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Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts.
Great Expectations (1861) is not only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which centres around his primary themes: the importance of childhood in relationship to adult life, concepts of guilt and imprisonment and an analysis of individualism as opposed to the increasing bureaucracy of nineteenth-century England. This guide is an ideal introduction to the text including its contexts, Dickens's style and imagery, its critical reception from the time of publication to the present, a guide to illustrated editions and film adaptations and a guide to further reading.
In this enduring classic, prominent authorities on organizational research describe how they have tried to make their own research approaches useful for theory and practice. Other experts interpret and comment on these contributions, and in the ensuing discussions and debates, the participants provide valuable insights into how these researchers think about their work, how they formulate problems and research strategies, and the reasons they use particular methods.
Selon la perspective suivie dans cet ouvrage, le spectateur est actuellement en train d'acquérir de nouvelles capacités de suivi et d'absorption de l'image en mouvement. Depuis une quinzaine d'années, les créateurs de l'iconosphère avancent sur le chemin de la complexification et de la multiplication des moyens narratifs visuels. Cette démarche est préparée non seulement par des expérimentations artistiques historiques mais avant tout par l'accoutumance des populations urbanisées à l'immersion dans l'iconographie dynamique, par la prolifération des sources d'information imagée, par les pratiques interactives tels le zapping télévisuel, la consultation d'Internet, l'imagerie de la téléphonie mobile, ainsi que par la médiatisation iconique de la conduite de véhicules et d'engins. Ces nouvelles manières de consommer l'image et le son dynamisent les nouvelles créations multi-supports et feront bientôt disparaître la salle obscure à projection plate et unique ainsi que les appareils mono-écraniques.
Nous proposons dans cet ouvrage une étude bilingue franco-anglaise quasi-exhaustive du phénomène, ancrée dans l'épistémologie des sciences cognitives, apportant des éclaircissements théoriques conjugués aux analyses des oeuvres récentes et anciennes, et étayée par les considérations et les témoignages d'artistes.
According to this study, the spectator is currently acquiring new capacities to follow and to assimilate the moving image. In the last fifteen years, designers in the iconosphere have continued to make progress with the development and expansion of the media of visual narration. This advance is not only the result of past artistic experiments, but is above all rooted in such phenomena as the adaptation of urban populations to dynamic iconography, the proliferation of visual information, the emergence of interactive practices, such as channel surfing, the Internet search, mobile phone interfaces, as well as the visual interfaces for operating vehicles and other machines. These new ways of consuming images and sounds have fueled an expansion of new multi-screen designs that will gradually make the dark theater projection and the single-screen device obsolete.
This bilingual French-English study offers a semi-comprehensive investigation of these phenomena, anchored in the epistemology of cognitive science, providing theoretical explanations combined with analyses of recent and historical works and accompanied by the reflections and testimonies of artists.
Nous proposons dans cet ouvrage une étude bilingue franco-anglaise quasi-exhaustive du phénomène, ancrée dans l'épistémologie des sciences cognitives, apportant des éclaircissements théoriques conjugués aux analyses des oeuvres récentes et anciennes, et étayée par les considérations et les témoignages d'artistes.
According to this study, the spectator is currently acquiring new capacities to follow and to assimilate the moving image. In the last fifteen years, designers in the iconosphere have continued to make progress with the development and expansion of the media of visual narration. This advance is not only the result of past artistic experiments, but is above all rooted in such phenomena as the adaptation of urban populations to dynamic iconography, the proliferation of visual information, the emergence of interactive practices, such as channel surfing, the Internet search, mobile phone interfaces, as well as the visual interfaces for operating vehicles and other machines. These new ways of consuming images and sounds have fueled an expansion of new multi-screen designs that will gradually make the dark theater projection and the single-screen device obsolete.
This bilingual French-English study offers a semi-comprehensive investigation of these phenomena, anchored in the epistemology of cognitive science, providing theoretical explanations combined with analyses of recent and historical works and accompanied by the reflections and testimonies of artists.
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How 007 became James Bond's number Imaginary numbers and how they exist How the binary system manages to say so much with only two numbers That bedding has nothing to do with being "three sheets to the wind" The burning literary question: Why did Ray Bradbury name his novel Fahrenheit 451? Which block of Social Security numbers will never be assigned to anyone With Easy as Pi, you'll soon impress your friends with your knowledge of numbers--even if you're math averse. Make this and all of the Blackboard Books(tm) a permanent fixture on your shelf, and you'll have instant access to a breadth of knowledge. Whether you need homework help or want to win that trivia game, this series is the trusted source for fun facts.