The wish fish : a collection of traditional tales.

Es una colección de cuentos tradicionales de China, África, Corea y España, escritos por narradores del pasado que, aunque proceden de muy distintos países y continentes, tienen deseos comunes de un mundo mágico y de un mundo soñado por las personas, independientemente, de donde vivan.

The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales.

Hace mucho tiempo la gente estaba acostumbrada a que le contarán mágicas historias sobre maravillas y encantamientos, pero de ellas no trata este libro. Más bien, casi podían ser cuentos de hadas, pero tampoco. Las historias que aquí se cuentan son más bien cuentos estúpidos.

Tales of wisdom and wonder.

Colección de cuentos procedentes de distintos países y culturas, en los que aparecen sorprendentes animales y gente extraordinaria; nada es como parece en este libro, pues se producen mágicas transformaciones. Al mismo tiempo, estas historias nos recuerdan de distintas maneras, cuán vasto y misterioso es nuestro mundo, y cómo nuestras vidas pueden transformarse totalmente por circunstancias inesperadas.

Tales of the expected: investigating the rhetorical strategies of innovation champions

Innovation continues to be high on the agenda in construction. It is widely considered to be an essential prerequisite of improved performance both for the sector at large and for individual firms. Success stories dominate the parts of the academic literature that rely heavily on the recollections of key individuals. A complementary interpretation focuses on the way innovation champions in hindsight interpret, justify and legitimize the diffusion of innovations. Emphasis is put on the temporal dimension of interpretation and how this links to rhetorical strategies and impression management tactics. Rhetorical theories are drawn upon to analyse the accounts given by innovation champions in seven facilities management organizations. In particular, the three persuasive appeals in classic rhetoric are used to highlight the rhetorical justifications mobilized in the descriptions of what took place. The findings demonstrate the usefulness of rhetorical theories in complementing studies of innovation.

'All in one stroke': Grimms' fairy tales and the TV-production of a new Germany

The article looks at the most recent TV adaptations of the Grimms’ fairy tales by public broadcasting. Realized and marketed as a season which started in 2008,the thirty-four currently existing individual films constitute a significant national project that presents highly appealing notions of the German past to an audience divided over national conflict and demands of globalization. With children and adolescents at the centre, the films offer the young as a generation of moral superiority that facilitates social harmony and moral consensus. This post-unification utopia is beautifully realized on screen but rests on very conservative assumptions about gender, social driving forces, and political order.