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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2024Reanimating grief
Waking the dead in literature, theatre and performance
by William McEvoy
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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The ArtsJune 2006Mourning becomes...
Post/memory and commemoration of the concentration camps of the South African War 1899–1902
by Elizabeth Stanley, Bertrand Taithe, Roger Cooter, Carolyn Steedman
This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and published by key women activists within Boer proto-nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, she shows that much of the history of the camps results from a deliberate imposition of 'post/memory' - a process by which what was 'remembered' was shaped and reshaped to support the development of a racialised nationalist framework. Many of the camps' occupants died from successive epidemics of measles, typhoid, enteritis and pneumonia rather than deliberate ill-treatment, yet the book shows how mourning for those who died was overridden by state commemorative activities concerned with promoting pan-Boer nationalist aspirations. The innovative and groundbreaking approach of the author invites the reader to step into and explore with her the commemorative sites passed by nationalist land acts, which still powerfully mark the South African landscape. ;
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February 2018Rhythm of Heartbreak. Verdammte Liebe
by Schulz, Heike
***Wer bist du, wenn jeder deine Songs kennt, aber niemand weiß, wer hinter der Maske steckt?*** Alexander ist ein gefeierter Star und wird mit etwas Glück in wenigen Wochen mindestens einen Echo abräumen. Bekannt unter dem Künstlernamen Quidamned ist er Deutschlands erfolgreichster Rapper. Regelmäßig bricht er alle Rekorde - und das obwohl niemand weiß, wer sich hinter der Pestmaske verbirgt, die er bei all seinen Auftritten trägt. Nicht mal die vielen unverbindlichen Affären, die ständig in seinem Bett landen, kennen sein Gesicht. Aber als ein heftiger Skandal sein Image ins Wanken bringt, ist die Jagd auf seine Identität eröffnet. Ihm bleibt keine andere Wahl, als abzutauchen. Reporter, Fans … das ganze Land sucht den Mann hinter der Maske, der in ein kleines Eifeldorf flüchtet, wo die "Goldene Aussicht" zu seinem Versteck wird. Doch der Versuch, sich dort völlig abzuschotten, scheitert, als er auf die Tochter der Pensionsbesitzer trifft. Es passiert, was er nie für möglich gehalten hätte: Der sonst so unnahbare Rapper hat nur noch Augen für Eine. Maxime. Aber Maxime hat keine Ahnung, wer er wirklich ist. Wie auch, wenn er es selbst nicht weiß? Während Maximes Vertrauen in ihn zunehmend auf die Probe gestellt wird, muss Alexander sich entscheiden: Will er weitermachen wie bisher oder für sein wahres Ich und seine Liebe kämpfen? #Lovesong, #Herzschmerz, #dieganzgroßeLiebe, #wechselndePerspektiven, #Schmökeralarm, #Lesefieber, #MusicLove
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Children's & YASeptember 2013Heartbreak-Family - Als meine heimliche Liebe bei uns einzog
by Selek, Deniz
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Children's & YAMarch 2014Heartbreak-Family – Als ein anderer mir den Kopf verdrehte
by Selek, Deniz
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Brothers in the Great War
by Linda Maynard, Penny Summerfield
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FictionAugust 2024
Deirdre Madden
New critical perspectives
by Anne Fogarty, Marisol Morales-Ladrón
The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives. Madden's skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of Madden's highly regarded novels.
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January 1993The Sorrow and the Pity
A Prolegomenon to a History of Athens under the Peisistratids, c. 560-510 B.C.
by Lavelle, Brian M.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2015Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550–1700
1550–1700
by Edited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher
At once pervasive and marginal, appealing and repellent, exemplary and atypical, the women of the Bible provoke an assortment of readings across early modern literature. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 draws attention to the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes. Considering a confessionally diverse range of writers, working across a variety of genres, this volume reveals how women from the Old and New Testaments exhibit an ideological power that frequently exceeds, both in scope and substance, their associated scriptural records. The essays explore how the Bible's women are fluidly negotiated and diversely redeployed to offer (conflicting) comment on issues including female authority, speech and sexuality, and in discussions of doctrine, confessional politics, exploration and grief. As it explores the rich ideological currency of the Bible's women in early modern culture, this volume demonstrates that the Bible's women are persistently difficult to evade. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2022Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder
by Auer, Anne Kristin von; Kaess, Michael
Parents of adolescents with borderline symptoms face great emotional challenges. The adolescents have strong feelings and thus also trigger strong feelings in their caregivers. The family is massively burdened by suicidal and self-injurious behavior. Parents are confronted with fears, grief, self-blame and pain. How can parents contribute to their own well-being and stability? How can they learn to deal well with their own strong feelings? What strategies help them stay in good contact with their children and understand them better? How can parents maintain a kind view of their children and of themselves? This guidebook provides information about the manifestation, causes and treatment options of the disorder. It shows parents and other caregivers concrete strategies for dealing with the youngsters and their own emotional stress. These strategies, known as family skills, were developed especially for relatives of borderline patients. They are intended to help the relatives find a good way of dealing with themselves and their children. For:• those affected and their parents• teachers• child and adolescent psychotherapistsand psychiatrists• school psychologists• social workers
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Children's & YAMarch 2022Verbotene Welt
by Isabel Abedi
Forbidden WorldReginald has gained a dangerous power. He can shrink anything he likes. And he wants nothing less than the most famous buildings in the world. The originals in miniaturized form, of course. Gradually, he builds up a huge landscape in his cellar: the Colosseum from Rome, the Statue of Liberty from New York City, the Golestan Palace from Tehran and many buildings more become part of his collection.But Reginald has overlooked something, or more precisely someone. Otis was locked in the Statue of Liberty and Olivia had fled from the police into the famous Berlin Department Store of the West, when suddenly at night the buildings shrank. Now the children are the size of a fingernail... While they fight for their rescue, chaos breaks out in the world outside: where have the monuments gone? And who has stolen them?• Magical reading fun for boys and girls aged 10 and older• Serious topics (grief, illness, fears) packaged in a child-friendly way• Fascinating characters with identification potential• Longseller by outstanding children's author Isabel Abedi!
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PsychologyGrandpa's Star
A Consolation Book for Children and Parents
by Julia Weißflog, Steffen Ortmüller, Daniel Wende
Saying goodbye to a loved one is always hard. Jon, the little hero of this story, serves as an example of how children can deal with the pain of loss. When Jon’s grandfather dies, he becomes a star. Jon decides to look for his grandfather’s star to say goodbye, and begins a journey through space and through his own grief. He soon realises that this is no easy search. His feelings alternates between disappointment, euphoria, anger, and sadness. Fortunately, the man on the moon explains to the little astronaut the special nature and uniqueness of the stars for the relatives on earth. Only there do the stars twinkle and shine for grandchildren, children, and everyone else who misses the deceased. Jon finally understands that his grandfather is dead, but is not simply gone, because in his memory, in his thoughts, and in the starry sky his grandfather is still there and makes his star shine for everyone who thinks of him. For: • children (ages 6–12) who suffer from the fear of losing a close family member or who have lost a family member• parents, relatives• therapists
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Political oppression & persecutionJuly 2014Co-memory and melancholia
Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba
by Ronit Lentin
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their 'War of Independence' and the Palestinians their 'Nakba', or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discourse. This book, available at last in paperback, explores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society, where the memory of the trauma of the Holocaust and of Israel's war dead competes with the memory claims of the dispossessed Palestinians. Against a background of the Israeli resistance movement, Lentin's central argument is that co-memorating the Nakba by Israeli Jews is motivated by an unresolved melancholia about the disappearance of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinians, a melancholia that shifts mourning from the lost object to the grieving subject. Lentin theorises Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance, counterpoising co-memorative practices by internally displaced Israeli Palestinians with Israeli Jewish discourses of the Palestinian right of return, and questions whether return narratives by Israeli Jews, courageous as they may seem, are ultimately about Israeli Jewish self-healing rather than justice for Palestine.
