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"Creativity used to be the difficult concept to define - now it
has probably been overtaken by the concept 'creative industries'.
However, this text does a sterling job at identifying, outlining
and defining the many elements that go to make up this booming
sector of industry. What makes it particularly interesting is that
it includes the view of the creative industries from the
perspective of working in it, then the definitions of what products
and producers are involved, and ends with the broader picture of
the creative economy and predictions for future trends. Add to this
that they include both theory and practice, and this really is an
all-round guide to the vast domain that is loosely titled 'the
creative industries'" - Angela Birchall, School of Media, Music
& Performance, Salford University This is your complete guide
to studying and succeeding in the creative industries. This book
takes you through the history, trends, products and markets of the
creative industries, showing how success depends on a mix of ideas,
tactics and talent. When understanding social networks and cultural
economy is just as important as hands-on skills or an
entrepreneurial spirit, Introducing the Creative Industries shows
you how to use theories, concepts and practical skills to get ahead
in their course and professional life. Creatively imagined and
beautifully written, this book: Interweaves theoretical concepts
and professional practice on every page Uses cultural economy to
teach the essential concepts and thinkers Integrates case studies
from fashion and gaming to journalism and music Teaches strategies
for navigating the links between skills, industries, creativity and
markets. This book shows you how to spot opportunities and use your
knowledge and savvy to take kickstart your career in this
fast-moving industry. It is an essential guidebook for students of
creativity in media and communication, design, creative industries
and business.
Learning and teaching languages in an online environment is one of
contemporary education's great challenges. The challenge is made
particularly difficult because language learners benefit from a
social constructivist approach in which individual learners learn
by doing together - negotiating meaning in collaborative
interaction. The open source revolution in technology has opened up
the possibility of communal efforts to develop technological
solutions to such pedagogical challenges. This volume brings
together reports from the Covcell Project which developed
collaborative tools for the learning management system, Moodle,
with papers relating to a range of other tools for online language
teaching, in a number of domains including language for special
purposes, foreign language equivalency certification, cultural
learning practices and oral skills development.
The influence of foreign cultures on German literature and other
cultural productions since the 18th century. The Edinburgh German
Yearbook is devoted to German Studies in an international context.
It publishes original English- and German-language contributions on
a wide range of topics from scholars around the world. Each
volumeis based on a single broad theme: the first includes papers
from the highly successful conference Kennst du das Land: Cultural
Exchange in German Literature, held in Edinburgh in December 2006,
supplemented by additional essays. The conviction that German
culture and the German spirit are triumphantly unique has played a
notorious role in Germany's history. It is nonetheless acknowledged
that German literature has been significantly influenced by
non-German sources, and the search for what is unique about Germany
and German literature must incorporate an awareness of these. This
volume provides a wide-ranging investigation into how German
literature from the 18th century tothe present day reflects
interactions between German and non-German cultures. Alongside
theoretical and historical reflections on the nature of cultural
exchange, contributions explore literary reception, the boundaries
of and movement between cultures, and Germany's literary,
political, cultural, and religious relations with both near
neighbors and far-flung cultural interlocutors. Contributoers:
Christian Moser, Birgit Tautz, Silvia Horsch, Eleoma Joshua, Gauti
Kristmannsson, Sabine Wilke, Daniela Kramer, Jon Hughes, Thomas
Martinec, Margaret Litter, Lyn Marven, Dirk Goettsche, Susanne Kord
Eleoma Joshua is Lecturer in German at Edinburgh University.
RobertVilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at
Royal Holloway, University of London. The journal's General Editor
is Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at Edinburgh University.
These two volumes examine the way in which translation was
instrumental in constructing a literary identity in Britain and
Germany in the eighteenth century. The first volume covers in three
parts how different methods of translation can be applied to enrich
the existent literature in the native language and to an extent
create it as an aesthetic possibility, in particular through the
translation of form. The first part is theoretical without being a
theory, the second part covers the national literary rivalry in
Britain in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the third
part a German synthesis of material and methods applied earlier on
in Britain. The second volume is dedicated to aesthetic,
philosophical and national concerns of several major thinkers of
the eighteenth century such as Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder.
These two volumes examine the way in which translation was
instrumental in constructing a literary identity in Britain and
Germany in the eighteenth century. The first volume covers in three
parts how different methods of translation can be applied to enrich
the existent literature in the native language and to an extent
create it as an aesthetic possibility, in particular through the
translation of form. The first part is theoretical without being a
theory, the second part covers the national literary rivalry in
Britain in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the third
part a German synthesis of material and methods applied earlier on
in Britain. The second volume is dedicated to aesthetic,
philosophical and national concerns of several major thinkers of
the eighteenth century such as Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder.
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