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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Emigration from Scotland between the wars

by Marjory Harper

Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2009

The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne

Bearing blindness

by Catherine Maxwell

This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition. The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. ;

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August 2000

Die Vielfalt des Begehrens

Bisexualität von Sappho bis Madonna

by Garber, Marjorie

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May 2001

Die Liebe zum Hund

Beschreibung eines Gefühls

by Garber, Marjorie

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September 2001

Ich folgte den Trommeln der Kalahari

Die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Frauenfreundschaft

by Shostak, Marjorie

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2004

Nisa erzählt

Das Leben einer Nomadenfrau in Afrika

by Shostak, Marjorie

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1982

Nias erzählt

Das Leben einer Nomadenfrau in Afrika

by Shostak, Marjorie

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2009

Emigration from Scotland between the wars

by Marjory Harper, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration. ;

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Poetry

July 1904

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men".

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March 2013

Hier könnte ich zur Welt kommen

by Marjorie Celona, Christel Dormagen

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October 2021

Magic Eating

So organisieren Sie Ihren Kühlschrank, verändern Ihr Essverhalten und leben gesund

by Rubach, Malte Rubach, Marjorie

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August 2002

Zwei Brüder

Roman

by Milton Hatoum, Karin von Schweder-Schreiner

Milton Hatoum wurde am 19. August 1952 als Kind libanesischer Einwanderer im brasilianischen Manaus geboren. 1968 verließ er seine Heimatstadt, lebte für kurze Zeit in Brasília und ging dann nach São Paulo, wo er Architektur studierte. 1979 kam er mit einem Stipendium nach Madrid und Barcelona, anschließend als Postgraduierter an die Sorbonne in Paris. 1984 kehrte er nach Manaus zurück und unterrichtete französische Literatur an der Universidade Federal do Amazonas sowie als Gastdozent brasilianische Literatur an der University of California in Berkeley. Seit 1999 wohnt er wieder in São Paulo. 1989 erschien sein erster Roman Relato de um certo Oriente (dt. Emilie oder der Tod in Manaus, Piper, München 1992, bzw. Brief aus Manaus, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2002), für den er 1990 den angesehenen brasilianischen Jabuti-Literaturpreis erhielt und internationale Anerkennung gewann. Dois irmãos (dt. Zwei Brüder, 2002) ist der in Brasilien lang erwartete zweite Roman von Milton Hatoum, der 2000 in São Paulo erschien und für den er im folgenden Jahr ebenfalls den Jabuti-Preis bekam. Die beiden Bücher von Hatoum spielen im Spannungsfeld zweier Welten: der tropischen des Amazonasgebietes und der orientalischen der libanesischen Einwanderung. Vor dem Hintergrund des teilweise gewaltsamen Eindringens moderner Lebensmuster geben sie einen aufschlußreichen Einblick in die brasilianische Wirklichkeit.

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August 2008

Asche vom Amazonas

Roman

by Milton Hatoum, Karin Schweder-Schreiner

Der große brasilianische Romancier Milton Hatoum wird bewundert für seine Kunst, menschliche Beziehungen bis in ihren Kern zu erfassen. Psychologisch eindringlich erzählt er in Asche vom Amazonas eine verflochtene Familiengeschichte im tropischen Manaus, die lange im Leser nachhallt. Unterschiedlicher könnten zwei Freunde nicht sein: der künstlerisch begabte, labile Raimundo, dessen von ihm gehaßter Vater ein erfolgreicher Unternehmer und Sympathisant der Militärregierung ist, und Olavo, eine Waise aus bescheidenstem Haus, der Raimundos blindem Rebellentum hilflos gegenübersteht. Olavo wählt den stillen Weg und wird Anwalt der kleinen Leute, verfolgt aber fasziniert den Lebensweg des Freundes, der rastlos in der Welt umherzieht und sich doch nicht von seiner Herkunft lösen kann. Auch Raimundos Mutter, eine schöne Frau mit geheimnisvoller Geschichte, kann dem Sohn keinen Halt bieten – zu stark ist sie selbst in wirre Leidenschaften verstrickt und in ein Leben, das ein Zerrspiegel ihres Glücksverlangens ist.

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December 2023

Verantwortung

Philosophische Grundlagentexte

by Christoph Halbig, Jörg Löschke, Philipp Schwind

Die Zuschreibung von Verantwortung für unsere Handlungen ist ein zentraler Bestandteil unserer moralischen Praxis. Aber sie wirft schwierige philosophische Fragen auf. Müssen wir beispielsweise über einen freien Willen verfügen, um für unsere Handlungen verantwortlich zu sein? Ist Verantwortung ein einheitliches Phänomen oder gibt es verschiedene Arten von Verantwortung? Und können wir nur für unsere Taten verantwortlich sein oder beispielsweise auch für unsere Überzeugungen? Der Band versammelt – zum Teil erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung – die zentralen Texte der philosophischen Debatte über Verantwortung, u. a. von Stephen Darwall, Harry G. Frankfurt, H. L. H. Hart, Thomas Nagel, Peter Strawson, Susan Wolf und Iris Marion Young.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 1999

The debate on the Norman Conquest

by Marjorie Chibnall, Roger Richardson

The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. Because of the great interest that has always been shown in the subject of conquest and its aftermath, interpretations have been numerous and conflicting; students bewildered by controversies may find this book a useful guide through the morass of literature. In the medieval period writers were still deeply involved in the legal and linguistic consequences of the Norman victory. Later the issues became direcly relevant to debates about constitutional rights; the theory of a "Norman yoke" provided first a call for revolution and, by the 19th century, a romantic vision of a lost Saxon paradise. When history became a subject for academic study controversies still raged round such subjects as Saxon versus Norman institutions. These have gradually been replaced in a broader social setting where there is more room for consensus. Interest has now moved to such subjects as peoples and races, frontier societies, women's studies and colonialism. Changing perspectives have shown the advantage of studying a period from the late 10th to the early 13th century rather than one beginning in 1066. ;

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January 1997

Die Liebe zum Hund

Beschreibung eines Gefühls

by Garber, Marjorie / Englisch Voges, Haimar

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January 2003

Ich folgte den Trommeln der Kalahari

Die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Frauenfreundschaft

by Shostak, Marjorie / Deutsch Zöfel, Adelheid

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January 2010

Die Kapuzinergruft

Roman

by Joseph Roth

Mit der Kapuzinergruft schrieb Joseph Roth sein meisterhaftes Epos vom Untergang des Habsburgerreiches fort, das mit dem Radetzkymarsch so glanzvoll begonnen hatte. Roth erzählt die fesselnde Geschichte der Trottas, die in den turbulenten Jahren um den Ersten Weltkrieg dem Niedergang der Familie und einer ganzen Epoche entgegensehen.

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2023

The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

by Michael Kalisch

How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2021

Passing into the present

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

by Sinead Moynihan

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

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by Marjory Harper

Bearing blindness

by Catherine Maxwell

Bisexualität von Sappho bis Madonna

by Garber, Marjorie

Beschreibung eines Gefühls

by Garber, Marjorie

Die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Frauenfreundschaft

by Shostak, Marjorie

Das Leben einer Nomadenfrau in Afrika

by Shostak, Marjorie

Das Leben einer Nomadenfrau in Afrika

by Shostak, Marjorie

by Marjory Harper, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

by John Milton

by Marjorie Celona, Christel Dormagen

So organisieren Sie Ihren Kühlschrank, verändern Ihr Essverhalten und leben gesund

by Rubach, Malte Rubach, Marjorie

Roman

by Milton Hatoum, Karin von Schweder-Schreiner

Roman

by Milton Hatoum, Karin Schweder-Schreiner

Philosophische Grundlagentexte

by Christoph Halbig, Jörg Löschke, Philipp Schwind

by Marjorie Chibnall, Roger Richardson

Beschreibung eines Gefühls

by Garber, Marjorie / Englisch Voges, Haimar

Die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Frauenfreundschaft

by Shostak, Marjorie / Deutsch Zöfel, Adelheid

Roman

by Joseph Roth

by Michael Kalisch

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

by Sinead Moynihan

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