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Verbrechen als „Bild der Zeit“: Kriminalitätsdiskurse der Weimarer Republik in Literatur, Film und Publizistik (Kriminalität in Literatur und Medien #1)
by Christof Hamann Susanne DüwellWährend der Zeit der Weimarer Republik entsteht ein breites Spektrum an Verbrechensdarstellungen und Reflexionen über Kriminalität, das erst zum Teil bzw. in Einzelstudien erforscht ist. Zudem stehen vor allem ausgewählte kanonische kriminalliterarische Texte und Filme im Zentrum des Interesses. Ziel des geplanten Bandes ist es, gerade die Vielfalt und Bandbreite an Darstellungsformen und diskursiven Verhandlungen von Kriminalität zwischen 1918 und 1933 zu diskutieren und dabei literatur-, medien-, diskurs- und wissensgeschichtliche Perspektiven miteinander zu verbinden.
Verbrechen wider die Natur: Literatur und Strafrecht im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Literatur und Recht #17)
by Gideon StieningVerbrechen wider die Natur gelten während der frühen Neuzeit als besonders schwerwiegende Vergehen. Sie werden daher in drastischer Weise und oftmals öffentlich bestraft. Sowohl das Vergehen als auch dessen Bestrafung ziehen große Aufmerksamkeit auf sich, so dass sie nicht nur in der Strafrechtstheorie und der Strafrechtspraxis, sondern auch der Philosophie, der Publizistik sowie in der Literatur intensiv und kritisch reflektiert werden. Die Beiträge des Bandes stellen nicht nur die Palette der Vergehen dar, sondern reflektieren auch auf die Begründungen für ihren Vergehenscharakter, das Strafmaß sowie deren allmählichen Wandel im Zeitalter der Aufklärung.
Verbände zwischen Öffentlichkeit, Medien und Politik (essentials)
by Sigrid Koch-BaumgartenDer Titel befasst sich mit dem Wandel der politischen Kommunikation von Verbänden in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland unter den Herausforderungen der Politikbeobachtung durch allgegenwärtige Massenmedien. Nach einer Einführung in die Funktionen und Bedeutung von Verbänden und Medien in der Politikvermittlung zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft werden die neuen Verflechtungen von öffentlichen, medialen und nichtöffentlichen, institutionellen Politikarenen in der Mediengesellschaft sowie deren Rückwirkungen auf die verbandliche Interessenpolitik, Organisation und Binnen- wie Außenkommunikation behandelt. Vorgestellt und diskutiert werden unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche Interpretationsansätze zum Verhältnis von Verbänden und Massenmedien.
Verdad: Cómo los distintos lados de cada historia configuran nuestra realidad
by Hector Macdonald¿Verdad o mentira? Las cosas casi nunca son tan sencillas.Un alegato a favor de la verdad en tiempos de posverdad. Hay más de una verdad acerca de casi todo. Comer carne es nutritivo, pero también perjudicial para el medioambiente. Internet difunde el conocimiento, pero también el odio. Como es lógico, cuando nos comunicamos seleccionamos aquellas verdades que son más favorables a lo que nos interesa defender. Podemos elegir verdades de manera constructiva para inspirar a nuestros compañeros, animar a las nuevas generaciones y fomentar cambios positivos. O podemos optar por aquellas que proyectan una imagen falsa de la realidad y engañan a la gente sin mentir. Los demás pueden hacer lo mismo, motivarnos o manipularnos mediante la verdad. Las verdades son herramientas neutrales y muy versátiles que podemos emplear para bien o para mal. En Verdad, Hector Macdonald explora cómo se usa y abusa de la verdad en la política, los negocios, los medios de comunicación y la vida cotidiana, para demostrar que una mejor comprensión de las muchas caras de la verdad nos ayuda a navegar mejor nuestro mundo e influir más en él. Macdonald combina su talento narrativo con lecciones prácticas y una sucesión de historias fascinantes, divertidas e iluminadoras. Verdad es un libro necesario y adictivo acerca de cuán profundamente nuestras acciones y opiniones se ven influidas por las verdades que deciden contar quienes nos rodean
Verdades como puños: La mirada diaria de Noticias Cuatro
by Iñaki GabilondoUna contundente visión de la realidad política y social que nos revela la verdadera cara de la actualidad. Iñaki Gabilondo es sin lugar a dudas uno de los profesionales del periodismo más reputados del momento. Su ironía y su magistral manera de ver la actualidad se reflejan a diario en los editoriales de cada uno de los informativos que presenta en Cuatro. La calidad y maestría de los mismos, el juego y la genialidad ofrecen entre líneas la verdadera opinión de un maestro, y mueven al espectador al otro lado de la pantalla, lo hacen reflexionar. En definitiva, nunca dejan indiferentes. Verdades como puños reúne estos magistrales editoriales en uno de los mejores análisis de nuestra realidad política y social, que golpean al lector y le revelan la verdadera cara de la actualidad; la mayoría de las veces, la menos grata. -La verdad sin miedo-Políticos sin máscara-La deriva del terrorismo-Las pretensiones de la Iglesia-La crisis que pagamos todos-Las incógnitas del nacionalismo-La corrupción rampante-La debacle financiera-El nuevo equilibrio mundial-La polémica Educación para la Ciudadanía-Sin papeles: el drama de la inmigración-Pánico en el parquet-Los juzgados desbordados-La crisis en el PP
Verdi's Shakespeare
by Garry WillsA dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but adored Shakespeare, Verdi devoted himself to operatic productions that authentically incorporated the playwright's texts. Wills delves into the fast-paced worlds of these men of the theater, focusing on the intense working relationships both Shakespeare and Verdi had with the performers and producers of their works. We see Verdi study the Shakespearean dramaturgy as he obsessively corresponds with his chosen librettists, handpicks the singers he feels are best- suited to the roles, and coaches them intensely. With fascinating portraits of these artistic giants and their entourages, sharp insights into music and theater, and telling historical details, Verdi's Shakespeare re-creates the conditions that allowed Verdi to complete his masterworks and illuminates the very nature of artistic creation. .
Vergeltung und Verfahren: Zur Verbrechensdarstellung vor der klassischen Kriminalliteratur (Literatur und Recht #16)
by Eric Achermann Sebastian SpethDiesem Band geht es dezidiert nicht darum, eine teleologische Großerzählung zu schreiben, mit der die Erfolgsgeschichte von Kriminalroman und Detektivgeschichte unter Missachtung der jeweiligen historischen Besonderheiten nach vorne verlängert würde. Stattdessen ist das Ziel, alternative Modelle der Erzählung und Darstellung von Kriminalität in verschiedenen Gattungen zu untersuchen – immer unter dem konstitutiven Einbezug des jeweils geltenden rechtlichen Rahmens. Das Spektrum reicht von der klassischen Antike über Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit bis an den Punkt, an dem sich das heute vorherrschende Genre-Verständnis mit dem Aufkommen der Detektivfigur verfestigt und verengt.
Vergil and Elegy (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes #60)
by Alison Keith Micah Y. MyersBorn in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work. This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil’s multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil’s interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil’s hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil’s radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet’s wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.
Vergil in the Middle Ages
by Domenico ComparettiFrom its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet. Scholars of the time had transformed Vergil into a sage and a seer, a type of universal philosopher--even a Christian poet and a guide of a Christian poet. In the mid-twelfth century, there surfaced legends that converted Vergil into a magician, endowing him with supernatural powers. Comparetti explores the ongoing interest in Vergil's poetry as it appeared in popular folklore and legends as well as in medieval classical scholarship. This great synthesizing work, which has been unavailable for over twenty years, is now back in print, based on E.F.M. Benecke's 1895 translation of the Italian second edition. Comparetti begins with the period in which Vergil lived and goes on to evaluate how the later images, particularly the legends, of Vergil coincide with the more scholarly accounts of his life. The result is a grand sweep of literary history from the first century B.C.E. through the end of the Middle Ages, with implications for the nineteenth century and the rise of Italian nationalism.
Vergil's Eclogues
by Barbara Hughes FowlerBest remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman authorities threatened to seize his family's land, Vergil's appeal in the form of Eclogue IX won a stay. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor. Barbara Hughes Fowler provides scholars and students with a new American verse translation of Vergil's Eclogues. An accomplished translator, Fowler renders the poet's words into an English that is contemporary while remaining close to the spirit of the original. In an introduction to the text, she compares the treatment of the pastoral form by Vergil and Theocritus, illuminating the ways in which Vergil borrowed from and built upon the earlier poet's work, and thereby moved the genre in a new direction.
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
by Jeffrey Fish David ArmstrongThe Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. <P><P>Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As improved texts and translations of Philodemus' writings have become available since the 1970s, scholars have taken a keen interest in his relations with leading Latin poets.
Vergil: The Poet's Life (Ancient Lives)
by Sarah RudenA biography of Vergil, Rome&’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70–19 BCE) became the world&’s first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure; we know that he was born into a modest rural family, that he led a private and solitary life, and that, in spite of poor health and unusual emotional vulnerabilities, he worked tirelessly to achieve exquisite new effects in verse. Vergil&’s most famous work, the Aeneid, was commissioned by the emperor Augustus, who published the epic despite Vergil&’s dying wish that it be destroyed. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil&’s own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct his life. Through her intimate knowledge of Vergil&’s work, she brings to life a poet who was committed to creating something astonishingly new and memorable, even at great personal cost.
Vergleichende Weltliteraturen / Comparative World Literatures: DFG-Symposion 2018
by Dieter Lamping Galin TihanovDas Konzept der Weltliteratur ist über die Komparatistik hinaus zu einem grundlegenden Paradigma für die Erforschung der Literatur avanciert, das sich neben dem lange herrschenden nationalen etabliert hat. Die gerade durch neue literarische Entwicklungen komplexer gewordene Logik des Begriffs ‚Weltliteratur‘ reflektiert die verschiedenen Aspekte literarischer Internationalisierung. Sie verweist auch auf theoretische Differenzen, die zugleich eine historische und kulturelle Signatur haben und die deshalb nur komparativ-differenzierend beschrieben werden können. In diesem Sinn stellt die Pluralität der Weltliteratur als Begriff wie als Sache den Ausgangspunkt der Überlegungen des Symposions dar, die sich als in einem starken Sinn vergleichend verstehen und dabei auch über die europäische Literatur und den europäischen Kontext hinausgehen.
Verhandeln als Kommunikationskompetenz: Grundlagen für erfolgreiches Verhandeln in Führung, Betrieb und Alltag (essentials)
by Urs AlterDr. Urs Alter gibt einen Überblick zu Kommunikationskompetenzen und macht mit vielen praktischen Hinweisen Mut, durch Verhandeln Lösungen bei unterschiedlichen Standpunkten zu suchen. Verhandlungen sind in der Beziehung zwischen Menschen alltäglich. Da sie jedoch immer konflikthaft sind und ein breites Repertoire an Kommunikationskompetenzen erfordern, vermeiden viele Menschen Verhandlungen. Dieses Essential zeigt, dass erfolgreiches Verhandeln gelernt werden kann und nicht Repräsentanten von Interessengruppen und hochrangigen Akteuren der Gesellschaft vorbehalten ist.
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
by Ahmed Bouajjani David MonniauxThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2017, held in Paris, France, in January 2017. The 27 full papers together with 3 invited keynotes presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. VMCAI provides topics including: program verification, model checking, abstract interpretation and abstract domains, program synthesis, static analysis, type systems, deductive methods, program certification, debugging techniques, program transformation, optimization, hybrid and cyber-physical systems.
Verkaufen, Flirten, Führen: Persuasive Kommunikation – ein Überblick
by Klaus SchönbachWie und warum gelingt es uns, andere davon zu überzeugen, etwas zu kaufen, uns zu helfen, sich (ver)führen zu lassen? Und was können wir dafür von der Werbung lernen? Ein umfassender Überblick über die Erkenntnisse zur persuasiven Kommunikation - von einem der auch international bekanntesten deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaftler, auf der Erfahrung mit Forschung, Seminaren, Vorlesungen und Kursen aus mehr als 40 Jahren aufgebaut und auf dem neuesten Stand der Wissenschaft. Praktisch, aber mit gründlichem theoretischen Hintergrund. Mit allen Quellenangaben zum Weiterlesen. Für die sechste Auflage wurde der Band aktualisiert und überarbeitet.
Verlaine: A Study in Parallels
by A. E. CarterThe contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges comparison with the very best of its kind. Yet here and there can be found a curious weakening in the texture of thought and inspiration: he turns and twists, takes flight, seeks reassurance in platitude and convention – marriage, dogmatic theology, reactionary political creeds. He is even capable of lamenting (as Rimbaud shows him in Une Saison en Enfer) the emotional and poetic experiments which give his work its supreme value. It is almost as though he were afraid of his own talent. The explanation, as far as there is one, lies in a combination of personality and circumstance. This biography attempts to explore the "parallels" (Verlaine's own term) between his life and his poetry. Nearly everything he produced, whether good or bad, was a reflection of some crisis of thought or feeling. No one demonstrates better than Verlaine the antinomies between the artist and his work, between the man and the genius; and in every case we are obliged to admit that the one explains the other. Without the weakness and the squalor we might indeed have had a rational human being and a good husband for Mathilde Mauté, but we should have had no poet, or no poet like Paul Verlaine. Professor Carter concentrates on the combination of Verlaine's personality and experiences that produced some of the most brilliant poetry in the French language. The result is one of the best critical biographies of Verlaine published to date.
Verleiblichte Differenz: Kritische Phänomenologie und narrative Texte über Behinderung, Race und Sexualität
by Simon DickelDieses Buch untersucht, wie phänomenologische Ansätze zu den Themen Verleiblichung, Wahrnehmung und gelebte Erfahrung innerhalb der Disability Studies, der Critical Race Theory und der Queer Studies diskutiert werden. Auf Grundlage dieser Disziplinen analysiert der Autor Autobiografien und Romane, die sich mit den Folgen von Stigmatisierung und den körperlichen Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit auseinandersetzen. Die untersuchten Texte sind Robert F. Murphys The Body Silent, Simi Lintons My Body Politic, Rod Michalkos The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, drei autobiografische Texte von Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carters The Bern Book sowie zwei Romane, Matthew Griffin's Hide und Armistead Maupin's Maybe the Moon. All dieseTexte haben die Bedeutung von Körpergedächtnis und Wahrnehmungsgewohnheiten, den Einfluss von Sprache und Kultur für Prozesse der Verleiblichung, die Bedeutung von Relationalität und Gemeinschaft,die Auswirkungen von Beleidigung und Nichtanerkennung sowie Emanzipation und soziale Anerkennung zum Thema. Folglich werden sie als bahnbrechende Beiträge zur kritischen Phänomenologie diskutiert.
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music (The New Middle Ages)
by Katharine W. JagerVernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse: The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)
by Jeffrey M. RingerVernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals that the evangelical Christian faith of contemporary college students—and the rhetorical practice motivated by it—is marked by an openness to social context and pluralism that offers possibilities for civil discourse. Based on case studies of evangelical Christian student writers, contextualized within nationally-representative trends as reported by the National Study of Youth and Religion, and grounded in scholarship from rhetorical theory, composition studies, folklore studies, and sociology of religion, this book offers rhetorical educators a new terministic screen that reveals the complex processes at work within our students’ vernacular constructions of religious faith.
Vernacular Edens: Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions
by Simone MarchesiLate-medieval European vernacular literature defined itself as the redeployment of classical and post-classical antecedents in new cultural coordinates. Many authors of narrative and poetic fiction between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries resisted the idea that moving a text from one language to another produces a loss of meaning, or, as today’s idiom goes, that something always gets “lost in translation.” Rather, they understood the process of vernacular translation as a regenerative cultural practice and often associated it with depictions of luscious and paradisal gardens in their works. Vernacular Edens presents a systematic study of a literary commonplace, the representation of gardens in medieval fictions, as a lens to understand the theories and practices of translation from Latin to the vernaculars. The book argues that the prominent narrative space that works composed in Old French, Italian, and Middle English give to garden-visit scenes is connected to their vindication of translation as an always-enriching practice. A wide range of texts from Marie de France’s Lais to the Roman de la Rose, from Dante’s Comedy to Boccaccio’s Decameron, and from Petrarch’s Griselda to Chaucer’s Clerk’s and Merchant’s Tales provide the body of evidence analysed in the book.
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Translation/Transnation #45)
by Akshya SaxenaHow English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this original and provocative book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people’s language in a postcolonial democracy.Focusing on experiences of hearing, touching, remembering, speaking, and seeing English, Akshya Saxena delves into a previously unexplored body of texts from English and Hindi literature, law, film, visual art, and public protests. She reveals little-known debates and practices that have shaped the meanings of English in India and the Anglophone world, including the overlooked history of the legislation of English in India. She also calls attention to how low castes and minority ethnic groups have routinely used this elite language to protest the Indian state.Challenging prevailing conceptions of English as a vernacular and global lingua franca, Vernacular English does nothing less than reimagine what a language is and the categories used to analyze it.
Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland (Studies In European Cultural Transition Ser. #6)
by Jennifer BritnellThis title was first published in 2000: The printed writings of the most important authors of the sixteenth century are characterised by frequent references to current affairs. This collection brings together essays by literary scholars and historians of the era to discuss various ways in which those writing in the vernacular during the early sixteenth century responded to contemporary events. The papers in this volume also demonstrate how the spread of literacy was of fundamental significance for the economics of book production, and for ways in which political power was exercised and expressed, as well as for the development of new literary forms of critical and occasional writing.
Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature
by Alison CornishTranslation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend.
Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics)
by Markku Filppula Juhani Klemola Heli PaulastoIn this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English (and of other languages) all over the world: so-called vernacular universals and contact-induced change. Rather than assuming a general typological perspective, the studies in this volume focus on putative universal vernacular features – significant phonological or (morpho-) syntactic parallels found in non-standard varieties of English, English-based Creoles, and also varieties of other languages, all of which represent widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds. These universals are then set against the other major explanatory factor: contact-induced change, by which we understand both the possibility of dialect contact (or dialect diffusion) and language contact (including superstratal, substratal and adstratal influences).