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June 2012

Stanley Cavell

Philosophy, literature and criticism

by James Loxley

Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism. In this volume, the editors have assembled an impressive range of interlocutors who set out to explore the shape and substance of Stanley Cavell's persistent acknowledgement of the literary as a category in which, and through which, philosophical work can be undertaken. A number of essays address his engagements with modernism, tragedy, and romanticism, while others consider Cavell's own aesthetic modes as a writer. Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism will be of interest to all those who are concerned with the ways in which the reading of literature, and the practice of philosophy, might continue both to influence each other across disciplinary boundaries, and to challenge the internal topographies of those disciplines. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Travellers in Africa

British travelogues, 1850-1900

by Timothy Youngs

Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

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January 1999

Griechen und Perser

Die Mittelmeerwelt im Altertum I

by Illustriert von Bukor, Harald; Illustriert von Bukor, Ruth; Beiträge von Bengtson, Hermann; Beiträge von Bresciani, Edda; Beiträge von Caskel, Werner; Beiträge von Meuleau, Maurice; Beiträge von Smith, Morton; Herausgegeben von Bengtson, Hermann; Übersetzt von Völker, Leopold

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December 2002

Der Hellenismus und der Aufstieg Roms

Die Mittelmeerwelt im Altertum II

by Illustriert von Bukor, Harald; Illustriert von Bukor, Ruth; Beiträge von Bengtson, Hermann; Beiträge von Derchain, Philippe; Beiträge von Grimal, Pierre; Beiträge von Meuleau, Maurice; Beiträge von Smith, Morton; Herausgegeben von Grimal, Pierre; Übersetzt von Schwerdtfeger, Walther; Übersetzt von Völker, Leopold

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March 2019

Sanfter Schrecken

10 ruchlose Geschichten

by Stanley Ellin, Bernd Rauschenbach, Arno Schmidt, Ellery Queen

Der Restaurant-Chef, der seinen Stammgästen ab und zu als Spezialität des Hauses einen der Ihren serviert; der kleine Angestellte, der für seinen mächtigen Chef einen Quälgeist aus dem Hochhausfenster fallen lässt; der schizophrene Schachspieler, der die Züge der weißen Figuren ebenso dem anderen überlässt wie den Mord an seiner Frau: scheinbar harmlose Mitbürger allesamt, deren verborgene Abgründe der amerikanische Kriminalschriftsteller Stanley Ellin in zehn Geschichten vorsichtig und fast liebevoll beleuchtet. Eigentlich mochte Arno Schmidt das Krimi-Genre nicht besonders, aber als ihm 1960 ein Band mit Kurzgeschichten Stanley Ellins zur Übersetzung angeboten wurde, zögerte er nicht – und urteilte ein Jahr später in seinem Essay Die 10 Kammern des Blaubart über den amerikanischen Kollegen: »Falls es ihm gelingen sollte, (und in diesen 10 Geschichten zeigen sich unverächtliche Ansätze), zum Tiefsinn seiner Fabeln und der schlechthin vorbildlich knappen Konstruktion sich auch noch eine dichterische Sprache zu erarbeiten – ja, dann könnte es sein, daß wir binnen kurzem einen neuen, wiederum amerikanischen, Poe begrüßen dürfen. Zeit wäre es.«

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June 2015

Auf dem Bauernhof

Mini Bandolino Set 75

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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January 2014

Bei der Feuerwehr

Mini Bandolino Set 72

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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June 2013

Set 71: Meine Werkzeuge

MiniBandolino

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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June 2014

Spielen und Lernen

Mini Bandolino Set 73

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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February 2012

Was passt zusammen?

Mini Bandolino Set 68

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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January 2009

Entdecke dein Zuhause

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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August 2011

Ich kenne schon die Zahlen

Mini Bandolino

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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June 2016

Der Anspruch der Vernunft

Wittgenstein, Skeptizismus, Moral und Tragödie

by Stanley Cavell, Christiana Goldmann, Susan Neiman

Der Anspruch der Vernunft gehört zu den großen philosophischen Büchern des 20. Jahrhunderts und hat eine ganze Generation von Philosophen beeinflusst. Ungewöhnlich breit angelegt, komplex in der Argumentation, eigenwillig im Stil, eröffnet uns Stanley Cavell in seinem Opus magnum neue Zugänge zu zentralen epistemologischen, metaphysischen, ethischen und ästhetischen Fragen. Insbesondere seine Wittgenstein-Lektüre und die Art, wie er sie für eine raffinierte Umdeutung des Skeptizismus fruchtbar macht, haben bis heute nichts an Originalität eingebüßt. Die Macht der Skepsis, so Cavell, lässt sich nicht durch das Streben nach letzten Wahrheiten brechen, sondern nur dadurch, dass wir uns die Welt auf geradezu romantische Weise ständig zurückerobern. Ein Klassiker.

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Literature & Literary Studies

July 1999

The Shoemaker's Holiday

by Thomas Dekker

by David Bevington, Robert Smallwood, Stanley Wells, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance on both the professional and amateur stage; the roles of Simon and Madgy Eyre in particular have proved worthy vehicles for the talents of such performers as Sir Donald Wolfit and Dame Edith Evans, and a notable production was directed by Orson Wells. The editors offer a study of the text; a historical and critical introduction, which includes a study of the play's relationship with contemporary life and drama and of its place in Dekker's work; a stage history' a detailed commentary and a reprint of source materials. ;

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May 2012

Meine liebsten Autos

Mini Bandolino Set 69

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen; Illustriert von Merle, Katrin; Illustriert von Bunse, Rolf

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Literature & Literary Studies

May 2000

Henry V

by James Loehlin

This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis of the causes and costs of war. The book details the theatrical innovations and political insights that have turned one of Shakespeare's most traditional-bound plays into one of his most popular and provocative. Henry V gives details analyses of several important modern productions. Beginning with a consideration of the play's political significance in Elizabethan London, the book goes on the reveal its subsequent reinvention, both as patriotic pageant and anti-war manifesto. Individual chapters consider important productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other British and North American companies, as well as the landmark film versions. A compelling account of the theatrical revolution that has transformed one of Shakespeare's most challenging plays. ;

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Fiction

July 2023

The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End

By Anthony Burgess

by Ákos Farkas, Anthony Burgess

First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess's finest comic creation. Dyspeptic and obese, this is the account of his last day as a visiting professor in New York, and his last day on Earth. The Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament will provide new information about the genesis of the novel, gleaned from a series of drafts and typescripts recently discovered in the archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) in Manchester, as well as printing a deleted chapter for the first time in English.

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1989

Schottlandreise

by Morton, Henry V

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1989

Wanderungen in Irland

by Morton, Henry V

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1981

Spanien

Wanderungen durch Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

by Morton, Henry V

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by James Loxley

British travelogues, 1850-1900

by Timothy Youngs

Die Mittelmeerwelt im Altertum I

by Illustriert von Bukor, Harald; Illustriert von Bukor, Ruth; Beiträge von Bengtson, Hermann; Beiträge von Bresciani, Edda; Beiträge von Caskel, Werner; Beiträge von Meuleau, Maurice; Beiträge von Smith, Morton; Herausgegeben von Bengtson, Hermann; Übersetzt von Völker, Leopold

Die Mittelmeerwelt im Altertum II

10 ruchlose Geschichten

by Stanley Ellin, Bernd Rauschenbach, Arno Schmidt, Ellery Queen

Mini Bandolino Set 75

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen

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Wittgenstein, Skeptizismus, Moral und Tragödie

by Stanley Cavell, Christiana Goldmann, Susan Neiman

by Thomas Dekker

by David Bevington, Robert Smallwood, Stanley Wells, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

Mini Bandolino Set 69

by Morton, Christine / Illustriert von Butler, Stephen; Illustriert von Merle, Katrin; Illustriert von Bunse, Rolf

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Wanderungen durch Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

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