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      • Suug Productions

        Kontexte, Blickwinkel, Sichtachsen und Perspektivwechsel Was wir machen Das Internet sollte Zugang zu Wissen organisieren und ist ein Werkzeug zum Austausch von Ideen, Visionen und Lösungen. – Suug Productions kreiert Projekte mit Sinn – und dem Anspruch, die Welt durch neue und ungewöhnliche Kontexte, Blickwinkel, Sichtachsen und Perspektivwechsel zu einem etwas reizvolleren Ort zu machen.

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      • Uitgeverij Prometheus

        Prometheus Publishers is a Dutch publisher that publishes a wide variety of quality fiction and non-fiction titles. Prometheus’s catalogue balances established talents with new voices that we introduce into the literary market. Amongst our fiction authors are renowned Dutch-language authors such as Connie Palmen, Griet Op de Beeck, Tom Lanoye, Tim Krabbé, and Esther Verhoef. Prometheus also publishes the Dutch translations of great international voices like Umberto Eco, Sandro Veronesi, Margaret Atwood, and Zadie Smith.   Our non-fiction catalogue is filled with experts from across the scientific spectrum. Ranging from history to psychology and from physics to literary studies, Prometheus offers exciting new insights into a wide range of disciplines. Prometheus also publishes a philosophical series with musings on subjects that are relevant to our society today.

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        January 1988

        Hellwach und bewusst leben

        Wege zur Entfaltung des menschlichen Potentials - die Anleitung zum bewussten Sein

        by Tart, Charles / Übersetzt von Kierdorf, Theo

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Sex, politics and empire

        A postcolonial geography

        by Richard Phillips

        Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.

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        Andreaa Constantin

        by Esteban Torres Lana

        A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.

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        June 1986

        Frau Warrens Beruf

        Stück in vier Akten

        by George Bernard Shaw, Martin Walser

        Frau Warrens Beruf gehört zu den Unerquicklichen Stücken Shaws. Es wurde bereits 1894 geschrieben, jedoch nicht sofort von der Zensur verboten und erst 1903 in einer privaten Aufführung der Stage Society in London zugelassen. Die erste öffentliche Aufführung fand 1905 in New York statt, wo nach einem tumultartigen Premierenabend gleich die Hauptdarsteller verhaftet wurden. Um welche Laster geht es hier? »Die Gründe, aus denen dieses Stück verboten und danach heftig umstritten wurde, kann man als viktorianische oder britische oder bürgerliche Heuchelei mißverstehen. Die Gegner dieses Stücks mögen selber geglaubt haben, sie kämpften gegen ein Stück, in dem die Prostitution verteidigt wird. In Wirklichkeit haben sie gegen ein Stück gekämpft, in dem die Prostitution erklärt wird; erklärt als ein Beruf, in dem die Ausbeutung der Frau deutlich wird. Mögen sie geglaubt haben, Sitte und Anstand gegen dieses Stück in Schutz nehmen zu müssen, sie haben in Wirklichkeit reagiert auf die Darstellung eines Geschäfts«, schrieb Martin Walser anlässlich seiner Neuübersetzung des Stücks.

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        May 1999

        Das Brandmal

        Ein Tagebuch

        by Emmy Ball-Hennings, Erika Süllwold

        »Was in meinen Papieren steht, nämlich daß ich Schauspielerin, Fabrikarbeiterin, Fotografin usw. bin, das besagt nicht viel. Auch ist es nicht wichtig, zu wissen woher ich gekommen bin. Was hat die geographisches Lage meiner Herkunft, mein Geburtsort, mit meiner Heimatlosigkeit zu tun? Auch bin ich nicht Schauspielerin von Beruf, denn ich liebe nicht den falschen Schein, und mein einziger Beruf ist, das zu erkennen, was ich bin«, schreibt Emmy Hennings in »Das Brandmahl«, über das Hugo Ball bei Erscheinen 1920 sagt:»Emmys »Brandmal« ist erschienen. Hier ist nicht mehr Debatte. Hier ist die Zeit, am Körper erlebt und erlitten.« Auf beeindruckende Weise beschreibt Emmy Hennings ihr eigensinniges, widersprüchliches und faszinierendes Leben in den ersten zehn Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts, als Armut die Wanderschauspielerin zeitweise zum Hausieren und zur Prostitution zwang, die erniedrigenden Lebenserfahrungen ihr zum Brandmahl wurden: »Wenn ich am Fenster stehe, denke ich, die obere Hälfte, Herz und Brust, gehört Gott, die untere Hälfte mag der Teufel nehmen.«

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        May 2001

        Emmy Ball-Hennings

        Leben im Vielleicht. Eine Biographie

        by Bärbel Reetz

        »Ich lebe im - Vielleicht/ Bin eine stumme Frage ...« Die so schreibt, ist eine poetische Maskenspielerin, eine, die in ihrem ungewöhnlichen Leben viel gefragt und noch mehr gewagt hat: Emmy Ball-Hennings (1885-1948). Aus der kleinbürgerlichen Enge Flensburgs treibt ihre »Weglaufsucht« sie mit Wandertheatern durch Deutschland, auf die Bühnen europäischer Varietes und Cabarets, in die Abgründe von Drogen, Prostitution und Gefängnis, in die schrille Berliner und Münchner Vorkriegsboheme. 1915 emigriert sie mit Hugo Ball nach Zürich und begründet mit ihm das »Cabaret Voltaire« - die Keimzelle des Dadaismus. Irrlichtert durch die politisch-journalistische Emigrantenszene um Ball und Ernst Bloch in Bern, begegnet 1920 Hermann Hesse, dem Freund fürs Leben. Die Namen ihrer Freundinnen und Gefährten lesen sich wie eine Enzyklopädie der europäischen Avantgarde.Bärbel Reetz hat sich auf Spurensuche gemacht und Einblick in bisher unbekannte Briefe und Aufzeichnungen genommen. Mit ihrer Biographie wirft sie ein neues Licht auf das ungewöhnliche Leben der Emmy Ball-Hennings.

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        October 2004

        Silberne Schlangen

        Die frühen Erzählungen aus dem Nachlaß

        by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke-Archiv, August Stahl, Hella Sieber-Rilke

        Zwei literarische Strömungen kreuzen sich auf besondere Weise in den hier zum größten Teil erstmals publizierten Erzählungen des zwanzigjährigen Rilke: der realistische, detailgenaue, manchmal drastische Darstellungsmodus des Naturalismus und der hohe Ton des sich ankündigenden Symbolismus der Jahrhundertwende. Exemplarisch hierfür mag die Titelerzählung stehen, deren ornamental anmutende überschrift in Wirklichkeit die Bahngleise meint, auf denen ein Verzweifelter den Tod finden wird.Rilkes Sprachkraft tritt bereits in diesen frühen Texten, die ursprünglich für ein »Novellenbuch« mit dem Titel »Was toben die Heiden« vorgesehen waren, klar zutage. Ihr einigendes Band liegt in der hohen Sensibilität des jungen Autors für das Leid der Menschen, die unter Armut, Gewalt und nicht zuletzt kirchlichen Moralvorstellungen zu leiden haben. So ist es ausgerechnet der Beichtvater, der die geläuterte Dirne in die Prostitution zurückstößt, und eine Frau, die ihrem Mann den Schädel spaltet, weil der mit ihrem Körper seine Trinkschulden begleichen will, ist trotz allem »eine Heilige«.Doch auch leisere Töne klingen an: Mit feiner Psychologie beschreibt Rilke, wie die Liebe zweier »Schwärmer« in dem Moment zerbricht, in dem ihre Erfüllung in einer Ehe möglich wird.

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        October 1996

        Spectaculum 62

        Sechs moderne Theaterstücke

        by Chantal Akerman, Oliver Bukowski, Dirk Dobbrow, Tankred Dorst, Yasmina Reza, Martin Walser

        "Chantal Akerman: Der UmzugWenn eine Person umzieht, wird möglicherweise auch eine Liebe verlassen oder eine neue gefunden. Chantal Akerman hat einen Monolog über die Topographie der Liebe geschrieben.Oliver Bukowski: Inszenierung eines KussesDie Personen: A Der Professor, B Ein Schöngeist und Philosoph und C einfach nur der ›Trieb‹, oder sagen wir es gerade heraus, die drei sind Stadtstreicher, Penner; und da ist Lisa, die 33jährige, attraktive Erfolgsfrau, wie geht das zusammen?Dirk Dobbrow: DivaNäherte man sich diesem Stück allein thematisch — Aids, Prostitution, Mord —, man würde ihm nicht gerecht, denn auch die Verzweiflung hat noch ihre Poesie: »Die Menschen sind Engel und leben im Himmel.«Tankred Dorst: Die Geschichte der PfeileIst im Theater Authentizität möglich, inwieweit ist es Täuschung und Lüge? Das Theatermotiv hat den Theaterautor Dorst wieder eingefangen, und auf nichts ist mehr VerlaßYasmina Reza: »Kunst«Das Stück ist eine Komödie, eine Komödie über die Freundschaft und über die Kunst.Martin Walser: Das SofaAlbert ist gewissermaßen der Kopf einer GmbH, die erst noch gegründet werden soll. Leider nimmt er seine Erkenntnis »Ein Mensch erträgt siebenmal soviel, wenn er liegt« allzu wörtlich. Seiner Mutter gefällt’s, aber für das Unternehmen ist das eine Katastrophe."

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        Women in England, 1275–1525

        by P. J. P. Goldberg

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2006

        Sex, politics and empire

        A postcolonial geography

        by Richard Phillips, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Caroline Wilding

        Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 1997

        Tis Pity She's a Whore

        John Ford

        by Derek Roper

        John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period, and has been successfully adapted for film and radio. The Revels plays edition by Derek Roper has been the standard scholarly edition since it appeared in 1975. This new edition uses the same authoritative text, but with notes designed for modern undergraduate use. The substantial introduction has been completely rewritten to take account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years. It presents the play as an 'interrogative text', in which subversive meanings are inscribed within an apparently orthodox narrative; as a courageous treatment of forbidden love; and as an achieved work of Baroque art. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2024

        Tis Pity She's a Whore

        By John Ford

        by Martin White

        John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. This Revels Plays edition is a scholarly, modern-spelling edition of one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period. White's critical introduction explores the textual and theatrical histories of the play, exploring closely its relationship to the particular stage and audience for which it was written. This Revels edition allows the modern reader to become, in Ford's words, an 'actor that but reads'.

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        December 2024

        The Long and Dark Night

        by ZHANG HENSHUI

        It is one of Zhang Henshui's novels, and it is Zhang Henshui's work in his creative heyday. : This book writes an orphaned girl who learns to play, after layers of hardship, she became a red corner. Eventually, because of his youthful knowledge, he was lured into missteps. The crimes of gambling, eating, drinking and playing with prostitution at all levels of society are exposed to all levels.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2013

        A Trick to Catch the Old One

        By Thomas Middleton

        by David Bevington, Paul Mulholland, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

        This is the first single volume edition of A Trick to Catch the Old One for many decades. This edition presents a thoroughly reconsidered text based on collation of all known copies of the 1608 quarto (including material unnoticed by earlier editors). Textual analysis draws on detailed internal investigation and the printer's wider practice to propose that relatively improvisational procedures and a paper quota governed A Trick's printing operations. Discovery of an overlooked record revises the date of court performance to 1 January 1607, with implications for the play's early history. Critical discussion freshly examines the play's multi-layered ironic texture in relation to such issues as the status of women, marriage's relation to prostitution and vice versa, and the contemporary marriage market. And the Courtesan receives special attention in the context of this overarching ironic scheme. An extensive stage history explores original staging and documents revivals to 2011. The commentary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of all modern editions. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 1999

        Introduction to English Renaissance comedy

        by Alexander Leggatt

        Introduction to English Renaissance comedy provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, emphasising the eclectic, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition, its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. This book makes a close analysis of some of the richest comedies of the period, making unexpected connections between them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, Lyly's Endymion, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Marston's The Malcontent, Middleton's Michaelmas Term, Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Through these plays the reader is given a comprehensive picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods. ;

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