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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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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2019

        Titus Andronicus

        by Jim Bulman, Michael Friedman, Carol Chillington Rutter, Alan Dessen

        Michael D. Friedman's second edition of this stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009. Friedman identifies four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches, which culminate in Julie Taymor's harrowing film Titus (1999). Aspects of Taymor's eclectic vision of ancient Rome under the grip of modern fascism were copied by several subsequent productions, making Titus the most characteristic, as well as the most influential, contemporary performance of the play. Friedman's work extends Alan Dessen's original study to include Taymor's film, along with chapters devoted to the efforts of international directors including Gregory Doran, Silviu Purcarete, and Yukio Ninagawa.

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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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        January 2010

        Das Leben ist ein Wartesaal

        Über die Kunst, sich Neuem zu stellen

        by Joseph Roth, Susanne Schaber

        Von Brody nach Lemberg und Wien, von dort weiter nach Berlin und schließlich nach Paris: Joseph Roth war zeitlebens unterwegs, auf der Suche nach Arbeit und Anregungen, auf der Flucht vor den Nazis. Und das im Wissen, nie wirklich ankommen zu können bei sich und in der Welt. „Ich wäre unwürdig des großen Glücks, ein Fremder zu sein, wenn ich noch länger bliebe“, schreibt er im „Abschied vom Hotel“, einem seiner berühmten Feuilletons. „Ich will hier heimisch sein, aber nicht zu Hause.“ Susanne Schaber beobachtet Joseph Roth in den Wartesälen und Vorzimmern des Lebens: ein Brevier übers Aufbrechen und Unterwegssein und über die Kunst, sich dem Unbekannten zu stellen.

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        January 2010

        Radetzkymarsch

        Roman

        by Joseph Roth

        In seiner großen Familiensaga Radetzkymarsch erzählt Joseph Roth vom Aufstieg und Untergang der Familie Trotta, deren Lebenswege schicksalhaft verbunden sind mit dem Niedergang der habsburgischen Monarchie. »Radetzkymarsch ist das schönste Buch der Welt. Das traurigste. Sentimentalste. Wundersamste. Es ist ein Wunder.« Volker Weidermann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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        August 2010

        Joseph Roth

        Eine Biographie

        by Sternburg, Wilhelm von

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        March 2009

        Joseph Roth

        Leben und Werk in Bildern

        by Lunzer, Heinz; Lunzer-Talos, Victoria

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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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        Sociology
        January 2017

        Sport in the Black Atlantic

        Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora

        by Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne

        This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.

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        Biography & True Stories
        February 2024

        Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917

        by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice

        Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2021

        The Red and the Black

        The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic

        by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg

        The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally. This edited collection explores the implications of the creation of the Soviet Union and the Communist International for black and colonial liberation struggles across the African diaspora. It examines the critical intellectual influence of Marxism and Bolshevism on the current of revolutionary 'black internationalism' and analyses how 'Red October' was viewed within the contested articulations of different struggles against racism and colonialism. Challenging European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left, The Red and the Black offers new insights on the relations between Communism, various lefts and anti-colonialisms across the Black Atlantic - including Garveyism and various other strands of Pan-Africanism. The volume makes a major and original intellectual contribution by making the relations between the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic central to debates on questions relating to racism, resistance and social change.

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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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        January 1982

        Das Joseph Conrad Buch

        Über mich selbst, Weihe, Tremolino, Idioten, Amy Foster, Das Herz der Finsternis, Taifun

        by Conrad, Joseph / Beiträge von Woolf, Virginia; Nachwort von Buchheim, Lothar G

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        October 1983

        Heinrich Heine

        Leben und Werk in Daten und Bildern

        by Joseph Anton Kruse, Joseph Anton Kruse

        Joseph A. Kruse, 1944 in Dingden bei Bocholt (heute Hamminkeln) geboren, ist seit 1975 Direktor des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts in Düsseldorf; 1986 wurde er zum Honorarprofessor an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf ernannt. Er gibt u. a. das Heine-Jahrbuch und die Heine-Studien heraus und hat zahlreiche Publikationen zu Heine und seiner Zeit sowie zu den Sammlungen des Heine-Instituts veröffentlicht. Joseph A. Kruse, 1944 in Dingden bei Bocholt (heute Hamminkeln) geboren, ist seit 1975 Direktor des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts in Düsseldorf; 1986 wurde er zum Honorarprofessor an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf ernannt. Er gibt u. a. das Heine-Jahrbuch und die Heine-Studien heraus und hat zahlreiche Publikationen zu Heine und seiner Zeit sowie zu den Sammlungen des Heine-Instituts veröffentlicht.

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        January 1980

        Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

        by Joseph Eichendorff

        Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff wurde am 10. März 1788 auf Schloß Lubowitz in Oberschlesien geboren und starb am 26. November 1857 in Neiße. 1804-06 Philosophie- und Jurastudium in Breslau und Halle, ab 1807 in Heidelberg, wo er u.a. mit Joseph von Görres zusammentraf. 1808 Reise nach Paris. Begegnung mit Achim von Arnim und Clemens Brentano. Abschluß des Studiums in Wien. Begegnung mit Friedrich und Dorothea Schlegel. 1815 Heirat mit Luise von Larisch. Ab 1819 Anstellung beim Kultusministerium Berlin, später kommissarischer Schulrat für Westpreußen und Danzig. 1824-31 Oberpräsidialrat und Mitglied der ostpreußischen Regierung Königsberg. Bekanntschaft u. a. mit Savigny und Adelbert von Chamisso in Berlin. 1844 Entlassung aus dem Staatsdienst. 1855 Übersiedlung nach Neiße.

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