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The ArtsJanuary 2019The secret life of romantic comedy
by Celestino Deleyto
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.
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April 2000Amor vincit omnia
Karajan, Monteverdi und die Entwicklung der neuen Medien
by Herausgegeben von Karajan Centrum
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July 2002Der irdische Amor
Roman
by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Als Albert der schönen Elena begegnet, ist es um ihn geschehen. Ist sie die Frau seines Lebens, die er schon immer gesucht hat, und wird sie, nicht ganz frei und doch zu haben, seiner nach wochenlangem Zögern endlich vorgebrachten Einladung zu einem Spaziergang folgen?Auf einer Parkbank im Berliner Tiergarten passiert es dann: Sie kommen sich näher, die Italienerin und der so norddeutsche Student der Kunstgeschichte, und sie werden ein Paar. Doch eines Tages bekennt Elena, zurück in ihre Heimat zu wollen, um dort den Traum von der Selbständigkeit zu realisieren. Ende des Glücks? Nein. Albert geht mit, man kann, denkt er, auch in sardischer Einsamkeit über Caravaggio forschen.Dort aber, in Carbonia, einem tristen Bergarbeiterstädtchen, dreht sich der Wind, der die junge Liebe soeben noch entfacht hat. Aus der melancholischen Barkellnerin ist die nun beinahe lebensfrohe Besitzerin eines Kosmetikstudios geworden, und Albert, der im Hinterzimmer des Salons ein eher karges Dasein fristet, beginnt von Berlin und den blaugrünen Augen einer Kieler Geologiestudentin zu träumen, die ihm am Strand begegnet ist.Nach einer letzten Nacht verabschieden sich Elena und Albert. Doch bevor er sie verläßt und sich auf den Weg zum Busbahnhof von Carbonia macht, versprechen sie sich ein baldiges Wiedersehen und wissen doch: Ihr beider Traum war wohl zu schön, um wahr zu werden.
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February 2013Amor ist ein Arschloch
Wie die Liebe wieder öfter ins Schwarze trifft
by Beöthy, Clemens
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2007Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
by Dominic Moran, Catherine Davies
Pablo Neruda's Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1924) is the most widely read and best loved book of poetry ever written in Spanish. Its verses can be recited by heart by millions of Latin Americans from every background and walk of life, and it has become almost a bible for young lovers. Yet despite, or perhaps because of this immense popular success, it has received scant attention from scholars, often being studied out of context and in relatively superficial fashion. This new critical edition - the first to include critical notes in English - argues that the book constitutes a critical juncture in the young Neruda's development as a poet, and that the poems are as much painstakingly wrought experiments in style, language and form as they are outpourings of youthful passion. A detailed introduction in English demonstrates that the Viente poemas represent the culmination of complex and sometimes fraught poetic apprenticeship, significant traces of which can be found in the poems themselves. This is followed by a series of commentaries which offer close readings of all twenty-one poems, an extensive bibliography, a selected vocabulary, and a list of key rhetorical and metrical terms. ;
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The ArtsFebruary 2009The secret life of romantic comedy
by Celestino Deleyto
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre. ;
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September 1975Der goldene Esel
by Apuleius, Max Klinger, August Rode, Wilhelm Haupt
In diesem Buch, das zu den frühesten Romanen gehört, werden die Schicksale des Lucius erzählt, den ein böser Zauber in einen Esel verwandelte. Die geistreiche und witzige Erzählung vermittelt ein lebendiges Bild der antiken Welt. Der »denkende Esel« sieht hinter die Kulissen, und er sieht freilich aus seiner Perspektive so manches, wovon sich unsere Schulweisheit nichts träumen ließ. Eingestreut sind in den Text zahlreiche Episoden, von denen die bekannteste das zauberhafte Märchen von »Amor und Psyche« ist.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2024Women and madness in the early Romantic novel
Injured minds, ruined lives
by Deborah Weiss
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. This book argues that these early Romantic-period novelists revised medical and popular sentimental models for female madness that made inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body responsible for women's mental afflictions. The book explores how the more radical authors-Wollstonecraft, Fenwick and Hays-blamed men and patriarchal structures of control for their characters' hysteria and melancholia, while the more mainstream writers-Edgeworth and Opie-located causality in less gendered and less victimized accounts. Taken as a whole, the book makes a powerful case for focusing on women's mental health in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literary criticism.
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The ArtsJuly 2006Hollywood romantic comedy
States of Union, 1934–1965
by Kathrina Glitre
This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire. Kathrina Glitre moves beyond the usual screwball territory to consider cycles of production from 1934-65. The central concern with the representation of the couple is distinctive and includes discussion of three star couples: Myrna Loy and William Powell, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Glitre offers explanations of genre, as well as detailed analysis of screwball comedy, career woman comedy and sex comedy. Each cycle is placed into context to analyse cultural discourses around heterosexuality, gender, romance and love. This structure also enables a more sophisticated understanding of such conventions as masquerade, gender inversion and the happy ending. The book will appeal to university students and academics working on genre, gender, culture and representation, and anyone with a keen interest in Hollywood romantic comedy. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2017Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic Fiction
by Christina Morin
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