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Del 22 - Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts

Pierre Klossowski

The Pantomime of Spirits

AvHervé Castanet

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

838 kr

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This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001). Klossowski first established himself as a writer and was known and admired by peers such as Bataille, Blanchot, Gide, Foucault, Deleuze and Lacan. But in 1972 he gave up writing to devote himself to his ‘mutism’: painting made up of large coloured drawings. In time he became as famous a painter as he had been a writer and theorist. Klossowski now has two separate groups of commentators: those concerned with his writings and those with his painting, with little overlap between the two. Here, this separation is explicitly removed. Klossowski’s entire œuvre revolved around the concept of the gaze. Rarely has the gaze been so radically interpreted – as an active, mobile, evanescent object that breaks down the connections between representation and the visible. How is one to see the invisible divinity? This question plagued Klossowski, and he displaced it onto pornographic rituals. The pantomime of spirits is the scene, fixed in silence, where bodies meet – a knotting of desiring body and dogmatic theology. A creator of simulacra, Klossowski attempted to exorcise the ‘obsessive constraint of the phantasm’ that subjugated him in all these scenes.Translated from the French by Adrian Price in collaboration with Pamela King.

Social responsibility in healthcare: Which application in Africa?

The case of kidney disease management in African hospitals

AvIntissar Haddiya

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

490 kr

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Social responsibility in healthcare is currently the subject of increasing attention around the world and is often presented as one of the necessary responses to improving health systems in developed countries. The absence of African data on this subject motivated a survey that aimed to assess social responsibility of African public hospitals in terms of management of kidney disease, and explore the factors that influence it. based on patient and physician perceptions. This work has highlighted the crucial role of hospital governance and management, (involving the various stakeholders) in improving hospital social responsibility, and consequently the provision of care.

Indian Summer

Translated by Wendell Frye-

AvWendell Frye

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

583 kr

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This is one of Stifter’s great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron’s own reminiscences which give the book its title. Comparable in some ways to Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich this novel, nevertheless, reflects Stifter’s own moral values, his ethical thinking and his deep reverence for nature.

Human Lifeworlds

The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution

AvDavid Dunér,Göran Sonesson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

925 kr

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This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among animals living in the terrestrial biosphere do not derive entirely from their biological-genetic evolution, but also stem from their interaction with the environment, in its culturally interpreted form, the Lifeworld. This, in turn, becomes possible thanks to the human ability to learn from other thinking beings, and to transfer experiences, knowledge, meaning, and perspectives to new generations.

Fun for All

Translation and Accessibility Practices in Video Games

AvCarmen Mangiron,Pilar Orerom. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

1 189 kr

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Video games have evolved to become a pervasive format which is beyond entertainment, enjoyed by a broad group of people rather than as a niche activity by hardcore gamers. However, to date, academic studies focusing on game localization and accessibility are few and far between, despite the fact that further research in localization and accessibility would be beneficial to all. The different contributions in this pioneering volume address the emerging fields of Game Accessibility and Game Localization from different angles, providing insightful information about these relatively unexplored academic areas with such close tights to the industry. The volume is divided in two sections: the first section includes four contributions on Game Accessibility, dealing with issues such as universally accessible games and guidelines for promoting accessibility. The second section of the book includes nine contributions focussing on different issues affecting game translation and localization, such as case studies, culturalization, fan translation, and terminology management for the game localization industry.

Del 4 - Imaginatio Borealis. Bilder Des Nordens

de Antiqua Claritate Et Clara Antiquitate Gothorum

Gotizismus ALS Identitaetsmodell Im Fruehneuzeitlichen Schweden

AvInken Schmidt-Voges,Olaf Mörke

Häftad, Tyska, 2004

1 012 kr

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Del 21 - Varia Musicologica

Text and Tune

On the Association of Music and Lyrics in Sung Verse

AvTeresa Proto,Paolo Canettierim. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

1 283 kr

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This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularly, it is concerned with the structural properties and underlying mechanisms involved in the association of lyrics and music. While in spoken verse the underlying metrical scheme is grounded in the prosody of the language in which it is composed, in sung verse the structure is created by the mapping of specific prosodic units of the text (syllables, moras, tones, etc.) onto the rhythmic-melodic structure provided by the tune. Studying how this mapping procedure takes place across different musical genres and styles is valuable for what it can add to our knowledge of language and music in general, and also for what it can teach us about individual languages and poetic traditions. In terms of empirical coverage, the collection includes a wide variety of (Western) languages and metrical/musical forms, ranging from the Latin hexameter to the Norwegian stev, from the French chant courtois to the Sardinian mutetu longu. Readers interested in formal analyses of vocal music, or in metrics and linguistics, will find useful insights here.

Del 80 - Mikrokosmos

Adalbert Stifters Kosmos

Physische Und Experimentelle Weltbeschreibung in Adalbert Stifters Roman «Der Nachsommer»

AvEva-Sophie Reinhofer-Wiedemann,Wolfgang Harmsm. fl.

Häftad, Tyska, 2009

635 kr

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Del 6 - Technical Writing

Abbild - Modell - Simulation

AvClemens Schwender,Jakob Dittmarm. fl.

Häftad, Tyska, 2005

777 kr

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Del 13 - Imaginatio Borealis. Bilder Des Nordens

«...Dette Hidindtil SAA Lidet, Dog Mangesteds Urigtig Bekiendte Land».

Die Umdeutung Des Islandbildes in Eggert Ólafssons «Reise Igiennem Island» Und Ihr Einfluss Auf Die Konstruktion Einer Islaendischen Identitaet Im 18. Jahrhundert

AvKarin Glasemann,Olaf Mörke

Häftad, Tyska, 2007

593 kr

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Del 7 - Film Cultures

Film and Politics in India

Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power

AvDhamu Pongiyannan

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

892 kr

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In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in South Asia. Developing the concept of the politics of sentiment, the author examines the ways in which actor-politicians constructed their cinematic charisma, projecting themselves as messiahs saving the people from injustices, to create a political appeal to voters. The resilience of cinematic charisma, as Indian society undergoes massive socio-economic changes, provides a compelling study of modern politics, cinema, celebrity and the culture of the subcontinent.

Del 5 - Nordeuropaeische Arbeiten zur Literatur, Sprache und Kultur / Northern European Studies in Literature, Language and Culture

Narcissus Theme from «Fin de Siècle» to Psychoanalysis

Crisis of the Modern Self

AvNiclas Johansson,Frank Thomas Grub

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

1 302 kr

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The story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image in a spring, has fascinated writers and thinkers ever since Ovid first gave poetical form to the myth in his Metamorphoses. This study systematically investigates the elaborations of the theme at the turn of the century around 1900. It argues that a sense of crisis in the modern foundation of selfhood explains the heightened interest in Narcissus during this period.The book investigates three different aspects of the theme: as a symbol of a poetic apotheosis of the self in French Symbolism; as a narrative of a dissolving self in English, Austrian and French decadent literature; and as the concept of narcissism in sexology and psychoanalysis, where self-love provides an instinctual foundation of the self.

J.M. Coetzee

Vorhaltungen

AvUlrich Horstmann

Häftad, Tyska, 2005

414 kr

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Del 34 - Salzburger Studien zum Europaeischen Privatrecht

Transfer of Movable Property under U.S. Law

Discussed from a Functional Perspective

AvMartin Lilja

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

771 kr

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This book discusses legal rules for three functional commercial conflict situations under the laws of the U.S.A., mainly analyzing the U.C.C., the Bankruptcy Code, Common Law and Equity. In this context, the term conflict situation is meant to address a certain type of conflict arising between certain parties – e.g. buyer, seller, creditors of buyer or seller, or other types of third parties, like former title-holders to the goods – having certain colliding interests in the same property. The three conflict situations addressed in this book are the protection of a buyer in the seller’s insolvency, the protection of a seller in the buyer’s insolvency, and the conflict between a person formerly entitled to the goods and a good faith acquirer.

Del 5 - Medien Und Fiktionen

Tomás G. Masaryk, Max Brod und das Prager Tagblatt (1918-1938)

Deutsch-tschechische Annaeherung als publizistische Aufgabe

AvPavel Dolezal

Häftad, Tyska, 2004

1 169 kr

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Europe: Civilizations Clashing

From Athens to the European Union

AvPiotr Jaroszyński,Lindael Rolstone

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

392 kr

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European culture is rich with diversity and character, developing, maturing, and emerging throughout the course of history. The authors of the book examine the complex nature and multifaceted culture of Europe, developed throughout time, through the lens of philosophy and theology. The authors cover the period from the Persians to the European Union and notice that clashes occurred and reoccurred throughout European history, which had an impact on Europe’s identity. Greece clashed against Persia. Islam clashed with Christianity. Christianity clashed within itself during the protestant reformation. The European Union now clashes with Christianity.