Search results for 'modern'
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Matthias Perner
Structural Semantic, Textlinguistic and Empirical Approaches towards a Joke Generator Model
The author, Matthias Perner (M.A.), was born in Hannover (Germany) and studied linguistics, politics and sociology. He focused on communicational aspects of spoken language and at the same time found himself...
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Matthew S Tejada
The Unattainability of Closure. With a foreword by Richard J. Crampton
Bulgaria’s post-communist experience has been a fractured transition both politically and economically. As Bulgaria now stands on the cusp of what is potentially the most significant event in its modern...
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Local Modern Governance - Ansätze für ein Kommunalpolitisches Management
Das Verständnis von dem, was "Aufgabe des Staates", was "Staat" an sich ist und wie "politische Steuerung" im 21. Jahrhundert...
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Will the Russian and Jewish nations ever achieve true reconciliation? Why is there such disparity in the interpretations of Russo-Jewish history? These questions are part of a greater whole—Russia’s...
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Evgenii Moroz
Politicheskoe neoiazychestvo v postsovetskoi Rossii
In the early 1990s, a group of supporters of a revival of old-Russian pagan beliefs started to call itself “Internal Predictor of the USSR.” They, later, initiated a political movement named “Towards...
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Yulia Liderman
(The Themes of "Trial" and "Proof" in Post-Soviet Culture. The Soviet Past in Russian Cinematography of the 1990s)
This book analyses Russian cinema movies that became blockbusters among home-produced motion pictures of the 1990s, and the plots of which refer to the Soviet past. The study seeks to establish the nature...
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Tropical rain forests are the most complex, varied, and species-rich terrestrial ecosystems on earth. However, these unique forests are more and more threatened by human activities. About half of the originally...
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James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism examines anew how myth exists in Joyce’s fiction. Using Joyce’s idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected...
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Koray Melikoglu
Proceedings of a Symposium Held by the Department of American Culture and Literature Halic University, Istanbul, 19-21 April 2006
These proceedings of the international 2006 symposium ‘The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature’ at Haliç University, Istanbul,...
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When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war migrations to Britain that would form part of modern, multicultural...