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Germany in the Age of Bismarck
by W. SimonOriginally published in 1968, this was the first time that a comprehensive selection of documents on Germany in the Age of Bismarck had been made available to students and other readers in the English language. The documents were chosen to illuminate not only Bismarck’s own personality and policies but also the nature of the problems he faced and the reactions of his contemporaries. The substantial introduction serves as a general background and guide to the documents, which are in the form of letters, essays, polemics, speeches, and memoirs, produced in the period itself. They allow the student to obtain a genuine first-hand insight into the workings of minds and institutions in Germany during three of the most eventful decades of her history.
Germany's Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
by Kristin KoppIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
Gertie Gorilla's Glorious Gift (Animal Antics A to Z)
by Barbara deRubertisGertie Gorilla is going to a birthday party—and she has a grand, great, glorious gift! But when the gift gets grubby in a soggy, boggy gulch, what will Gertie do?
Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children
by Mary Ellen EllsworthMillions of children around the world know and love The Boxcar Children. The independence and perseverance of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden have captured readers' attention for over 50 years. This biography introduces young readers to their creator, Gertrude Chandler Warner, telling of her childhood, her bouts with poor health, and her teaching and writing careers.
Gertrude More: Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 3 (The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four)
by Gertrude MoreGertrude More belongs to a tradition of mystical writers who believed in the value of the via negativa, a path to union with God by way of total self-abnegation and the emptying of the mind of set ideas and images. Her only book-length work, THE SPIRITVAL EXERCISES (Paris, 1658), is a collection of her writing assembled by Dom Augustine Baker, OSB, and published some thirty-three years after her death. Some of More’s other verse and prose appears in the biography that Baker composed, but her SPIRITVAL EXERCISES remains the main text she has bequeathed to her order and to posterity. It is reprinted here in full with Arthur F. Marotti's introductory note outlining Gertrude More's life and work.
Gertrude Stein: Woman without Qualities
by G.F. MitranoIn her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.F. Mitrano argues that Stein's particular take on modernity has special relevance for today. Tracing what she describes as Stein's deeply modernist story of transformation from a nineteenth-century American woman to the disquieting muse of avant-garde culture portrayed in Picasso's famous portrait, Mitrano illuminates Stein's immense appetite for life, her love of thinking, and her craving for recognition. Her approach is innovative, combining the exegetical, the visual, and the theoretical, to emphasize Stein's struggle for individuality and public achievement as a profoundly historical struggle involving personal choices linked, for example, to her sexuality or the uses of her physical appearance. Stein continues to attract attention, Mitrano contends, because she anticipates many contemporary concerns, especially in the field of critical thinking: from the question of subjectivity, to the status of the writer as a laborer among many, to the meaning of fame and the private/public divide.
Gertrude Stein: Selections (Poets for the Millennium #Volume 6)
by Joan RetallackThis selection of Gertrude Stein's work is taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when the iconic modernist poet was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence all the arts. Editor Joan Retallack has chosen complete texts or selections that lend themselves to a clarified vision of Stein's oeuvre. In her brilliant introduction, Retallack provides the historical and biographical context for Stein's lifelong project of composing a 'continuous present,' an effort which parallels many of the most important technological and scientific developments of her era - from moving pictures to Einstein's revision of our understanding of space and time. Retallack also addresses persistent questions about Stein's work and the best way to read it in our contemporary moment. In suggesting a performative 'reading poesis' for these works, Retallack follows Stein's dictum by arguing that to actively experience the work is to enjoy it, and to enjoy it is to understand it.
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism
by M. Lynn WeissAfter the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. “I've got to help him,” she said. “You see, we are both members of a minority group.” The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the next fifteen months, the two kept up a lively correspondence which culminated in Wright's visit to Paris in May 1946 and ended with Stein's death a few months later. Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent exile in France. Still, the obvious differences between them—in class, ethnic and racial origins, and in artistic expression—beg the question: What was there to talk about? This question opens a window onto each writer's meditations on the influence of racial, ethnic, national origins on the formation of identity in a modern and post-modern world. The intuitive and intellectual affinities between Stein and Wright are illuminated in several works of nonfiction. Stein's Paris France and Wright's Pagan Spain are meditations on expatriation and creativity. Their so-called homecoming narratives—Stein's Everybody's Autobiography and Wright's Black Power—examine concepts of racial and national identity in a post-modernist world. Respectively, in Lectures in America and White Man, Listen!, Stein and Wright outline the ways in which the poetics and politics of modernism are inextricably bound. At the close of the twentieth century, the meditations of Stein and Wright on the protean quality of individual identity and its artistic, social, and political expression explore the most prescient and pressing issues of our time and beyond.
Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
by Karen LeickThis book is a cultural history of Stein’s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were much more well-known than has been previously acknowledged. Specifically, Leick reveals through the case study of Stein that the relationship between mass culture and modernism in America was less antagonistic, more productive and integrated than previous studies have suggested.
Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism
by Amy FeinsteinChallenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein’s constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaism was central to Stein’s ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects the modernist era to the Jewish experience. Combing through Stein’s scholastic writings, drafting notebooks, and literary works, Feinstein analyzes references to Judaism that have puzzled scholars. She reveals the never-before-discussed influence of Matthew Arnold as well as a hidden Jewish framework in Stein’s epic novel The Making of Americans. In Stein’s experimental “voices” poems, Feinstein identifies an explicitly Jewish vocabulary that expresses themes of marriage, nationalism, and Zionism. She also shows how Wars I Have Seen, written in Vichy France during World War II, compares the experience of wartime occupation with the historic persecution of Jews. Affirming the importance of Jewish identity and modernist style to Gertrude Stein’s legacy as a writer, this book radically changes the way we read and appreciate Stein’s work.
Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens: The Performance of Modern Consciousness (Studies in Major Literary Authors #14)
by Sara J. FordThis book traces the presence of the theater, both as an abstract concept and a literal space, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens as it attempts to explain the parallel depictions of consciousness that are found in both authors' work. Literary modernists inherited a self that was fallible, a self that was seen as an ultimately failed gesture of expression, and throughout much modern literature is a sense of disillusionment with more traditional notions of selfhood. As more conventional ways of thinking about consciousness became untenable, so too did conventional models of artistic expression.This book shows how Stein and Stevens provide powerful examples of this modern attempt to stage the new subject.
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend
by Roy Morris Jr.The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Pantomiming the voice of her partner Alice, The Autobiography was actually Gertrude's work. But whoever the real author was, the uncharacteristically lucid and readable book won over the hearts of thousands of Americans, whose clamor to meet Gertrude and Alice in person convinced them to return to America for the first time in thirty years from their self-imposed exile in France. For more than six months, Gertrude and Alice crisscrossed America, from New England to California, from Minnesota to Texas, stopping at thirty-seven different cities along the way. They had tea with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, attended a star-studded dinner party at Charlie Chaplin's home in Beverly Hills, enjoyed fifty-yard-line seats at the annual Yale-Dartmouth football game, and rode along with a homicide detective through the streets of Chicago. They met with the Raven Society in Edgar Allan Poe's old room at the University of Virginia, toured notable Civil War battlefields, and ate Oysters Rockefeller for the first time at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans. Everywhere they went, they were treated like everyone's favorite maiden aunts—colorful, eccentric, and eminently quotable.In Gertrude Stein Has Arrived, noted literary biographer Roy Morris Jr. recounts with characteristic energy and wit the couple's rollicking tour, revealing how—much to their surprise—they rediscovered their American roots after three decades of living abroad. Entertaining and sympathetic, this clear-eyed account captures Gertrude Stein for the larger-than-life legend she was and shows the unique relationship she had with her indefatigable companion, Alice B. Toklas—the true power behind the throne.
Geschichte denken: Erläuterungen zur Historik
by Jörn RüsenDieser Band bietet einen vielgestaltigen Überblick zu den Grundfragen der Historik und des historischen Denkens. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jörn Rüsen ist Historiker und Kulturwissenschaftler.
Geschichte der literarischen Vortragskunst
by Reinhart Meyer-KalkusLiterarische Vortragskunst entstand in Deutschland in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts als ein von Schauspiel und anderen Vortragsgattungen (Rede, Predigt, Vorlesung etc.) unterschiedenes Sprachspiel des Vorlesens, Rezitierens und Deklamierens von Gedichten, Erzählungen und Dramen. Die vorliegende Untersuchung ist die erste umfassende Geschichte dieser Vortragskunst von Klopstock bis zu Kling, ja bis zum Poetry-Slam. Sie konzentriert sich auf die verschiedenen Akteure (Autoren, professionelle Rezitatoren, Deutschlehrer, Sprecherzieher und Laien) sowie auf deren Vortragsformate und Zuhörer im Kontext der Veränderung vortragsästhetischer Normen und mediengeschichtlicher Innovationen. Mit Rückgriff auf Einsichten der Medienwissenschaft, Performance-Analyse und Stimmforschung entwickelt sie einen analytischen Ansatz, um Vortragsformate und Vortragsweisen in ihrer Historizität zu beschreiben.
Geschichten erzählen: Storytelling für Radio und Podcast (Journalistische Praxis)
by Sven PregerEs gehört zu den schönsten und komplexesten Aufgaben in Podcast und Radio: spannende Geschichten zu erzählen. Wie kann ich Hörer*innen 15, 30 oder 60 Minuten an eine reale Geschichte binden? Oder gar für eine ganze Serie begeistern? Dieses Buch beschreibt den professionellen Weg zu einer spannenden Erzählung. Es gibt praxistaugliche Antworten auf alle entscheidenden Fragen: Welche Stoffe taugen für lange Geschichten? Wie halte ich die Spannung von Anfang bis Ende aufrecht? Wie finde ich meine Erzählstimme und klinge als Host natürlich? Und wie entwickelt man ein Sound Design für komplexe Erzählungen? Ein Praxis-Buch, mit dessen Hilfe sich die Potenziale von Podcast und Radio entfalten lassen. Die Website zum Buch bietet weiterführende Links und ergänzt aktuelle Entwicklungen. Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band überarbeitet, aktualisiert und mit neuen Beispielen ergänzt.
geschlecht_transkulturell: Aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven
by Eva Hausbacher Liesa Herbst Julia Ostwald Martina ThieleDieses Buch konturiert das Forschungsfeld „Transkulturelle Geschlechterforschung“. Die spezifische Verbindung von Transkulturalität und Geschlechterforschung ermöglicht, sich aus einer globalen, vernetzenden Perspektive mit der Strukturkategorie Geschlecht und ihren diskursiven Verschränkungen mit Kultur sowie den jeweiligen medialen, literarischen und szenischen (Re-)Präsentationen dieses Zusammenhangs auseinanderzusetzen. Der Band betont die Notwendigkeit einer Wissenschaftsmodernisierung im Sinne einer kritischen Reflexion wissenschaftlicher Methoden und theoretischer Positionen und ist aufgrund historischer wie aktueller gesellschaftspolitischer Transformationsprozesse von hoher Relevanz.Der Beitrag Die Migrantin retten!? Zum vertrackten Verhältnis von Geschlechtergewalt, Rassismus und Handlungsmacht wurde bereits unter der Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de) veröffentlicht.
Gesellschaftspolitisches Engagement in Zeiten von Trump & Co.: Chancen und Risiken für Unternehmen (essentials)
by Stefanie Molthagen-SchnöringStefanie Molthagen-Schnöring analysiert in diesem essential, warum und wie sich Unternehmen zu gesellschaftspolitischen Problemstellungen, z. B. Digitalisierung, gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe, Integration, positionieren. Sie fragt, wie sich dieses Engagement zu etablierten Aktivitäten wie Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Affairs und Unternehmenskommunikation/Marketing verhält und wie es in interne und externe (Kommunikations-)Prozesse eingebettet ist. Dabei beleuchtet sie Chancen und Risiken einer gesellschaftspolitischen Positionierung durch Unternehmen und betrachtet die Reaktionen wichtiger Stakeholder. Die Autorin arbeitet mit Beispielen und Stimmen von Expertinnen und Experten aus der Praxis.
Gesprächsführung in technischen Berufen
by Annette Verhein-Jarren Bärbel Bohr Beatrix KossmannDieser praxisnahe Gesprächsleitfaden wurde speziell für technische Berufe entwickelt. Er zeichnet sich durch den Bezug zum industriellen Umfeld aus und bietet zahlreiche Beispiele für Gesprächsanlässe und typische Gesprächsthemen.Praktische Hinweise zeigen, wie Gespräche konstruktiv genutzt werden können, um- Fachwissen auszubauen und zu teilen,- Ursachen von Missverständnissen zu erkennen, - Interessen überzeugend zu vertreten. Daneben bietet es die erforderlichen theoretischen Grundlagen.Die ZielgruppenDas Buch eignet sich gleichermaßen für Studierende sowie für junge Fachkräfte aus Ingenieurwesen und Technik.
The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories
by Michael J. CroweThis book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes’s efforts reveal a new perspective on the case, typically identifying the culprit(s) and resolving the case. Drawing on ideas presented by Thomas S. Kuhn in his famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Crowe argues that similar to the way that Kuhn applied the idea of a Gestalt shift to the history of science, this approach can be used to reveal the structure of the Holmes stories and possibly be applied to some other areas of fiction.
The Gestalts of Mind and Text (Studies and Research in the Psychology of Art)
by Chanita Goodblatt Joseph GlicksohnThe Gestalts of Mind and Text bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary Studies. The book presents an investigation of metaphor in poetic texts, adopting and developing empirical methods used by Gestalt Psychology, while integrating concepts informed by Gestalt Psychology. The title indicates an intellectual tradition, to be termed the Gestalt of the Mind, that begins with the Würzburg School of Psychology and its subsequent development into Gestalt Psychology, which provides a rich heritage for the field of Cognitive Literary Studies. The title further indicates an intellectual and creative tradition, to be termed the Gestalt of the Text, applied to various literary schools (Medieval, Early Modern, Modernist). Finally, the Gestalt-Interaction Theory of Metaphor delineates the potentialities for different types of readings of poetic metaphor. This book further makes three significant contributions: the first is the focus on the empirical investigation of metaphor in poetic texts; the second is the integration of the aspects of problem-solving, bidirectionality of metaphor, embodied cognition and the grotesque, in analyzing poetic texts and verbal protocols; and the third is the focus on various literary traditions, spanning languages and periods. The goal of this book is to present an interdisciplinary study of the Gestalts of Mind and Text. This will be of interest to a varied audience, including cognitive psychologists, literary scholars, researchers in aesthetics, scholars of metaphor and those with an interest in intellectual history.
Gestión de la marca Montevideo (2005-2008): La creación del primer manual de identidad corporativa
by Gonzalo EyherabideUn estudio sobre el primer manual de estilo gráfico de la Intendencia de Montevideo. Hace doce años, la Intendencia de Montevideo lanzó una nueva marca ciudad e instrumentó un Programa Visual de Identidad Institucional basado en la creación de un equipo de gestión integrado por profesionales de la comunicación, y el desarrollo y puesta en práctica del primer manual de identidad corporativa generalista de un gobierno en Uruguay.El presente estudio consiste en una relatoría de la gestión del cambio que implicó dicha innovación. Se trata de la descripción y análisis sobre cómo se creó el clima para el cambio, de qué forma se propició el compromiso a diferentes niveles de la organización, y qué estrategia y herramientas se emplearon para implementar y mantener en el tiempo esta transformación.
Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide (Second Language Acquisition Research Series)
by Gale Stam Kimberly UrbanskiThis timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching. Expert contributors from around the world outline the theoretical basis for each topic and offer clear descriptions of data collection and analysis methods for classroom, naturalistic, quasi-experimental, and experimental settings. The book further offers a rich array of ancillary pedagogical material and points out areas ripe for future study. This will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers of applied linguistics, communications, education, and psychology interested in gesture studies and multimodality in L2 learning and teaching.
Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide (ISSN)
by Gale Stam Kimberly UrbanskiThis timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching. Expert contributors from around the world outline the theoretical basis for each topic and offer clear descriptions of data collection and analysis methods for classroom, naturalistic, quasi-experimental, and experimental settings. The book further offers a rich array of ancillary pedagogical material and points out areas ripe for future study. This will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers of applied linguistics, communications, education, and psychology interested in gesture studies and multimodality in L2 learning and teaching.
Gesture in Multiparty Interaction (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics #24)
by Emily ShawGesture in Multiparty Interaction confronts the competing views that exist regarding gesture’s relationship to language. In this work, Emily Shaw examines embodied discourses in American Sign Language and spoken English and seeks to establish connections between sign language and co-speech gesture. By bringing the two modalities together, Shaw illuminates the similarities between certain phenomena and presents a unified analysis of embodied discourse that more clearly captures gesture’s connection to language as a whole. Shaw filmed Deaf and hearing participants playing a gesture-based game as part of a social game night. Their interactions were then studied using discourse analysis to see whether and how Deaf and hearing people craft discourses through the use of their bodies. This volume examines gesture, not just for its iconic, imagistic qualities, but also as an interactive resource in signed and spoken discourse. In addition, Shaw addresses the key theoretical barriers that prevent a full accounting of gesture’s interface with signed and spoken language. Her study pushes further the notion that language is fundamentally embodied.
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