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Through an investigation and description of the campaign conducted by the Rockefeller-funded English Language Exploratory Committee (ELEC) to revolutionize English-language-teaching practices in Japan, Henrichsen addresses the issue of how internationally oriented reformers of educational systems and practices can go about creating change and dealing with resistance to it. Henrichsen contends that innovation alone is rarely sufficient to bring about change and that simply communicating the innovation to the target audience is usually inadequate. He argues that creating change across...

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States, spanning from the appearance of the earliest artists in 1835 to the opening of the first permanent museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1915.

Readers will learn about the institutions and organizations that were created in support of the fine arts, the early art exhibitions and events, and the collectors, dealers and artists whose efforts made all of that come to fruition. The text -...

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one...

L'importance des 'bibliotheques de savoir' inserees dans l'oeuvre de Flaubert se concretise de plus en plus. Cependant leur fonction et statut ne sont pas du tout identifies. Que cela signifie-t-il alors quand le showdown des discours souleve la question de la crise de representation tout court - et cela dans toute son acuite? Analysant les travaux intertextuels de Flaubert dans les domaines de la psychologie, de l'art, de la philosophie et de l'histoire des religions, le groupe de recherche franco-allemand 'Fractal' en demontrent les aspects theoriques, actuels et surtout inapercus.

Die Studie bezieht das gleichermaen fur die allgemeine Hermeneutik und die Sprachphilosophie zentrale Interpretationsprinzip der hermeneutischen Billigkeit auf den Bereich der Interpretation fiktionaler literarischer Texte. Zu diesem Zweck werden formaler Zuschnitt und inhaltliche Ausdifferenzierung eines spezifisch philologischen Billigkeitsprinzips ebenso rekonstruiert wie die Bedingungen, unter denen auf eine nachsichtige Interpretation bestimmter Interpretanda verzichtet werden sollte. Die philologische Kontextualisierung des Prinzips hermeneutischer Billigkeit erweist, dass es sowohl...