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Title
Putting crisis in perspective : analyses of past and present crises in literature, culture, and foreign language teaching / Artur Skweres, editor.
ISBN
9783030867249 (electronic bk.)
3030867242 (electronic bk.)
3030867234
9783030867232
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-86724-9 doi
Call Number
PR5892.P64
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.933553
Summary
This collected book analyzes the phenomenon of crisis manifested across various historical periods. It offers unique, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the issues of crises and finds numerous applications in the fields of literature, linguistics, advertising, photography, and foreign language teaching. The collection is divided into two parts. The chapters in its first part analyze literature and language: from medieval England to cultural changes in America occurring under the influence of the transformation caused by the propagation of print culture. The incisive commentaries consider the works of culture that span not only literature but also film. They reveal how much we can learn by considering how past generations perceived reality in times of crisis. The second part of the book contains chapters, which examine texts related to contemporary crises expressed in the visual media of advertising and photography, but also in foreign language teaching. As the authors show, both ads and non-commercial, socially engaged photographs can influence the viewer in a swift and impactful manner by conveying messages of great social importance. The authors convincingly that argue both photographs and ads can be used for social benefit by visualizing even the unpleasant or shocking sides of reality. Finally, the notion of crisis experienced by students of English as a foreign language is analyzed and supplemented by research which may prove useful for researchers and practitioners alike.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 27, 2021).
Series
Second language learning and teaching, 2193-7656
1. The playful response to crisis caused by print culture in magical world of the ear in Washington Irvings The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its 1999 film adaptation
2. The clash of divergent political strategies, moral categories and literary conventions in the early fifteenth century poetry. Mum and the Sothsegger as a reflection of the tensions within the crisis-ridden late medieval society
3. The crisis appearing in the construal of the mediaeval concepts of truth, soth and faith in The Canterbury Tales with their contemporary counterparts
4. Different shades of crisis in selected advertising messages
5. Human and space. Images of conflict in the Levant Trilogy project by Rita Leistner
6. The influence of the feeling of crisis and anxiety on high school students oral performance.
