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Ordinary Matters: Modernist Women’s Literature and Photography

Shortlisted for the 2017 AUHE Prize for Literary ScholarshipOrdinary Matters is the first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography. It examines how women photographers and writers including Helen Levitt, Lee Miller, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson envision the sphere of ordinary life in light of the social and cultural transformations of the period that shaped and often radically re-shaped it: for example, urbanism, instrumentalism, the Great Depression and war. Through a series of case studies that explore such topics as the street, domestic things, gesture and the face, Sim contends that the paradigmatic shifts that define early twentieth-century modernity not only inform modernist women's aesthetics of the everyday, but their artistic and ethical investments in that sphere. The everyday has been noted as a “keynote of the New Modernist Studies” (Todd Avery). Ordinary Matters comprises a vital contribution to recent scholarship on the topic and will be of value to scholars working in British and American modernism, multimedia modernisms, photography, twentieth-century literature, and critical and cultural histories of the everyday.

Ordinary Meaning: A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation

Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant “uses” a firearm “during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.” Buying the drugs was obviously a crime—but can it be said that the defendant actually “used” the gun during the crime? This sort of question is at the heart of legal interpretation. Legal interpretation is built around one key question: by what standard should legal texts be interpreted? The traditional doctrine is that words should be given their “ordinary meaning”: words in legal texts should be interpreted in light of accepted standards of communication. Yet often, courts fail to properly consider context, refer to unsuitable dictionary definitions, or otherwise misconceive how the ordinary meaning of words should be determined. In this book, Brian Slocum builds his argument for a new method of interpretation by asking glaring, yet largely ignored, questions. What makes one particular meaning the “ordinary” one, and how exactly do courts conceptualize the elements of ordinary meaning? Ordinary Meaning provides a much-needed, revised framework, boldly instructing those involved with the law in how the components of ordinary meaning should properly be identified and developed in our modern legal system.

Ordinary Meaning: A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation

Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant “uses” a firearm “during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.” Buying the drugs was obviously a crime—but can it be said that the defendant actually “used” the gun during the crime? This sort of question is at the heart of legal interpretation. Legal interpretation is built around one key question: by what standard should legal texts be interpreted? The traditional doctrine is that words should be given their “ordinary meaning”: words in legal texts should be interpreted in light of accepted standards of communication. Yet often, courts fail to properly consider context, refer to unsuitable dictionary definitions, or otherwise misconceive how the ordinary meaning of words should be determined. In this book, Brian Slocum builds his argument for a new method of interpretation by asking glaring, yet largely ignored, questions. What makes one particular meaning the “ordinary” one, and how exactly do courts conceptualize the elements of ordinary meaning? Ordinary Meaning provides a much-needed, revised framework, boldly instructing those involved with the law in how the components of ordinary meaning should properly be identified and developed in our modern legal system.

Ordinary Meaning: A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation

Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant “uses” a firearm “during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.” Buying the drugs was obviously a crime—but can it be said that the defendant actually “used” the gun during the crime? This sort of question is at the heart of legal interpretation. Legal interpretation is built around one key question: by what standard should legal texts be interpreted? The traditional doctrine is that words should be given their “ordinary meaning”: words in legal texts should be interpreted in light of accepted standards of communication. Yet often, courts fail to properly consider context, refer to unsuitable dictionary definitions, or otherwise misconceive how the ordinary meaning of words should be determined. In this book, Brian Slocum builds his argument for a new method of interpretation by asking glaring, yet largely ignored, questions. What makes one particular meaning the “ordinary” one, and how exactly do courts conceptualize the elements of ordinary meaning? Ordinary Meaning provides a much-needed, revised framework, boldly instructing those involved with the law in how the components of ordinary meaning should properly be identified and developed in our modern legal system.

Ordinary Meaning: A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation

Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant “uses” a firearm “during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.” Buying the drugs was obviously a crime—but can it be said that the defendant actually “used” the gun during the crime? This sort of question is at the heart of legal interpretation. Legal interpretation is built around one key question: by what standard should legal texts be interpreted? The traditional doctrine is that words should be given their “ordinary meaning”: words in legal texts should be interpreted in light of accepted standards of communication. Yet often, courts fail to properly consider context, refer to unsuitable dictionary definitions, or otherwise misconceive how the ordinary meaning of words should be determined. In this book, Brian Slocum builds his argument for a new method of interpretation by asking glaring, yet largely ignored, questions. What makes one particular meaning the “ordinary” one, and how exactly do courts conceptualize the elements of ordinary meaning? Ordinary Meaning provides a much-needed, revised framework, boldly instructing those involved with the law in how the components of ordinary meaning should properly be identified and developed in our modern legal system.

Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives (The Holocaust and its Contexts)

Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?

Ordinary Television: Analyzing Popular TV (PDF)

`Most cultural analysis focuses on the spectacular and the unusual. Frances Bonner has done us a great service by insisting on - and demonstrating - the importance of everyday TV. Ordinary Television breaks genuinely new ground' - Toby Miller, New York University In this book, Frances Bonner provides a distinctive angle on a key area of research and teaching across media and cultural studies - the content of television and the relations between television genres and audiences. Hitherto most books on television have focused on drama, or news and current affairs. In other words, they tend to ignore 'ordinary' television - lifestyle programmes and 'reality TV', just the sort of programmes which increasing dominate the schedules. In Ordinary Television, Frances Bonner makes a distinctive argument for regarding these disparate shows as a whole. By examining a substantial range of these programmes, Frances Bonner uncovers their shared characteristics, especially through a consideration of the dominant and disguised discources which pervade them. In addition, the comparative nature of her study enables the author to launch a powerful critique of conventional theories in relation to the globalization of television. This book will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in television and the media in general.

Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities)

In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn "hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness." This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction.

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes of colonial modernity. Subsequent literature returns in varying ways, both imitative and combative, to the complex representational challenge that the Survey confronts and seeks to surmount. From a colonial mapping project to an engine of nationalist imagining, and finally a framework by which to evade the claims of the postcolonial nation, the Ordnance Survey was a central imaginative source of what makes Irish modernist writing both formally innovative and politically challenging. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography, postcolonial theory, archive theory, and the field Irish Studies, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of a multi-layered landscape.

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes of colonial modernity. Subsequent literature returns in varying ways, both imitative and combative, to the complex representational challenge that the Survey confronts and seeks to surmount. From a colonial mapping project to an engine of nationalist imagining, and finally a framework by which to evade the claims of the postcolonial nation, the Ordnance Survey was a central imaginative source of what makes Irish modernist writing both formally innovative and politically challenging. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography, postcolonial theory, archive theory, and the field Irish Studies, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of a multi-layered landscape.

Ordnungswidrigkeiten in Rundfunk und Telemedien

Das Rechtshandbuch stellt die Ahndung und Verfolgung von Ordnungswidrigkeiten in Online-Medien (Rundfunk und Telemedien) mit ihren Besonderheiten dar. Es konzentriert sich auf die Gesichtspunkte, die in der Praxis eine Rolle spielen. Damit versetzt es Leser in die Lage, einen durchschnittlichen Alltagsfall im rundfunkrechtlichen Bußgeldverfahren ohne weitere Spezialliteratur zu lösen. Das Werk ist unverzichtbar für die Compliance bei privaten Rundfunkveranstaltern, Anbietern von rundfunkähnlichen Telemedien, Medienplattformen, Benutzeroberflächen, Medienintermediären und sonstigen Telemedien. Es wendet sich zudem an Studierende mit medienrechtlichem Studienschwerpunkt, an Landesmedienanstalten als nach §§ 35, 36 OWiG zuständige Verwaltungsbehörden sowie an Staatsanwaltschaften und Strafgerichte, aber ebenso und nicht zuletzt an die Verteidigerinnen und Verteidiger im Bußgeldverfahren.

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides (Bloomsbury Revelations)

First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides (Bloomsbury Revelations)

First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.

The Oresteian Trilogy (Penguin Classics)

Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.

Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on assessment practice is beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches. For the authors of Organic Writing Assessment, the DCM experience provided not only an authentic assessment of their own programs, but a nuanced language through which they can converse in the always vexing, potentially divisive realm of assessment theory and practice. Of equal interest are the adaptations these writers invented for Broad’s original process, to make DCM even more responsive to local needs and exigencies. Organic Writing Assessment represents an important step in the evolution of writing assessment in higher education. This volume documents the second generation of an assessment model that is regarded as scrupulously consistent with current theory; it shows DCM’s flexibility, and presents an informed discussion of its limits and its potentials.

Organisation als Nachrichtenfaktor: Wie das Organisatorische den Content von Fernsehnachrichten beeinflusst

Bei der Nachrichtenselektion spielt ein Faktor eine erhebliche Rolle, der von der Wissenschaft bisher wenig beachtet wurde - der Faktor "Organisation". Das Organisatorische beeinflusst die Themenauswahl. Es bestimmt nicht selten die Art und den Umfang der Berichterstattung. Doch das Organisationale findet hinter den Kulissen statt und bleibt deshalb dem Außenstehenden meist verborgen. Claus-Erich Boetzkes ist Moderator bei der Tagesschau. Er konnte deshalb die Vorgänge im Innersten einer TV-Nachrichtenredaktion beobachten und analysieren. In seiner Publikation zeigt er, dass Organisation ein eigener Nachrichtenfaktor ist. Die Nachrichtenwert-Theorie muss um diesen Aspekt ergänzt werden. Die Arbeit gründet auf dem Ilmenauer Ansatz nach Paul Klimsa und ist Teil eines Forschungsprojekts der TU Ilmenau.

Organisation der Content-Produktion

"Content is King." Das ist in der Medienindustrie wohl bekannt. Unklarheiten bestehen dagegen bei der Frage, wie heute die Produktion von Content in dieser Branche koordiniert wird. Empirisch greift der Sammelband Fragen digitaler Technik und neuer Modelle der Produktionsorganisation auf. Er widmet sich der digitalen Nachrichtenproduktion, der projektförmigen Herstellung von Unterhaltung durch Fernsehproduzenten außerhalb der Fernsehanstalten sowie der Frage der Substitution von Intermediären durch Peer-to-peer-Systeme bei der Mehrfachverwertung von Content.

Organisational Memory as a Function: The Construction of Past, Present and Future in Organisations

This book is about the past as well as the future in organisations in general and about an organisation’s temporal contextualisation in particular. The author analyses, how organisations are able to construct a present with respect to their past and future. The study is based on an empirical case study, in which an R&D department has been followed for a six month-period in order to analyse how an organisation orients itself with respect to its past, present and future from the perspective of communication-centred social systems theory.

Organisationen: Eine sehr kurze Einführung

Von der Wiege bis zur Bahre wird unser Leben durch Organisationen bestimmt. Aber wir sind nicht dafür ausgebildet worden, wie wir als Mitglied mit Unternehmen, Verwaltungen, Universitäten, Schulen, Krankenhäusern, Gefängnissen, Parteien oder Armeen zurechtkommen können. Organisationen – was sind das für „Gebilde“, die unsere moderne Gesellschaft so stark bestimmen? Wie "ticken" sie? Welche Eingriffsmöglichkeiten gibt es? Anhand der drei zentralen Merkmale Zwecke, Hierarchie und Mitgliedschaften wird grundlegend erklärt, wie Organisationen funktionieren.

Organisationskommunikation: Beobachtung und Steuerung eines organisationalen Risikos (Organisationskommunikation)

Der Band erschließt erstmalig die Organisationskommunikation aus funktionaler und interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Die Public Relations und die Marktkommunikation werden unter Beibehaltung ihrer spezifischen Funktionalität zu einer organisationalen Managementfunktion aufgebaut. Auf empirischer Grundlage wird Basiswissen für gewinnorientierte Unternehmen, Nonprofit-Organisationen und die öffentliche Verwaltung präsentiert.

Organisationskommunikation im Mittelstand: Genese und Spezifik der Kommunikation mittelständischer Industrieunternehmen (Organisationskommunikation)

Luisa Winkler untersucht den Entwicklungsprozess der Organisationskommunikation in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) entlang besonderer Lebensereignisse. Anhand eines Lebenszyklusmodells wird aufgezeigt, dass verschiedene Lebensphasen die Genese der Mittelstandskommunikation bedingen. Durch die Einnahme einer kommunikativen Perspektive auf mittelständische Organisationen wird die Spezifik der Mittelstandskommunikation entlang von vier Kommunikationsströmen aufgezeigt. Darüber hinaus postuliert die Autorin intrinsische und extrinsische Einflussfaktoren, die sich fördernd oder hemmend auf die Kommunikationsgenese auswirken können.

Organisationskommunikation in Krisen: Reputationsmanagement durch situative, integrierte und strategische Krisenkommunikation

Organisationskommunikation und Public Relations: Forschungsparadigmen und neue Perspektiven

Der Band diskutiert das Verhältnis von Konzeptionen der Organisationskommunikation und Public Relations. Public Relations wird in der Regel als spezifische Form oder Funktion der Kommunikation einer Organisation verstanden. Dennoch lassen sich PR-Praxis und selbst PR-Forschung betreiben, ohne dass ein expliziter Bezug auf Theorien und Konzepte der Organisation genommen werden müsste. Der Sammelband schließt diese Lücke, indem die Entwicklungslinien von PR-Theorien und Organisationskommunikation offengelegt, neue Ansätze zur Kombination beider Richtungen präsentiert und Untersuchungsfelder sowie empirische Zugänge zur internen Kommunikation von Organisationen vorgestellt werden.

Organisationskommunikation von Max Weber zu Niklas Luhmann: Wie interdisziplinäre Theoriebildung gelingen kann (essentials)

Seit ihren Anfängen stellt die Kommunikationswissenschaft die menschliche Kommunikation [human communication] in den Mittelpunkt (Dance, 1967; A. G. Smith, 1966; Schramm, 1980). Der Begriff Organisation ist seit dem 19. Jahrhundert in sozialwissenschaftlichem Gebrauch (Luhmann, 1964). Für Probleme der Organisationskommunikation [organizational communication] erstellt W. Charles Redding (1972) einen ersten Forschungsüberblick, und Karlene H. Roberts et al. (1974, S. 501) konstatieren: "Organizational communication appears to be in an identity crisis." Üblicherweise werden Anfänge der Organisationskommunikation mit Messungen organisatorischer Arbeit in Industriebetrieben durch die Ingenieure Frederick W. Taylor (1911) und Henri Fayol (1916) in Zusammenhang gebracht. Die junge deutsche Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Plenge, 1919) suchte nach der richtigen Betriebsführung [management], und die sozialpsychologisch-empirisch operierenden Hawthorne-Studien (Mayo, 1933; Roethlisberger & Dickson, 1939) experimentierten in tayloristisch bestimmten Arbeitsorganisationen. Mit seiner Bürokratieforschung eröffnete Max Weber (1922) das Theoretisieren über sinnmachendes Handeln rationaler Organisation. Mary Parker Follett (1941), Chester I. Barnard (1938, 1948) und Herbert A. Simon (1945, 1958) problematisierten Verbindungen zwischen Organisation, Entscheidung und Kommunikation. Und Niklas Luhmann (2000) empfahl, die Organisation nicht länger als eine, durch Hierarchie und Zweck/Mittel-Beziehungen strukturierte Gegebenheit hinzunehmen, vielmehr ein autopoietisches System zu rekonstruieren, das sich durch Kommunikation und Entscheidungsprogramme selbst reproduziert. Im deutschen Sprachraum setzt sich die Journalismusforschung am ehesten mit dieser Entwicklung auseinander.

The Organised Writer: How to stay on top of all your projects and never miss a deadline (Writers' And Artists' Ser.)

The Organised Writer is a practical, no-nonsense system that allows you as an author to write without worrying about administration, business affairs, or scheduling, because you know those non-writing tasks will be dealt with at the right time. This straight-talking guide will help you become more productive, cope with multiple projects, and make time within your life to write - while also dealing with non-writing tasks more efficiently. It includes advice on how to: · Manage your schedule· Prioritise your writing time· Take notes effectively· Work with a 'clean mind'· Get more written every day· Deal effectively with non-writing tasks· Set up a foolproof filing system· Organise your working spaceRead the book, then spend a weekend setting up the system described, and you'll make the time back with interest. You'll get more written every day and complete more of your non-writing tasks without being overwhelmed by all the things you have to do, forgot to do, or don't want to do.