Download or read book Die Vermessung der Globalisierung written by Ulfried Reichardt and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War die Diskussion uber die 'Globalisierung' als Leitbegriff der gegenwartigen Epoche bisher vor allem durch wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien gepragt, so ist es das Ziel der hier versammelten Beitrage, die kulturwissenschaftliche Dimension der Debatte nicht nur praziser auszuloten, sondern als eigenstandige Forschungsperspektive zu etablieren und so zu einer umfassenden 'Vermessung' des Begriffs wie auch des Phanomens der Globalisierung beizutragen.. Den Bezugspunkt bildet dabei die Frage, welche Denk-Raume sich eroffnen, wenn eine auf binar formierten Wissensbestanden beruhende kulturelle Beobachtung nicht mehr greift. Neben einer kulturtheoretischen Annaherung an die operative Dimension von Kultur stehen die jeweils spezifische Medialitat, die Darstellungsoptionen, Verfahrensweisen und Regeln kultureller Wissensbildung in Bezug auf das Globale im Zentrum der Uberlegungen. Fragen nach verschiedenen Aspekten und Versionen der Globalisierung werden aus theoretischer und historischer Perspektive und mit Blick auf Literatur, Film, Musik, Kunst und Comics sowie hinsichtlich postmetropolitaner Urbanitat und Postkolonialismus gestellt. Ein Originaltext der japanisch-deutschen Autorin Yoko Tawada belegt die literarische Insistenz transkulturellen Schreibens. Dabei ist es kein Zufall, dass viele Essays amerikanische Debatten aufgreifen und sich mit Phanomenen der amerikanischen Kultur im globalen Raum befassen.
Download or read book Globalization written by Jürgen Osterhammel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all. Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the book traces the emergence of globalization over the past seven or eight centuries. In fact, the authors write, the phenomenon can be traced back to early modern large-scale trading, for example, the silk trade between China and the Mediterranean region, the shipping routes between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the more frequently travelled caravan routes of the Near East and North Africa, all conduits for people, goods, coins, artwork, and ideas.
Download or read book Figuren des Globalen written by Christian Moser and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieser Band umreisst das innovative Feld einer komparatistischen, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Globalisierungsforschung. Welchen Beitrag konnen Literatur, Kunst und Medien fur die Herausbildung eines globalen Imaginaren leisten? Was sind das fur Bilder, Narrative, Tropen und Figuren, die eine Vorstellung von der Einheit der Welt vermitteln? Gemeinsamer Ausgangspunkt der Beitrage ist die Annahme, dass Literatur und Kunste nicht bloss eine gegebene Welt abbilden, sondern an der diskursiven Herstellung von Welt(en) beteiligt sind. Ziel des Bandes ist, die Bestandteile des globalen Imaginaren sowie die verschiedenen Modi der literarischen Weltdarstellung und Weltherstellung in ihrer historischen Bandbreite zu untersuchen. Spezifisch literarische Formen des Weltbezugs werden dabei mit der Konstruktion globaler Zusammenhange in anderen kunstlerischen Medien in Zusammenhang gebracht. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt den Wechselwirkungen zwischen literarisch-kunstlerischen Weltkonstruktionen und den sozialen, okonomischen und politischen Globalisierungsprozessen. Nicht zuletzt werden deren Konsequenzen fur die literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Begriffsbildung - etwa: aktuelle Revisionen des Konzepts der Weltliteratur - reflektiert.
Download or read book Globalization Its Influence on State and Society written by Reinhard Hildebrandt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Translation Classics in Context written by Paul F. Bandia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation Classics in Context carefully considers the relationship between translation and the classics. It presents readers with revelatory and insightful case studies that investigate translations produced as part of nexuses of colonial resistance and liberation across Africa and in Ireland; translations of novels and folklore collections that influence not just other fictions, but stage productions and entire historical disciplines; struggles over Ukrainian and Russian literature and how it is shaped and transferred; and the role of the academy and the curriculum in creating notions of classic translations. Along the way it covers oral poetry, saints, scholars, Walter Scott and Jules Verne, not to mention Leo Tolstoy and the Corpse Bride making her way from folklore to Frankenstein and into the world of Disney animation. Contributors are all leading scholars, and the book is accessible and engaging, assuming no specialist knowledge.
Download or read book Spider Web Labyrinth Tightrope Walk written by Regina Schober and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries.
Download or read book The Ascent of Globalisation written by Harry Blutstein and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ascent of globalisation captures the sweeping drama of postwar globalisation through the stories of nineteen key architects.Through intimate portraits of its architects, the book brings a deep understanding of what inspired and drove the pioneers of globalisation - the beliefs they imbibed in their youth, the experiences that shaped their ideas. Engaging anecdotes and telling personal details enliven each of the stories,many of which have never been told before.The ascent of globalisation brings to light the behind-the-scenes drama that accompanied the creation of institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, UN and World Trade Organization and the informal structures and treaties that have created new and powerful connections.This account shows that the ascent of globalisation was by no means inevitable, but owes its achievements to the force of will of its architects. The ascent of globalisation takes readers behind the scenes, where liberals and neoliberals fought running battles in the war of ideas and wheresurreptitious deals done to satisfy the interests of transnational corporations. Rather than built around a single blueprint, the global architecture is a product of many compromises, which has made the so-called new world order so disorderly.While globalisation has brought benefits, it has brought its fair share of disappointments. The ascent of globalisation explains why the global financial system has proved to be fragile and unstable, the international trading system unfair, transnational capital is largely unregulated andinstitutions like the European Union and the United Nations are dysfunctional.
Download or read book World Culture Re Contextualised written by Jürgen Schriewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive strands of research have shown the emergent reality of increasing world-level interconnection in almost every field of social action. As a consequence, theories and models have been developed which are aimed at conceptualising this new reality along the lines of an ‘institutionalised’ World Culture. This offers a new understanding of the worldwide diffusion of specifically modern – i.e. mainly Western – rules, ideologies and organisational patterns, and of attendant harmonisation and standardisation of fields of social action. World Culture theories have not gone unchallenged. Rather, cross-cultural studies have revealed much more complex processes of regional fragmentation and (re-)diversification; of the refraction, appropriation, and hybridisation, through distinct socio-cultural conditioning, of world-level models and ideas; and of the ongoing effectiveness both of structural path-dependencies and of specifically cultural aspects such as collective memories, social meanings, and religious (or ideological) belief systems. Comparative research has thus highlighted an intricate simultaneity of contrary currents: of the increasing world-level interconnection of communication and exchange relations on the one hand, and, on the other, the persistence of context-specific interpretations, translations, and deviation-generating re-contextualisations of world-level forces and challenges. This research provides the theoretical problematique that animates this volume. The chapters explore the conceptual tools and explanatory power of theories and models which do not just oppose or reject World Culture theory, but are instead suited to complementing and differentiating it. The volume offers an enlightening conceptualisation of the intricate interaction of global processes with local agency, and of world-level forces with the self-evolutionary potentials inherent in specific contexts, socio-cultural structures, and distinctive meanings constellations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.
Download or read book Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives written by Sebastian Domsch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether one describes them as sequential art, graphic narratives or graphic novels, comics have become a vital part of contemporary culture. Their range of expression contains a tremendous variety of forms, genres and modes − from high to low, from serial entertainment for children to complex works of art. This has led to a growing interest in comics as a field of scholarly analysis, as comics studies has established itself as a major branch of criticism. This handbook combines a systematic survey of theories and concepts developed in the field alongside an overview of the most important contexts and themes and a wealth of close readings of seminal works and authors. It will prove to be an indispensable handbook for a large readership, ranging from researchers and instructors to students and anyone else with a general interest in this fascinating medium.
Download or read book Annual Report on English and American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memory in a Global Age written by A. Assmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies.
Download or read book American Studies Shifting Gears written by Birte Christ and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Studies/Shifting Gears brings together contributions by younger scholars from Germany and by renowned colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic. Taking the debate about the "Futures of American Studies" as its point of departure, the volume addresses three larger issues that are crucial to the present and the future positioning of the field: first, the internationalization of the American Studies scholarly community and of scholarly exchange as well as the transnationalization of the field's objects of study; second, interdisciplinary collaborations and transdisciplinary approaches and research; and third, the politics and politicalness of American Studies. "American Studies/Shifting Gears" leads the reader expertly and creatively through what's at stake for the discipline. In its reflections and analyses, the volume slows down at times, then speeds up a little, halts and finds a resting-point, drives down slopes and up steep inclines, and, in the process, shifts gears.
Download or read book Tout Monde written by Ralph Ludwig and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die heutige Welt ist von zunehmenden Austauschbeziehungen zwischen Gesellschaften der «alten Welt» und der «neuen Welt» oder auch «dritten Welt» geprägt; für diese Komplexität wird das Konzept des Tout-Monde - der All-Welt - von Édouard Glissant aufgegriffen. Gibt es einen Tout-Monde auf der Ebene kommunikativ-sprachlicher und kultureller Beschreibungsmodelle? In Europa und in den USA sind interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Interkulturalität entwickelt worden. Zugleich gibt es Tendenzen, ursprünglich an ehemalige Kolonialgesellschaften gebundene Modelle auch anderswo zur Anwendung zu bringen. Hierfür stehen Konzepte wie Hybridisierung und Kreolisierung. Dieser Band fragt nach Herkunft, Gemeinsamkeiten und Kontrasten dieser Ansätze sowie nach ihrer Fruchtbarkeit bei der Umsetzung in verschiedenen Disziplinen.
Download or read book 2011 written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 2983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 639,000 articles from more than 29,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2010, have been catalogued.
Download or read book Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature 1970 2010 written by John David Pizer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture." -- Book cover.
Download or read book Arts and Power written by Lisa Gaupp and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus on concepts of power and domination in societal structures has characterized sociology since its beginnings. Max Weber’s definition of power as “imposing one’s will on others” is still relevant to explaining processes in the arts, whether their production, imagination, communication, distribution, critique or consumption. Domination in the arts is exercised by internal and external rulers through institutionalized social structures and through beliefs about their legitimacy, achieved by defining and shaping art tastes. The complexity of how the arts relate to power arises from the complexity of the policies of artistic production, distribution and consumption—policies which serve to facilitate or hinder an aesthetic object from reaching its intended public. Curators, critics and collectors employ a variety of forms of cultural and artistic communication to mirror and shape the dominant social, economic and political conditions. Arts and Power: Policies in and by the Arts brings together diverse voices who position the societal functions of art in fields of domination and power, of structure and agency—whether they are used to impose hegemonic, totalitarian or unjust goals or to pursue social purposes fostering equal rights and grassroots democracy. The contributions in this volume are exploratory steps towards what we believe can be a more systematic, empirically and theoretically founded sociological debate on the arts and power. And they are an invitation to take further steps.
Download or read book Langue s et litt rature de jeunesse written by Britta Benert and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Thematik der Sprache bzw. Sprachen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur widmet sich der Band unter drei Gesichtspunkten: Sprachenerwerb als Möglichkeit, die Welt zu erfassen, die Beziehung zwischen Identitäten und Sprache(n), erfundene Sprachen und deren Übersetzungsproblematik. Die 13 Beiträge umfassen ein mehrsprachiges Textkorpus unterschiedlichster Gattungen. Ausgangsprinzip aller Studien ist die dezidierte Aufwertung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur gegenüber der allgemeinen Literatur. Les articles réunis dans ce recueil étudient des œuvres destinées à la jeunesse dans lesquelles la (ou les) langue(s) constituent un enjeu, à l’instar de ce qui se passe dans la littérature « générale ». La question est envisagée sous trois angles : l’apprentissage des langues comme apprentissage du monde, le rapport entre langue(s) et identités, les langues inventées et leur traduction. Autant de pistes polyglottes qui sont explorées ici dans plusieurs genres et traditions : française et allemande, britannique et américaine, mais également belge et portugaise, polonaise, russe et tchèque, voire dans une perspective « weltlittéraire » (Knauth).
