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August 1989Um zu bleiben
Liebesgedichte. Griechisch und deutsch
by Konstantin Kavafis, Michael Schroeder, Michael Schroeder, David Hockney
Michael Schroeder, geboren 1954 in Trier, studierte Klassische Altertumswissenschaften, forschte in Süditalien, Griechenland und Syrien. Er ist Lektor, Autor und Herausgeber sowie Übersetzer der Gedichte von Konstantinos Kavafis. Zuletzt erschienen: 'Die schönsten Liebesgedichte der Antike' (it 3163) und 'Sappho von Lesbos – Europas erste Dichterin. Biographie' (2008) Michael Schroeder, geboren 1954 in Trier, studierte Klassische Altertumswissenschaften, forschte in Süditalien, Griechenland und Syrien. Er ist Lektor, Autor und Herausgeber sowie Übersetzer der Gedichte von Konstantinos Kavafis. Zuletzt erschienen: 'Die schönsten Liebesgedichte der Antike' (it 3163) und 'Sappho von Lesbos – Europas erste Dichterin. Biographie' (2008)
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March 2001Gefärbtes Glas
Historische Gedichte. Griechisch und deutsch
by Konstantin Kavafis, Michael Schroeder, Michael Schroeder
Weil im Zentrum des dichterischen Werks von Konstantinos Kavafis (1863–1933), Begründer der modernen griechischen Dichtung, gleichberechtigt neben den Liebesgedichten die historischen Gedichte stehen, tritt neben Um zu bleiben, den erfolgreichen Band mit Liebeslyrik (BS 1020; Radierungen von David Hockney), eine Auswahl der historischen Gedichte – wiederum in Übertragungen von Michael Schroeder.In den historischen Gedichten umkreist Kavafis, der in Konstantinopel und Alexandria lebte, Betrug und Täuschung, Fallen und tapferes Ausharren, Angst und Vermessenheit, stolze Erwartung und vergebliche Mühe – den sicheren, nie aber konkret absehbaren Untergang des Bestehenden. Die Dramaturgie der Personen und Ereignisse ist dicht, auf der Bühne befinden sich die hellenistische Welt und das sterbende Byzanz, Kleinasien, Syrien, Ägypten, der »melting pot« des östlichen Mittelmeers, die Zentren des Durcheinanders: Alexandria, Antiochia, Konstantinopel. Nicht Sternstunden der Geschichte, sondern den vergänglichen Augenblick hält Kavafis fest. Illusionslos, ohne Klage, mit melancholischer Ironie umfahren seine Gedichte die persönliche Wunde: den unwiederbringlichen Verlust einer großen Vergangenheit.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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EXCAVANDO LA CIUDAD DE DAVID
by Ronny Reich
EXCAVANDO LA CIUDAD DE DAVID – El lugar en el que comenzף la historia de Jerusalיn Las investigaciones arqueológicas llevadas a cabo en los 150 últimos años han identificado a la colina sudoriental de Jerusalén, fuera de las murallas de la Ciudad Vieja, como la Ciudad de David bíblica. El reconocimiento cada vez mayor de que esta colina es efectivamente la parte más antigua de Jerusalén ha llevado a muchos estudiosos a excavarla. Desde las primeras excavaciones hechas por Charles Warren en 1867 hasta el presente, catorce expediciones arqueológicas han trabajado allí, lo que ha hecho que la Ciudad de David sea uno de los sitios más excavados de Israel. Equipos británicos, alemanes, franceses e israelíes han excavado en el lugar bajo cuatro autoridades diferentes: el gobierno otomano, el mandato británico, el gobierno jordano y el israelí y han producido una asombrosa cantidad de información. Algunos de estos restos son de importancia única, entre ellos el túnel de Ezequías, el sistema de túneles conocido como el pozo de Warren, la inscripción del túnel de Siloé, la inscripción de Teodoto, y el estanque de Siloé. Excavaciones recientes efectuadas en la Ciudad de David han revelado vestigios impresionantes de fortificaciones de la Edad de Bronce Medio alrededor de la fuente de Gihón y restos del estanque de Siloé, que datan del período del Segundo Templo. El túnel de Siloé ha sido ahora ampliamente documentado y estudiado. Este libro comienza por una reseña cronológica de un siglo y medio de excavaciones y de estudio de la colina de la Ciudad de David. Dicha reseña resume la historia de la colina, desde épocas prehistóricas hasta el final del período otomano. Presenta un resumen actualizado de hallazgos arqueológicos pasados y recientes, muchos de los cuales, que se presentan aquí por primera vez, han cambiado drásticamente lo que pensábamos acerca de la historia antigua de Jerusalén. Ronny Reich excava y estudia las antigüedades de Jerusalén hace ya más de cuarenta años. De 1969 a 1978 tomó parte en las excavaciones dirigidas por el catedrático Nahman Avigad en el Barrio Judío de Jerusalén. Desde 1995 ha sido co-director de las excavaciones en la Ciudad de David. El profesor Reich es egresado de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, donde escribió su tesis de doctorado acerca de los baños rituales judíos en la época del Segundo Templo. Desde 1995 es catedrático de Arqueología en la Universidad de Haifa. En 2000 se le otorgó el Premio Jerusalén de Investigación Arqueológica. 27×22 cm, 382 páginas, edición en tapas duras, numerosas ilustraciones en blanco y negro y en color . por Ronny Reich
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October 2008Liebe fürchtet nichts
by Augustinus, Michael Schroeder, Michael Schroeder
Liebe fürchtet nichts – Noch liebte ich nicht und liebte doch Liebe – Liebesschmerz – Mitleid – Schöne Körper – Auf Leibes Wegen – Urheber der Liebe – Liebe zu schönen dingen – Seltsame Dinge – Was unter Freunden geliebt wird – Was ich an andern liebe – Lieben wir denn anderes als das Schöne? – Was ist es, das ich liebe? – Körper und Geist als Wohnung der Liebe – Die Hinfälligkeit des Körpers – Leibliche Bedürfnisse – Das Gedächtnis der Seele – Bewegungen der Seele – In jeder Lage zufrieden sein – Der Wahrheit vertraue alles an – So viel vermag die Liebe – Liebe und tu, was du willst – Aus Gott stammt die Liebe – Gott ist die Liebe – Ausdehnung der Liebe – Liebe deinen Nächsten wie dich selbst – Die Liebe tut dem Nächsten nichts Böses – Die zeitliche Liebe – An anderen lieben, was man selbst ist – Im Menschen die Kreatur Gottes lieben – Der Mensch braucht den Menschen, um zu lieben – Liebe fürchet nichts – Die Liebe zu wandelbaren Dingen – Liebe ist größer als Glaube und Hoffnung – Ziel aller Gebote ist die Liebe – Freundschaft und Liebe – Der >äußereinnere< Mensch – Empfindungen und Gemütsbewegungen – Das Gedächtnis – Die Seele durch die Seele sehen – Um die Seele sollen wir uns kümmern – Die Seele wird aus Liebe verwundet – Seele und Körper – Die Seele zielt nach Unterwerfung anderer Seelen – Die Seele zielt durch die Liebe auf Vereinigung hin – Das Wagnis der Seele – Die Größe der Seele – Von den trügerischen Dingen – Die Seele ist Gott, der Liebe, am nächsten – Die Seele hat die freie Entscheidung des Willens – Die Seele belebt den Körper, wenn sie es will – Der Blick der Seele; Die Vernunft – Autorität und Vernunft als Arznei der Seele – Unsterblich ist die Seele – Nach diesem Leben genügt allein die Liebe – Der freie Wille – Wille und Handeln – Der Wille Gottes – Wieso läßt Gott Böses zu? – Ein rechter Wille ist eine gute Liebe – Die Vernunft – Ist die Vernunft unsterblich? – Die Vernunft wendet sich an die sinnliche Freude der Seele – Ewiges und Zeitliches – Die Liebe bewahren – Wenn Deine Liebe sich neigt – Spät hab ich Dich geliebt – Ich liebe Dich, herr – je lieber ich von der Liebe spreche – Nachwort von Michael Schroeder: Liebe fürchtet nichts?
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022David and Bathsheba
George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024David, Donne and Thirsty Deer
Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott
by Anne Lake Prescott, Roger Kuin, William A. Oram
For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott's immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema.
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EXCAVATING THE CITY OF DAVID
by Ronny Reich
Archaeological research over the past 150 years has identified Jerusalem’s southeastern hill, outside the Old City walls, as the biblical City of David. The growing realization that this hill is indeed the most ancient part of Jerusalem led many scholars to excavate it. Since the first excavation by Charles Warren in 1867 to the present, fourteen archaeological expeditions have dug here, making the City of David hill one of the most excavated sites in Israel. British, German, French, and Israeli teams have dug here under four different governments (Ottoman, British Mandate, Jordanian, and Israeli), producing an impressive quantity of data. Some of these remains are uniquely important, including the Siloam Tunnel, the Warren’s Shaft system, the Siloam Inscription, the Theodotos Inscription, and the Pool of Siloam. Recent excavations at the City of David have uncovered impressive remains of Middle Bronze Age fortifications around the Gihon Spring and remains of the Siloam Pool dating to the Second Temple period. The Siloam Tunnel has now been thoroughly documented and studied. This book begins with a chronological survey of a century and a half of excavation and study of the City of David hill. It then summarizes the history of the hill, from prehistoric times to the end of the Ottoman period. It presents an up-to-date summary of past and recent archaeological discoveries, many of which, presented here for the first time, have dramatically changed our thinking about Jerusalem’s ancient history. Ronny Reich has been excavating and studying Jerusalem’s antiquities for over forty years. From 1969 to 1978 he participated in the excavations directed by Professor Nahman Avigad in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter. Since 1995 he has been co-director of the City of David Excavations. Professor Reich is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Jewish ritual baths in the Second Temple period. Since 1995 he has been a professor of archaeology at the University of Haifa. In 2000 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeological Research. 27 × 22 cm., 382 pages, hardcover, numerous black & white and color illustrations.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 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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The ArtsNovember 2019David Milch
by Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Steven Peacock, Jason Jacobs
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September 2019Conga Line on the Amazon
by David Myles Robinson
David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
by Nicholas Royle
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2023Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature
by Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero, Adriano Ardovino
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The ArtsJanuary 2099David Simon's American city
by Mikkel Jensen, Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell
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October 2008Der Goldene Apfel
Die Erzählungen des klassischen Altertums
by Michael Schroeder, Michael Schroeder
Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums kennt man durch die Nacherzählungen Gustav Schwabs. Doch die Erzählkunst der Antike reicht weit darüber hinaus, und ihre schönsten Stücke gewähren, wie sie hier erstmals umfassend zu einem Kanon zusammengetragen sind, einen lebendigen Blick auf über 1000 Jahre Alltags- und Geistesleben. Die Erzählungen und Novellen der Antike wurden über viele Jahrhunderte hinweg gelesen und haben auf spätere Erzähler, etwa Boccaccio, nachhaltig gewirkt. Der Gegenwart ist die Kenntnis der griechischen und römischen Novellistik jedoch nahezu verlorengegangen: Eingebettet in die großen Werke und Romane griechischer und römischer Autoren, werden sie nicht als eigenständiger und traditionsbildender, vor allem aber überaus farbiger und amüsanter Strang der europäischen Geistesgeschichte wahrgenommen. Im Goldenen Apfel werden Abenteuer, Liebesaffären und Räuberpistolen erzählt; man findet witzige Geschichten aus dem antiken Alltag und Begebenheiten, die zum Nachdenken anregen. Nicht nur die Novellen, die in Apuleius’ Metamorphosen, besser bekannt unter dem Titel Der goldene Esel, eingestreut sind, oder die Urformen der Geschichten vom großen Glück des Krösus und dem Ring des Polykrates sind hier nachzulesen, sondern man erfährt auch von der unsterblichen Liebe der Pantheia zu Abradatas, dem Liebestod eines Delphins und den Nöten eines Liebhabers im Faß. Zu Wort kommen Homer, Herodot, Äsop, Dion Chrysostomos, Platon, Livius, Plinius und Plutarch, Lukian und Phlegon, Aulus Gellius, Aelian, Philostratos, Heliodor, Aristainetos, die Evangelisten Lukas und Thomas – und viele andere bekannte oder in Vergessenheit geratene Autoren.
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The ArtsSeptember 2024Cases of citation
On literature in art
by Chloe Julius, Michael Green, Matthew Holman
Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards. Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular 'case of citation', the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys eleven artworks by a diverse group of artists - including David Wojnarowicz, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski - whose citations draw on works as varied as Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The book also features an interview with pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek that discusses her career-long commitment to working with text. Together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can 'read' textual citations in art.
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The ArtsAugust 2014David Lean
by Melanie Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.' One of the best known and most admired of British film makers, David Lean had a directorial career that spanned five decades and encompassed everything from the intimate black-and-white romance of Brief Encounter (1945) to the spectacular Technicolor epic of Lawrence of Arabia (1962). This book offers comprehensive coverage of every feature film directed by Lean, yielding new insights on the established classics of his career as well as its lesser-known treasures. Its analysis prioritises questions of gender and emphasises the often-overlooked but highly significant recurrence of female-centred narratives throughout Lean's career. Drawing extensively on archival historical materials while also presenting nuanced close readings of individual films, David Lean offers a fascinating and original account of the work of a remarkable British film maker. ;
