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The book is a monograph on Andrzej Bobkowski's writings, a Polish author, diarist, epistolograph, and essayist, most famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940-1944. The monograph offers an insightful reading of the existential functions of writing, autobiographic strategies, and the axiological dimension of Bobkowski's works.

The book reconstructs a poetic vision of the world after the Fall and describes Czeslaw Milosz's model of modernism, shaped by his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy, yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, and faith in the power of poetic imagination.

Esta obra ofrece un acercamiento a la oracion desde diversas perspectivas linguisticas, con atencion especial a la subordinacion oracional y sus repercusiones desde el punto de vista discursivo. Aunque todos los trabajos incluidos en este volumen se centran primordialmente en el espanol, algunos lo hacen adoptando una perspectiva contrastiva.

Globalisation and social transformation, Immigration management (policy), Migration process and life course, Integration processes and identity formation, Intersectionality and biographical narrative method

In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile technology has developed at a rapid pace and the numbers of mobile users have increased faster than those in the rest of the world. The underlying question of how mobile journalism and social media may support African citizens and contribute to social change forms the basis of this book. A qualitative content analysis provides the methodological framework to interpret the interviews with professional and citizen journalists and media experts. The results suggest that mobile and social media contribute to the plurality of journalism in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa. Mobile and social media reporters are aware of ethical questions and journalistic standards; at the same time, they connect with local communities and adopt an advocative and subjective approach.

Der Band vereint Aufsatze, die Liminalitat in Bezug auf die Gegenwart als Schwellenzeit, auf Gattungstransitionen und auf Grenzerfahrungen des Subjekts in der russisch- und deutschsprachigen Lyrik sowie vergleichend auch in anderen Literaturen und Gattungen behandeln.

War die Alchemie wirklich geheimnisumwoben? Organisierten sich die fruhneuzeitlichen Chemiker in Netzwerken? Wie kamen die Netzwerke zustande, welchen Einflussen unterlagen sie, und wie beeinflussten sie die Entwicklung des chemischen Wissens? Auf diese Fragen gibt das Buch umfassende Antworten

The book ilustrates the procedure of index construction in social researches. Using examples and datasets from social research, tables and SPSS screen captures, the readers are guided through this process. Some problems encountered in practice in this process of constructing an index are highlighted and some solutions are presented.

This study offers a comprehensive reading of Byatt's major novels. It highlights her textual strategies in interrelating her memories of the past with the history of ideas. Connections between narrative, cognitive science, and visual and literary culture display the full range of contextual references woven into her work.

This book uses the model theory as a new way to approach Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. It explores a model of Romantic irony in the poetry of two contemporary Brisbane poets: David Malouf and the Indigenous author Samuel Wagan Watson. The ironic dialectic is applied to the problem of postcolonial place-making in their work.

Der Autor untersucht die aktien- und insiderrechtliche Zulassigkeit eines uberobligatorischen Informationsaustauschs zwischen Private Equity-Investor und Portfolio-Aktiengesellschaft. Er zeigt geeignete Manahmen zur Optimierung des Informationsflusses auf, z.B. konzernrechtliche Gestaltungsmittel oder Strukturmanahmen nach dem Beteiligungserwerb.