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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2024Geoffrey Hill and the ends of poetry
by Tom Docherty
The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill's poems are characteristically 'end-directed'. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in repeating figures and rhymes, to syntactical and formal finalities. The recognition of failure to reach such ends provides its own impetus to Hill's poetry. This is the first book on Hill to take account of his last works. It is a significant contribution to the study of Hill's poems, offering a new thematic reading of his entire body of work. By using Hill's work as an example, the book also touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value: what are its ends and where does it wish to end up?
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2024Rereading Chaucer and Spenser
Dan Geffrey with the New Poete
by Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, Gareth Griffith
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical approaches to the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. By reading one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages alongside one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, this collection poses questions about poetic authority, influence, and the nature of intertextual relations in a more wide-ranging manner than ever before. With its dual focus on authors from periods often conceived as radically separate, the collection also responds to current interests in periodisation. This approach will engage academics, researchers and students of Medieval and Early Modern culture.
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August 2016Fräulein Hicks und die kleine Pupswolke
Eine verrückte Reise durch den Körper
by Eva Dax, Sabine Dully
In "Fräulein Hicks und die kleine Pupswolke" entfalten Eva Dax und Sabine Dully eine humorvolle und lehrreiche Geschichte rund um die unaufhaltsamen Fünf: Fräulein Hicks, den Rülps, Professor Hatschi, den Gähn-Mähn und die titelgebende kleine Pupswolke, die alle durch ihre besonderen Körperfunktionen bestechen. Ein skurriler Wettstreit entspinnt sich zwischen ihnen, wobei jeder Charakter von seiner Unaufhaltsamkeit überzeugt ist. Just als das Duell zu keinem klaren Ergebnis zu führen scheint, tritt ein überraschender, sechster Kandidat in Erscheinung, der alle bisherigen Teilnehmer in den Schatten stellt. Dieses Bilderbuch ist eine vergnügliche Betrachtung menschlicher Körperfunktionen, angereichert mit starken Farben und liebenswert-lustigen Figuren, die nicht nur zum Lachen anregen, sondern auch Wissenswertes über den Körper vermitteln. Humorvoller Zugang zu Körperfunktionen: Das Buch nimmt ein oft gemiedenes Thema auf und präsentiert es auf eine Weise, die Kinder ab 4 Jahren anspricht und zum Lachen bringt. Lehrreiche Inhalte mit Spaß verknüpft: Neben Unterhaltung bietet das Buch Einblicke in die Biologie des menschlichen Körpers, was es zu einer idealen Wahl für neugierige Kinder macht. Starke visuelle Gestaltung: Die kräftigen Farben und skurril-lustigen Figuren von Eva Dax und Sabine Dully fangen die Aufmerksamkeit der Kinder und fördern die Freude am Lesen. Förderung von Akzeptanz und Toleranz: Das Buch vermittelt die Botschaft, dass jeder anders und besonders ist, eine wichtige Lektion in Sachen Selbstakzeptanz und Toleranz. Interaktives Leseerlebnis: Die Geschichte lädt zum Mitmachen und Diskutieren ein und fördert so die Interaktion zwischen Kindern und Eltern oder Lehrern. Ideales Geschenk: Mit seinem universellen Charme und pädagogischen Wert eignet sich das Buch hervorragend als Geschenk für Kinder im Kindergarten- und Grundschulalter.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalNovember 2015Annotated Chaucer bibliography
1997–2010
by Mark Allen, Stephanie Amsel
Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this bibliography identifies each of them separately, providing publication information and a descriptive summary of contents. The bibliography also offers several useful discovery aids to enable users to locate individual items of interest, whether it be a study of the Wife of Bath's love life, a video about Chaucer's language, advice on how to teach a particular poem by Chaucer, or a murder mystery that features Chaucer as detective. Useful for scholars, teachers and students alike, this volume is a must for academic libraries.
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September 2000Troilus und Criseyde
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Florian Schleburg, Wolfgang Obst, Florian Schleburg, Wolfgang Obst
Die Liebe zwischen dem schüchternen trojanischen Prinzen Troilus und der schönen Criseyde ist der Stoff, aus dem Geoffrey Chaucer Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts den ersten englischen Roman gemacht hat: eine turbulente, witzige, groteske Liebesgeschichte.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2018Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
by Helen Hickey, Anne McKendry, Melissa Raine, Anke Bernau
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 1972The Parlement of Foulys
by Geoffrey Chaucer, D. Brewer
This edition of the best of Chaucer' s shorter poems ranges widely over the major concerns necessary to a full understanding of the text, including its occasion, literary tradition, sources, rhetoric, language, metre, mythology and themes. It is an edition which will appeal both to students and to general readers who wish to extend their knowledge of medieval English poetry. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2023The gift of narrative in medieval England
by Nicholas Perkins
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2017Transporting Chaucer
by Anke Bernau, Helen Barr
Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later - and earlier - texts. Responding to this, the book presents innovative readings of the relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, literary texts and material culture. It re-energises conventional models of source and analogue study to reveal unexpected - and sometimes unsettling - literary cohabitations. At the same time, it exposes how associations between architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer's oeuvre and what gets made of it. An invaluable resource for scholars and students of all levels with an interest in medieval English literary studies and early modern drama, Transporting Chaucer offers a new approach to how we encounter texts through time.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureApril 2017Fish Viruses and Bacteria
Pathobiology and Protection
by Patrick T K Woo, Rocco C Cipriano
Taking a disease-based approach, Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish. The book covers well-studied, notifiable piscine viruses and bacteria, including new and emerging diseases which can become huge threats to local fish populations in new geographical regions if transported there via infected fish or eggs. A concise but thorough reference work, this book: - Covers key viral and bacterial diseases of notable fish species; - Reviews major well-established piscine pathogens as well as new, emerging and notifiable diseases; and - Contains the most up-to-date research contributed by a team of over fifty world experts. An invaluable bench book for fish health consultants, veterinarians and all those wanting instant access to information, this book is also a useful textbook for students specializing in fish health and research scientists initiating fish disease research programmes. ; Taking a disease-based approach, this book focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish. It covers well-studied, notifiable piscine viruses and bacteria, including new and emerging diseases. ; 1: Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus, Arun K. Dhar, Scott LaPatra, Andrew Orry and F.C. Thomas Allnutt 2: Infectious Haematopoietic Necrosis Virus, Jo-Ann C. Leong and Gael Kurath 3: Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia Virus, John S. Lumsden 4: Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis and European Catfish Virus, Paul Hick, Ellen Ariel and Richard Whittington 5: Oncogenic Viruses: Oncorhynchus masou Virus and Cyprinid Herpesvirus, Mamoru Yoshimizu, Hisae Kasai, Yoshihiro Sakoda, Nanako Sano and Motohiko Sano 6: Infectious Salmon Anaemia, Knut Falk and Maria Aamelfot 7: Spring Viraemia of Carp, Peter Dixon and David Stone 8: Channel Catfish Viral Disease, Larry A. Hanson and Lester H. Khoo 9: Largemouth Bass Viral Disease, Rodman G. Getchell and Geoffrey H. Groocock 10: Koi Herpesvirus Disease, Keith Way and Peter Dixon 11: Viral Encephalopathy and Retinopathy, Anna Toffan 12: Iridoviral Diseases: Red Sea Bream Iridovirus and White Sturgeon Iridovirus, Yasuhiko Kawato, Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Kazuhiro Nakajima,Thomas Waltzek and Richard Whittington 13: Alphaviruses in Salmonids, Marius Karlsen and Renate Johansen 14: Aeromonas salmonicida and A. hydrophila, Bjarnheidur K. Gudmundsdottir and Bryndis Bjornsdottir 15: Edwardsiella spp., Matt J. Griffin, Terrence E. Greenway and David J. Wise 16: Flavobacterium spp.: F. psychrophilum, F. columnare and F. branchiophilum, Thomas P. Loch and Mohamed Faisal 17: Francisella noatunensis, Esteban M. Soto and John P. Hawke 18: Mycobacterium spp., David T. Gauthier and Martha W. Rhodes 19: Photobacterium damselae, John P. Hawke 20: Piscirickettsia salmonis, Jerri Bartholomew, Kristen D. Arkush and Esteban M. Soto 21: Renibacterium salmoninarum, Diane G. Elliott 22: Streptococcus iniae and S. agalactiae, Craig A. Shoemaker, De-Hai Xu and Esteban M. Soto 23: Vibriosis: Vibrio anguillarum, V. ordalii and Aliivibrio salmonicida, Alicia E. Toranzo, Beatriz Magariños and Ruben Avendaño-Herrera 24: Weissella ceti, Timothy J. Welch, David P. Marancik and Christopher M. Good 25: Yersinia ruckeri, Michael Ormsby and Robert Davies
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories201536 and 6 Cats
by Halyna Vdovychenko
36 and 6 cats — that’s exactly how many fluffy tailed creatures appeared in front of Mrs. Krepova’s apartment on one rainy evening. The stubborn woman was reluctant to welcome the strangers in her house, but everything changed when the feline, sphinx-like Baroness appeared and completely won her heart. Neither Mrs. Krepova nor her nephew Stas could have ever imagined the outcome of the invasion of their small apartment by 36 adult cats and 6 small kittens.
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Fear and Valor in Six Days: : An Israeli Soldier's Testemonial in Perspective
by Yehuda Reves
Fear and Valor in Six Days: An Israeli Soldier's Testemonial in Perspective by Yehuda Reves Through the viewfinder of a bazooka, this book offers a critical view of fear, valor and pride, death and love, friendship and hatred, reality and mystical dreams, faith and the secular, as well, the end and the beginning. Collected here are manuscripts, stories and thoughts written intermittently over a period of more than forty years in the diary of a fighter during and after the battles of the Six-Day War. Portrayed here is a bitter, cruel reality; how soldiers kill, are wounded and die on the battlefield. Here are described facts intermixed with imagination and dreams; a description that illustrates the nature of male society in the Israeli army with its blend of cunning, coarseness and innocence. This book was written on the battlefront of North Samaria; and in the northern Golan Heights. The author served in the armored troops, as a commander of a tank company numbering six vehicles. All these manuscripts were stuck like bullets in the barrel of a gun since the war ended before they were ready to be collected in one volume that now includes the life experience and perspective of additional forty-plus years. Yehuda Reves is a forester who, throughout his entire life, has observed people, trees, shrubs, the soil, and inanimate rocks with unaffected wonder. He was responsible for collecting seeds and for the propagation and planting of trees on behalf of The Israeli Forestry Department. Today, he travels and works in the reproduction of wild Mediterranean plants. The author served in the Israeli reserve army as a junior officer for 32 years and has fought in four wars. He is married and has two daughters and nine grandchildren. 190 pages,14.5 x 21 cm
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July 2020Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht (3). Strenggeheimes Drachenflüstern
by Cowell, Cressida
Band 3 der bereits verfilmten Drachen-Reihe rund um Hicks, den mutigen Wikingerjungen und seine Freunde. Hilfe! Die Römer haben Hicks und seinen Freund Fischbein ins weit entfernte Fort Finstericum entführt. Und das Schlimmste: Auch Hicks’ Drache Ohnezahn befindet sich in ihrer Gewalt. Doch die Römer haben ein Problem, denn im Gegensatz zu Hicks beherrschen sie die Drachensprache nur sehr mangelhaft. Das führt im Umgang mit Drachen schnell zu schmerzhaften Missverständnissen. Deswegen sind sie jetzt ausgerechnet auf Hicks angewiesen. Wird er ihnen helfen? Alle Bände der Reihe: (1) Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht (2) Wilde Piraten voraus (3) Strenggeheimes Drachenflüstern (4) Mörderische Drachenflüche (5) Brandgefährliche Feuerspeier (6) Handbuch für echte Helden (7) Im Auge des Drachensturms (8) Flammendes Drachenherz (9) Jagd um das Drachenerbe (10) Suche nach dem Drachenjuwel (11) Verräterisches Drachenmal (12) Der letzte Drachenkönig Ebenfalls von Cressida Cowell im Arena Verlag erschienen: Wilderwald (1). Die Rückkehr der dunklen Magie Wilderwald (2). Die Rache des Königshexers Wilderwald (3). Im Auge des Inselmonsters
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June 2018
Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht (10). Suche nach dem Drachenjuwel
by Cowell, Cressida
Die Drachenrebellion hat begonnen - und es sieht nicht gut aus für Hicks und Ohnezahn. Nachdem Haudrauf, Hicks’ Vater, verbannte wurde, ist nun ausgerechnet Rotznase der neue Häuptling des Raufbold-Stammes. Außerdem besitzt Alwin der Verräter bereits acht Artefakte des Drachenerbes und wurde zum neuen König von Wilderwest gekrönt. Was also kann Hicks jetzt noch tun, allein und auf sich gestellt? Ihm bleibt nur eine Möglichkeit: Er muss das Drachenjuwel finden - denn es ist die letzte und einzige Hoffnung für das Überleben der gesamten Menschheit.
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July 2020
Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht (4). Mörderische Drachenflüche
by Cowell, Cressida
Band 4 der großartigen Drachen-Reihe rund um Hicks, den mutigen Wikingerjungen und seine Freunde. Hicks ist verzweifelt! Sein bester Freund Fischbein schwebt in Lebensgefahr, denn er wurde vergiftet vom Stich des Stacheldrachen. Hicks und seine unerschrockene Freundin Kamikazzi haben nur wenige Stunden, um das Gegengift zu beschaffen. Doch dieses befindet sich ausgerechnet in der Hand der Tobsüchtigen, einem feindlichen Wikingerstamm. Wird Hicks der Hartnäckige auch diesmal als siegreicher Held heimkehren? Alle Bände der Reihe: (1) Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht (2) Wilde Piraten voraus (3) Strenggeheimes Drachenflüstern (4) Mörderische Drachenflüche (5) Brandgefährliche Feuerspeier (6) Handbuch für echte Helden (7) Im Auge des Drachensturms (8) Flammendes Drachenherz (9) Jagd um das Drachenerbe (10) Suche nach dem Drachenjuwel (11) Verräterisches Drachenmal (12) Der letzte Drachenkönig Ebenfalls von Cressida Cowell im Arena Verlag erschienen: Wilderwald (1). Die Rückkehr der dunklen Magie Wilderwald (2). Die Rache des Königshexers Wilderwald (3). Im Auge des Inselmonsters
