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2014 | 133 Pages | ISBN: 1443854085 | PDF | 1 MB
The book is a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, arguably the two most eminent British playwrights of the past sixty years or so, from a perspective of what it describes as a poetics of postmodern drama. Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon's model of postmodernism to the study of drama, Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama shows that postmodern drama should be seen as a self-consciously contradictory and double-coded phenomenon, one which simultaneously inscribes and subverts the conventional categories of dramatic representation.In spite of its indebtedness to Beckett's Absurdist and Brecht's Epic theaters, postmodern drama should not be conflated with either. This is primarily because postmodern drama retains a critical edge towards contemporary reality in a manner which Hutcheon very aptly terms as a 'complicitous critique'.The book demonstrates that both Pinter and Stoppard are pre-eminently postmodern in their treatment of issues such as the human subject, the notion of truth, historical verifiability and linguistic reference. Pinter's preoccupation with non-referential modes of language-use, the role of power in the construction of the subject, and unreliable memories is as potent a way of disrupting the representational status of drama as Stoppard's repeated recourse to devices such as parody, theater-within-theater and the fictional treatment of history.

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English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031866045 | 383 Pages | PDF (True) | 47 MB
This open-access book reports on both experimental and numerical findings from the H2020-funded project TEAMAero (Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications). It covers novel contributions on improving the fundamental understanding of the physics of shock wave boundary layer interaction, developments in flow control for mitigation of shock effects, and advanced numerical methods for predicting those effects. All in all, this book offers a timely snapshot of research and developments in numerical methods for flow analysis and control, with a special emphasis on high-speed flows. It offers extensive information to both researchers and professionals.

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by Emmanuel Ndhlovu, Kaitano Dube
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031630769 | 288 Pages | True ePUB | 4.9 MB

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by Emmanuel Ndhlovu, Kaitano Dube
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031630769 | 288 Pages | True PDF | 9.3 MB

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Deutsch | 2025 | ISBN: 366270711X | 305 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
Gegenstand des interdisziplinären Open-Access-Bandes ist die Videoplattform TikTok, die als eines der meistgenutzten Sozialen Netzwerke große gesellschaftliche Relevanz entfalten konnte und insbesondere in (außer-)schulischen Bildungsbereichen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle spielt. Nach anfänglichem Alarmismus einerseits und Marginalisierung als reines Spaßmedium andererseits wird TikTok insbesondere in internationalen Forschungskontexten längst als kulturwissenschaftlicher Gegenstand ernst genommen. Die auf TikTok zu beobachtenden kommunikativen Praktiken und Genres, in denen aktuelle Ereignisse und Diskurse in plattformtypischer Weise verhandelt und performativ in Szene gesetzt werden, führen stärker noch als andere Soziale Medien die Zeichenmodalitäten Bild, Ton und Sprache zusammen und eröffnen dadurch neue Optionen der Vermittlung, der diskursiven Aneignung und der sozialen Repräsentation. Die grundlegenden Affordanzen der Plattform, insbesondere die Möglichkeit, zu bestehenden Sounds neue Videos zu produzieren, begünstigen dabei einen stark von Intertextualität, Intermedialität und Imitation geprägten Modus von Inszenierung und Performance, der im Anschluss an neuere Forschungen zu digitalen (Bild-)Praktiken als Memefication bezeichnet werden kann.

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English | EPUB | 2019 | 411 Pages | ISBN : 9811311838 | 549.1 MB

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2014 | 187 Pages | ISBN: 1443863505 | PDF | 1 MB
A number of researchers, trainers and educators in intercultural communication acknowledge that the most popular models and theories of the field are insufficient - even unsuitable - to describe or explain our practical multicultural experiences today. This collection of articles offers new insights and critical evaluations of, intercultural communication theory and research. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss, for example, methodological concerns; Chinese exceptionalism; micro and macro level interactions; ways to teach and study perceptions and self-awareness; and also provide new constructions for understanding communication and culture and their relationship.

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English | ISBN: 0268107181 | 2020 | 414 pages | PDF | 18 MB
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Free Download Then and Now : Poems By James Cummins
2004 | 87 Pages | ISBN: 0804010676 | PDF | 1 MB
James Cummins's first book of poems, The Whole Truth, became known throughout much of the poetry world as the "Perry Mason sestinas." His second book, Portrait in a Spoon, was chosen by Richard Howard for the James Dickey Prize Contemporary Poetry Series. His latest and most accomplished work is collected in Then & Now, which reflects the same inventiveness and wit evident in his earlier books, with a deepening of tone and spirit. The result is a collection of poems filled with feeling and with Cummins's signature anguished humor. If the language of poetry is a way into a hall of mirrors of the self, it can be a way out, too. The voice that emerges in Then & Now is sane, imaginative, bemused, and sly, not only taking responsibility for the character of the writer put fully on display, but ironically and affectionately exploring how this process occurs. Doing LunchYou have lunch with a friend.You put on a false face for him, because he is your friend.You want to spare him yourmaunderings, your lies and malfeasance.But this is just what your friend desires, because he is your friend.He wants your face to fall openin front of him and twitchlike a rabbit hit on the fly.He says he wants the latest wordfrom the border region betweennarcissism and an inner life.And laughs.Shamelessly, you tell him everything, because he is your friend.

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English | January 7, 2025 | ISBN: 0691251975 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 427 MB
A richly illustrated atlas of the world's deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environments