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Cosmos, Values, and Consciousness in Latin American Digital Culture
2020Angelica J. Huizar
This book understands digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic and digital works that produce subjective positionality, clouded knowledges of quantum theories, and metaphysical patterns grounded in a cultural ideology. This book underlines a conceptual framework for understanding how digital media impacts reading, approaching, and even interpreting social reality. The qualitative analyses interpret the current zeitgeist, and the works selected speak of the diverse, sometimes regionalized, and often multi-ethnic reality of the Latin American experience. The analyses elaborate on how artists reflect both the world they live in and a universal consciousness. These artists are not simply “digitalizing literature,” and these works are more than techy creations; rather, they make us think of other directions and connections. [From the back cover]
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Transatlantische Auswanderergeschichten: Reflexionen und Reminiszenzen aus drei Generationen: Festschrift zu Ehren von Robert Schopflocher
2014Frederick Alfred Lubich (Editor)
In German. Title translated: Transatlantic emigration stories : Reflections and reminiscences from three generations: Festschrift in honor of Robert Schopflocher
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The Politics of Salvation: Gonzalo de Berceo's Reinvention of the Marian Myth
2011Martha Mary Daas
Martha Daas’s book is a welcome addition to recent studies that have focused wholly or in part on the work of the best-known early poet in Spanish, Gonzalo de Bercero. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, the book provides new insights into Bercero’s reworkings of the miracle narratives contained with his Milagros de Nuestra Señora. – M. Desing
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Academic Podcasting and Mobile Assisted Language Learning Applications and Outcomes
2011Betty Rose Facer and Mohammed Abdous
The use of Academic Podcasting Technology and MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) is reshaping teaching and learning by supporting, expanding, and enhancing course content, learning activities, and teacher-student interactions. Academic Podcasting and Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Applications and Outcomes shares innovative and pedagogically effective ways to improve foreign language education by identifying the instructional uses and benefits of academic podcasting technology and MALL in foreign language acquisition. These include instructional uses, students' perceived learning gains, how instructors can use/have used the technology (successes and challenges), study abroad experiences with the technology, pedagogical impact, and economic perspectives on its use. [From Amazon.com]
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The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript
2011Jules Verne (1828-1925) and Peter Schulman (Translator and Editor)
Widely rumored to exist, then circulated in a corrupt form, Jules Verne’s final and arguably most daring and hauntingly beautiful novel—his own “invisible man”—appears here for the first time in a faithful translation. Readers of English can rediscover the pleasures of Verne’s storytelling in its original splendor and enjoy a virtually unknown gem of action, adventure, and style from a master of French literature.
Wilhelm Storitz, the son of a famous Prussian scientist (and possessor of his father’s secrets—even, perhaps, a formula that confers invisibility), vows revenge on the family that has denied him the love of his life, Myra Roderich. Wilhelm’s actions on the eve of Myra’s wedding unfold in a surprising and sinister way, leading to an ending that will astonish the reader… [From Amazon.com]
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Conquering the Spanish Verb System the Yo Connection: A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Teach the Spanish Verb System!
2010Nancy T. Minguez
This book will help you to organize and study the Spanish verb system with a simpler approach than what is presented in a typical textbook but easily accompanies any program of study. The idea is to reduce the number of differences between each group of verbs and group them according to the similarities in their conjugation patterns. It will be much easier to observe and learn the patterns in the four "Yo-connection" groups as compared to the numerous, and generally disconnected, "irregular" groups presented in the typical textbook.
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Beyond the Page: Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual
2008Angélica Jiménez Huízar
This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples. The investigative scope of the study is large---it includes texts from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil and includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Through detailed analysis Professor Huizar demonstrates what we can read in the visual and sound components of these poems as performance on a page, and while these may be limited on the bound text, they do produce a performativity that is predictive of current technological innovations of the canon whose performative and interactive aspects include the latest multi-media technologies resulting in forms as cyper poetry and hypertextuality, electronic music and pictorial language. [From Amazon.com]
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Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War
2005Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman (Editors)
Rhine Crossings explores the conflicts and resolutions that have characterized the relationship between France and Germany over the past two centuries. Despite their varying outlooks on life and style (the French esprit and the German wesen), and despite three bloody wars (the Franco-Prussian and the two world wars), there has always been and still is a vital intellectual, political, and cultural exchange between these former archenemies. The essays in this book detail the admiration and antagonism in French and German attempts to seek each other out while keeping their individual senses of self. Focusing on representative works of literature, film, and philosophy, the contributors identify the problems vexing these countries (war, economic competition) as well as possible solutions (the Maastricht treaty, increasing youth exchange). From the literary salons of the eighteenth century to the trenches of the twentieth, from a love-hate relationship to one of cooperation and peace, this book investigates the unique and volatile dialectic between these two nations and cultures." [From Amazon.com]
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The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric
2003Peter Schulman
In a world of increasing conformity, the modern eccentric can be seen as a contemporary hero and guardian of individualism. This study defines the modern eccentric in twentieth-century French literature and compares the notions of the eccentric in nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature by tracing the eccentric's relationship to time, space, and society. While previous studies have focused on the notion of eccentricity in purely formal terms, The Sunday of Fiction delineates the eccentric as a fully fictional character. This work also completes prior criticism by exploring twentieth-century fictional eccentrics in works by authors such as Raymond Queneau, Jean-Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, and Georges Perec, and by filmmakers such as Jacques Tati and Pierre Etaix. Notions of eccentricity since the nineteenth century shift from rather foppish, outlandish representations of aristocratic eccentrics towards a more popular, discreet figure who is uniquely in tune with vanishing spaces of daily life: amusement parks, cafes, grand movie palaces. While the modern world around them is obsessed with speed, technology, and innovation, modern French eccentrics view daily life as a sort of holiday to be savored. In this way, The Sunday of Fiction details the various means modern eccentrics employ to successfully transform the humdrum into the marvelous, or rather Mondays into Sundays. [From Amazon.com]
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The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, Consumer Culture
2003Peter Schulman and Frederick Alfred Lubich (Editors)
Impact of the Sexual Revolution of the 20th Century on literature, philosophy, film, fashion, journalism, ethics, gender ideologies, advertising, commodity culture, and popular entertainment. Rilke, Nietzsche, fashion and fin de siècle morphine narratives, showgirls and the New Woman, Weimar cabaret, Weimar women and advertising, renegotiating gender in the "Roaring Twenties", the representation of working women in German journals from the turn of the century to the Third Reich, film criticism of H.D. and Adrienne Rich, European and Hollywood cinema. [From Amazon.com]
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Wendewelten: Paradigmenwechsel in der Deutschen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte nach 1945
2002Frederick Alfred Lubich
Through essays, interviews, and a poem, Lubich examines the changes in German literature and culture after 1945.
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Le dernier livre du siècle deux Américains enquêtent sur l'intelligentsia Française au tournant du siècle
2002Peter Schulman and Mischa Zabotin
Through interviews (surveys) of French personalities, the authors examine French intellectual life at the end of the 20th century.
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Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann
1999Frederick Alfred Lubich (Editor)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice", later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio. The other stories are: "Tonio Kroger"; the collection entitled "Tristan"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Mario the Magician"; and "The Tables of the Law". A number of essays are also included. [From Amazon.com]
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Max Frisch: "Stiller", "Homo faber" und "Mein Name sei Gantenbein"
1990Frederick Alfred Lubich
Work provides a an introduction to Max Frisch's three most important novels and explores the themes of narrative experimentation, ego loss, the experience of the "New World," and the discussion of technology and myth.
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Die Dialektik von Logos und Eros im Werk von Thomas Mann
1986Frederick Lubich
In German. Title Translated: The Dialectics of Reason (Logos) and Love/Desire (Eros) in the Work of Thomas Mann.
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