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View Rights PortalTarquin produces books for recreational mathematics, and for students and teachers in schools. We have a near 50 year history of enriching mathematics as well as papercraft and origami titles. Many of our 240 titles have been translated into all the major languages of the world. But as a small publisher, we understand other small publishers and can tailor rights deals appropriately and economically. We have 12 titles that are new in 2020 and where rights are available.
View Rights PortalA Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
One of Britain's foremost TV practitioners, Andrew Davies is the creator of programmes such as 'A Very Peculiar Practice', 'To Serve Them All My Days', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Othello' and 'The Way We Live Now'. Although best known for his adaptations of the work of writers such as Jane Austen and George Eliot, he has written numerous original drama series, single plays, films, stage plays and books. This volume offers a critical appraisal of Davies's work, and assesses his contribution to British television. Cardwell also explores the conventional notions of authorship and auteurism which are challenged by Davies's work. Can we identify Davies as the author of the varied texts attributed to him? If so, does an awareness of his authorial role aid our interpretation and evaluation of those texts? How does the phenomenon of adaptation affect the issue of authorship? How important is 'the author' to television? This book will appeal to both an academic readership, and to the many people who have taken pleasure in Davies's work. ;
Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera that nonetheless achieved remarkable popular success. Photography was a key element of that success, but its complex roles in the construction, representation and dissemination of the opera have hitherto received little critical attention. The photographic recording of the all-African American cast in particular affords a unique insight into the complexities of Four Saints in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and the New York avant-gardes of the time. This book, published in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, London, presents a wide selection of photographs of the cast, performances, and other material - many images reproduced for the first time - alongside essays by an international range of scholars exploring different aspects of the opera, including dance, fashion, music, and avant-garde writing, as well as photography.
A hundred years after the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, this collection explores the wider social and cultural history of the mountain. Mount Everest looms large in the popular imagination. Since the deaths of mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924, histories of the mountain have overwhelmingly focused on the mythologies of western male adventure and conquest. But there are many more stories waiting to be told. Other Everests brings together new voices and perspectives on the historical and cultural significance of Everest in the modern world. The book shines a light on the overlooked role of local people and high-altitude workers, while also revealing the significant contributions women have made to climbing the mountain and writing its history. It explores the depiction of Everest in a range of media and investigates how the forces of nationalism and commercialism have shaped many different 'Everests'. After years of exploitation, Indigenous people are now reclaiming Mount Everest in the twenty-first century. Other Everests re-examines the past and present of the world's highest peak, presenting an exciting vision of what Everest might become in the future.
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars and students alike.
Testamentarisch hat Uwe Johnson die Peter Suhrkamp-Stiftung und seinen Verleger Siegfried Unseld zum Nachlaßverwalter eingesetzt. Siegfried Unseld beschreibt, wie es dazu kam, beschreibt aus seiner Sicht noch einmal die Begleitumstände, die das große Werk »Jahrestage« zu vollenden ermöglichten. »Für wenn ich tot bin«: es war Uwe Johnsons Wunsch, daß sein Nachlaß gesammelt und nach Frankfurt gebracht wurde. Siegfried Unseld konnte in Verbindung mit der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität ein Uwe Johnson-Archiv einrichten, das dem Gedenken des großen Schriftstellers dient. Eberhard Fahlke, Leiter des Uwe Johnson-Archivs und ausgewiesener Johnson-Forscher, beschreibt in seinem Beitrag die Einrichtung und Anlage des Archivs, welches in seiner Art einzigartig ist.
Weil die Französischlehrerin mit dem Priester durchgebrannt ist, sucht Little Cove nun eine neue Lehrkraft. Rachel O’Brien vom Festland bekommt den Job: theoretisch Katholikin (immerhin getauft), theoretisch Lehrerin (immerhin abgeschlossenes Studium). Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters braucht sie dringend einen Neuanfang – und den möglichst weit weg. Dass ihre Schülerinnen kein Französisch lernen wollen, überrascht Rachel nicht. Dass sie deren Englisch kaum versteht, schon. Und doch ist sie fasziniert von der Kultur und Musik der Insel. Mit ihrem Kollegen Doug geht sie zum Fischen und ins örtliche Pub. Während sie sich in Little Cove zunehmend wohler fühlt, kommt sie auch Doug immer näher. Doch der ist vergeben … Als sie einer Schülerin mit einem vermeintlich guten Ratschlag zur Seite steht und damit die sehr katholische Moral einiger Dorfbewohner verletzt, steht ihr neues Leben wieder auf der Kippe. Ist sie zu weit gegangen? Gibt es für sie eine Zukunft in Little Cove – und vielleicht auch mit Doug? Ein Roman wie eine warme Umarmung – das Debüt von Damhnait Monaghan ist voller Romantik, Charme und Inselgefühl. Lassen Sie sich von Rachel und Neufundland verzaubern!
This book, the world's first biography of Paul Watzlawick, written by his great-niece, describes the life of this philosopher, therapist, and best-selling author. Paul Watzlawick had a talent for languages and he led an adventurous life, from his childhood in Villach to studying in Venice after the war, to analyst training under C. G. Jung in Zurich, an attempt at establishing himself in India and then in El Salvador as a therapist, and finally to the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in the United States, headed by Don D. Jackson, a venerable scientist. This marked the beginning of the second half of his life, his amazing career as a communication researcher, a pioneer of systemic therapy, a radical constructivist, and a great thinker regarding the divisions between East and West. With many letters, lectures, interviews, and statements from contemporary witnesses and family members, this book makes Paul Watzlawick accessible as a human being and as a spiritually inspired, leading 20th century thinker. It includes a variety of unpublished material from Watzlawick, and introduces a comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientist and cosmopolitan person, Paul Watzlawick. Target Group: For people interest in Paul Watzlawick, communication sciences, systemic therapy, and constructivism.
Uwe Johnson ist im Februar 1984 in Sheerness-on-Sea in der englischen Grafschaft Kent gestorben. Siegfried Unseld, »Freund, Leser, Verleger« nach Johnsons Worten, beschreibt Leben und Werk und die Begleitumstäne, unter denen das große Werk »Jahrestage« vollendet wurde.
Weil die Französischlehrerin mit dem Priester durchgebrannt ist, sucht Little Cove nun eine neue Lehrkraft. Rachel O’Brien vom Festland bekommt den Job: theoretisch Katholikin (immerhin getauft), theoretisch Lehrerin (immerhin abgeschlossenes Studium). Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters braucht sie dringend einen Neuanfang – und den möglichst weit weg. Dass ihre Schülerinnen kein Französisch lernen wollen, überrascht Rachel nicht. Dass sie deren Englisch kaum versteht, schon. Und doch ist sie fasziniert von der Kultur und Musik der Insel. Mit ihrem Kollegen Doug geht sie zum Fischen und ins örtliche Pub. Während sie sich in Little Cove zunehmend wohler fühlt, kommt sie auch Doug immer näher. Doch der ist vergeben … Als sie einer Schülerin mit einem vermeintlich guten Ratschlag zur Seite steht und damit die sehr katholische Moral einiger Dorfbewohner verletzt, steht ihr neues Leben wieder auf der Kippe. Ist sie zu weit gegangen? Gibt es für sie eine Zukunft in Little Cove – und vielleicht auch mit Doug? Ein Roman wie eine warme Umarmung – das Debüt von Damhnait Monaghan ist voller Romantik, Charme und Inselgefühl. Lassen Sie sich von Rachel und Neufundland verzaubern!
Introduction : Realism and its others in the 21st century: Why Realism won't go away - Andrew Hemingway Part I: Theory 1. The figure as double agent: realism and abstraction in European post-war art - Briony Fer 2. Realism's Credibility Problem - Joshua Shannon 3. If only; only if ... - Adrian Rifkin Part II: Sculpture 4. Confronting the Veristic Sculptural Portrait - Malcolm Baker 5. Sculpture, Realism and the Neo-classical Ideal - Martina Droth 6. Elasticity and Victorian Sculptural Form - Caroline Arscott 7. Image of the People: Charles Ray's Recent Work - Anne M. Wagner Part III: Garden Design 8. Of Gardens and Persons: the English Engagement with China's Garden Design - Martin Powers 9. Traditional Views. Conservative Anti-Naturalism and Landscape Aesthetics in France around 1900 - Neil McWilliam Part IV: Painting and Photography 10. Willem Kalf on Reflexykonst and the Aesthetics of Transformation in Still Life - Celeste Brusati 11. Democratic light: phenomenology and the worldliness of painting - Brendan Prendeville 12. The Visibility of Labor - T.J. Clark 13. Body and Soul in the work of Thomas Eakins and F. Holland Day - Rebecca Zurier Part V: Photography and Conema 14. Photography as counter forensics - Steve Edwards 15. Woman, War and Social Documentary Photography in South Africa - Tamar Garb 16. Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966): photography and film - Lisa Tickner Part VI: Post-Media / Contemporary Practice 17. Peter Dreher's Everyday Realism - Alistair Rider 18. From grey and rainy Vermont - Thomas Crow 19. 'Every day, something happens to us': Realism at the crossroads - Gail Day Index
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.
Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship. Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.
John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.
New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in 'The Ladybird'; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley. New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures. ;
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.