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Reich-Ranickis Strategien waren darauf ausgerichtet, die feldspezifischen Kapitalien im Sinne Bourdieus zu akkumulieren. Hierdurch gelang es ihm, die informelle Struktur des literarischen Feldes der BRD in seiner Person zusammenlaufen zu lassen. Dass er sich hierbei vermehrt der Orthodoxie zuwandte, stellt ein für ihn symptomatisches Agieren dar.

Kanonbildung ist mit Literaturgeschichtsschreibung und der Auswahlproblematik eng verbunden. Stets muss über die Aufnahme oder den Verzicht auf Werke und Autoren eine Sinn- und Bedeutungszumessung im Kommunikationsfeld Literatur vorgenommen werden. Dieser Aufgabe stellte sich die Sektion 11 des Germanistentages 2013 in Kiel. Die hier versammelten Tagungsbeiträge lassen sich folgenden Themenfeldern zuordnen: Zunächst wird Grundsätzliches zur Kanontheorie und Kanonbildung besprochen. Anschließend finden Orte der Vermittlung Erwähnung: Dichterhäuser, Literaturmuseen, Universitäten, Schulen, Theater. Schließlich beschäftigen sich die Beiträge mit übersehenen Epochen und Literaturen: Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Mittelhochdeutsche Literatur, Drittes Reich, DDR-Literaturgeschichte, Theaterlandschaft um 1800, Interkulturelle Literatur und vergessene Autor(inn)en.

The book analyses organizational disengagement and its unwanted consequences at an organizational and at individual level. The author argues for the existence of an additional dimension of employee disengagement. The author analyses how people frame their decisions of staying or leaving organizations by defining their employment situation.

Studying metaphors modern-day managers will be better prepared to understand organizations and how to deal best with the circumstances they are challenged. The authors analyze how metaphors can serve as methods or tools that provide insight into how organizations function, and how best to deal with making them successful.

The results of the study reveal differences of the financial reporting quality (operationalized by reporting content, readability and earnings management) of listed companies in the two emerging economies Brazil and South Africa as well as Germany. The findings show significant determinants of financial reporting quality and economic consequences.

Terrorism in 1990s novels by Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Bret Easton Ellis serves as a key trope to interrogate the limits of writing and the power of literature. Based on the thought of Maurice Blanchot, this study explores the writer's terrorist temptation, literature's negotiation of radical alterity, and novelistic elucidations of terrorism.

The book focuses on Heidegger's thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. It presents a deep analysis of Heidegger's interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy.

The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in techno-economic, political and cultural spheres. The contributors focus on the increasing complexity within information societies and allow a better understanding of conceptualizations and definitions of information society and related concepts.

Gendered and practice-oriented qualitative studies follow processes of emancipation, family practices, redistribution of gendered roles, forms of abuse, social remittance, confrontation between rights and cultures, forming joint action strategies and egalitarian capital, in an emergence of new and area-specific social actors.

Life reform and progressive education developed various utopias and projected new ways of cultural, social, and political living. How did these utopias live on in the interwar period and beyond? This book gives new and surprising insight into continuities and differences within the educational and cultural movements in Austria and Hungary.

This study of comparative law is based upon the comparison of the attitudes among the US, China and the EU towards cumulative voting. By analyzing some empirical investigations and massive literatures of American academics, it tries to demonstrate whether the convergence of corporate governance towards the shareholder-centered model is inevitable.

The book addresses influences and affinities in the context of the history of ideas, literary theory and criticism. It brings together American Transcendentalism, Negritude, African religions and philosophy.

The volume approaches the early modern knowledge transfer between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in an interdisciplinary way. It shows how knowledge travels with people, with artifacts, along commercial lines, and is created and transformed by the intervention of individuals from various educational and social strata.

This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks, the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.

This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks, the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.

This volume provides a sociophonetic study of the urban accent of Aberdeen. It shows how dialect contact has led to adoption of innovative supraregional accent features and the marginalisation of traditional variants. It uses an innovative method to assess the importance of the individual speaker in innovating and conserving the local accent.

The book is a study of the eighteenth-century English robinsonade focusing on the pre-history of the genre, the multi-level semantics of "Robinson Crusoe", its functioning as a genre model, and the subsequent process of its simplification by the gradual elimination of religious meanings and foregrounding the exciting adventures.

The authors of the 6th volume of the series Visual Learning outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy.

The book demonstrates the thematic unity underlying Carter's fiction and non-fiction, highlighting their interdependence and demonstrating how her texts persistently examine existing theories of pleasure from many different angles. In this way, Carter's works enter into dialogue with numerous pleasure connoisseurs, theorists as well as writers.

This volume discusses teaching choices and topics in the implementation of a US study abroad business programme in Italy. It looks at business questions and methods in teaching Italian culture, language, history, and intercultural communication. Chapters focus on the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning for study abroad students.

This study looks at Chesterton's apology for Catholicism in the context of his epoch. It shows how he portrays Catholicism as English and universal at the same time and thus seeks to put an end to its isolation from England's mainstream culture.

Although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development, with each of the languages having worked up their unique solutions. The problem boils down to find out grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity.