte sich das Jahrbuch als Forum der deutschsprachigen Dostojewskij-Forschung etablieren, das auch von Fachwissenschaftlern geschätzt und als Medium genutzt wird.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Goes, Gudrun (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: Anklang; Dostojewskij; Film; Goes; Kontexten; Literaturwissenschaft; medialen; Russland; Widerhall
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (211 p.)
  5. The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism. The Anxiety of Authority
    Author: Frey, Mattias
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth of the profession in the age... more

     

    Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth of the profession in the age of WordPress blogospheres and proclaimed the 'death of the critic'. Bemoaning the current anarchy of internet amateurs and the lack of authoritative critics, many journalists and academics claim that in the digital age, cultural commentary has become dumbed down and fragmented into niche markets. Mattias Freu, arguing against these claims, examines the history of film critical discourse in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States . He demonstrates that since its origins, film criticism has always found itself in crisis: the need to show critical authority and the anxieties over challenges to that authority have been longstanding concerns.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: journalism; historical analysis; digital; film criticism; new media; critical authority; Houston; Rotten Tomatoes; Sight & Sound
  6. Nostalgia for the Present : Ethnography and Photography in a Moroccan Berber Village
    Author: Deseyn, Bart; Crawford, David; Bamouh, Abdelkrim
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable—and has grown less so in recent years. Nostalgia for the Present aims to repair that relationship by involving... more

     

    Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable—and has grown less so in recent years. Nostalgia for the Present aims to repair that relationship by involving intentional participants in an inclusive conversation; it is the fruit of a collaboration among an ethnographer, a photographer, a group of Moroccan farmers, and Abdelkrim Bamouh—a native intellectual whose deep understanding of rural Morocco made him not merely a translator but a facilitator of the dialogue. The result is an arresting portrait of everyday life in Tagharghist, a contemporary High Atlas village. The pictures are central, and the text bilt around them creates a dialogical form of visual ethnography. Nostalgia for the Present is both a memorialization of a people and a way of life, and a rich foray into the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration.

    The photos in this book evoke a sense of nostalgia, a longing, and the words explore the contexts and ambiguities that vitalize it. As the book concludes, nostalgia happens in our present, and is about our future. It is a call from our heart (or our liver, as villagers would say) to attend carefully to something we are leaving, something our gut tells us we ought to cherish and preserve, and bring with us on our inexorable march into the unknown.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Photographic reportage; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: photography; morocco; ethnography; Anthropology; Barley; Bart Simpson; Berbers; Mosque; Nostalgia
  7. Chapter Rubinrote Federn, Walzähne und schimmerndes Perlmutt: polynesische Kosmologie in Ritualobjekten
    Author: Wilhelmina Haslwanter, Katharina; Nuku, Maia; Nuku, Maia; Haslwanter Wilhelmina, Katharina
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Scheidegger & Spiess

    This article is concerned with cosmological concepts of the peoples of Polynesia in the Pacific. Following a creation myth from Tahiti, the authors explore the realms of te ao (the world of space and light which came to be inhabited by humans) and te... more

     

    This article is concerned with cosmological concepts of the peoples of Polynesia in the Pacific. Following a creation myth from Tahiti, the authors explore the realms of te ao (the world of space and light which came to be inhabited by humans) and te po (the engulfing darkness, associated with the night, the ancestors and spirits) by investigating artefacts from the region. Certain qualities of the rare materials used in the highly skilled making, and the knowledge of the utilisation of these artefacts enabled pacific islanders to establish a connection to divine entities but also to protect themselves of their powers. Many of the cosmological principles finally can be rediscovered in the objects themselves, which therefore are a study of the cosmos in miniature.

     
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    Language: German
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    Parent title: Kosmos: Weltentwürfe im Vergleich
    Subjects: Polynesia; Material culture; Cosmology & the universe
    Other subjects: material culture; ritual; pacific; te ao, te po; artefacts; mana; objects; polynesia; cosmology; anthropology; material culture; ritual; pacific; te ao; te po; artefacts; mana; objects; polynesia; cosmology; anthropology; Austral-Inseln; Ethnographie; Kosmologie; London; Marquesas; Perlmutt; Tahiti
  8. Kosmos: Weltentwürfe im Vergleich
    Contributor: Museum Rietberg Zürich, (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Scheidegger & Spiess

    cosmos - cosmology - culture - myths Die Gestirne, insbesondere Sonne und Mond, diktieren den Takt unserer Existenz. Schon seit Jahrtausenden versuchen die Menschen deshalb, sie zu erklären und zu deuten. Was genau ist der Kosmos, die «Ordnung des... more

     

    cosmos - cosmology - culture - myths Die Gestirne, insbesondere Sonne und Mond, diktieren den Takt unserer Existenz. Schon seit Jahrtausenden versuchen die Menschen deshalb, sie zu erklären und zu deuten. Was genau ist der Kosmos, die «Ordnung des Firmaments»? Auf der Suche nach Antworten sind die verschiedenen Kulturen seit jeher von ganz unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen ausgegangen. Dieses kulturvergleichende Buch erläutert 17 verschiedene Weltentwürfe. Es stellt Kosmologien und Schöpfungsgeschichten aus Afrika, Nord- und Mittelamerika, Asien und Polynesien sowie aus dem frühgeschichtlichen Mesopotamien und Ägypten umfassend dar. Thematisiert werden zudem die abendländischen Weltentwürfe von der biblischen Genesis und den Germanen bis hin zur neuzeitlichen Forschungsgeschichte Europas.

     
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    Contributor: Museum Rietberg Zürich, (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783858814517
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    Subjects: History; Material culture; Cosmology & the universe
    Other subjects: culture; myths; cosmology; cosmos
  9. Mégare et les établissements mégariens de Sicile, de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin. Histoire et institutions
    Author: Robu, Adrian
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

    This book aims to offer a new interpretation of the settlement movement initiated by the city of Megara in archaic times. It shows the role of conflict between the aristocratic families for the departure of the Megarians and reveals the role of the... more

     

    This book aims to offer a new interpretation of the settlement movement initiated by the city of Megara in archaic times. It shows the role of conflict between the aristocratic families for the departure of the Megarians and reveals the role of the heritage of the metropolis in the creation of institutions of colonial cities.

     
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  10. Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer
    Author: Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a better understanding of how... more

     

    "In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a better understanding of how changes in these aspects of life influenced the ways in which she saw her own worth at the time of the interviews and how she constructed her subjectivity. Elsa’s life touches upon many of the core aspects of 20th-century social change: changes in women’s roles, the entrance of middle- class women into working life, women’s increasing participation in the public sphere, feminist movements, upward social mobility, the expansion of the middle class, the growth of welfare and the appearance of new technologies. What kind of trajectory did Elsa take in her life? What are the key narratives of her life? How does her narrative negotiate the shifting cultural ideals of the 20th century? A life story, a retrospective evaluation of a life lived, is one means of constructing continuity and dealing with the changes that have affected one’s life, identity and subjectivity. In narrating one’s life, the narrator produces many different versions of her/him self in relation to other people and to the world. These dialogic selves and their relations to others may manifest internal contradictions. Contradictions may also occur in relation to other narratives and normative discourses. Both of these levels, subjective meaning making and the negotiation of social ideals and collective norms, are embedded in life narratives.

    My interest in this study is in the ways in which gender and class intersect with paid labour in the life of an ordinary female factory worker. I approach gender, class and work from both an experiential and a relational perspective, considering the power of social relationships and subject formations that shape individual life at the micro-level. In her narratives Elsa discusses ambivalence related to gendered ideals, social class, and especially the phenomenon of social climbing as well as technological advance.

    I approach Elsa’s life and narratives ethnographically. The research material was acquired in a long-standing interview process and the analysis is based on reflexivity of the dialogic knowledge production and contextualization of Elsa’s experiences. In other words I analyze Elsa’s narratives in their situational but also socio-cultural and historical contexts. Specific episodes in one’s life and other significant events constitute smaller narrative entities, which I call micro-narratives. The analysis of micro-narratives, key dialogues and cultural ideals embedded in the interview dialogues offers perspectives on experiences of social change and the narrator’s sense of self"

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522227539; 9789522226181
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    Subjects: Social mobility; Folklore, myths & legends; Social classes; Gender studies: women; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: dialogue; modernization; working class; life history; identification; gender; Finland; Narrative; Social class
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)
  11. Die Englische Manier - Mezzotinto als Medium druckgrafischer Reproduktion und Innovation
    Contributor: Sors, Anne-Katrin (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Die Schabkunst, aufgrund ihrer besonderen Blüte im englischen 18. Jahrhundert zur Zeit der Personalunion hannoverscher Herzogs- und britischer Königswürde auch „Englische Manier“ genannt, ist die erste grafische Technik, in der über Linie und... more

     

    Die Schabkunst, aufgrund ihrer besonderen Blüte im englischen 18. Jahrhundert zur Zeit der Personalunion hannoverscher Herzogs- und britischer Königswürde auch „Englische Manier“ genannt, ist die erste grafische Technik, in der über Linie und Schraffur hinaus flächige Tonwerte und Tonwertabstufungen geschaffen werden konnten. Malerische Werte ließen sich erzeugen und malerische Werke nachbilden. Anders als in den liniengebundenen Techniken des Kupferstichs und der Radierung ermöglichten mechanische Aufrauhung und deren dosierte Glättung Töne von samtigem Schwarz bis zu reinem Weiß. Erfindung und Perfektionierung, Nutzung und Verbreitung, Traditionsbildung und Experimentalpotential dieser druckgrafischen Technik können anhand der Schabkunstwerke der Grafischen Sammlung der Universität Göttingen und einiger Leihgaben vorgeführt werden: 105 Werke demonstrieren erste Experimente deutscher und niederländischer Laien und Künstler, technische Perfektionierungen in den druckgrafischen Zentren Augsburg und Nürnberg, Adaptionen in Frankreich und Italien, Verselbständigung des Mediums in England und experimentelle Verwendung als künstlerisches Ausdrucksmittel in der deutschen Frühmoderne. Funktionsgebundene Nutzung als Medium der Gemäldereproduktion und lebensnahen Bildniskunst, und erstmals als Naturnähe ermöglichendes Dokumentationsmittel in den frühneuzeitlichen Naturwissenschaften werden thematisiert.

     
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  12. Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature: Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890-1940
    Author: Ameel, Lieven
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature analyses experiences of the Finnish capital in prose fiction published in Finnish in the period 1890– 1940. It examines the relationships that are formed between Helsinki and fictional characters,... more

     

    "Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature analyses experiences of the Finnish capital in prose fiction published in Finnish in the period 1890–

    1940. It examines the relationships that are formed between Helsinki and

    fictional characters, focusing, especially, on the way in which urban public

    space is experienced. Particular attention is given to the description of

    movement through urban space. The primary material consists of a selection of more than sixty novels, collections of short stories and individual

    short stories. This study draws on two sets of theoretical frameworks: on

    the one hand, the expanding field of literary studies of the city, and on the

    other hand, concepts provided by humanistic and critical geography, as well

    as by urban studies.

    This study is the first monograph to examine Helsinki in literature written

    in Finnish. It shows that rich descriptions of urban life have formed an

    integral part of Finnish literature from the late nineteenth century onward.

    Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary Helsinki was approached

    from a variety of generic and thematic perspectives which were in close

    dialogue with international contemporary traditions and age-old images

    of the city, and defined by events typical of Helsinki’s own history. Helsinki

    literature of the 1920s and 1930s further developed the defining traits that

    took form around the turn of the century, adding a number of new thematic

    and stylistic nuances. The city experience was increasingly aestheticized and internalized. As the centre of the city became less prominent in literature, the margins of the city and specific socially defined neighbourhoods gained in importance.

    Many of the central characteristics of how Helsinki is experienced in the

    literature published during this period remain part of the ongoing discourse

    on literary Helsinki: Helsinki as a city of leisure and light, inviting dreamy

    wanderings; the experience of a city divided along the fault lines of gender,

    class and language; the city as a disorientating and paralyzing cesspit of vice; the city as an imago mundi, symbolic of the body politic; the city of everyday and often very mundane experiences, and the city that invites a profound sense of attachment – an environment onto which characters project their innermost sentiments."

     
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  13. ROTOЯ Review
    Contributor: McAra, Catriona (Publisher); Swindells, Steve (Publisher); Powell, Anna (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Huddersfield Press, Huddersfield

    The ROTOЯ partnership between Huddersfield Art Gallery and the University of Huddersfield was established in 2011. ROTOЯ I and II was a programme of eight exhibitions and accompanying events that commenced in 2012 and was completed in 2013. ROTOЯ... more

     

    The ROTOЯ partnership between Huddersfield Art Gallery and the University of Huddersfield was established in 2011. ROTOЯ I and II was a programme of eight exhibitions and accompanying events that commenced in 2012 and was completed in 2013. ROTOЯ continues into 2014 and the programme for 2015 and 2016 is already firmly underway. In brief, the aim of ROTOЯ is to improve the cultural vitality of Kirklees, expand audiences, and provide new ways for people to engage with and understand academic research in contemporary art and design. Why ROTOЯ , Why Now?

     

    As Vice Chancellors position their institutions’ identities and future trajectories in context to national and international league tables, Professor John Goddard1 proposes the notion of the ‘civic’ university as a ‘place embedded’ institution; one that is committed to ‘place making’ and which recognises its responsibility to engaging with the public. The civic university has deep institutional connections to different social, cultural and economic spheres within its locality and beyond.

     

    A fundamental question for both the university sector and cultural organisations alike, including local authority, is how the many different articulations of public engagement and cultural leadership which exist can be brought together to form one coherent, common language. It is critical that we reach out and engage the community so we can participate in local issues, impact upon society, help to forge well-being and maintain a robust cultural economy. Within the lexicon of public centered objectives sits the Arts Council England’s strategic goals, and those of the Arts and Humanities Research Council – in particular its current Cultural Value initiative. What these developments reveal is that art and design education and professional practice, its projected oeuvre as well as its relationship to cultural life and public funding, is now challenged with having to comprehensively audit its usefulness in financially austere times. It was in the wake of these concerns coming to light, and of the 2010 Government Spending Review that ROTOЯ was conceived. These issues and the discussions surrounding them are not completely new. Research into the social benefits of the arts, for both the individual and the community, was championed by the Community Arts Movement in the 1960s. During the 1980s and ‘90s, John Myerscough and Janet Wolff, amongst others, provided significant debate on the role and value of the arts in the public domain. What these discussions demonstrated was a growing concern that the cultural sector could not, and should not, be understood in terms of economic benefit alone. Thankfully, the value of the relationships between art, education, culture and society is now recognised as being far more complex than the reductive quantification of their market and GDP benefits. Writing in ‘Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century)’, Ernesto Pujol proposes:‘…it is absolutely crucial that art schools consider their institutional role in support of democracy. The history of creative expression is linked to the history of freedom. There is a link between the state of artistic expression and the state of democracy.’ When we were approached by Huddersfield Art Gallery to work collaboratively on an exhibition programme that could showcase academic staff research, one of our first concerns was to ask the question, how can we really contribute to cultural leadership within the town?’ The many soundbite examples of public engagement that we might underline within our annual reports or website news are one thing, but what really makes a difference to a town’s cultural identity, and what affects people in their daily lives? With these questions in mind we sought a distinctive programme within the muncipal gallery space, that would introduce academic research in art, design and architecture beyond the university in innovative ways.

     
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    Contributor: McAra, Catriona (Publisher); Swindells, Steve (Publisher); Powell, Anna (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781862181199
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    Subjects: The arts: general issues
    Other subjects: arts in general; Graphic design; Health care; Photography; Research
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (24 p.)
  14. Candide, La fée carabine et les autres. Vers un modèle didactique de la lecture littéraire
    Author: Aeby Daghé, Sandrine
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

    How do teachers read Voltaire's Candide and The Pennac rifle fairy with 16 year-old students? Beyond the different effects related to the length and status of texts, this book shows that teachers use school activities to read literary texts and... more

     

    How do teachers read Voltaire's Candide and The Pennac rifle fairy with 16 year-old students? Beyond the different effects related to the length and status of texts, this book shows that teachers use school activities to read literary texts and ensure links with the readings of the students. Comment les enseignants lisent-ils Candide de Voltaire et La fée carabine de Pennac avec leurs élèves de 16 ans? Au-delà des effets différenciés liés à la longueur et au statut des textes, cet ouvrage montre que les enseignants recourent à des activités scolaires pour aborder les textes littéraires et assurer les liens avec les lectures des élèves.

     
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    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Teacher training; Teaching skills & techniques; Study & learning skills: general
    Other subjects: teacher skills; social sciences; society; teacher training; education
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (303 p.)
  15. Incapacity : Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior
    Author: Golub, Spencer
    Published: 20140808
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

    In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of... more

     

    In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language’s representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein’s thought a further, very personal significance—its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers.

     

    Underlying what Golub calls “performance behavior” is Wittgenstein’s notion of “pain behavior”—that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Philosophy; Language game (philosophy); Logic; Ludwig Wittgenstein
  16. Chapter 10 Análisis no-lineal de materiales compuestos mediante la teoría de mezclas serie-paralelo
    Author: Rastellini, Fernando; Martínez, Xavier; Oller, Sergio
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  OmniaScience

    This chapter presents the theory of series-parallel mixtures. This is a formulation for the simulation of the mechanical behavior of composite materials, which allows to obtain the non-linear behavior of the same from the behavior that show their... more

     

    This chapter presents the theory of series-parallel mixtures. This is a formulation for the simulation of the mechanical behavior of composite materials, which

    allows to obtain the non-linear behavior of the same from the behavior that

    show their component materials. This formulation can be applied to both compounds

    Laminates of carbon fibers as to more traditional composite materials

    such as reinforced concrete. The validity of the submitted formulation will be tested

    with the reproduction of a delamination test of a laminated composite. The advantage

    of the series-parallel mixing theory versus other existing formulations for the calculation

    of composite materials is that this is, today, the only one capable of taking into account the

    non-linear behavior of the compounds with a computational cost that makes possible the

    resolution of real structures. El presente capítulo presenta la teoría de mezclas serie-paralelo. Esta es una formulación para la simulación del comportamiento mecánico de materiales compuestos, que

    permite obtener el comportamiento no lineal de los mismos a partir del comportamiento que

    muestran sus materiales componentes. Esta formulación se puede aplicar tanto a los compuestos

    laminados de fibras de carbono como a materiales compuestos más tradicionales

    como puede ser el hormigón armado. La validez de la formulación presentada se probará

    con la reproducción de un ensayo de delaminación de un compuesto laminado. La ventaja

    de la teoría de mezclas serie-paralelo frente a otras formulaciones existentes para el cálculo

    de materiales compuestos es que esta es, hoy en día, la única capaz de tener en cuenta el

    comportamiento no lineal de los compuestos con un coste computacional que hace posible la

    resolución de estructuras reales.

     
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    Parent title: Aplicaciones avanzadas de los materiales compuestos en la obra civil y la edificación
    Subjects: Architecture
    Other subjects: parallel mixing theory; análisis no-lineal; non-linear analysis; materiales compuestos; teoría de mezcla paralela; composite materials
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  17. Chapter 11 Análisis numérico de la reparación y refuerzo de estructuras con FRP
    Author: Nallim, Liz; H. Barbat, Alex; Carlos Vielma, Juan; Molina, Maritzabel; Martínez, Xavier; Oller, Sergio
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  OmniaScience

    This chapter presents a procedure to assess the magnitude of the damage local and global damage in structures subjected to static and dynamic actions, with special emphasis on the seismic problem. In addition to the formulation for the evaluation of... more

     

    This chapter presents a procedure to assess the magnitude of the damage local and global damage in structures subjected to static and dynamic actions, with special

    emphasis on the seismic problem. In addition to the formulation for the evaluation of the damage,

    introduces the concept of structural reinforcement and repair by composite laminates

    of epoxy matrix with carbon fiber reinforcement. For this purpose, the

    use of the theory of mixtures to compose a composite material from their

    basic components. Damage is also assessed in these reinforced and / or repaired structures

    and the influence of these improvements on the assessment of the overall damage of the structure is discussed. En este capítulo se presenta un procedimiento para evaluar la magnitud del daño local y el daño global en estructuras sometidas a acciones estáticas y dinámicas, con especial

    énfasis en el problema sísmico. Además de la formulación para la evaluación del daño, se

    introduce el concepto de refuerzo y reparación estructural mediante laminados compuestos

    de matriz epóxica con refuerzo de fibras de carbono. Para esta finalidad, se menciona la

    utilización de la teoría de mezclas para componer un material compuesto a partir de sus

    componentes básicas. También se evalúa el daño en estas estructuras reforzadas y/o reparadas

    y se comenta la influencia de estas mejoras en la valoración del daño global de la estructura.

     
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    Parent title: Aplicaciones avanzadas de los materiales compuestos en la obra civil y la edificación
    Subjects: Architecture
    Other subjects: estructura; global damage; problema sísmico; daño local; daño global; seismic problem; local damage; structure
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (31 p.)
  18. Aplicaciones avanzadas de los materiales compuestos en la obra civil y la edificación
    Contributor: A. Pérez, Marco (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  OmniaScience

    The purpose of this work is to provide a global view of the current state of the art and recent developments on the applicability of composite materials in civil engineering and construction. The book contains a collection of research papers from... more

     

    The purpose of this work is to provide a global view of the current state of the art and recent developments on the applicability of composite materials in civil engineering and construction. The book contains a collection of research papers from national and international experts, which address current and future challenges in this field, providing, through a wide variety of case studies, a roadmap with technical skills and knowledge practical tools for the use of composite materials in new applications. The texts are -as far as possible- self-contained in their parts, allowing a reading according to the particular interest of each reader. They present technical foundations, research results, and review and compile updated bibliographic references that complement and allow the reader to acquire a deeper knowledge of the topics exposed, directing it towards possible future lines of research. Written by professionals and researchers with experience in this field, this book aims to be a reference text for those not initiated in the subject and a study and research tool for readers of more advanced levels. El propósito de esta obra es aportar una visión global del estado actual de la técnica y los recientes desarrollos sobre la aplicabilidad de los materiales compuestos en la obra civil y la edificación. El libro recoge una colección de trabajos de investigación de expertos nacionales e internacionales, que abordan los retos actuales y futuros en este campo, proporcionando, a través de una amplia variedad de casos de estudio, una hoja de ruta con las habilidades técnicas y los conocimientos prácticos necesarios para el empleo de materiales compuestos en nuevas aplicaciones. Los textos son –en la medida de lo posible– autocontenidos en sus partes, permitiendo una lectura acorde al interés particular de cada lector. En ellos se presentan fundamentos técnicos, resultados de investigaciones, y se revisan y compilan referencias bibliográficas actualizadas que complementan y permiten al lector adquirir un conocimiento más profundo de los temas expuestos, encaminándolo hacia posibles futuras líneas de investigación. Escrito por profesionales e investigadores con experiencia en este campo, este libro pretende ser un texto de referencia para los no iniciados en la temática y una herramienta de estudio e investigación para lectores de niveles más avanzados.

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9788494187292
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    Subjects: The arts: general issues; Architecture
    Other subjects: technology and engineering; tecnología e ingeniería; arte y arquitectura; art and architecture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (307 p.)
  19. The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
    Author: Atkinson, David
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a... more

     

    This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.

     
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: ballads; oral transmission; textual scholarship; ballad studies; folk songs; critique génétique; Ballad; Oral tradition
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (227 p.)
  20. Cultural Heritage Ethics : Between Theory and Practice
    Contributor: Constantine, Sandis (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by... more

     

    "Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expertise to the wider debate of what cultural heritage means in the twenty-first century. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides cutting-edge arguments built on case studies of cultural heritage and its management in a range of geographical and cultural contexts. Moreover, the volume feels the pulse of the debate on heritage ethics by discussing timely issues such as access, acquisition, archaeological practice, curatorship, education, ethnology, historiography, integrity, legislation, memory, museum management, ownership, preservation, protection, public trust, restitution, human rights, stewardship, and tourism.

    This volume is neither a textbook nor a manifesto for any particular approach to heritage ethics, but a snapshot of different positions and approaches that will inspire both thought and action. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides invaluable reading for students and teachers of philosophy of archaeology, history and moral philosophy – and for anyone interested in the theory and practice of cultural preservation."

     
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    Subjects: Museology & heritage studies; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: cultural heritage; ethics; curation; preservation; cultural heritage management; Acropolis; Athens; UNESCO; World Heritage Site
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (228 p.)
  21. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
    Author: Halpern, A.M.; Miller, Amy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this... more

     

    "The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the giant, Old Lady Sanyuuxáv and her twin sons, and the Man Who Bothered Ants. This book makes a long-awaited contribution to the oral literature and mythology of the American Southwest, and its format and organization are of special interest. Narratives are presented in the original language and in the storytellers’ own words. A prosodically-motivated broken-line format captures the rhetorical structure and local organization of the oral delivery and calls attention to stylistic devices such as repetition and syntactic parallelism. Facing-page English translation provides a key to the original Quechan for the benefit of language learners. The stories are organized into ""story complexes”, that is, clusters of narratives with overlapping topics, characters, and events, told from diverse perspectives. In presenting not just stories but story complexes, this volume captures the art of storytelling and illuminates the complexity and interconnectedness of an important body of oral literature. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature provides invaluable reading for anyone interested in Native American cultural heritage and oral traditions more generally."

     
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    Subjects: American indigenous languages; Folklore, myths & legends; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: quechan language; oral tradition; storytelling; quechan mythology; world oral literature series; Ant; Arrernte language; Chronic condition; Orphan; Typha
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (548 p.)
  22. The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 : Theory of a Genre
    Author: Goyet, Florence
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular -... more

     

    The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

     
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    Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Short stories
    Other subjects: akutagawa ryūnosuke; guy de maupassant; giovanni verga; henry james; florence goyet; short stories; anton chekhov; Paris
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (219 p.)
  23. Involuntary Associations : Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes
    Author: Huddart, David
    Published: 20140528
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The consequences of Englishes spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary... more

     

    The consequences of Englishes spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.

     
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    Subjects: Literary studies: post-colonial literature
    Other subjects: Literature; Postcolonial; Cultural translation; Global citizenship; Globalization; International English; World Englishes
  24. Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures
    Author: Blumson, Ben
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference... more

     

    It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.

     
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: pictorial representation; intentionality; depiction; representation; resemblance; language; pictures; Axiom; Chess; Formal language; Left- and right-hand traffic; Mona Lisa; Nominalism; Predicate (grammar); Red Square; Tacit knowledge
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (222 p.)
  25. The Myths That Made America : An Introduction to American Studies
    Author: Paul, Heike
    Published: 20140815
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas... more

     

    This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.

     
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; America; Culture; Myth; Literature; History; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Introduction; Christopher Columbus; Melting pot; Puritans