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Poetry in the Digital Age
As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplinary handbook is thus addressed both to literary scholars and to the broadest academic audience interested in contemporary poetry research. It offers 50 contributions by an international collective of authors that highlight the diversity of contemporary poetry, examining it from a wide variety of complementing theoretical and methodological angles. The handbook focuses on contemporary modes of poetry presentation that are often located beyond the book...
Happiness for All?
How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided society The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America today? How about elsewhere in the world? Carol Graham draws on cutting-edge research linking income inequality with well-being to show how the widening prosperity gap has led to rising inequality in people's beliefs, hopes, and aspirations. For the United States and other developed countries, the high costs of being poor are most evident not in material deprivation but rather in stress, insecurity, and...
The Mystery of Twin Peaks
The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show's unique production and reception aesthetics. The range of contributions covers diverse topics: genre mixing, transactuality, complex narrative structures, dream and dreamlike qualities, gender and identity concepts, extreme fan culture, visual aesthetics, acoustic dimensions, postmodern referential culture, and not least, the question of which other quality TV series became possible due to Twin Peaks.
Diplomate Directory
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Verfremdete Schrift
In der Gegenwartsliteratur wird Schriftgestaltung zur Basis für poetische Verfahren: Verfremdung wird typographisch, Typographie wird verfremdet. In der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur trifft man seit der Jahrtausendwende immer häufiger auf typographisch auffällige Romane: Die Schrift wird vergrößert oder verkleinert, Zeilen verlaufen kreuz und quer über die Seiten, einzelne Wörter oder ganze Passagen werden getilgt oder durchgestrichen, es tauchen Wörter in anderen Schriftarten und Schriftzeichen anderer Schriftsysteme oder Alphabete auf. In diesen Fällen können die Schrift und ihre Materialität nicht länger übersehen werden, die Typographie wird zu einem integralen Besta...
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The Cahills of Cincinnati and Related Families
The first three parts of this book attempt to trace the descendants of three separate and apparently unrelated Cahill families which are nevertheless linked through marriages into the Mullane family of Cincinnati. Part I deals with the descendants of the centenarian James Cahill, who came to the New World in 1820 and in the 1830 s settled as a farmer in Delhi Township of Hamilton County, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. Part II deals with the family of James Joseph Cahill. Part III covers the descendants of Lawrence Blair Cahill Part IV consists of the descendants of Elizabeth (Wallace) Cahill and her second husband, John Davis, of Lee County, Iowa. D3611HB - $25.00
