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This books aims to demonstrate how semiotic models of textual analysis can be used to study any social reality or cultural process. In addition, it shows how semiotic models work by using examples from everyday life and social praxis, communicative processes and modes of consumption, online interactions and cross-media procedures, political experiences and scientific universes.

Social media and society. --- Written communication --- Psychological aspects. --- Semiotic Models. --- Textual Analysis.

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Die facettenreiche Disziplin Altnordistik zielt darauf ab, den nordgermanischen Raum im ersten Jahrtausend nach Christus und im Mittelalter umfassend kulturhistorisch zu erschließen. Da die dortigen Menschen aber länger als die der kontinentalen Kulturen bis zum Spätmittelalter überwiegend mündlich organisiert waren, sind Forscher darauf angewiesen, ihre materielle Kultur, also archäologische Quellen, Bilddarstellungen sowie Runeninschriften, in die Untersuchungen einzubeziehen. Als einer der renommiertesten Altskandinavisten hat sich Wilhelm Heizmann in seinem Oevre intensiv mit den Bereichen Altertumskunde, Ikonographie, Runologie und Literaturwissenschaft befasst. Dabei sind auch produktive interdisziplinäre Kooperationen entstanden. Die vielen disparaten, auch im vorliegenden Band angesprochen Themen gelten als Annäherung an die Kultur der Nordgermanen aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive. Mittelalter-Forscher können durch die Beiträge gute Einblicke in die breite Palette der Altnordistik bekommen; daraus ergeben sich deutliche Berührungspunkte und Gemeinsamkeiten mit benachbarten Fächern, die zu einer fruchtbaren Interdisziplinarität beitragen.     

Literature, Medieval. --- Scandinavia --- Germany --- Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Antiquities. --- Analysis of pictorial source/ iconography. --- runic epigraphs. --- textual analysis.

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A daring new view of Sebald's works and the reading practice they call forth. W. G. Sebald was born in 1944 in Germany. He found his way as a young academic to England and a career as professor of German. Only between the late 1980s and his untimely death in 2001 did he concentrate on nonacademic writing, crafting a new kind of prose work that shares features with but remains distinct from the novel, essay, travel writing, and memoir forms and gaining elevation to the first rank of writers internationally. No less a critic than Susan Sontag was moved to ask "Is literary greatness still possible?," implying that it was and that she had found it embodied in his writing. Deane Blackler explores Sebald's biography before analyzing the reading practice his textscall forth: that of a "disobedient reader," a proactive reader challenged to question the text by Sebald's peculiar use of poetic language, the pseudoautobiographical voice of his narrators, the seemingly documentary photographs he inserted into his books, and by his exquisite representations of place. Blackler reads Sebald's fiction as adventurous and disobedient in its formulation, an imaginative revitalization of literary fiction for the third millennium. Deane Blackler received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2005 from the University of Tasmania.

German prose literature --- History and criticism. --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Disobedient Reader. --- Enlightenment. --- Literary Greatness. --- Literature. --- Neo-Latin Culture. --- Photographs. --- Place. --- Poetic Language. --- Prose. --- Pseudoautobiographical. --- Textual Analysis. --- W. G. Sebald.

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Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces Eisler's art songs (German: Kunstlieder) through twentieth-century political crises from World War I to Nazi-era exile and from Eisler's postwar deportation from the U.S. to the ideological pressures he faced in the early German Democratic Republic. His art songs are presented not as an escape from the "dark times" Brecht lamented but rather as a way to intervene in the nationalist appropriation of aesthetic material. This book follows a chronological arc from Eisler's early Morgenstern songs to his Lied-like setting of Brecht's 1939 "To Those Who Come After" and his treatment of Hölderlin's poetry in the 1940s Hollywood Songbook; the final two chapters focus on Eisler's Goethe settings in the early GDR, followed by his late Serious Songs recalling Brahms in their reflective approach. In its combination of textual and musicological analysis, this book balances technical and lay vocabulary to reach readers with or without musical background. The author's practical perspective as a singer also informs the book, as she addresses not only what Eisler asks of the voice but also the challenge of evoking both intimacy and distance in his politically fraught art songs. Heidi Hart holds a PhD in German Studies from Duke University. She is an instructor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University.

Composers --- Songs --- Music and literature --- Attitudes --- History and criticism. --- Eisler, Hanns, --- Arias --- Ariettas --- Art songs --- Lieder --- Solo songs --- Solo vocal music, Secular --- Songs with various acc. --- Lyric poetry --- Vocal music --- Recorded accompaniments (Voice) --- Aesthetic Material. --- Art Songs. --- Creative. --- German Democratic Republic. --- Hanns Eisler. --- Ideological Pressures. --- Lieder Tradition. --- Music. --- Musicological. --- Performative. --- Political Agendas. --- Politics. --- Reflection. --- Rhetorical. --- Textual Analysis.

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"Touchscreens are key elements of people's everyday lives but critical frameworks for addressing these devices and the associated promises of engagement and embodied experiences are still wanting. White proposes methods for studying touchscreens and digital engagements and expanding a variety of research areas, including studies of digital and Internet cultures, hardware, interfaces, media and screens, and popular culture"--

Human-computer interaction --- Social aspects --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- body --- cellphone --- close reading --- direct address --- embodiment --- feel --- fingernail --- feminism --- gender script --- hand --- Internet --- iPhone --- online --- sensation --- skin --- tactile --- technology --- textual analysis --- Touch screens. --- Social aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects --- Panels, Touch --- Screens, Touch --- Touch panels --- Touch screen panels --- Touchscreen panels --- Touchscreens --- Computer input-output equipment