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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2001

        Railways and culture in Britain

        The epitome of modernity

        by Ian Carter, Jeffrey Richards

        The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? The book's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does not mean that all British culture ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. A final chapter contemplates cultural correlations of the steam railway's eclipse. If this was the epitome of modernity, then does the triumph of diesel and electric trains, of cars and planes, signal a decisive shift to postmodernity? ;

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        February 2008

        Liebesgedichte

        Englisch und deutsch

        by Wystan Hugh Auden, Rüdiger Görner

        Wystan Hugh Auden wurde am 21. Februar 1907 in York, England geboren. Er ist vor allem für seine Lyrik bekannt. Nach dem Studium in Oxford verbrachte er einige Zeit in Deutschland, u.a. lebte er mit seinem damaligen Freund Christopher Isherwood einige Monate in Berlin. Auden interessierte sich sehr für das politische Geschehen seiner Zeit und kämpfte im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. 1935 heiratete er Thomas Manns Tochter Erika, um ihr die Ausreise aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland zu ermöglichen. Er selbst siedelte 1939 in die USA über, nahm später die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft an und lehrte an verschiedenen Universitäten. Neben seiner bekannten und viel zitierten Lyrik verfaßte er auch einige Dramen, Kritiken und Essays, und schrieb Libretti für verschiedene Komponisten, wie Igor Strawinsky, Hans Werner Henze und Nicholas Nabokov. 1948 wurde Auden für Zeitalter der Angst (The Age of Anxiety) von 1947 mit dem Pulitzerpreis gewürdigt. Inspiriert von diesem Werk komponierte Leonard Bernstein seine gleichnamige Sinfonie. W. H. Auden starb am 29. September 1973 in Wien. Rüdiger Görner, geb. 1957, Studium der Germanistik, Geschichte, Anglistik und Philosophie an der Universität Tübingen und am University College, University of London; lebt als Literaturwissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und Kritiker seit 1981 in London. 1997-2004 Professur für German Literature an der Aston University in Birmingham sowie von 1999-2004 Director des Institute of Germanic Studies und Gründer des Ingeborg-Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature, University of London. Seit 2004 Professor für neuere deutsche Literatur und Gründungsdirektor des Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations am Queen Mary College, University of London. Zahlreiche Publikationen zu Literatur und Musik, u.a. zu Thomas Mann, Rilke, Nietzsche und Mozart.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2024

        Unfit

        The COVID-19 crisis and the future of the NHS

        by Hugh Pym

        Reporting from the front lines of the pandemic, celebrated BBC journalist Hugh Pym takes readers on a gripping journey to the heart of the UK's COVID-19 crisis. He unearths shocking revelations about the failings of the British state and the Whitehall machine, shedding light on the consequences of woeful unpreparedness and misguided policies. This hard-hitting exposé draws on untold stories from the corridors of power, providing an insider's perspective on the drama, personalities and critical decision-making processes. Going beyond individual accounts, it presents a comprehensive assessment of the UK's preparedness, lockdown measures and response strategies. A tale of resilience and devastating consequences, Unfit challenges the very foundations of the UK's response to the pandemic, leaving no stone unturned in its quest for truth. Finally, it looks ahead to ask what is in store for the future of the NHS.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2018

        Young lives on the Left

        by Celia Hughes

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2002

        Negotiating cultures

        Eugenio Barba and the intercultural debate

        by Maria M. Delgado, Ian Watson, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

        Eugenio Barba is one of the world's leading theatre artists and theorists working across cultures. Examines three major strands of Barba's work; his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology, his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his ongoing relationship with Latin America. The artists who write and are interviewed in the book provide an invaluable insight into Barba's work methods, his relationship with performers from different cultures, and the ramifications of his research in a variety of performance forms. Concludes with a dialogue between Barba and Ian Watson. ;

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        March 2023

        Die Geschichte von Doktor Dolittle

        by Hugh Lofting, Reinhard Michl, Eike Schönfeld

        Der Arzt John Dolittle lebt in dem kleinen Städtchen Puddleby-on-the Marsh, mit den Menschen kommt er nicht gut zurecht. Mit Tieren ist das ganz anders, selbst dem kranken Krokodil kann er helfen. Viele bleiben nach der Behandlung bei dem scheuen Doktor, suchen sich einen Platz im Garten oder im Haus, denn er beherrscht auch noch ihre Sprachen! Seiner griesgrämigen Schwester wird das alles zu viel, sie zieht aus. »Normale« Patienten kämen ohnehin nicht mehr in die Praxis… Als in Afrika eine neue und unheilbare Tierkrankheit ausbricht, beschließen er und seine treuen Freunde, trotz Geldmangels ein Schiff zu chartern und zu dem unbekannten Kontinent aufzubrechen, um den Tieren dort zu helfen! Hugh Loftings Kinderbuchklassiker von 1920 wurde für diese Ausgabe von Eike Schönfeld vollständig neu übersetzt. Und der große Tierzeichner Reinhard Michl hat »Doktor Dolittle« für die Insel-Bücherei kongenial illustriert. Eine prachtvolle Wiederentdeckung!

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2016

        EcoGothic

        by Elisabeth Bronfen, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Steven Bruhm, Ken Gelder, Jerrold Hogle, Avril Horner, William Hughes

        This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2013

        EcoGothic

        by Andrew Smith, William Hughes

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Queering the Gothic

        by William Hughes, Andrew Smith

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2023

        Suicide and the Gothic

        by William Hughes, Andrew Smith

        Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts and examine the crisis of suicide - a crisis that has personal, familial, religious, legal and medical implications - in European, American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy's Reliques and Patricia Highsmith's crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siècle decadence, Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture.

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        March 2017

        Orkan über Jamaika

        Roman. Neu übersetzt von Michael Walter

        by Hughes, Richard / Englisch Walter, Michael

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        The Arts
        September 2009

        The James Bond Phenomenon

        A critical reader (second edition)

        by Derek Cullen

        Sean Connery's tuxedo, Ursula Andress' bikini, Oddjob's bowler hat, and Q's gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The James Bond phenomenon. Drawn from the fields of literary, film, music, and cultural studies, the essays in this collection range from revitalised readings of Ian Fleming's original spy novels to the analysis of Pussy Galore's lesbianism, Miss Moneypenny's filmic feminism, and Pierce Brosnan's techno-fetishism. Together, the essays not only consider the James Bond novels and films in relation to their historical, political, and social contexts from the Cold War period onwards, but also examine the classic Bond canon from an array of theoretical perspectives. This updated and expanded edition features new essays on a range of hot topics, including Daniel Craig's debut as Bond, Playboy magazine's obsession with the 007 lifestyle, Bond's erotic Orientalism, and the rise of 007 video gaming. ;

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        December 2006

        James Joyce für Boshafte

        by James Joyce, Friedhelm Rathjen

        Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: James Joyce. »Rom kommt mir vor wie ein Mann, der davon lebt, daß er die Leiche seiner Großmutter für Reisende zur Schau stellt.«

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