Near the close of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby' the narrator, Carraway, believes Gatsby to be dead, but the death and funeral have been faked and Gatsby has escaped to Havana. There he builds a new career and some years later sets out to put the record straight and counter Carraway's misinterpretation of events and people. In the course of his story he expands on his early life, his experience in the War, his time at Oxford, his hoodlum years and his relationships with Arn...

Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s li...

Disruptive pedagogies for archival researchIn a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many form...

Grundidee dieses Buches ist es, 20 Rechtskonflikte aus dem Medien- und Internetrecht aufzugreifen, die in den letzten Jahren weit über die Fachkreise hinaus diskutiert wurden. Einige spiegeln sich bereits im Titel des Buches wider: Böhmermann, Künast, Rezo. Diese Namen sind mit folgenden Rechtsfragen verknüpft: Ist Satire immer von der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt? Müssen Politiker:innen jede Verbalattacke dulden? Welche Sorgfaltspflichten gelten für Videos politisch aktiver YouTuber:innen? Jeder...

"En briljant modern romanupplevelse med djupa litterära rötter" Bibliotekstjänst 16/2025"... en underhållande och ofantligt lärd äventyrsroman" Dagens Nyheter--Katabasis (antik grekiska): berättelse om en hjältes nedstigning i underjorden.Doktoranderna Alice och Peter vid institutionen för analytisk magi i Cambridge inser att de måste ge sig ner i helvetes kretsar för att hämta tillbaka sin handledare, professor Grimes. Att ta sig dit är inga problem. Att över...