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January 1995Krankhafte Ängste
Selbsthilfe bei Phobien
by Anneese, Cor; Pol, Tino / Niederländisch George, Susanne
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2024The Legacy of John Polidori
The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
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.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022David and Bathsheba
George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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The ArtsJune 2002American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
by Philip Davies, Paul Wells
Covers a crucial two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington DC were at their strongest.. The period is 'book-ended' by the mighty political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton.. Covers a period in which movies have become targets of political rhetoric of 'family values'.. Essays examine cinematic views of key American political institutions - the presidency and electoral process, politically significant places such as New York City and the American South, the promotion of major issues like gender, family and race. This is a subject which has gained new significance in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, which have changed both the political climate, and the priorities of the movie industry. ;
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July 2006Shaw für Boshafte
by George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Kluge, Thomas Kluge
Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: George Bernard Shaw. »Die Beziehung des Vorgesetzten zum Untergebenen schließt gute Manieren aus.«
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The ArtsOctober 20174 saints in 3 acts
A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
by Patricia Allmer, John Sears
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.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
by Nicholas Royle
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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The ArtsJune 2021The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021Revolutionising politics
by Paul D. Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard, Scott Sowerby, Jason Peacey
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July 2002Anderswo
Erzählung
by Susanne Fischer
Susanne Fischer, 1960 in Hamburg geboren, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin, arbeitet als Geschäftsführerin der Arno Schmidt Stiftung. Sie ist u.a. Mitherausgeberin der Bargfelder Ausgabe der Werke Arno Schmidts und Herausgeberin der Tagebücher von Schmidts Ehefrau Alice. 2013 wurde sie mit dem Ben-Witter-Preis ausgezeichnet. Susanne Fischer lebt in einem kleinen Dorf bei Celle.
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April 2016Mein Garten, mein Paradies
by Susanne Wiborg, Rotraut Susanne Berner
Gärtner spinnen alle, das ist bekannt. Und schön ist es dazu: Wir tun das nämlich gerne, weil es das Leben so ungemein bereichern kann. Wer einmal Susanne Wiborgs Gartenkolumnen gelesen hat, ist ihnen verfallen wie sonst nur dem eigenen Garten. Wie konnte man je ohne Stockrosen leben, ohne Elfenkrokusse, diese »glückliche Frühlingsüberraschung«? Und wo kriegt man die Perle d’Azur, diese aparte Clematis mit den vergissmeinnichtblauen Blüten, her, die den legendären Garten von Sissinghurst schmückt? Mit viel Liebe und Humor erzählt Susanne Wiborg von ihrem Paradies auf Erden: von Blumen, Sträuchern und Bäumen, von Fröschen, Vögeln, Libellen und Spitzmäusen, die dort ihr Zuhause finden. Und immer mittendrin: Erbse, der Terrier.
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June 2007Wien
Ein Reisebegleiter
by Susanne Schaber
Wien war schön, wien ist schön, ich kann es sehn.« Ernst Jandl Susanne Schaber zeigt uns die prächtigen Straßen und die verwinkelten Gäßchen dieser Stadt. Begleitet werden wir von zahlreichen bekannten Autoren: von Arthur Schnitzler und Robert Musil über Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard und Ilse Aichinger bis zu Friederike Mayröcker, Ernst Jandl und Elfriede Jelinek. Den vorliegenden Band kann man zu Hause lesen oder unterwegs – um aus Dichters Mund zu vernehmen, wie Wien klingt: wild und zärtlich, leidenschaftlich, wütend und versöhnlich und aufregend allemal.
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September 1986»Seien Sie nicht zu undankbar, mir zu antworten«. Bernard Shaw – Lord Alfred Douglas. Briefwechsel
by George Bernard Shaw, Lord Alfred Douglas, Mary Hyde, Ursula Michels-Wenz
George Bernard Shaw wurde am 26. Juli 1856 als Sohn eines Beamten in Dublin geboren. 1876 zog er nach London, wo er sich als einer der führenden Musik- und Theaterkritiker etablieren konnte. Shaw betätigte sich auch auf politischer Bühne und wurde u.a. Mitglied der Fabian Society. Seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn begann er mit fünf erfolglosen Romanen, wandte sich dann dem Schreiben von Dramen – darunter vielen Komödien – zu, die sich durch die Verbindung von Ironie, Satire und Kritik an gesellschaftlichen und politischen Mißständen auszeichnen. Shaws Gesamtwerk umfaßt über 60 Dramen. 1925 wurde er mit dem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet. Er starb am 2. November 1950 in Ayot Saint Lawrence.
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March 1999Berühmte Frauen
Dreihundert Porträts
by Susanne Gretter, Luise F. Pusch, Susanne Gretter, Luise F. Pusch
Susanne Gretter studierte Anglistik, Romanistik und Politische Wissenschaft in Tübingen und Berlin. Sie hat zahlreiche Bücher herausgegeben, darunter die Reihe Die kühne Reisende. Sie lebt und arbeitet als Verlagslektorin in Berlin. Susanne Gretter studierte Anglistik, Romanistik und Politische Wissenschaft in Tübingen und Berlin. Sie hat zahlreiche Bücher herausgegeben, darunter die Reihe Die kühne Reisende. Sie lebt und arbeitet als Verlagslektorin in Berlin.
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August 2021Katzenkalender 2022
by Rotraut Susanne Berner
Der neue Insel-Taschenkalender -- herausgegeben und durchgehend farbig illustriert von Rotraut Susanne Berner. Mit den schönsten Geschichten und Anekdoten um das beliebteste Haustier der Deutschen: von anschmiegsamen und von frechen Samtpfoten, von Streunern und Katzen-VIPs erzählen Lewis Caroll, Joachim Ringelnatz, Robert Gernhardt, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Christoph Hein, Selma Lagerlöf, Wyslawa Szymborska, Jutta Richter, Rotraut Susanne Berner u.v.a. Mit einem Kalendarium, das Raum bietet für eigene Notizen und die Mondphasen verzeichnet. Im Anhang finden sich ein Übersichtskalender der Jahre 2022 und 2023, eine Tabelle der Schulferien sowie ein Adress- und ein Telefonverzeichnis
