Focalisation, analepses et narrateur homodiégétique : ces concepts cruciaux et quelques autres sont enfin abordés dans une langue claire et une perspective d'esthétique de la réception. Destiné aux étudiants en lettres, du premier cycle à l'agrégation, en passant par les Écoles Normales Supérieures, cet ouvrage propose une approche aussi complète que possible (histoire littéraire, narratologie, sémiologie...) des problématiques romanesques. On y trouvera les bases, toujours app...

Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems, and to explore the ...

Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follows Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, as he makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper's daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past--...

This is a collection of short stories which bring to life the sounds and smells of Mexico - with breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give life to the varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. From a young girl revealing secrets only an eleven-year-old can know, to a witch woman circling above the village on a pre-dawn flight, the women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

How to Teach Writing offers a practical guide to help get your students writing, structured on clear and consise educational theory.

This new series entry delivers an uncomplicated analysis of the nature of writing, particularly in terms of process, product, and genre. Descriptions of a broad range of writing tasks enable teachers to select those that will be most effective in developing students' writing skills.

Het boek Sterkteleer behandelt op klassieke

wijze de mechanische belasting van metalen, hout en kunststoffen. Dat

wil zeggen dat achtereenvolgend aan de orde komen: krachten,

vervormingen, traagheidsmomenten, weerstandmomenten en de elasticiteit

van materialen. Deze kennis wordt toegepast op verschillende

constructies en machineonderdelen. Daarbij komen aan de orde, trek- en

drukspanning, stuik en afschuiving, buiging, wringing en knik. Het boek

is rijk voorzien van voorbeelden en opgaven.

Theologie in de oorspronkelijke betekenis van ‘spreken over God’ heeft geen vanzelfsprekende plaats aan de hedendaagse openbare universiteit. Vanwege haar geloofsmatig uitgangspunt zou deze theologie niet voldoen aan de academische eisen van wetenschappelijkheid. Hooguit kan zij vandaag nog bedreven worden in de private sfeer van bijzondere kerkelijke instellingen. Het is deze voorstelling die in Een publieke zaak kritisch wordt onderzocht tegen de achtergrond van de omslag naar een post...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.

They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.