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Reading Luxembourg is Luxembourg's export programme. Beyond the annual national stand at Frankfurt Book Fair, Reading Luxembourg is in charge of various missions, such as the presence at other fairs, festivals and literary events, a training offer for professionals of the book and publishing sector and strategic support to foreign rights sales. Reading Luxembourg is linking up publishers and authors from Luxembourg with stakeholders on an international level and providing information on available translation and publication grants.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2022Disability and the Victorians
Attitudes, interventions, legacies
by Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton, Jaipreet Virdi
Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth century right up to the present day. Subjects addressed include deafness, blindness, language delay, substance dependency, imperialism and the representation of disabled characters in popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate how common themes can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and administrators responded to those under their care. Often character, morality and the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness overrode medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider societal views of impairment and inability.
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The ArtsNovember 2017Vivien Leigh
Actress and icon
by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale
This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersJanuary 2015Imagining women readers, 1789–1820
by Richard Ritter
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The ArtsJune 2016The British monarchy on screen
by Mandy Merck
Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. And from 1896, actual British monarchs appeared in the new 'animated photography', led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century's end, Princess Diana's funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyze the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to 'William and Kate'. Seventeen essays by Ian Christie, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andrew Higson, Karen Lury, Glynn Davies, Jane Landman and other international commentators examine the portrayal of royalty in the 'actuality' picture, the early extended feature, amateur cinema, the movie melodrama, the Commonwealth documentary, New Queer Cinema, TV current affairs, the big screen ceremonial and the post-historical boxed set. A long overdue contribution to film and television studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of British media and political history.
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The ArtsApril 2011Screen/Space
The projected image in contemporary art
by Amelia Jones, Tamara Trodd, Marsha Meskimmon
Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video on the one hand, and installation art on the other? What is a projected image, and what is the history of projected-image art? These questions and others are explored in this thoughtful collection of nine essays by leading international scholars of film and projected-image art. Clearly structured in three sections - 'Histories', 'Screen', 'Space' - the book argues for recognition of the projected image as a distinctive category in contemporary art, which demands new critical and theoretical approaches. The contributors explore a range of interpretive perspectives, offering new insights into the work of artists including Michael Snow, Carolee Schneemann, Pipilotti Rist, Stan Douglas, Gillian Wearing, Tacita Dean, Jane and Louise Wilson, amongst others. The Introduction supplies a concise summary of the history of projected-image art and its interpretation, and there is a focus throughout the book on detailed analysis of individual artworks. ;
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The ArtsMarch 2000From page to screen
Adaptations of the classic novel
by Erica Sheen, Robert Giddings
This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen.. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.. A wide-ranging but focused collection that is bang up to date and free of media jargon that looks at both the film and the book.. Includes discussion of: The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch, Pickwick Papers, Dracula, Dickens, Conrad, Hardy and Waugh. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2019Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell
by Christopher D'Addario, Matthew C. Augustine, Christopher D'Addario, Michael Scoenfeldt, Randy Robertston, Derek Hirst, Kathleen Lynch, Nigel Smith, Timothy Raylor, Anne Cotterill, Joad Raymond, Matthew C. Augustine, Michael McKeon, Steven Zwicker
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March 2006Der blinde Reiter
Roman
by Juan Goytisolo, Thomas Brovot
"Die Bilanz eines Lebens ziehen – was heißt das? Verluste verbuchen, Momente des Glücks festhalten? Juan Goytisolo, der wohl radikalste spanische Schriftsteller der Gegenwart und unerbittliche Beobachter auch seiner selbst, geht einen anderen Weg. Er erzählt. Und erkundet die Strecke, die vor ihm liegt.Nach dem Tod seiner Frau und Gefährtin fühlt ein Mann das Nichts auf sich einstürzen. Ihm ist, als mache er sich auf einen langen Weg mit immer leichterem Gepäck. Die Dinge, die ihnen so viel bedeuteten, vermeintliche Gewißheiten, mühsam erworbene Kenntnisse, alles stößt er ab. Wo die Erinnerungen verblassen, verblaßt auch der Schmerz. Doch unter dem Ansturm von Verlust und Sinnlosigkeit erfährt er zugleich, daß erlebte Schönheit nicht im Strudel des Lebens verschwindet. Was läßt ihm die Zeit, dieser blinde Reiter? Was erwartet ihn hinter dem letzten Vorhang, dessen Sinnbild ihm die verschneite Bergkette am Horizont ist, dort, wo die Wüste beginnt?Vom Ankommen an einer Wegkreuzung erzählt Goytisolo in seinem autobiographisch gefärbten und, wie er sagt, letzten Roman; davon, was es bedeutet, wenn die Zukunft der Erinnerung an Vergangenes weicht und der Blick dennoch nach vorne geht. Ein Text voller einprägsamer Bilder, der Fragen stellt, denen sich niemand entziehen kann."
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2009The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Bearing blindness
by Catherine Maxwell
This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition. The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. ;
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August 2019Blind Date in Paris
Wie sieht Liebe aus?
by Gerstenberger, Stefanie; Martin, Marta
Wanda hat keine Zeit für die Liebe - doch in den Straßen von Paris kommt alles ganz anders … Als sie dem geheimnisvollen Ken und seiner Labrador-Dame Barbie begegnet, ist Wanda verwirrt. Denn Ken versteht sie gleichsam ohne Worte. Dabei ist er blind! Das macht die Sache mit der Wolke Sieben ganz schön kompliziert: Wie verliebst du dich in jemanden, der dich noch nie gesehen hat? Wanda flieht aus ihrem Leben - verwirrt, ratlos und frustriert. Denn der Leistungssport hat neben der Schule ihre gesamte Zeit aufgefressen und ihren Blick dafür vernebelt, was wirklich wichtig ist. Wer ist Wanda eigentlich? Wie möchte sie sein? Und gibt es überhaupt ein Leben neben Schule und Sport? Wanda ahnt, dass ausgerechnet Ken, der unfassbar gut aussehende und unnahbare Junge, der ihr Herz so tief berührt, ihr all das zeigen kann. Und je näher sie sich auf den blinden Jungen einlässt, der immer wieder ihren Weg kreuzt, desto deutlicher zeigt er Wanda, wie schillernd, magisch und wunderschön Wandas Welt um sie herum ist. Doch Ken zeigt Wanda noch etwas ganz deutlich: Auch in sein Leben passt die Liebe nicht, und irgendetwas hat er vor ihr zu verbergen. Allerdings haben Wanda und Ken ihre Rechnung ohne das Schicksal gemacht … und das hält ganz schön viele Überraschungen für die beiden bereit! Der neue Feelgood-Roman des erfolgreichen Mutter-Tochter-Duos Stefanie Gerstenberger und Marta Martin - voller zauberhaftem Flair und Romantik! Diese überaus charmante Wohlfühl-Liebesgeschichte ist eine Hommage an Paris und das perfekte Schmökerfutter für alle Romantikerinnen und Jugendliche ab 12 bis 99 Jahren. Weitere gemeinsame Romane der Erfolgsautorinnen: „Zwei wie Zucker und Zimt - Zurück in die süße Zukunft“ „Muffins & Marzipan - Vom großen Glück auf den zweiten Blick“ „Summer Switch - Und plötzlich bin ich du!“ „Ava & der Junge in Schwarz-Weiß“
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Robert Bresson
by Keith Reader
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2024Readers and mistresses
Kept women in Victorian literature
by Katie R. Peel
Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts. I look at primary women characters in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2009John Ashbery and American Poetry
by David Herd
starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion. Tracing Ashbery's development in the light of this idea, and from its origins in the dazzling artistic environment of 1950's New York, the book evaluates his poetry against the aesthetic, literary and historical backgrounds that have informed it. The story of a brilliant career, and a history of the period in which that career has taken shape, John Ashbery and American Poetry provides a compelling account of Ashbery's importance to Twentieth Century Literature. ;
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Children's & YASnöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2012Saramago's labyrinths
A journey through form and content in Blindness and All the Names
by Rhian Atkin, Mike Thompson
Saramago's labyrinths is the first book-length study to focus on the relationship between form and the content in Saramago's writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). Atkin provides a close textual analysis of Blindness and All the Names, and suggests that the labyrinth pervades Saramago's work, both in the form of the text, and as a literary and philosophical trope. She makes clear connections between these novels and Saramago's other literary works, and identifies ways in which Saramago causes the reader to return to and consider the philosophical, epistemological and ethical concerns and dilemmas that are recurrent in his literary output. Atkin's jargon-free approach to Saramago's complex ideas, and her thorough understanding of Portuguese history, culture and society, make this an accessible yet challenging guide to Saramago's fiction, for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars with or without prior knowledge of the Portuguese context. ;
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June 2007Kindermusiktherapie
Richtungen und Methoden
by Herausgegeben von Stiff, Ursula; Herausgegeben von Tüpker, Rosemarie
