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This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
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A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated, and certain of their texts are compared with hers to discuss interplay between erotic and spiritual love, the ballad tradition, nineteenth-century feminism, and the Romantic concept of the conjoined physical and spectral body. Siddal's artwork is used to introduce each chapter, while other Pre-Raphaelite paintings illuminate the texts and further the inter-disciplinary philosophy of the Brotherhood. This important and stimulating book focuses on the intrinsic merit of Siddal's poetics whilst advocating a research method that could have multiple applications elsewhere.
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This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged chickens. It considers how the creation, legitimisation and dissemination of scientific knowledge reflected broader questions of imperial power and national identity. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Spanish and Latin American History, the History of Science and Imperial Culture
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The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional conservative model of Spenser as poet, this book presents the poem as radical, edgy and unconventional, thus proposing new ways of understanding the Elizabethan poetic Renaissance. The book moves from the individual words of the poem to metre, rhyme and stanza form onto its larger structures of canto and book. It will be of particular relevance to undergraduates studying Elizabethan poetry, graduate students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, for whom the formal aspect of the poetry has been a topic of growing relevance in recent years.
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The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional conservative model of Spenser as poet, this book presents the poem as radical, edgy and unconventional, thus proposing new ways of understanding the Elizabethan poetic Renaissance. The book moves from the individual words of the poem to metre, rhyme and stanza form onto its larger structures of canto and book. It will be of particular relevance to undergraduates studying Elizabethan poetry, graduate students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, for whom the formal aspect of the poetry has been a topic of growing relevance in recent years.
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Die Beschädigungen und Konflikte einer Holocaust-Überlebenden der zweiten Generation sind das Thema, mit dem sich Lily Brett in ihrem ersten Buch, den preisgekrönten Auschwitz Poems, auseinandersetzt. Es war ihr erster Versuch, die Geschichte ihrer Eltern, die Auschwitz überlebten, aufzuarbeiten.Lily Brett erspürt Bilder und Erlebnisse aus Auschwitz, die sie nie selbst gesehen und die ihr keiner explizit erzählt hat – und schildert sie ähnlich wie ihren New Yorker Alltag: präzise, klar, schonungslos. In sparsamen, konzentrierten Sätzen beschreibt sie das Grauen des Konzentrationslagers, das ihre Eltern nicht aussprechen konnten.
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Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. This analysis of the whole sequence of Robin Hood adventures begins with the medieval tradition, from early poems into the long-surviving sung ballads, and goes on to look at two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl of Huntington, now partnered by Lady Marian. The nineteenth century re-imagined medieval Robin as modern, a lover of nature, Marian, England and the rights of the ordinary man. In novels and especially films he has developed into an international figure of freedom, while Marian's role has grown in a modern feminist context. Even to this day, the Robin Hood myth continues to reproduce itself, constantly discovering new forms and new meanings.
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Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. This analysis of the whole sequence of the adventures of Robin Hood first explores the medieval tradition from early poems into the long-surviving sung ballads, and also two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl of Huntington, now partnered by Lady Marian. The nineteenth century re-imagined medieval Robin as modern - he loved nature, Marian, England, and the rights of the ordinary man - and in novels and especially films he has developed further, into an international figure of freedom, just as Marian's role has grown in a modern feminist context. The vigour of the Robin Hood myth still reproduces itself, constantly with new forms and new meanings. ;
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Humans write history, but nature and coincidence often play a significant part in making history. The weather, volcanoes, celestial bodies, pathogens: all of them can influence historical events. In 413 BC, a lunar eclipse contributed to the defeat of the Athenians by Syracuse. In 1802, Napoleon’s soldiers on Saint-Domingue, the Haiti of today, were carried off in their thousands by yellow fever; the slave revolt that the troops had been sent to suppress succeeded, and the island declared itself independent in 1804. Nature not only makes history, it can also contribute to the understanding of history. For example, the route that the Carthaginians took over the Alps was only revealed recently by the discovery of ancient manure – not too surprising since Hannibal was accompanied by an estimated 10,000 horses. Sebastian Jutzi relates these and many other (hi)stories in a knowledgeable, entertaining and informative way – a treasure trove for anyone who wants to get to know history from an “unusual” perspective.
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Als das »Letzte Epos« (mit großem »L«) hat Peter Handke seinen neuen Roman bezeichnet. Mit der Niederschrift begann er am 1. August 2016: »Diese Geschichte hat begonnen seinerzeit an einem jener Mittsommertage, da man beim Barfußgehen im Gras wie eh und je zum ersten Mal im Jahr von einer Biene gestochen wird.« Dieser Stich wird, wie der Autor am 2. August festhält, zum »Zeichen«. »Ein gutes oder ein schlechtes? Weder als gutes noch als ein schlechtes, gar böses – einfach als ein Zeichen. Der Stich jetzt gab das Zeichen, aufzubrechen. Zeit, daß du dich auf den Weg machst. Reiß dich los von Garten und Gegend. Fort mit dir. Die Stunde des Aufbruchs, sie ist gekommen.«Die Reise führt aus der Niemandsbucht, Umwegen folgend, sie suchend, in das Landesinnere, wo die Obstdiebin, »einfache Fahrt«, keine Rückfahrt, bleiben wird, oder auch nicht?. Am 30. November 2016, dem letzten Tag der Niederschrift des Epos, resumiert Peter Handke die ungeheuerlichen und bisher nie gekannten Gefahren auf ihrem Weg dorthin: »Was sie doch in den drei Tagen ihrer Fahrt ins Landesinnere alles erlebt hatte: seltsam. Oder auch nicht? Nein, seltsam. Bleibend seltsam. Ewig seltsam.«
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Als das »Letzte Epos« (mit großem »L«) hat Peter Handke seinen neuen Roman bezeichnet. Mit der Niederschrift begann er am 1. August 2016: »Diese Geschichte hat begonnen seinerzeit an einem jener Mittsommertage, da man beim Barfußgehen im Gras wie eh und je zum ersten Mal im Jahr von einer Biene gestochen wird.« Dieser Stich wird, wie der Autor am 2. August festhält, zum »Zeichen«. »Ein gutes oder ein schlechtes? Weder als gutes noch als ein schlechtes, gar böses – einfach als ein Zeichen. Der Stich jetzt gab das Zeichen, aufzubrechen. Zeit, daß du dich auf den Weg machst. Reiß dich los von Garten und Gegend. Fort mit dir. Die Stunde des Aufbruchs, sie ist gekommen.« Die Reise führt aus der Niemandsbucht, Umwegen folgend, sie suchend, in das Landesinnere, wo die Obstdiebin, »einfache Fahrt«, keine Rückfahrt, bleiben wird, oder auch nicht? Am 30. November 2016, dem letzten Tag der Niederschrift des Epos, resümiert Peter Handke die ungeheuerlichen und bisher nie gekannten Gefahren auf ihrem Weg dorthin: »Was sie doch in den drei Tagen ihrer Fahrt ins Landesinnere alles erlebt hatte: seltsam. Oder auch nicht? Nein, seltsam. Bleibend seltsam. Ewig seltsam.«
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Humans are rapidly changing the conditions of evolution, and while many species have not yet been discovered, the extinction of numerous species is becoming more and more dramatic. In this book, Matthias Glaubrecht contrasts the impending “end of evolution”, of which the evolutionary biologist writes in his bestseller of the same name, with the beauty, diversity and also the whims of nature. In 36 short chapters, the zoologist presents the animal and the all-tooanimal from the curiosity cabinet of evolution, easy to understand and with a good touch of humour – from dinosaurs with four wings to the annual new “Minnelied” hit of the humpback whale to the women’s communes of bonobos who use sex as a form of social bonding.
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A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
