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Euripides and the Politics of Form

By: Victoria Wohl

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Euripides and the Politics of Form

By: Victoria Wohl

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl argues that the poetic form of Euripides' drama constitutes a mode of political thought. Through readings of select plays, she explores the politics of Euripides' radical aesthetics, showing how formal innovation generates political passions with real-world consequences. Euripides' plays have long perplexed readers. With their disjointed plots, comic touches, and frequent happy endings, they seem to stretch the boundaries of tragedy. But the plays' formal traits—from their exorbitantly beautiful lyrics to their arousal and resolution of suspense—shape the audience's political sensibilities and ideological attachments. Engendering civic passions, the plays enact as well as express political ideas. Wohl draws out the political implications of Euripidean aesthetics by exploring such topics as narrative and ideological desire, the politics of pathos, realism and its utopian possibilities, the logic of political allegory, and tragedy's relation to its historical moment. Breaking through the impasse between formalist and historicist interpretations of Greek tragedy, Euripides and the Politics of Form demonstrates that aesthetic structure and political meaning are mutually implicated—and that to read the plays poetically is necessarily to read them politically.

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Princeton University Press

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Intimate Commerce

Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy

By: Victoria Wohl

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Intimate Commerce

Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy

By: Victoria Wohl

Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She shows how the attempts of women in these plays to become active subjects rather than passive objects of exchange inevitably fail. While these failures seem to validate male hegemony, the women's actions, however futile, blur the distinction between male subject and female object, calling into question the very nature of the tragic self. What the tragedies thus present, Wohl asserts, is not only an affirmation of Athens' reigning ideologies (including its gender hierarchy) but also the possibility of resistance to them and the imagination of alternatives.

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University of Texas Press

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0292774052

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Love among the Ruins

The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens

By: Victoria Wohl

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Love among the Ruins

The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens

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Classical Athenian literature often speaks of democratic politics in sexual terms. Citizens are urged to become lovers of the polis, and politicians claim to be lovers of the people. Victoria Wohl argues that this was no dead metaphor. Exploring the intersection between eros and politics in democratic Athens, Wohl traces the private desires aroused by public ideology and the political consequences of citizens' most intimate longings. Love among the Ruins analyzes the civic fantasies that lay beneath (but not necessarily parallel to) Athens's political ideology. It shows how desire can disrupt politics and provides a deeper--at times disturbing--insight into the democratic unconscious of ancient Athens. The Athenians imagined the perfect citizen as a noble and manly lover. But this icon conceals a multitude of other possible figures: sexy tyrants, potent pathics, and seductive perverts. Through critical re-readings of canonical texts, Wohl investigates these fantasies, which seem so antithetical to Athens's manifest ideals. She examines the interrelation of patriotism and narcissism, the trope of politics as prostitution, the elite suspicion of political pleasure, and the status of perversion within Athens's sexual and political norms. She also discusses the morbid drive that propelled Athenian imperialism, as well as democratic Athens's paradoxical fascination with the joys of tyranny. Drawing on contemporary critical theory in original ways, Wohl sketches the relationship between citizen psyche and political life to illuminate the complex, frequently contradictory passions that structure democracy, ancient and modern.

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Princeton University Press

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1400825296

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Law's Cosmos

Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory

By: Victoria Wohl

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Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory

By: Victoria Wohl

Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens' juridical discourse.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521110742

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Euripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging

By: Victoria Pedrick

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Euripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging

By: Victoria Pedrick

Freud's interpretation of the ancient legend of Oedipus—as formulated in Sophocles' tragic drama—is among the most widely known concepts of psychoanalysis. Euripides' Ion, however, presents a more complex version of the development of personal identity. Here, the discovery of family origins is a process in which parent and child both take part as distinct agents driven by their own impulses of violence and desire. Euripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging studies the construction of identity and the origins of the primal trauma in two texts, the Ion and Freud’s case history of the Wolf Man. Victoria Pedrick challenges the conventional psychoanalytic theory of the development of the individual within the family, presenting instead a richer and more complex economy of exchange between the parent and the child. She provides a new perspective on Freud's appropriation of ancient texts and moves beyond the familiar reunion in Oedipus to the more nuanced scene of abandonment present in Ion. Her parallel investigation of these texts suggests that contemporary culture remains preoccupied by the problems of the past in the determination of identity. Pedrick's fresh perspectives on both texts as well as on their relationship to each other shed new light on two foundational moments in the intellectual development of the West: Greek tragedy and Freudian psychoanalysis.

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JHU Press

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0801893348

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The Education of Jane Addams

By: Victoria Bissell Brown

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The Education of Jane Addams

By: Victoria Bissell Brown

Excellent. . . . The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--Journal of American History

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812237471

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David's Sling

A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art

By: Victoria C. Gardner Coates

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David's Sling

A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art

By: Victoria C. Gardner Coates

Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works—from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica—histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in this book but relatively few know why they were commissioned, what was happening in the culture that produced them, or what they were meant to achieve. Even scholars who have studied them for decades often miss the big picture by viewing them in isolation from a larger story of human striving. David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them. Fusing political and art history with a judicious dose of creative reconstruction, Victoria Coates has crafted a lively narrative around each artistic object and the free system that inspired it. This book integrates the themes of creative excellence and political freedom to bring a fresh, new perspective to both. In telling the stories of ten masterpieces, David’s Sling invites reflection on the synergy between liberty and human achievement.

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Encounter Books

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1594037221

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E.T.A. Hoffmann and Alcohol

Biography, Reception and Art

By: Victoria Dutchman-Smith

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E.T.A. Hoffmann and Alcohol

Biography, Reception and Art

By: Victoria Dutchman-Smith

Originally published as author's thesis (Ph.D.--Trinity College, Cambridge).

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1906540233

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Kant on Happiness in Ethics

By: Victoria S. Wike

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Kant on Happiness in Ethics

By: Victoria S. Wike

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kant's treatment of happiness in ethics. It considers the definition of happiness and the possible roles happiness may serve in ethics. It argues against critics who maintain that Kant's deontological ethic rejects happiness and against critics who assert that Kant's ethic is, in fact, consequential and concerned above all with ends such as happiness. By pointing to a system that organizes Kant's various claims about happiness, the book supports the view that happiness has positive roles to play in Kant's ethic.

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State University of New York Press

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1438424035

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Law's Cosmos

Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory

By: Victoria Wohl

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Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory

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Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens' juridical discourse.

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Intimate Commerce

Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy

By: Victoria Wohl

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Intimate Commerce

Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy

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University of Texas Press

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The African Frontiers

Grenzen des Römischen Reiches: Die Grenzen in Afrika / Frontières de l ́Empire Romain: Les frontières africaines

By: David J. Breeze,Sonja Jilek,David Mattingly,Alan Rushworth,Martin Sterry,Victoria Leitch

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The African Frontiers

Grenzen des Römischen Reiches: Die Grenzen in Afrika / Frontières de l ́Empire Romain: Les frontières africaines

By: David J. Breeze,Sonja Jilek,David Mattingly,Alan Rushworth,Martin Sterry,Victoria Leitch

The Roman military remains in North Africa are remarkable in their variety and preservation. They include towers and forts, stretches of defensive lines of stone and earth with ditches broken by gates, and roads, sitting amidst amazing scenery. Readers of this book will enjoy learning more about North Africa’s remarkable Roman inheritance.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803271698

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A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song: 1870-1980

By: Victoria Etnier Villamil

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A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song: 1870-1980

By: Victoria Etnier Villamil

New in Paperback 2004. Probably the most comprehensive work on the American art song ever available, this book considers the lives and contributions of 144 significant composers in the field, including many for whom information has been extremely scarce. Most composers' entries consist of a biographical sketch; a brief discussion of his or her song writing characteristics (with emphasis on performers' concerns); a partial or complete listing of annotated songs; recording information; and the composer's individual bibliography. Song annotations include poet, publisher, date of composition (when known), voice type, range, duration, tempo indication, mood, subject matter, vocal style, special difficulties, general impression, artists who have recorded the song, and any other pertinent information. Thirty composers whose contributions are deemed of lesser import are summarized in brief essays. Appendixes include a supplement of recommended songs; a listing of American song anthologies and their contents; and the most recent information regarding publishers cited in the guide. There is also a general discography, a general bibliography, and indexes for both titles and poets. Documenting the most important 110 years in the development of American art song, this book is an indispensable tool for singers, teachers, coaches, accompanists, and libraries.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461655994

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e153 | Mnemosyne chellenged

By: Seminario Mnemosyne,Victoria Cirlot,Ianuck Takaes de Oliveira,Sergio Polano,Matias Nativo,Alessia Prati

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e153 | Mnemosyne chellenged

By: Seminario Mnemosyne,Victoria Cirlot,Ianuck Takaes de Oliveira,Sergio Polano,Matias Nativo,Alessia Prati

Editorial paper, Monica Centanni, Anna Fressola, Elizabeth Thomson Ernst H. Gombrich, Geburtstagsatlas: An Index of materials published in Engramma, by Seminario Mnemosyne Ernst H. Gombrich, Geburtstagsatlas für Max M. Warburg (1937). First digital edition, by Seminario Mnemosyne Ernst H. Gombrich, To Mnemosyne: An Introduction to Geburtstagsatlas (1937), by Seminario Mnemosyne Zwischenraum/Denkraum. Terminological Oscillations in the Introductions to the Atlas by Aby Warburg (1929) and Ernst Gombrich (1937), Victoria Cirlot “L’esprit de Warburg lui-même sera en paix”. A survey of Edgar Wind’s quarrel. With the Warburg Institute. Appendix: The Warburgkreis correspondence, Ianick Takaes de Oliveira A Review of Ernst H. Gombrich, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (London 1970). First digital edition, Edgar Wind A Laboratory of the Science of Culture. Review of A. Warburg, Gesammelte Schriften (1933). First digital edition, Johan Huizinga. Edition and translation by Monica Centanni, Sergio Polano and Elizabeth Thomson Autobiography of a Warburgian Artist. Review of: Ronald B. Kitaj Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter (2017), Matias J. Nativo, Alessia Prati

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889484031X

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Prison Terms

Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism

By: Ellen Victoria Nerenberg,Professor Ellen Nerenberg

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Prison Terms

Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism

By: Ellen Victoria Nerenberg,Professor Ellen Nerenberg

An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802035086

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Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

By: Victoria Sancho Lobis

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Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

By: Victoria Sancho Lobis

An extraordinary history of Netherlandish drawing, focused on the training and skill of artists during the long 17th century With a lively narrative thread and thematic chapters, this book offers an exceptional introduction to Dutch and Flemish drawing during the long 17th century. Victoria Sancho Lobis discusses the many roles of drawing in artistic training, its function in the production of works in other media, and its emergence as a medium in its own right. Beautifully illustrated with some 120 drawings by artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Hendrick Goltzius, Gerrit von Honthorst, and Jacob De Gheyn, this book surveys current methodologies of studying these works and features a brief history of Dutch papermaking and watermarks as well as a glossary. Paying careful attention to materials and techniques, and informed by recent conservation treatments, Lobis explains how to look at these drawings as records of experimentation and skill, true windows into the artist’s mind.

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Yale University Press

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0300247079

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Creativity and the Performing Artist

Behind the Mask

By: Paula Thomson,Victoria S. Jaque

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Creativity and the Performing Artist

Behind the Mask

By: Paula Thomson,Victoria S. Jaque

Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask synthesizes and integrates research in the field of creativity and the performing arts. Within the performing arts there are multiple specific domains of expertise, with domain-specific demands. This book examines the psychological nature of creativity in the performing arts. The book is organized into five sections. Section I discusses different forms of performing arts, the domains and talents of performers, and the experience of creativity within performing artists. Section II explores the neurobiology of physiology of creativity and flow. Section III covers the developmental trajectory of performing artists, including early attachment, parenting, play theories, personality, motivation, and training. Section IV examines emotional regulation and psychopathology in performing artists. Section V closes with issues of burnout, injury, and rehabilitation in performing artists. - Discusses domain specificity within the performing arts - Encompasses dance, theatre, music, and comedy performance art - Reviews the biology behind performance, from thinking to movement - Identifies how an artist develops over time, from childhood through adult training - Summarizes the effect of personality, mood, and psychopathology on performance - Explores career concerns of performing artists, from injury to burn out

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Academic Press

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0128041080

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The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness

Von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology

By: Victoria S. Harrison

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The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness

Von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology

By: Victoria S. Harrison

The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing, the book also provides the first detailed explication of his Christocentric philosophical anthropology. Part 2 argues that von Balthasar anticipates some key developments in late twentieth-century Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and that certain of these developments - in particular, the `internal realism' of Hilary Putnam - provide powerful support for von Balthasar's theological philosophy. The final part elucidates von Balthasar's core intuition that human holiness is of immense apologetic value for religious faith, and concludes with a new, `internalist' theory of religious pluralism. The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness will be seen as an important and original contribution to both Philosophy of Religion and Theology, and is likely to prove essential reading in upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in both subjects.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401008728

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The Genius of Democracy

Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945

By: Victoria Olwell

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The Genius of Democracy

Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 186-1945

By: Victoria Olwell

In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints on political life. The connections between genius, gender, and citizenship were important not only to contests over such practical goals as women's suffrage but also to those over national membership, cultural identity, and means of political transformation more generally. In The Genius of Democracy Victoria Olwell uncovers the political uses of genius, challenging our dominant narratives of gendered citizenship. She shows how American fiction catalyzed political models of female genius, especially in the work of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein. From an American Romanticism that saw genius as the ability to mediate individual desire and collective purpose to later scientific paradigms that understood it as a pathological individual deviation that nevertheless produced cultural progress, ideas of genius provided a rich language for contests over women's citizenship. Feminist narratives of female genius projected desires for a modern public life open to new participants and new kinds of collaboration, even as philosophical and scientific ideas of intelligence and creativity could often disclose troubling and more regressive dimensions. Elucidating how ideas of genius facilitated debates about political agency, gendered identity, the nature of consciousness, intellectual property, race, and national culture, Olwell reveals oppositional ways of imagining women's citizenship, ways that were critical of the conceptual limits of American democracy as usual.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204972

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Love among the Ruins

The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens

By: Victoria Wohl

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The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens

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Princeton University Press

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Consumer Perception of Internal Brand Extension

A Literature Based Work on Perceived Fit as Determining Factor for Enhancing Consumer Acceptance of Internal Brand Extension

By: Victoria Homeier

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Consumer Perception of Internal Brand Extension

A Literature Based Work on Perceived Fit as Determining Factor for Enhancing Consumer Acceptance of Internal Brand Extension

By: Victoria Homeier

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, FH Vienna, language: English, abstract: In order for brands to satisfy the changing needs of consumers and to gain competitive advantage the number of brand extensions carried through is increasing constantly. This literature based work aims to identify influential factors for consumer acceptance of brand extensions and will have a closer look at the role of brand knowledge in this process. The focus will be on the evaluation of importance of the perceived fit and on determining how this factor can be used by marketers. The first part of this work gives an insight into brands and brand management, as branding is the base for brand extensions. Then it concentrates on brand extension from a marketing point of view in order to create a common understanding for this strategy. Furthermore it gives details about the consumer-decision making process in order to allow the reader to understand how brands are perceived by consumers. The second part then talks about the consumer evaluation of brand extensions, by giving details about influential factors on this process and how this can be monitored by marketers. It then goes into detail about the perceived fit as influential factor. Finally the findings are discussed with regard to the research requests and conclusions are drawn.

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GRIN Verlag

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Euripides and the Politics of Form

By: Victoria Wohl

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Indigenous Peoples [4 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival [4 volumes]

By: Victoria R. Williams

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Indigenous Peoples [4 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival [4 volumes]

By: Victoria R. Williams

The book is an essential resource for those interested in investigating the lives, histories, and futures of indigenous peoples around the world. Perfect for readers looking to learn more about cultural groups around the world, this four-volume work examines approximately 400 indigenous groups globally. The encyclopedia investigates the history, social structure, and culture of peoples from all corners of the world, including their role in the world, their politics, and their customs and traditions. Alphabetically arranged entries focus on groups living in all world regions, some of which are well-known with large populations, and others that are lesser-known with only a handful of surviving members. Each entry includes sections on the group's geography and environment; history and politics; society, culture, and tradition; access to health care and education; and threats to survival. Each entry concludes with See Also cross-references and a list of Further Reading resources to guide readers in their research. Also included in the encyclopedia are Native Voices inset boxes, allowing readers a glimpse into the daily lives of members of these indigenous groups, as well as an appendix featuring the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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1440861188

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