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This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to the sacred.

Cette etude est consacree a un phenomene aussi bien syntaxique que semantique qui, a ce jour, n'a fait l'objet d'aucune analyse specifique en linguistique russe.

¿Cómo los vectores "globalización" y "tecnología" configuran los espacios y tiempos que la narrativa en español a ambos lados del Atlántico busca representar? ¿Cómo se piensa a sí misma la literatura en coexistencia con las tecnologías que determinan la posibilidad de tomar la palabra o de percibir la realidad? ¿Cómo la literatura articula un lenguaje que se adecua a la transcripción literaria de su presente? Los ensayos de este volumen responden a estas cuestiones desde tres ángulos: en primer lugar, leyendo la tecnología como un dispositivo formal que afecta a la representación; en segundo lugar, atendiendo a la presencia temática de la tecnología, manifestación privilegiada de la cultura material de una época que apunta a conflictos ideológicos clave de nuestro tiempo; en tercer lugar, reflexionando sobre el propio estatuto de lo literario, que dialoga intensamente hoy con sus otros semióticos. El libro que el lector tiene ante sí pretende ser una contribución al mapa teórico-analítico que en los últimos años se viene desarrollando sobre los "territorios" de un presente heterogéneo, heterocrónico y globalizado, visibilizados por la narrativa actual de España y América Latina.

The 18 chapters of the volume explore the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners of English, Italian and Spanish from various L1 backgrounds. The chapters also discuss possible applications to foreign language teaching and assessment.

The mystery of happiness has occupied human beings from ancient times until the present day. In this regard, the group of researchers from six countries present their fourth joint work in this new book titled "Happiness Management: A Lighthouse for Social Wellbeing, Creativity and Sustainability".

Japan is moving toward a more independent security policy because it faces an entrapment-abandonment dilemma. Any attempt to prevent abandonment by the United States vis-a-vis China harms its national security by heightening the risk of entrapment in the Korean Peninsula, and vice versa. More autonomy is the only way to solve this dilemma.

Il volume analizza strutture ed espedienti del linguaggio comico, segmento del sistema linguistico che da una parte si caratterizza per linee di continuita attraverso il tempo e lo spazio, dall'altra risulta sempre piu condizionato dalle recenti trasformazioni che hanno investito la societa italiana e i moderni mezzi di comunicazione.

The Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to appear in English. The author of this study charts in impressive detail the complex paths of Benn's life, through the demands of his medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his brief political advocacy of Hitler and Nazism in 1933, to his final comeback in post Second World War Germany. The author also engages with Benn's extensive body of poetry which, inventive, challenging and formally wrought, was the product of mind that was both radical and conservative. The same propensity to invention and transformation also informed Benn's personal and professional life, giving rise to a practice of role-playing and dissimulation that the poet termed a double life. As Travers shows in this well-written and informative biography, this was a strategy of survival of which Benn, ultimately, was as much the victim as the master. This biography also offers fresh translations of many of Benn's poems, a number of which appear here in English for the first time.

Questo e il primo libro che esplora sistematicamente le strategie discorsive e le metodologie antropologiche adottate da Pier Paolo Pasolini nei suoi film. L'analisi delle intersezioni tra discorso antropologico, documentario e finzione rivela i modi attraverso cui il cinema di Pasolini sia profondamente correlato all'antropologia visuale, nei modi concettualizzati negli anni Ottanta dalla New Ethnography, sia in termini di pratica che di ricerca teorica. Una delle tesi del libro e che i film di Pasolini contengano ricorsi antropologici che emergono da una discorsivita percettiva che li avvicina a uno dei piu interessanti indirizzi dell'antropologia visuale anglosassone, quello dell'antropologia dei sensi, rendendo manifesto il loro valore pionieristico e visionario. L'analisi delle categorie corporali, topografiche, ritualistiche e identitarie presenti nei film di Pasolini svela inoltre istanze discorsive che si spingono oltre le ideologie coloniali e moderne spesso attribuitegli dalla critica tradizionale.

The book offers new insights on the impact of wars (namely, but not exclusively, World War I), by underlining its social and psychological consequences, particularly in public health, demography, and mentalities in different countries.

Seit einiger Zeit ist Brasiliens Neokonkretismus in Ausstellungen, Katalogen und Publikationen in Europa präsent. Die Autorin nimmt erstmals auf Deutsch umfassende Werkanalysen vor und stellt den Schlüsselcharakter der neokonkreten Praktiken dar. Die Kunst- und Lyrikproduktion der Bewegung führte, so die Autorin, zu einer Umwertung und Neuauslegung des konkret-konstruktivistischen Gedankenguts der europäischen Avantgarden des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese Umwertungen schufen in Brasilien erst die Voraussetzungen dafür, haptische und sensorielle Komponenten ästhetischen Erlebens zum zentralen Ausgangspunkt künstlerischer Praxis zu erheben, für welche die späteren Arbeiten der brasilianischen Avantgarde-Ikonen Lygia Clark und Hélio Oiticica bekannt sind. Die Arbeit ist ein wichtiger Beitrag dazu, moderne und zeitgenössische künstlerische Praktiken aus Brasilien zu dekolonisieren, denn die Analysen zeigen auf, dass haptisch und plurisensoriell erfahrbare Kunstwerke aus Brasilien eben nicht auf einer angenommenen genuin sensorisch-sensiblen Konstituierung des Menschen in Brasilien beruhen, sondern vielmehr auf einer eigenwilligen, lokalen Rezeption europäischer Avantgardepraktiken.

This volume is the product of a joint effort to bring together critical views "from the Old World" on the field of American Studies. All in all, this book provides the critical gaze of the "expert outsider" who is able to offer a somewhat different but complementary point of view, which can only enrich the general appreciation of American Studies.

The volume Learning second language pragmatics beyond traditional contexts is a collection of studies dealing with the acquisition of second language pragmatic competence in different learning contexts.

Only in France is demography essentially the population science: it is taught at school, newspapers feature the evolution of fertility rates in their headlines and the subject sparks ideological debates in the media. How did demography become a national identity issue?The French exception is attributable to a political history that reached fulcrums during the Second World War under the racist Vichy regime and then after the Liberation, with the development of population policies and the creation of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The book is the first to retrace its controversial genesis and analyze its ramifications for the following decades. It shows how theories, institutions and demographic policies developed simultaneously in France. Its reflection on the links between ideologies, science and the state offers a model that could be applied to the history of many other scientific disciplines.Paul-André Rosental¿s indispensable study examines the emergence of demography as an autonomous discipline and its association with the state in mid-twentieth-century France. Demography¿s success in the immediate post-war years came in part from its dual concern with both "science" and "action," which allowed policy makers to claim both knowledge and expertise in addressing social problems. Rosental¿s measured tone hides a provocative argument that should serve as both a model and a foil for others working in the history of the human sciences.Joshua Cole, University of Michigan.

Even though the democratic decline has been deemed a global phenomenon, the question of how it manifests itself in the postcommunist world and how it varies across different regions with divergent levels of democratic consolidation has not been sufficiently addressed yet. This book tries to fill the gap and examines the causes and nature of the deteriorating quality of democracy in Central Europe as well as the reversal or stagnation of democratization processes in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. The political elite plays a key role in initiating legislative changes that may lead to democratic backsliding. Its constant commitment to the rule of law and to the practice of selfrestraint in securing the independence of judiciary and the rights of political opposition appears hence indispensable for sustainable liberal democracy.

The book investigates the Romantics' fascination with the character of Richard III and explores his iconic centrality from the historical, the textual and the theatrical points of view. The multiplicity of Romantic-period Richards mirrored the age, as it was related to the cultural and ideological multiplicity of the Romantic era itself.

Este libro tiene como objetivo el estudio de una selección de unidades y construcciones de la gramática del español que plantean problemas de demarcación. Se trata de una obra colectiva, formada por nueve capítulos organizados en tres secciones: I. Límites intramorfológicos; II. Límites entre morfología y sintaxis; III. Límites entre construcciones sintácticas. Los fenómenos elegidos como objeto de estudio o bien constituyen problemas de demarcación que podemos considerar «clásicos» en la gramática del español (como los adverbios en -mente o las cláusulas adverbiales), o bien plantean problemas de límites entre unidades o construcciones que han recibido escasa atención en la bibliografía especializada (como, por ejemplo, los adverbios concordados). Para cada fenómeno seleccionado, se presentan los problemas gramaticales que plantea y se discuten las principales propuestas de análisis desarrolladas en la bibliografía, con el fin de ofrecer al lector los argumentos que apoyan cada uno de los análisis alternativos.

Using the Devil with Courtesy analyses Renaissance forms of (im)politeness through Shakespeare. Adopting a historical pragmatic perspective drawing in particular on Brown and Levinson (1987), Jucker (2010) and Culpeper (2011), the book focuses specifically on Hamlet (c. 1601) and The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1594).

This book reframes the debate around migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around Lampedusa, by exploring how art forms - including works by Aida Silvestri, Bouchra Khalili, Isaac Julien, Maya Ramsay, Dagmawi Yimer and Broomberg & Chanarin - have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration.

Perhaps because of his stature and influence as a comic playwright, Goldoni has rarely been considered as an innovator in the musical sphere. This study aims to shed new light on his primary role in the evolution of Classical opera, and on the legacy of his innovations in the European musical tradition.

This edited volume address the topical questions of internationalisation in higher education, where especially different transnational mobilities and activities are the central development feature. The chapters are offering case studies from different continents and areas, such as the Nordic countries, Eastern and Western Europe and Asia.

This book explores key concepts in ESL/EFL writing assessment, raising some important research issues and providing a compendium of the research carried out from the 1980s onwards into the assessment of writing in a foreign/second language classroom across different educational levels, outlining the major tenets of research in the field.

En Grande Grèce, le bel Adonis a largement inspiré les peintres, en majorité apuliens, qui ont illustré les différents épisodes du mythe, dont la remontée des Enfers, assimilable au renouveau de la végétation, thème en rapport avec la destination funéraire des vases.Hormis l'arbre à myrrhe, qui lui a donné naissance, trois plantes sont particulièrement associées à Adonis, le myrte, le laurier et le grenadier. Leur représentation est le sujet de cette étude.

Die externe Wissenschaftskommunikation ¿ also die Wissenschaftskommunikation über die jeweilige Forschungsgemeinschaft hinaus ¿ hat in den letzten etwa 20 Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. In besonderem Masse gilt dies für die Geisteswissenschaften, die ihre Existenzberechtigung zunehmend öffentlich legitimieren müssen. Der Band legt einen Grundstein für die systematische linguistische Erforschung der externen Kommunikation der Geisteswissenschaften, die bisher weitgehend ein Desiderat geblieben ist. Seine Beiträge untersuchen das kommunikative Verhältnis zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Öffentlichkeit(en) ausgehend von konkreten empirischen Beispielen. Direkt oder indirekt zeigen sie auch Möglichkeiten auf, wie sich die externe Kommunikation der Geisteswissenschaften in Zukunft zu deren Vorteil verändern könnte.

How can we look at a picture in order to rethink aesthetics as a discipline that allows us to look at pictures from a philosophical point of view? Diderot's Salons demonstrate that the "imaginal" process leading to knowledge emerges from the picture itself, and that this process needs to be supported by a philosophical method.