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      Literature & Literary Studies
      March 2007

      Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

      by Dominic Moran, Catherine Davies

      Pablo Neruda's Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1924) is the most widely read and best loved book of poetry ever written in Spanish. Its verses can be recited by heart by millions of Latin Americans from every background and walk of life, and it has become almost a bible for young lovers. Yet despite, or perhaps because of this immense popular success, it has received scant attention from scholars, often being studied out of context and in relatively superficial fashion. This new critical edition - the first to include critical notes in English - argues that the book constitutes a critical juncture in the young Neruda's development as a poet, and that the poems are as much painstakingly wrought experiments in style, language and form as they are outpourings of youthful passion. A detailed introduction in English demonstrates that the Viente poemas represent the culmination of complex and sometimes fraught poetic apprenticeship, significant traces of which can be found in the poems themselves. This is followed by a series of commentaries which offer close readings of all twenty-one poems, an extensive bibliography, a selected vocabulary, and a list of key rhetorical and metrical terms. ;

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      February 2025

      Der wohltemperierte Garten

      Das unverzichtbare Standardwerk für alle Gartenliebhaber | In hochwertiger Ausstattung

      by Christopher Lloyd, Ursula Wulfekamp, Claudia Amor, Isabelle Groeningen

      Christopher Lloyd ist einer der bekanntesten Gärtner und Pflanzenspezialisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als der Begründer der »mixed borders«, der gemischten ganzjährigen blühenden Rabatten, die für Cottage-Gärten typisch sind. Und sein Anwesen Great Dixter in East Sussex ist weit über England hinaus berühmt und ein Magnet für Besucher aus aller Welt. Der wohltemperierte Garten ist sein berühmtestes und erfolgreichstes Buch. Erstmals 1971 erschienen, erlebte es unzählige Auflagen und gilt in Gärtner- und Gartenliebhaberkreisen als unverzichtbarer Klassiker. Das Handbuch versammelt praktische Anleitungen und Tipps zu Anlage und Pflege des Gartens, zur Kombination von Pflanzen, zum alljährlichen Rückschnitt, zu saisonalen Besonderheiten und zu verschiedenen Gartentypen bis hin zum Obstgarten. Christopher Lloyd erzählt anschaulich und unterhaltsam von Erfolgen und Fehlschlägen beim Gärtnern, von Überraschungen, die dem Hobbygärtner blühen können. Angereichert mit vielen Geschichten aus seinem eigenen Gärtnerleben und Erlebnissen im Freundeskreis erfahren Sie hier alles, was Sie zum Thema Garten wissen möchten …

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      February 2025

      Der wohltemperierte Garten

      Das unverzichtbare Standardwerk für alle Gartenliebhaber | In hochwertiger Ausstattung

      by Christopher Lloyd, Ursula Wulfekamp, Claudia Amor, Isabelle Van Groeningen

      Christopher Lloyd ist einer der bekanntesten Gärtner und Pflanzenspezialisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als der Begründer der »mixed borders«, der gemischten ganzjährigen blühenden Rabatten, die für Cottage-Gärten typisch sind. Und sein Anwesen Great Dixter in East Sussex ist weit über England hinaus berühmt und ein Magnet für Besucher aus aller Welt. Der wohltemperierte Garten ist sein berühmtestes und erfolgreichstes Buch. Erstmals 1971 erschienen, erlebte es unzählige Auflagen und gilt in Gärtner- und Gartenliebhaberkreisen als unverzichtbarer Klassiker. Das Handbuch versammelt praktische Anleitungen und Tipps zu Anlage und Pflege des Gartens, zur Kombination von Pflanzen, zum alljährlichen Rückschnitt, zu saisonalen Besonderheiten und zu verschiedenen Gartentypen bis hin zum Obstgarten. Christopher Lloyd erzählt anschaulich und unterhaltsam von Erfolgen und Fehlschlägen beim Gärtnern, von Überraschungen, die dem Hobbygärtner blühen können. Angereichert mit vielen Geschichten aus seinem eigenen Gärtnerleben und Erlebnissen im Freundeskreis erfahren Sie hier alles, was Sie zum Thema Garten wissen möchten …

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      The Arts
      January 2019

      The secret life of romantic comedy

      by Celestino Deleyto

      The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.

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      The Arts
      September 2025

      Picturing the Romantic

      New perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts

      by Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer, Mira Claire Zadrozny

      European Romanticism in the visual arts has always been defined by transnational transfer processes. It is surprising that international aspects of Romantic movements have been, in contrast to literary studies, a gap in art historical research. Picturing the Romantic addresses this issue and reveals new perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts by reconsidering the phenomenon's traditional canon, geographical dimensions and terminology and analysing various examples of the complex and heterogeneous works of Romantic painting. In sixteen original essays, renowned and early career researchers examine the question of whether to speak of several independently considered Romanticisms or one European Romanticism. They adopt a transnational perspective on Romantic art in and beyond Europe, focusing on the interconnections between the countries.

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      The Arts
      February 2009

      The secret life of romantic comedy

      by Celestino Deleyto

      The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2022

      Chinese dreams in Romantic England

      by Edward Weech

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      November 2024

      Women and madness in the early Romantic novel

      Injured minds, ruined lives

      by Deborah Weiss

      Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. This book argues that these early Romantic-period novelists revised medical and popular sentimental models for female madness that made inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body responsible for women's mental afflictions. The book explores how the more radical authors-Wollstonecraft, Fenwick and Hays-blamed men and patriarchal structures of control for their characters' hysteria and melancholia, while the more mainstream writers-Edgeworth and Opie-located causality in less gendered and less victimized accounts. Taken as a whole, the book makes a powerful case for focusing on women's mental health in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literary criticism.

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      The Arts
      July 2006

      Hollywood romantic comedy

      States of Union, 1934–1965

      by Kathrina Glitre

      This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire. Kathrina Glitre moves beyond the usual screwball territory to consider cycles of production from 1934-65. The central concern with the representation of the couple is distinctive and includes discussion of three star couples: Myrna Loy and William Powell, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Glitre offers explanations of genre, as well as detailed analysis of screwball comedy, career woman comedy and sex comedy. Each cycle is placed into context to analyse cultural discourses around heterosexuality, gender, romance and love. This structure also enables a more sophisticated understanding of such conventions as masquerade, gender inversion and the happy ending. The book will appeal to university students and academics working on genre, gender, culture and representation, and anyone with a keen interest in Hollywood romantic comedy. ;

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      Fiction
      December 2017

      Library of Chinese Classics :Selected Poems of Libai

      by Xu Yuanchong

      Li Bai is the greatest romantic poet in our country in the Tang Dynasty. Romanticism, as a trend of literary thought, is a social product of Europe from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. However, as a traumatic method, like realism, it is produced simultaneously with literature and art. Realism pays more attention to the portrayal of objective things, while romanticism focuses more on the expression of subjective feelings. With the Chinese poetic term "Fu Beixing" to describe the use of realism works more method, the use of romantic multi-Xing method. The use of Bi Xing is a major feature of Li Bai's poetry. Li Bai is a poet representing the Tang Dynasty culture. The ancient northern Yellow River valley culture in the philosophical thinking, with Confucius "Analects" as the representative, in the literary arts, the realist "Book of Songs" as a typical. The southern culture in the Yangtze River Valley, the philosophical representative is Lao Tzu "moral classics", and the typical literary style is "romantic". Li Bai, on the other hand, is a typical representative of the integration of North and South cultures.

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      July 2003

      Abschied von Don Juan

      Roman

      by Angelica Ammar, Esther Tusquets

      Esther Tusquets wurde am 30.8.1936 in Barcelona geboren. Dort besuchte sie die Deutsche Schule. Später studierte sie in Barcelona und Madrid Philosophie, Geschichte und Literatur. 1960 übernahm sie den Verlag Lumen, den sie bis zum Jahr 2000 leitete. Mit 42 Jahren veröffentlichte sie ihren ersten Roman El mismo mar de todos los veranos (dt. Aller Sommer Meer, Reinbek, 1981, Berlin, 2002), es folgten die Romane El amor es un juego solitario (dt. Die Liebe ein einsames Spiel, Reinbek, 1982), Varada tras el último naufragio, Para no volver, Con la miel en los labios und mehrere Erzählbände sowie das hoch gelobte Kinderbuch La reina de los gatos. 2001 erschien ihr Briefroman Correspondencia privada (dt. Abschied von Don Juan, Frankfurt, 2003), der in Spanien große Anerkennung fand. Ihre Bücher sind in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt worden. Ester Tusquets verstarb am 23.07.2012 im Alter von 75 Jahren in Barcelona.

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      September 2020

      It was always love

      by Hotel, Nikola

      She’s had enough of men, but he can’t get enough of her... Away. Just get out of here. That's all Aubree thinks about when she gets kicked out of college after a party. She buys an incredibly old car, throws the few things she owns into the trunk and flees to her best friend Ivy in New Hampshire. There, all she wants is to pull the blanket over her head and think of nothing else. Not about that night. Not about the party. And most of all, not that picture that's been circulating on the Internet ever since. But it doesn't work. Because instead of her friend, she meets Noah, Ivy's stepbrother. With his impulsive but surprisingly sensitive nature, Noah evokes feelings in her that she doesn't need right now. And which, nevertheless, sweep her away like a storm... Second volume of a romantic and exciting dilogy with 20 lavishly illustrated hand-lettered pages by Carolin Magunia. Including a playlist that can be found on Spotify and contains songs which match perfectly with the story! It was always you (Vol. 1) entered the Spiegel bestseller list immediately after its publication. Both titles can be read separately. For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Kelly Moran! 30.000 copies of vol. 1 + 2 were sold since June 2020!

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2024

      Romanticizing masculinity in Baathist Syria

      Gender, identity and ideology

      by Rahaf Aldoughli

      This book provides a novel analysis of the conceptual sources and ideological contours of the Assad regime. The book documents the Baathists' fascination with Romanticised and 'muscular' ideas of the nation that emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European social philosophy, and traces the implementation and impacts of these ideologies in the Syrian context. Emphasising the emergence of new forms of public gendered identity in Syria as a unifying feature of nationalism bound closely with the stability of the regime, the book shows how Romantic, muscular nationalism first rose to hegemony and then was shattered by its inherent violence, contradictions and inequalities. The final chapter closes by considering how a new vision of pluralism and civic belonging is today challenging the Romanticised Baathist ideal in contention for Syria's future.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2024

      How to be multiple

      The philosophy of twins

      by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

      In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.

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      April 2000

      Amor vincit omnia

      Karajan, Monteverdi und die Entwicklung der neuen Medien

      by Herausgegeben von Karajan Centrum

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      June 2016

      Amor altert nicht

      Paarbeziehung und Sexualität im Alter

      by Drimalla, Elisabeth

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