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      • E.A. Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG

        E. A. Seemann Henschel, Leipzig   The German publisher for the visual and performing arts – for readers of all ages Leipzig is the city of Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn and the Schumanns. Here, in the 15th century, the German publishing production came into being, which in the following centuries produced publishers such as Brockhaus, Reclam and E. A. Seemann. Today, the city is a vibrant metropolis in the heart of Europe that attracts artists and creative people for both education and work. Here the publishing group E. A. Seemann Henschel publishes carefully edited and attractively designed books on the visual and performing arts. The Imprint E. A. Seemann publishes elaborately produced illustrated books about the Bauhaus, Classical Modern Art, and reference books for teaching artistic techniques. The Imprint Henschel stands for illustrated text books, biographies and educational guides on dance, drama, and music. In our children's art programme BILDERBANDE (freely translated: art gang), individually illustrated books are published which impart with inspiring energy and beautiful details the colorful world of the arts to children.

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      • Red Hen Press

        Red Hen Press seeks to discover and publish works of literary excellence, support diversity in a creative industry, promote literacy in our local schools, and serve as a hub for literary events and enrichment. We are a community of readers and writers who are actively engaged in the essential human practice known as literature.

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        September 2012

        Buster Keaton oder die Liebe zur Geometrie

        Komik in Zeiten der Sachlichkeit

        by Nüchtern, Klaus

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        Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
        May 2017

        Inventing the cave man

        From Darwin to the Flintstones

        by Andrew Horrall. Series edited by Jeffrey Richards

        Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2017

        Inventing the cave man

        From Darwin to the Flintstones

        by Andrew Horrall, Jeffrey Richards

        Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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        The Arts
        December 2012

        Laughing matters

        Understanding film, television and radio comedy

        by Glyn White, John Mundy

        Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy, concisely outlines the approach taken and summarises the relevant theories. The subsequent chapters are divided into two parts. The first part examines the specific forms comedy has taken as a constant and key element in film and broadcast comedy from their origins to the present. The second part shows how the genre gravitates towards contentious issues in British and American culture as it finds humour in the boundaries of class, gender, sexuality, race and logic. The authors cover silent cinema comedy including Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, sound film comedies including the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, Romantic film comedy, radio, television situation and sketch comedy, comedy and genre (including parody and spoof), animations from cartoons to CGI, issues of gender and sexuality from drag comedy to queer reading, issues of taste and humour from Carry On to contemporary 'gross-out' , and issues of race and ethnicity including a case study of African-American screen comedy. Numerous opportunities for following up are highlighted and advice on further reading, writing academically about comedy and an extensive bibliography add to the value of this textbook. ;

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        The Arts
        December 2024

        The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould

        Britain's pioneering political cartoonist

        by Mark Bryant

        This is the first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration and will also be welcomed by students of history, politics and the media. It examines Gould's career in Fleet Street until his retirement after the First World War. It also discusses his illustrations for magazines and books and there is an analysis of his use of symbolism and literary allusion to lampoon such eminent politicians as Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. As Lord Baker says in his Foreword, this book is 'a major contribution to our knowledge of British cartooning.'

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        October 2007

        Lord Jim

        Ein Bericht

        by Joseph Conrad, Elli Berger

        Ein junger Mann voller erhabener Ideale strebt nach großen Taten, doch er versagt im entscheidenden Moment. Jim, ein Schiffsoffizier, dient auf dem Dampfer Patna. Nach einem Unglück überläßt er viele hundert Menschen ihrem Schicksal. Er verliert Schiffspatent und Ehre und wandert auf der Flucht vor der Vergangenheit immer weiter nach Osten. Dort erwartet ihn eine weitere Bewährungsprobe.

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        April 1993

        Das Bacon-Projekt

        Von der Erkenntnis, Nutzung und Schonung der Natur

        by Lothar Schäfer

        "Das »Bacon-Projekt« definiert einen Grundzug der Moderne; während in der Antike die Erkenntnis der Natur als Selbstzweck galt, betrachtet sie die Neuzeit als ein Mittel zur Mehrung des allgemeinen Menschenwohls. Die Naturforschung soll die Entwicklung einer Technik ins Werk setzen und damit dem Menschen Machtmittel zur Verfügung stellen, durch die er sich aus materieller Not und Naturabhängigkeit befreien kann. Francis Bacon (1551-1626) war der Propagandist der neuen Zielbestimmung der Naturforschung. Die in den modernen Industrieländern praktizierte technische Form der Naturnutzung ist infolge der jetzt offenkundig werdenden Schädigungen an der Natur zunehmend unter Kritik geraten. Mit den Befunden der »ökologischen Krise« wird nicht nur auf die Bedrohlichkeit der Technikfolgeschäden hingewiesen, sondern es wird zugleich die neuzeitliche Art der Naturforschung für die absehbare Katastrophe verantwortlich gemacht. Hans Jonas hat deshalb verlangt, daß wir das »Baconsche Ideal« aufgeben und uns dem Gedanken der Bewahrung der Natur verschreiben. Nicht länger sollten Ziele und Zwecke des Menschen die Grundlage unseres Handelns gegenüber der Natur sein; das »Prinzip Verantwortung« gebiete vielmehr, die in der westlichen Zivilisation dominant gewesene »Anthropozentrik« zu verabschieden und die Eigenrechte der Natur in unserem Handeln zu respektieren. Gegen diese pauschale Beschuldigung der Moderne ist die vorliegende Studie gerichtet. Schäfer sieht durch die ökologische Krise nicht die Aufkündigung des Baconschen Ideals geboten - wohl aber eine drastische Revision des »Baconschen Programms«, d.h. der Mittel und Methoden, mit denen das Ideal seither verfolgt wurde."

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Joseph Losey

        by Colin Gardner

        The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.

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        January 2022

        Jules und Jim

        by Henri-Pierre Roché, Patricia Klobusiczky, François Truffaut

        »Es war um 1907.« In Paris lernen sich der Deutsche Jules und der Franzose Jim kennen, eine enge Freundschaft entsteht. Sie teilen die Liebe zur Literatur, zur Kunst und zu den Frauen, von denen nicht wenige durch ihr Leben gehen. Doch als Kathe auftaucht, eine abenteuerlustige Berlinerin mit dem Lächeln einer griechischen Statue, von der beide gleichermaßen fasziniert sind, bittet Jules: »Die da nicht? … ja, Jim?« Jules und Kathe ziehen nach Deutschland, heiraten und bekommen zwei Kinder … erst nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg sehen die Freunde sich wieder – und es entwickelt sich eine leidenschaftliche Dreiecksbeziehung. Doch bald wird die Amour fou zwischen Kathe und Jim zu einem tragischen Spiel, bei dem es keinen Gewinner geben kann ... Eine zeitlose Geschichte über Freundschaft, Liebe und Freiheit.

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        July 2014

        The Black Steed

        by Zhang Chengzhi

        This is a collection of works by writer Zhang Chengzhi. The Black Steed, Rivers of the North, and Golden Pastures included in this collection have already been translated into different languages. The Black Steed, through the life experience of a man leaving and returning to the countryside and through a beautiful but sad love story, reflects the choices of the Mongolian nationality in the conflict between old and new concepts and the struggle and outcry of the new generation of the grassland.

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        May 1994

        Handbuch für WahnsinnsFrauen

        by Luise F. Pusch, Luise F. Pusch

        Bachmann, Ingeborg: Hommage à Maria Callas. Fleißer, Marieluise: Ein Portät Buster Keatons. Dohm, Hedwig: Weib contra Weib. Plath, Sylvia: Papi. Lange, Helene: "Paten" der Mädchenbildung. Rich, Adrienne: Unsichtbarkeit in der Hochschule. Kaléko, Mascha: Die Leistung der Frau in der Kultur. Popp, Adelheid: Als ich von der Schule mein Übersiedlungszeugnis erhalten hatte. Glückel von Hameln: Einen Tag nach der Hochzeit. Glückel von Hameln: Ich will, meine lieben Kinder. Glückel von Hameln: Als wir nach Hamburg kamen. Bombeck, Erma: Drei klassische Mütter-Ansprachen. Baur, Margrit: Ich habe lange überlegt. Baur, Margrit: Vor dem Fenster. Keun, Imgard: Ich spiele nicht mit Männern. McCullers, Carson: Der Tod bleibt sich immer gleich. Haushofer, Marlen: Die Ratte. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Die gelbe Tapete. Dickinson, Emily: Die Seele wählt. Droste-Hülshoff, Annette: Das Spiegelbild. Droste-Hülshoff, Annette: Feuer. Kempner, Friederike: Kennst Du das Land. Kempner, Friederike: Vogelin-Prinzeß. Woolf, Virginia: Berufe für Frauen. Kaschnitz, Marie Luise: Nicht gesagt. Baur, Margrit: Ich halte mich an das Beschreibbare. Schwarz-Bart: Die ganze Woche über. LeFort, Gertrud_von: Hymnen an die Kirche. Dickinson, Emily: Er tappt auf deiner Seele. Hildegard von Bingen: Hymnus zu Ehren des Heiligen Geistes. Bachmann, Ingeborg: Auf das Opfer darf sich keiner berufen. Achmatowa, Anna: Im Jahr vierzig. Achmatowa, Anna: Die Dritte. Klüger, Ruth: Noch jetzt, wenn ich Güterwagen sehe. Domin, Hilde: Wen es trifft. Lasker-Schüler, Else: Der Letzte. Sachs, Nelly: Chor der Geretteten. Kolmar, Gertrud: Verwandlungen. Bachmann, Ingeborg: Innen sind deine Augen Fenster. Loos, Cécile Ines: Die Hochzeitsreise. Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth: Wie ich dich liebe? Roten, Iris_von: Der konventionelle Altersvorsprung der Männer in erotischen Beziehungen. Dickinson, Emily: Wilde Nächte. Parker, Dorothy: Der Walzer. Labé, Louise: Küß mich noch.

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