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Learning by teaching: developing transferable skills (2016)
Book Chapter

Learning by teaching (German: Lernen durch Lehren, commonly abbreviated as LdL) is a teaching and learning approach which was developed by the French language teacher Jean-Pol Martin in German schools in the 1980s (Martin, 1985). The method sees stud... Read More about Learning by teaching: developing transferable skills.

Raabe-Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Wirkung (2016)
Book

Das Handbuch gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gesamtwerk Wilhelm Raabes (Erzähltexte, Lyrik, Zeichnungen) sowie seine literatur- und kulturgeschichtlichen Kontexte. Hinzu treten biografische, editorische, poetologische und rezeption... Read More about Raabe-Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Wirkung.

On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain (2016)
Book

This is a collection of essays on the Italo-Spanish painter and art theorist, Vicente Carducho's Dialogues on Painting (1633), covering a range of aspects of his work and its significance for Spanish painting in the seventeenth century.

Carducho's Late Holy Families and Decorum (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at Carducho's depiction of the Holy Family in the context of theological and conventional orthodoxy in seventeenth-century Madrid.

Les Chroniques de langage and the development of linguistic purism in Québec (2016)
Journal Article

The second half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence in Québec of a number of societies for the protection or promotion of the French language. Since the 1990s, new societies have increasingly been established online, with older ones also... Read More about Les Chroniques de langage and the development of linguistic purism in Québec.

Critical Time in Modern German Literature and Culture (2016)
Book

Inside-the-scenes: The rise of experiential cinema (2016)
Journal Article

This article introduces this themed section which focusses on the growing trend toward the creation of a cinema that escapes beyond the boundaries of the auditorium whereby film-screenings are augmented by synchronous live performance, site-specific... Read More about Inside-the-scenes: The rise of experiential cinema.

Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation (2016)
Journal Article

This article discusses the relationship between philosophical anthropology and philosophical aesthetics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the connection of both with literature and the novel form in particular as it develops in the late eigh... Read More about Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation.

Specific and individuated death reflection fosters identity integration (2016)
Journal Article

Identity integration is the process wherein a person assimilates multiple or conflicting identities (e.g., beliefs, values, needs) into a coherent, unified self-concept. Three experiments examined whether contemplating mortality in a specific and ind... Read More about Specific and individuated death reflection fosters identity integration.

Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry and Politics (2016)
Book Chapter

Jena philosophy, historicism, and literature energized nineteenth-century European intellectual life. Their key concerns were time and meaning, quintessentially Romantic, but they seemed to come into particularly sharp focus in the historically orien... Read More about Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry and Politics.

Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer (2016)
Journal Article

The present study considers the role and function that humour has in Unamuno’s intellectual and literary universe. It traces Unamuno’s attitude to humour to his reading of the Spanish character in En torno al casticismo (1895) and to his dialogue wit... Read More about Clowning and tragic clowning: Miguel de Unamuno as a funny writer.

Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought (2016)
Journal Article

In Le Capitalisme cognitif (2007), Yann Moulier Boutang argues that, under Post-Fordism, workers are expected to invest ever more of their creative, affective, and cognitive powers in their labours. These eminently human qualities, he maintains, are... Read More about Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought.

'El Lope era un figura': Fingiendo lo verdadero (2016)
Book Chapter

El Ministerio del Tiempo, que emplea la herramienta de la fantasía –los viajes en el tiempo–, y la mezcla de humor, didacticismo histórico y el planteamiento de un dilema ético para activar al espectador. Y está claro que lo han logrado, ya que Lope... Read More about 'El Lope era un figura': Fingiendo lo verdadero.

“Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing participation and collaboration” – an introduction (2016)
Book Chapter

The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham hosted the fifth annual conference in the "Innovative Language Teaching at University" series. Under the heading "Enhancing participation and collaboration" the confer... Read More about “Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing participation and collaboration” – an introduction.

“The Shadow of fool-made history”: history as narrative in Nabokov’s work (2015)
Journal Article

Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at three women poets writing during the Spanish Civil War and afterwards - two supporters of the Republican government, one a supporter of the Franco regime, all three condemned in some way to post-war silence and circumspection.

Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio (2015)
Journal Article

Tout en partant de la polémique que suscita la publication du manifeste Pour une littérature-monde en 2007, cet article analysera comment J.M.G. Le Clézio se situe par rapport au concept de littérature-monde. À partir de sa manière toute particulière... Read More about Inappropriation et 'diversalité' chez J.M.G. Le Clezio.

Review of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes (London: Reaktion Books, 2015) (2015)
Journal Article

German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600 (2015)
Journal Article

A quarter of a century ago, two essays examined the early history of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in Britain.2 The present paper revisits the history of GFL at a time of perceived crisis in modern language education, to provide some historical... Read More about German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600.

Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994 (2015)
Book

During what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and out... Read More about Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994.