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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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Literature: history & criticismFebruary 2017The Gothic and death
by Series edited by Elisabeth Bronfen. Edited by Carol Davison
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.
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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.
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Popular psychologyHuman Sadness
Twelve Conversations
by Angelika Schett
Why is the so-called “coolness” of sadness currently fading? Why is sadness increasingly being medicalized? Why is sadness the most humane of all feelings? And: can animals be sad? Twelve conversations with philosophers, psychiatrists, experts in cultural studies, and psychoanalysts focus on sadness from different perspectives – and they have something positive to say about this emotion. Target Group: For non-specialists and experts – everyone who is interested in the broad spectrum of human sadness
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October 2017Zwei rechts, zwei links
Geschichten vom Stricken
by Ebba D. Drolshagen, Martina Behm
Der Norwegerstern ist das weltweit bekannteste Muster auf Winterpullovern. Aber wie ist er entstanden? 1857 wurde er erfunden, und zwar von einer jungen Norwegerin, die beim Ziegenhüten Handschuhe mit zwei verschiedenfarbigen Fäden zu stricken versuchte. Als sie ihre Handschuhe beim Kirchgang trug, fielen sie auf, und bald war der achtzackige Stern ein Markenzeichen für die ganze Region. Im kalten Norwegen trägt er einen poetischen Namen: Achtblattrose. In vielen solcher Geschichten erzählt Ebba D. Drolshagen vom Stricken: wie und wo es entstand, wie es sich über Jahrhunderte verändert hat, wer strickte und was gestrickt wurde. Sie erzählt von Broterwerb, Zeitvertreib und Guerillastricken, vom Färben und Spinnen, von alten und neuen Techniken, von Strickcafés, Strickgruppen und natürlich auch davon, wie das Internet das Leben der Strickerinnen verändert hat. Sie weiß, wie der Shetlandpullover wirklich entstand, und auch, dass Stricken nicht nur Schals und Mützen, sondern auch die unterschiedlichsten Stimmungen produzieren kann. Die Regale in den Buchhandlungen sind voll von Büchern mit Strickanleitungen. Und es werden immer mehr. Was es bisher nicht gibt, ist ein Buch über das Stricken. Hier ist es. Es erzählt von den Menschen, Frauen wie Männern, die das Handstricken Masche für Masche zu dem gemacht haben, was es heute ist.
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October 2017Zwei rechts, zwei links
Geschichten vom Stricken
by Ebba D. Drolshagen
Der Norwegerstern ist das weltweit bekannteste Muster auf Winterpullovern. Aber wie ist er entstanden? 1857 wurde er erfunden, und zwar von einer jungen Norwegerin, die beim Ziegenhüten Handschuhe mit zwei verschiedenfarbigen Fäden zu stricken versuchte. Als sie ihre Handschuhe beim Kirchgang trug, fielen sie auf, und bald war der achtzackige Stern ein Markenzeichen für die ganze Region. Im kalten Norwegen trägt er einen poetischen Namen: Achtblattrose. In vielen solcher Geschichten erzählt Ebba D. Drolshagen vom Stricken: wie und wo es entstand, wie es sich über Jahrhunderte verändert hat, wer strickte und was gestrickt wurde. Sie erzählt von Broterwerb, Zeitvertreib und Guerillastricken, vom Färben und Spinnen, von alten und neuen Techniken, von Strickcafés, Strickgruppen und natürlich auch davon, wie das Internet das Leben der Strickerinnen verändert hat. Sie weiß, wie der Shetlandpullover wirklich entstand, und auch, dass Stricken nicht nur Schals und Mützen, sondern auch die unterschiedlichsten Stimmungen produzieren kann. Die Regale in den Buchhandlungen sind voll von Büchern mit Strickanleitungen. Und es werden immer mehr. Was es bisher nicht gibt, ist ein Buch über das Stricken. Hier ist es. Es erzählt von den Menschen, Frauen wie Männern, die das Handstricken Masche für Masche zu dem gemacht haben, was es heute ist.
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December 1996Klassenliebe
Roman
by Karin Struck
In einer Art Tagebuch vom 16. Mai bis zum 25. August 1972 erzählt Karin Struck die Geschichte ihrer Herkunft, die Jugend im westfälischen Schloß Holte, die Arbeit in der Fabrik, die erdrückenden sozialen Verhältnisse, den Bekannten- und Freundeskreis, die Mühe mit der Dissertation, ihre Ehe etc. Auslösendes Moment dieses ebenso rücksichtslosen wie befreienden Selbstbekenntnisses ist die Bekanntschaft mit Z., an dem sie »sehen und sprechen« lernt - eine Begegnung mit einem anderen Menschen aus einer fernen Zeit und einer fremden Klasse, für die das »happy end« ein ganz und gar unmöglicher Abschluß wäre.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2013Two lamentable tragedies
by Chiaki Hanabusa
This edition of Two lamentable tragedies, a quarto printed in 1601 by Richard Read for Matthew Law, and ascribed on the title-page to Robert Yarington, is the first to be published since 1913. It offers a photographic facsimile of the copy in the British Library (C.34.e.23), one of only five to have survived. The play combines a plot based on a real-life London murder case of 1594 with one deriving from an Italian tale of an evil father and his son. The introduction contains an up-to-date consideration of many aspects of the text, including a detailed bibliographical analysis of types, page dimensions, headlines, watermarks and paper; an analysis of compositorial divisions, and of a range of books printed and published by Read and Law; and the nature of the copy-text, which can be deduced from the visualised stage directions and other indications of imaginative staging. There has long been controversy surrounding the authorship of the play, and a full discussion of the issues is provided, including possible identifications of Yarington in contemporary documents, and the question of collaboration. The volume will be essential reading for students of Renaissance drama, book history, and bibliography. ;
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Children's & YAOwl Magic (13). The Mystery of the White Horse
by Ina Brandt/Irene Mohr
It’s just like a fairy tale. In the forest Flora stumbles on a little house with a garden that’s overgrown with roses. But the house is about to be sold. Not only that, but Flora learns from the owner’s daughter that a white horse has been living for a long time in the stable…but now he’s disappeared! Together with her magic owl Goldwing, Flora tries to find the terrified animal. Will the two of them manage to make their way through the jungle of roses and win the confidence of the white stallion?
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December 2023Aufzeichnungen aus der Rue de l'Odéon
Schriften 1917–1953 | Erinnerungen der legendären Pariser Buchhändlerin
by Adrienne Monnier
Buchhandlung, literarischer Treffpunkt und Zufluchtsort der Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts – La Maison des Amis des Livres in Paris links der Seine. Gründerin Adrienne Monnier war nicht nur Buchhändlerin, Herausgeberin und Verlegerin, sondern auch Schriftstellerin. Ihre Aufzeichnungen lassen die Welt der Rue de l’Odéon, in der fünf Jahre nach ihr auch Sylvia Beach die ebenfalls legendär gewordene Buchhandlung Shakespeare & Company eröffnet hat, wieder lebendig werden – mit Betrachtungen zum Beruf der Buchhändlerin, Lektürenotizen, essayistischen Reflexionen sowie ihre Erinnerungen an Sylvia Beach, Walter Benjamin, Bryher, Joyce, Colette, Hemingway, Saint-Exupéry, Valéry, Gisèle Freund und anderen, die Adrienne Monnier als große Porträtistin sichtbar werden lassen.
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Material cultureMarch 1995The culture of fashion
A New History of Fashionable Dress
by Christopher Breward
This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics. With a chronological structure, each chapter focuses on both male and female fashion of a specific period, covering its fascinating developments. It discusses: androgynous dressing; body piercing; fabrics, clothing and the rise of city life; dress, and the changing shape of the human body; controversies surrounding trousers and leg wear for both men and women; exposure of flesh; fashion and social status; and the dissemination of fashion through travel, film, magazines and catwalk shows. ;
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August 1992Bengalische Märchen
by Arun Ray, Heinz Mode, Heinz Mode, Heinz Mode
Die überwiegende Mehrzahl der hier vereinigten 56 Geschichten bilden die Zaubermärchen, die novellenartigen und die Schwankmärchen, nicht zu vergessen die in Bengalen beliebten Schwanjungfraumärchen.
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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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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJune 2024Round our way
Sam Hanna's visual legacy
by Heather Nicholson
Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.
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PsychologyDo You Hear the Elephants Roaring?
A Book for Children Whose Parents Regularly Argue
by Joan Schaaf, Marie Frerich, Johannes Hauck, Lea Klein-Reesink, Leonie Zahn
“The little jumping mouse wakes up quite frightened. Her parents are arguing again, so loudly that she can’t help but hear.” That is how the story of the little jumping mouse begins. The conflict between her parents makes her very miserable and sad. The mouse decides to leave home. Walking with the wise eagle through the savannah, she observes different animal families who are also having arguments. They discover that no argument is like the other, and the two of them fi nd out that it is normal and sometimes important to argue, but that certain rules must be followed, so that at the end of the day everyone can get along, and nobody suffers from the quarrels. This book is intended to make it easier for affected children to understand their situation and to deal with it. It shows that there are different types of quarrels, and that sometimes it is even okay to argue. For: • children of elementary school age (between 6 and 12 years of age) who are suffering because of their parents’ quarreling• parents, relatives• therapists
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Tears of laughter
Comedy-drama in 1990s British cinema
by Nigel Mather
Tears of laughter' examines the interactions of comedy and drama in three vital thematic strands of British cinema during the 1990s: comedies exploring issues of class, culture and community in British society, 'ethnic' comedy-dramas engaging with complex issues of identity and allegiance in modern Britain, and romantic comedies featuring characters searching (somewhat desperately or frantically) for a suitable and desirable long-term or short-term partner. Films to be discussed in detail include 'Brassed Off' (1996), 'The Full Monty' (1997), 'East is East' (1999), 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' (1994), 'Notting Hill' (1999) and a post-1990s romantic comedy, 'Love Actually' (2003). The study discusses these specific films and a range of other 1990s British comedy-drama films within the context of community-orientated Ealing comedy classics, contentious situation comedies treating race relations as both a laughing matter and a site of conflict ('Till Death Us Do Part' and 'Love Thy Neighbour'), and romantic comedies set and produced in Britain. It is aimed at film studies academics, students and film enthusiasts.
