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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Crowther |
| ISBN: | 9781409441885 1409441881 9781409441892 140944189X |
| OCLC Number: | 777386240 |
| Description: | xiii, 237 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface to second edition -- The function of corporate reporting -- Measuring and reporting performance -- Accounting for social and environmental performance -- Semiology and statistics : a methodology for analysis -- The performance discourse : measurement and evaluation -- The environmental discourse : the qualitative evidence -- Considering performance : interpretation of the evidence -- The future focus of reporting : evidence from semiotic analysis -- The semiology of external reporting : an evaluation of the evidence -- The future of corporate reporting -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | David Crowther. |
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Engel brings an outstanding scholarly reputation in English Renaissance literature to his task, and it is just what the study of American literature needs at present: explorations of its debt to the literature of the past and its use of that past in new ways to transform American literary culture.'Bainard Cowan, University of Dallas'Against the trend toward relating American literary works forward in time to present concerns, Engel moves backward two centuries to restore a proper context for Melville's and Poe's writing. The allusions are vast, yet precise, the interpretations at once specific and far-reaching.'Mark Bauerlein, Emory University 'In this unusual and provocative study, Professor Engel has brought into view an inventive new way to measure the important influence of the baroque, in both rhetorical and visual terms, on Melville and Poe.'Eric J. Sundquist, The Johns Hopkins University Read more...