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The ArtsJanuary 2019The 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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Folk & traditional musicApril 2005The Kiss in history
by Edited by Karen Harvey
Writers have previously placed the action of kissing into categories: kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and friendship. Each of the essays in this fascinating book take a single kind of kiss and uses it as an index to the past. For rather than offering a simple history of the kiss, this book is about the kiss in history. In this collection, an eminent group of cultural historians have explored this subject using an exceptionally wide range of evidence. They explore the kiss through sources as diverse as canonical religious texts, popular prints, court depositions, periodicals, diaries and poetry. In casting the net so wide, these authors demonstrate how cultural history has been shaped by a broad concept of culture, encompassing more than simply the canons of art and literature, and integrating apparently 'historical' and 'non-historical' sources. Furthermore, this collections shows that by analyzing the kiss and its position - embedded as it is as part of our culture - history can use small gestures to take us to big issues concerning ourselves and others, the past and the present. With an afterword by Sir Keith Thomas, this book will be fascinating reading for cultural historians working on a wide range of different societies and periods.
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Children's & YAA Kiss to My Mum
by Huang Beijia
A Kiss to My Mum is a novel that delves into the growth of a child from a single-parent family. The hero is a ten-year-old boy called Zhao Andi. He is Zhao Andi to his teacher, My Dear An to his father and Didi to his mother. At his father’s funeral, for the first time he sees his mother Shu Yimei, so beautiful as if she stepped down from a photo. At this gloomy moment Didi was pushed to an arduous cliff, on the other side of which is his mother Shu Yimei, blowing the scent of orange. The novel develops around the gradual emotional thaw of the boy and his mother. At first they cannot get along with and are watchful of each other. But distance gradually gives way to proximity and then to mutual understanding and harmony between the two on their way to the future. This is a story of a boy and his parents, singing high praise for children. It is also about our life, our minds and love. All the characters in the novel are very much realistic, including the boy of slight autism and the mother of slight depression. The atmosphere of modern life in the novel is achieved through the depiction of other characters such as the hero’s classmate and good friend Zhang Xiaochen, his sister Ke’er, his uncle Baolin and his English teacher Li Qinsong, a man of dubious identity, thus adding to the enjoyment of the book.
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April 1996The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft, Rudolf Hermstein, H. C. Artmann
Mit seinem Cthulu-Mythos wollte H. P. Lovecraft eine Atmosphäre kosmischen Grauens schaffen, die Archaisches mit den modernen Erkenntnissen der Wissenschaft verbindet und unserer Zeit angemessen ist. Die Angst hielt er für das älteste und stärkste Gefühl, mit dem er in seinen Erzählungen gerne spielte. Die besten Erzählungen von H. P. Lovecraft sind in diesem Rand zusammengefaßt.
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September 1975The Best of H. C. Artmann
by H. C. Artmann, Klaus Reichert
Von allen deutschen Autoren, die nach 1945 zu schreiben begannen, ist Artmann ohne jeden Zweifel der vielseitigste, originellste und erfinderischste. So wie Artmann in fast allen Gattungen gearbeitet hat, auch den angeblich antiquierten, und ohne sich um die Tagesparolen der mal reine Dichtung betreibenden, mal engagierten, mal die Literatur totsagenden Kollegen zu kümmern, so hat er seine Quellen, seine Herkunft überall: in der Artusepik, in barocker Schäferpoesie, in den Wörterbüchern und Grammatiken von gut zwei Dutzend Sprachen, in Irland und im England des Sherlock Holmes, bei Villon und dem Wiener Vorstadtdialekt, Lorca, Gomez de la Serna, den Surrealisten und Dadaisten, in den Detektivheftchen der 20er Jahre und den Comic strips von damals bis heute. Unsere Auswahl versucht, nicht nur einen repräsentativen Querschnitt durch das Werk Artmanns zu geben, sondern gleichzeitig Verstreutes, an entlegensten Orten Publiziertes zu sammeln.
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August 1985
Kiss Daddy Goodnight
Aussprache über Inzest
by Louise Armstrong, Helga Herborth, Alice Miller
Louise Armstrong, als Kind selbst Opfer sexueller Mißhandlungen, hat Gespräche mit fast 200 Frauen geführt, die ebenfalls im Kindesalter sexuell mißbraucht worden waren. Im vorliegenden Buch sind die Erfahrungen von 16 dieser Frauen und der Autorin selbst dargestellt. Dabei wird deutlich, was es mit den vielen Mythen um das wohlbehütete Geheimnis des Inzests in Wahrheit auf sich hat. Mythos: Inzest ist »tabu«. – Verschiedenen Schätzungen zufolge sind in Amerika mehr als 120 Millionen Frauen im Kindesalter sexuell mißbraucht worden. Kein anderes Tabu ist mit soviel Gewalt verbunden wie dieses. Louise Armstrong kommt zu dem Schluß, daß in Wahrheit nicht der Inzest das Tabu ist, sondern das »Sprechen« über den Inzest. Mythos: Bei den Mädchen handelt es sich um »verführerische« Jugendliche. – Tatsächlich waren die meisten Frauen, mit denen Louise Armstrong gesprochen hat, gerade drei, vier, fünf oder sechs Jahre alt, als der Mißbrauch begann. Mythos: Die Mädchen »laden dazu ein« und genießen es. – Die Berichte der Frauen zeigen, daß sie schreckliche Angst hatten und in extreme Verwirrung gestürzt wurden. Mythos: Die Mütter wissen es immer; oder sie glauben den Mädchen niemals. – Tatsächlich wissen die Mütter es oft, verschweigen es aber aus Angst vor den sozialen Folgen.
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January 1965Je länger ein Blinder lebt, desto mehr sieht er
Jiddische Sprichwörter
by H. C. Artmann
»Ein Pechvogel fällt auf den Hintern und zerschlägt sich dabei die Nase«: Jiddische Sprichwörter voller Witz und mit einem tiefen Verständnis für alles Menschliche finden sich in dieser Zusammenstellung in der übersetzung H. C. Artmanns.
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September 2016Kiss and keep - Ewig in meinem Herzen
Roman
by Dyken, Rachel van / Übersetzt von Gleißner, Silvia
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January 2019Mononucleosis, Third Edition
by Janet Decker, Ph.D. and Alan Hecht, D.C.
Often called the "kissing disease" due to its transmission through saliva, mononucleosis is a disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus. Many are familiar with mononucleosis, by either having suffered from it themselves or knowing a friend who has. Although most people who suffer from mononucleosis will recover fully, the virus remains in their body, and can contribute to long-term health concerns. Mononucleosis, Third Edition explores the microbiology of the virus as well as treatment and prevention options. Chapters include: Infectious Mononucleosis and Epstein-Barr Virus The Discovery of Epstein-Barr Virus The Life of Epstein-Barr Virus Immune System Response to Epstein-Barr Virus Signs and Symptoms EBV Transmission and Latent Infection Diagnosis of Infectious Mononucleosis Treatments for Infectious Mononucleosis Epstein-Barr Virus and Cancer Epstein-Barr Virus and Other Diseases.
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August 2007Devil's Kiss - Dir bleiben 48 Stunden
Thriller
by Browne, Robert Gregory / Übersetzt von Dürr, Karlheinz
