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February 2021The Siege of Qikou
by Zhu Xiuhai
The Siege of Qikou has mainly narrated that Cheng Jinyuan, president of Northwestern Shanxi Chamber of Commerce, had been led to the cusp of historical changes to fight bravely together with local people during 1936 to 1949. Cheng Qianzhi, the oldest son of Cheng Jinyuan, was sent by Yan Xishan there to serve as a battalion commander of the Shanxi and Suiyuan Army, while Cheng Chongzhi, his second son, was assigned by The Communist Party of China to build the primary-level organizations of the Party in his hometown. Qikou had been under the siege of Japanese invaders for three times which had made Qikou the scene of fierce fighting. After suffering tremendous sacrifice, Cheng Jinyuan, who had been mistrustful of CPC before, had gradually realized that CPC had and would always unite closely with the masses and march forward with no fear of sacrifice which might be the reason that CPC was far stronger than Yan Xishan or Chiang Kai-shek. Together with his fellow citizens, he had firmly supported CPC and devoted all himself to the cause of national liberation through arduous struggle and sacrifice, displaying an epic of heroism to a large extent. The novel is full of twists and turns and quite readable by successively demonstrating the front-line battlefield and the espionage war. Set in the anti-Japanese war period, the novel has vividly discussed the three effective weapons of CPC to fight against the enemies: the united front, the armed struggle and the building of the Party, and stressed the formation and historical importance of the united front.
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September 2023Being Able to Stop
Against the delusion of permanent growth
by Edited by Jean-Pierre Wils
We moderns were the inhabitants of an age of impetuous forward movement and voracious discontent. Our main virtue was to increase our reach. Increasing our having and accelerating our being were the signposts towards the future. We just could not get enough. Using the blinkers of ignorance and self-anaesthesia, however, we managed to forget the tremendous costs incurred by this intoxication. Now disillusionment has set in. We look to the future with anxiety. We know that we have long since crossed a line and that a revision of our lifestyle is imminent. We have a bad feeling, and doubts about progress often give way to anger and rebellion. Which stocks of the modern narrative should we defend; which would we do better to let go? How will we even "be able to stop"? The path to a different society needs an attractive goal, because without the prospect of a different, better life, we will not move forward. We should start practising immediately. There is no time to lose.
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April 2010Die Schatten der Städte
Essays
by Dževad Karahasan, Katharina Wolf-Griesshaber
Dževad Karahasan, der große bosnische Erzähler und Essayist, beheimatet in den literarischen Traditionen der antiken, der islamischen und der christlichen Welt, hat eine unzeitgemäße Auffassung vom Handwerk des Schreibens. Die Architektur eines Romans, seine vielschichtige Zeitstruktur, seine sprachliche Polyphonie verdankt sich einer ästhetischen Erfahrung der Stadt. Der Gegensatz von öffentlichen und privaten Räumen, die Begegnung, ja Konfrontation mit dem Andersartigen erzeugen Spannungen, die in der Narration ausgetragen werden. Exemplarisch für diese poetologische Erkenntnis steht Sarajevo, eine Stadt, die - wie Karahasan an Werken von Ivo Andric zeigt - ein raffiniertes, perspektivisch reiches Erzählen geradezu erzwingt, um dem Nebeneinanderbestehen verschiedener kultureller Traditionen und religiöser Praktiken an einem einzigen Ort gerecht zu werden. „Man könnte auf die Idee kommen, Sarajevo sei eine Stadt, die entstanden ist, damit die Narration irgendwo einen Heimatort finde.“ Karahasans Poetik der „erzählten Stadt“ spricht von einer Literatur, die stärker als je zuvor in der Moderne, an den vielsprachigen, von Ungleichzeitigkeit und Vieldimensioniertheit geprägten Metropolen zu Hause ist.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema.
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March 2007Berichte aus der dunklen Welt
Prosa
by Dževad Karahasan, Brigitte Döbert, Dževad Karahasan
Zwanzig Minuten Fußweg sind es von der Lateinerbrücke, an der mit dem Attentat auf das Habsburger Thronfolgerpaar das »kurze 20. Jahrhundert« begann, bis zur Vrbanjabrücke, an der es 1992 mit der Ermordung zweier Studentinnen endete. Nüchtern und unspekulativ hellt Dževad Karahasan die Dunkelheit auf, die über diesem Weg und den Menschen liegt, die ihn gegangen sind. Karahasan folgt den Spuren, die das 20. Jahrhundert in seiner Heimatstadt Sarajevo und in Bosnien hinterlassen hat. Anatomie der Traurigkeit handelt von dem Sohn eines italienischen Partisanen und einer jugoslawischen Kommunistin, der im Exil sein Leben rekapituliert. In Prinzip Gabriel führen Recherchen den Erzähler nach Theresienstadt. Er entdeckt, daß dort auch Gavrilo Princip, der Attentäter von Sarajevo, inhaftiert war. Die Briefe aus dem Jahre 1993 berichten von einem Studenten, der seinen Dozenten mit den Briefen eines in Sarajevo Umgekommenen konfrontiert. Immer wieder verknüpft dieser Berichterstatter aus einer dunklen Welt scheinbar unzusammenhängende Ereignisse. In einer Prosa, die Authentisches und Fiktives geschickt ineinander verwebt, wird so die »spiralförmige Struktur der Zeit« sichtbar.
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The ArtsMarch 2009Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2020Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
by Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont, Charlotte Coffin
This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.
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March 2012Die Rosen von Sarajevo
Eine Geschichte vom Krieg
by Demick, Barbara / Übersetzt von Zybak, Maria; Übersetzt von Gockel, Gabriele
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May 1998Christine
Roman
by Elizabeth Arnim, Angelika Beck
Berlin, Sommer 1914: Die begabte junge Engländerin Christine ist für ein Jahr zur Ausbildung bei einem berühmten Geigenvirtuosen. Nach den Schüssen von Sarajevo verwandelt sich die Hauptstadt über Nacht in einen Hexenkessel hemmungsloser Kriegsbegeisterung. Für Christine wird der Aufenthalt in Berlin zum Alptraum.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025England’s military heartland
Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain
by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree
A considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021Post-everything
An intellectual history of post-concepts
by Herman Paul, Adriaan van Veldhuizen
Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny. This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2010Defeated flesh
Welfare, warfare and the making of modern France
by Bertrand Taithe
Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit.. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship, centralisation and modern warfare.. Looking at many untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-1871 became such an important phase in the making of modern France. ;
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January 2007Die Reise nach Alaska
by Bora Ćosić, Katharina Wolf-Griesshaber
Im Frühjahr 2005 bricht der serbische Schriftsteller Bora ?osi? zu einer Reise durch das frühere Jugoslawien auf. Er hat das Land Anfang der neunziger Jahre verlassen und findet nun ein Gebiet neuer Widersprüche vor. Müllberge türmen sich in Kroatien, Dörfer sind noch vom Krieg gezeichnet. In Sarajevo überblenden sich die Gegenwart und das Wissen um die Jahre der Belagerung, in Belgrad erfährt er sich als dazugehörender Außenseiter. ?osi? verbindet sinnliche Anschauung mit politischer Kritik, scharfsinnige Reflexion mit Erinnerungen an die avantgardistische jugoslawische Kulturszene. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, wie es zur Katastrophe kommen konnte.
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The ArtsSeptember 2024The renewal of post-war Manchester
Planning, architecture and the state
by Richard Brook
A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
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