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At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction. We love the phrase ‘lost in a book’—that’s where we want our readers to be. You can’t get lost in a newspaper or a magazine or even a movie. But people get lost in books every day—on the tram, on the beach, in bed. Reading is what keeps the imagination supple and challenges preconceptions and prejudices. You read at your own speed, and the world you enter courtesy of the writer is yours and yours only, even if the person next to you on the bus is reading exactly the same book. We publish a very broad range of fiction and non-fiction, international and local, books for adults and young adults.
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Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologiesOctober 2014Against the grain
The British far left from 1956
by Edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley
Against the grain is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together leading experts on British left-wing politics to examine issues of class, race and gender from 1956 to the present day. The essays collected here are designed to highlight the impact made by the far left on British politics and society. Though the predicted revolution did not come, organisations such as the International Socialists, the International Marxist Group and Militant became household names in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken as a whole, the collection demonstrates the extent to which the far left has weaved its influence into the political fabric of Britain.
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Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologiesDecember 2014Against the grain
by Edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Against the grain
The British far left from 1956
by Evan Smith, Matthew Worley
This is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century. Its contents cover a range of organisations beyond the Labour Party, bringing together leading experts on British left-wing politics to examine issues of class, race and gender from 1956 to the present day. The essays collected here are designed to highlight the impact made by the far left on British politics and society. Though the predicted revolution did not come, organisations such as the International Socialists, the International Marxist Group and Militant became household names in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken as a whole, the collection demonstrates the extent to which the far left has weaved its influence into the political fabric of Britain.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2013A Trick to Catch the Old One
By Thomas Middleton
by David Bevington, Paul Mulholland, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
This is the first single volume edition of A Trick to Catch the Old One for many decades. This edition presents a thoroughly reconsidered text based on collation of all known copies of the 1608 quarto (including material unnoticed by earlier editors). Textual analysis draws on detailed internal investigation and the printer's wider practice to propose that relatively improvisational procedures and a paper quota governed A Trick's printing operations. Discovery of an overlooked record revises the date of court performance to 1 January 1607, with implications for the play's early history. Critical discussion freshly examines the play's multi-layered ironic texture in relation to such issues as the status of women, marriage's relation to prostitution and vice versa, and the contemporary marriage market. And the Courtesan receives special attention in the context of this overarching ironic scheme. An extensive stage history explores original staging and documents revivals to 2011. The commentary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of all modern editions. ;
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The ArtsNovember 2013Surface tensions
Surface, finish and the meaning of objects
by Christopher Breward, Glenn Adamson, Victoria Kelley, Bill Sherman
Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than 'deeper' or more 'substantive' aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to conceive of the surface in more positive terms: as a site where complex forces meet. Surfaces can be theorized as membranes, protective shells, sensitive skins, even thicknesses in their own right. The surface is not so much a barrier to content as an opportunity for encounter: in new objects, the surface is the site of qualities of finish, texture, the site of tactile interaction, the last point of contact between object and maker, and the first point of contact between object and user. Surface tensions includes sixteen essays that explore this theoretically uncharted terrain. The subjects range widely: domestic maintenance; avant-garde fashion; the faking of antiques; postmodern architecture and design; contemporary film costume. Of particular emphasis within the volume are textiles, which are among the most complex and culturally rich materialisations of surface. As a whole, the book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of objects, not just their condition when new. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Framing
The social art of influence
by Mikael Klintman
A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we think about it. In today's chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem - often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is. In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman offers a cutting-edge toolkit for exposing and analysing the rhetoric that saturates our everyday lives. Combining insights from the social sciences, economics and evolutionary biology, he lays out a four-part approach to understanding how information is 'framed' for us, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size. Demonstrating this approach through an array of real-world examples, from climate change denial to the subtle messaging of caviar ads, Klintman reveals how canny communicators mislead us without relying on overt deception. At the same time, he probes the deeper evolutionary and cultural roots of our susceptibility to frames.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Waiting for the revolution
The British far left from 1956
by Evan Smith, Matthew Worley, Jacquelyn Arnold, Daniel Finn, Michael Fitzpatrick, Diarmaid Kelliher, Jack Saunders, J Daniel Taylor, Jodi Burkett, Gavin Brown, Daisy Payling, Christopher Massey, Sheryl-Bernadett Buckley, Daryl Leeworthy, Rory Scothorne, Ewan Gibbs, Lyndon White (Lawrence Parker)
Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956, bringing together young and established academics and writers to discuss the realignments and fissures that maintain leftist politics into the twenty-first century. The two books endeavour to historicise the British left, detailing but also seeking to understand the diverse currents that comprise 'the far left'. Their objective is less to intervene in ongoing issues relevant to the left and politics more generally, than to uncover and explore the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups, activists and struggles. To this end, the book will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in British politics.
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Popular cultureJuly 2015Experimental British television
by Martin Hargreaves
Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a mass medium. Avaible for the first time in paperback, Experimental British television uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes in addition to looking at relatively more privileged artists or programme strands from fresh perspectives. The book therefore goes against the grain of dominant television studies, which tends to place the medium within the flow of the 'everyday', in order to scrutinise those productions that attempted to make more serious interventions within the medium.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015Experimental British television
by Laura Mulvey, Martin Hargreaves, Jamie Sexton
Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a mass medium. Avaible for the first time in paperback, Experimental British television uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes in addition to looking at relatively more privileged artists or programme strands from fresh perspectives. The book therefore goes against the grain of dominant television studies, which tends to place the medium within the flow of the 'everyday', in order to scrutinise those productions that attempted to make more serious interventions within the medium. ;
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The ArtsDecember 2009Songs of protest, songs of love
Popular ballads in eighteenth-century Britain
by Robin Ganev, Jeffrey Richards
Songs of Protest, Songs of Love shows how songs can bring back voices from the past in a new way. The focus of the book is on rural Britain in a time of crisis. As the traditional rights of peasants were being jettisoned to enforce a new system of enclosure, rural labourers chanted out their concerns in songs of protest. These songs became increasingly strident and popular after the 1770s as rural life became even more precarious with fluctuating grain prices and uncertain employment opportunities. Many ballads in the eighteenth century were love songs. But these are also rich in social meaning. Many of these love songs celebrated the free and easy sexuality of rural workers, especially milkmaids and ploughmen, which was contrasted with the tepid and flaccid sex life attributed to urban aristocrats. The book will be of interest to scholars, advanced students and readers with an interest in cultural history and popular ballads. ;
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October 2020Simple Food!
Anti the Food Frenzy in Our Minds
by Thomas A. Vilgis
This book follows a unique path in the ubiquitous food debate: it leads us on the trail of the origins of our food culture, from the Neolithic period to the present day. Thomas A. Vilgis has compiled a guide that combines scientific with cultural or sociological aspects. How did Stone Age man poach food? Which cereal varieties were cultivated first? What is the mysterious umami flavour all about? The cultural historical excursion gets interactive with plenty of recipes for those curious to test Kimchi with birch leaves or red cabbage in their dessert.
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February 1987Werkausgabe in sechs Bänden in der edition suhrkamp
Band 2: Stephen der Held. Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann
by James Joyce, Klaus Reichert
Aus dem weitschweifigen Text von Stephen Hero wurde die komprimierte, komplexe Textur des Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Die für den Ulysses später so zentrale Leitmotivtechnik wurde hier zum ersten Mal erprobt.
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April 2022Corona Chaos. Confessions from a pharmacist
by Simon Krivec
More than two years of pandemic is more than two years of corona clutter. Only a staggering level of helpfulness, improvisation and flexibility prevented the healthcare system from collapsing completely. In this highly topical book, pharmacist Simon Krivec tells of his incredible experiences and the stormy ups and downs of pandemic madness, missing masks and disinfectants, and the feeling of having been totally abandoned by a helpless state. We learn, for instance, of the short-term procurement of large quantities of ethanol and the transportation of the highly flammable substance, and just what lured the author – and 71,400 euros in cash – to visit the port of Neuss at night.
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July 1984Das Jahr der Liebe
Roman
by Paul Nizon
»Paul Nizons jüngster Roman Das Jahr der Liebe ist eine andere Recherche, die Suche nach der vielleicht zu gewinnenden Zeit, eine Erschöpfungs- und eine Schöpfungsgeschichte: Da fängt einer, in einem winzigen Hinterzimmer in Paris, nicht nur auf einem leeren Blatt, er fängt auch ganz bei Null an... Die Leibhaftigkeit und die Hautnähe des Draußen haben die Wirkung einer Reanimation, die Notizen verweben sich zur Textur, und der Text wird schließlich zum Roman einer Existenz, die neu beginnt. Das Wagnis des Lebens und das Wagnis des Schreibens - in Paul Nizons Werk werden sie sichtbar als ein und dasselbe Kunststück.« Aus der Erklärung des Verbands der deutschen Kritiker e. V. anläßlich der Verleihung des Kritikerpreises 1982 für Literatur
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2024Instead of modernity
The Western canon and the incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850–75)
by Andrew Ginger
Instead of modernity goes to the very heart of comparative cultural study: the question of what happens when intimate, dynamic connections are made over place and time, what it is to feel at home amid the lavish diversity of culture. This ambitious interdisciplinary book reconsiders foundational figures of the modern western canon, from Darwin to Cameron, Baudelaire to Whistler. It weaves together brain images from France, preserved insects from the Americas, glass in London, poetry from Argentina, paintings from Spain. Flaubert, Whitman, and Nietzsche find themselves with Hostos from Puerto Rico and Gorriti from Argentina. The book ranges over theoretical fields: trauma and sexuality studies, theories of visuality, the philosophy of sacrifice and intimacy, the thought of Wittgenstein. Instead of modernity is an adventure in the practice of comparative writing: resonances join suggestively over place and time, the textures of words, phrases and images combine to form moods.
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September 2004
Nico. Sphinx aus Eis
Monolog
by Werner Fritsch
Sie war Sängerin der legendären Musikgruppe Velvet Underground, modelte bei Coco Chanel, spielte in Fellinis La dolce vita und Filmen von Andy Warhol oder stand mit dem Saxophonisten von Sun Ra, mit Tangerine Dream, Kevin Ayers und Brian Eno auf der Bühne. Sie suchte die Nähe schöpferischer Rockmusiker, die auch große Lyriker waren: Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix und vor allem Jim Morrison, der sie ermutigte, selber Lieder zu komponieren. Als Christa Päffgen im Nazi- und Nachkriegsdeutschland aufgewachsen, begann sie ein neues, kreativ-selbstzerstörerisches Leben in Paris, New York und Ibiza. Sie war Muse und Göttin, mütterlich warm und teutonisch kühl, produktiv und todesnah – eine große Projektionsfläche, eine Sphinx aus Eis. Gegen Ende ihres Lebens hatte sie vor, mehr zu schreiben: Gedichte und ihre Autobiographie. Nun setzt der Dramatiker Werner Fritsch der unergründlichen Popikone Nico in seinem furiosen Monolog ein Denkmal, legt ihre Wurzeln und Abgründe offen und verleiht ihr eine neue, seine Sprache.
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June 2004Ulysses
Kommentierte Ausgabe
by James Joyce, Dirk Vanderbeke, Hans Wollschläger, Sigrid Altdorf, Friedrich Reinmuth, Dirk Schultze, Bert Scharpenberg
Der Roman, durch den James Joyce unsterblich wurde, schildert einen Tag im Leben des Annoncenakquisiteurs Leopold Bloom, den 16. Juni 1904. Bald nach Erscheinen des Romans begannen Enthusiasten, diesen Tag zu feiern. »Im Ulysses liegt das Dublin des 16. Juni 1904 vor uns ausgebreitet, durch die Phantasie unverändert und in fast allen Einzelheiten anhand von Karten und Adreßbüchern nachprüfbar«, schreibt Anthony Burgess. »Aber«, so fährt er fort, »der Roman Ulysses, der Dublin verherrlicht, indem er es zu einer ewigen Stadt des Geistes erhebt, hat es auf nüchterne oder trunkene Weise auch verwandelt. Wer Dublin betritt, betritt Ulysses …: man begibt sich in die Phantasie von James Joyce.«Hier setzt die erste deutsche kommentierte Ausgabe des Ulysses ein. Sie verzeichnet – auf Grundlage von Don Giffords Ulysses Annotated –, was nachprüfbar ist: Orte, Institutionen, Ereignisse, Personen ebenso wie den Bildungsschatz, der in den Roman eingearbeitet ist. Und sie verweist – besonders in der kurzen Einführung zu jedem Kapitel – auf den Bauplan des Ganzen, auf die Quellen, vor allem Homers Odyssee, und auf die Textur der internen Bezüge.Und indem der Stellenkommentar nachweist, was nachzuweisen ist – samt Abweichungen von den Quellen –, erlaubt er uns zu verfolgen, wie die Phantasie von James Joyce aus einem hundsgewöhnlichen Dubliner Tag vor einhundert Jahren den »Welt-Alltag der Epoche« (Hermann Broch) gemacht hat.Die großformatige, kommentierte Ausgabe ist seitenidentisch mit der Ausgabe als suhrkamp taschenbuch (Romane des Jahrhunderts, st 2551, und Sonderausgabe, st 3594). Jedes Kapitel beginnt mit einem Einführungstext. Einfach und übersichtlich ist in der Marginalspalte und am Fuß jeder Seite der Stellenkommentar untergebracht. Personenverzeichnis und vielfältige Pläne von Dublin und Umgebung beschließen den stattlichen, schön gemachten, zum Blättern, Schmökern, Lesen ebenso wie zum Studieren anregenden Band.
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February 1987Werkausgabe in sechs Bänden in der edition suhrkamp
Gesamte Werkausgabe
by James Joyce
Band 1: »Und zu allererst lese man die Dubliner. Es ist die einzige Möglichkeit, das Werk eines der größten Schriftsteller zu verstehen.« T.S. Eliot Band 2: In einem Anflug von Verzweiflung, weil er seine Manuskripte nirgends unterbringen konnte, warf Joyce 1911, so will es die Legende, den gesamten Text ins Feuer, aus dem seine Schwester 383 Seiten rettete. Diese Seiten wurden 1944 unter dem Titel »Stephen Hero, Stephen der Held«, veröffentlicht. Sie umfassen die Jahre des jungen Joyce, der sich Stephen Dedalus nannte, am University College in Dublin. Im Herbst 1907 begann Joyce den Roman umzuarbeiten, d. h. neu zu schreiben. Aus dem weitschweifigen Text von Stephen Hero wurde die komprimierte, komplexe Textur des »Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man«. Die für den »Ulysses« später so zentrale Leitmotivtechnik wurde hier zum ersten Mal erprobt. Band 3: Die 1975 im Rahmen der Frankfurter Joyce-Ausgabe zuerst erschienene neue »Ulysses«-Übertragung von Hans Wollschläger - »die wortmächtigste und wortreichste Übertragung in der deutschen Übersetzungsgeschichte«, so die »Süddeutsche Zeitung« - konnte die Ergebnisse von 50 Jahren Joyce-Forschung berücksichtigen, die vieles dazu beigetragen hat, die Fehler zu beseitigen, die Undurchsichtigkeiten zu lichten und die sogenannten dunklen Stellen weitgehend zu klären. Diese Übersetzung unterscheidet sich auch insofern von den bisherigen Originalausgaben und Übersetzungen in andere Sprachen, als zahlreiche Passagen, insbesondere des letzten und vorletzten Kapitels, die aufgrund von Irrtümern der Drucker nicht einbezogen wurden, erstmals in den Werkzusammenhang des »Ulysses« eingebracht worden sind.Band 4: Dieser Band enthält die »Aufsätze«, das Theaterstück »Verbannte«, die Prosaskizze »Giacomo Joyce« und die sogenannten »Epiphanien«. Die Auswahl der »Aufsätze« - Essays, Vorträge, Rezensionen - umfaßt das Wesentliche. Neben wichtigen früheren Arbeiten wie »Drama und Leben (1900), »Ibsens neues Drama« (1900) und »Der Tag des Pöbels« (1901) stehen die Notate zur Ästhetik aus Paris und Pola, die Triestiner Vorträge über irische Kultur und Politik, über Blake und Defoe, und die irischen Reiseberichte, die Joyce 1912 für den »Piccolo della Sera« schrieb. Band 5: Dieser Band enthält alle in Buchform erschienenen Gedichte: die Sammlungen »Kammermusik« (1907) und »Pöme Penysstück« (1927); die »Verstreuten Gedichte«, darunter die »Fragmentarische Jugendlyrik (1900-1904); die Verssatiren »Das heilige Offizium« und »Gas von einem Brenner«, die »Gelegenheitsverse« (1902-1937). Richard Ellmann vermerkt in seiner umfassenden Joyce-Biographie, daß sich Joyce als »junger Poet« selbst nicht im klaren war über seine Gedichte. Aufgenommen wurde in diesen Band außerdem das einzige übersetzte Kapitel aus »Finnegans Wake«, »Anna Livia Plurabelle«, im Originaltext und in zwei Übertragungen, der von Wolfgang Hildesheimer und der von Hans Wollschläger.Band 6: »Finnegans Wake«, das »schwierigste Buch des Jahrhunderts«, gilt aufgrund seiner »verwirrenden Sprache« und seiner »Verdichtungen« als unübersetzbar. Mit dem nun vorliegenden kompletten englischen Text von »Finnegans Wake«, können diese Beurteilungen einer erneuten Prüfung unterzogen werden, der Leser kann an jenem – wie Anthony Burgess es nannte - »Puzzle« mitarbeiten. Textgrundlage des vorliegenden Bandes ist die 1975 bei Faber & Faber erschienene Ausgabe, die bis zum Manuskript zurückgeht und Joyce' Korrekturen berücksichtigt.
