Provided with a remarkable collection, Mercure de France follows an exacting editorial policy: French and foreign literature, poetry, history, anthologies... Awarded many times, the publishing house is associated with prestigious names: Romain Gary, Colette, Ionesco , André Gide, André du Bouchet, Henri Michaux, Adonis, Yves Bonnefoy, Andréï Makine, Gilles Leroy, Anne Serre, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Julian Barnes...
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Frayed Edge Press is a small independent publishing house based in Philadelphia. We publish literary fiction and poetry, as well asnon-fiction titles in history and political science. We also publish the Street Smart Series of Short Fiction, consisting of contemporary, urban-set novelette-length works. We especially welcome marginalized voices, both historical and contemporary, including women, people of color, ethnic and religious minorities, the LGBTQ+ community, and progressive political viewpoints. We particularly seek to publish works that wrestle with important questions challenging contemporary society, including political and environmental concerns, civil rights, women's rights, and sustainability.
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Als Theodor W. Adorno, von den Nationalsozialisten vertrieben, zwischen 1938 und 1941 in New York lebte, beschäftigte er sich intensiv mit der Frage, wie sich die Reproduktion von Musik im Medium des Radios auf die Musik selbst auswirkt. Besonders interessiert haben ihn dabei die Mechanismen der Rezeption populärer Musik, die er anhand der Verbreitung von »Hits« der damaligen Zeit durch amerikanische Radiosendungen analysiert. Entstanden sind umfangreiche Manuskripte, die Adorno, wie er später immer wieder bedauerte, zu Lebzeiten jedoch nicht mehr zum Abschluß bringen konnte. Current of Music – den Titel hatte Adorno selbst für die Veröffentlichung vorgesehen – rekonstruiert dieses Buchprojekt anhand der Pläne, die sich dazu im Adorno-Archiv finden. Mit Current of Music wird ein wichtiger Baustein zum Verständnis von Adornos Theorie der Musik wie auch seiner überlegungen zu den Mechanismen der Kulturindustrie erstmals zugänglich gemacht.Von dieser Ausgabe sind bisher erschienenBeethoven. Philosophie der Musik (Fragment gebliebene Schriften, Band 1)Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion (Fragment gebliebene Schriften, Band 2)Kants »Kritik der reinen Vernunft« (Vorlesungen, Band 4)Ontologie und Dialektik (Vorlesungen, Band 7)Probleme der Moralphilosophie (Vorlesungen, Band 10)Zur Lehre von der Geschichte und von der Freiheit (Vorlesungen, Band 13)Metaphysik. Begriff und Probleme (Vorlesungen, Band 14)Einleitung in die Soziologie (Vorlesungen, Band 15)Vorlesung über Negative Dialektik (Vorlesungen, Band 16)
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1977 erschien in Paris »Fragments d'un discours amoureux«. Das Buch erklomm unmittelbar nach seiner Veröffentlichung die ersten Plätze der Bestsellerliste; sein Verfasser, ein bereits berühmter, weltweit geehrter Wissenschaftler und Intellektueller wurde zum gefeierten Romancier. »Fragmente einer Sprache der Liebe« gilt als das privateste und zugleich populärste Werk von Roland Barthes. Die alphabetisch geordneten sprachlichen Figuren der Lebenden − von Abhängigkeit bis Zugrundegehen − geben die Reihenfolge vor, in der die möglichen Zuwendungen zu einander Form gewinnen und Verhalten bestimmen. Im Rahmen der Edition der legendären Pariser Seminare von Roland Barthes haben sich weitere Fragmente gefunden, die der Autor in die Erstausgabe nicht aufgenommen hat, die jedoch eine perfekte Ergänzung zum Diskurs jedes Liebenden sind.
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'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the 'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history: surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane's text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature. ;
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Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief's subjectivity and uniqueness. It cover classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O'Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.
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Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic, but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective, but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either, but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left, past and present, through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.
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Collections XVI contains new documentary evidence concerning Luminalia, the anonymous Shrovetide masque of 1638, and theatrical references in the Bridewell Hospital Court of Governors' Minute Books. The volume also includes editions of fragments from an early seventeenth-century adaptation of Plautus' Captivi, held in the archives of New College, Oxford, and the part of Amarath from Harvard University manuscript Thr.10.1. The volume is edited by Eugene Giddens, with contributions from Nadine N. W. Akkerman, William Poole, Abigail Rokison, and Duncan Salkeld. It is part of the Malone Society's ongoing Collections series, which gathers together documents relating to the drama of the period. ;
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Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script. As gracefully witty as it is daringly experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining and yet refreshingly original to this day. This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley enables this work's significance within the fields of literary modernism, fictional biography, and fiction about music, to be assessed by a new generation of readers and scholars.
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An den Jahresringen läßt sich ablesen, welche Forderungen der Magier-Stoff des 16. Jahrhunderts an Goethe stellt, wie die Zeit zwischen 1775 und 1808 voranschritt und welchen Eindruck Italien und die Französische Revolution hinterließen. Die von dem Kölner Germanisten-Professor Keller vorgelegte und mit einem ausführlichen Nachwort versehene wort- und zeichengetreue Wiedergabe der Originale ist gleicherweise dem Kenner dienlich wie für den Liebhaber erschwinglich.
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