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View Rights PortalDavid and Charles is an independent publisher of non-fiction books, predominantly in art, craft and creative categories. Our titles feature industry-leading authors and award-winning editorial and design, commissioned for commercial success in all markets. Category focus on practical how-to books in art, crochet, knitting, general crafts, patchwork & quilting, sewing and wellbeing. Cornerstone titles which are highly illustrated, project, technique and trend orientated.
View Rights PortalThe 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.
Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!.
Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!. ;
The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, national identity and post-structuralism. Situates Duffy's work in relation to current debates about the state, value and social relevance of contemporary British poetry. Will become the benchmark anthology on Duffy. ;
Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across more than two centuries of literature, the visual arts, and twentieth- and twenty-first century visual media. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, it considers its subject in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of philosophy, morality, rationality, consciousness, and creativity.
Mit Beiträgen von Iris M. Young (Ü.: Michaela Adelberger), Catharine A. MacKinnon (Ü.: Ursula Marianne Ernst), Carol Pateman (Ü.: Elisabeth Holzleithner), Jane Flax (Ü.: Gertrude Postl), Julia Annas (Ü.: Michaela Adelberger), Deborah L. Rhode (Ü.: Ursula Marianne Ernst), Anna Yeatman (Ü.: Elisabeth Holzleithner), Lois McNay (Ü.: Karin Wördemann), Drucilla Cornell (Ü.: Gertrude Postl), Onora O'Neill (Ü.: Ursula Hoffmann), Martha Nussbaum (Ü.: Ursula Hoffmann) und Nancy Fraser (Ü.: Ilse Utz). Gender Studies.
This illuminating study of The Winter's Tale in performance in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries contributes to understanding the growth during that time of high critical esteem forwhat is now one of Shakespeare's frequently performed plays. Writing about performance as a richly collaborative living art, the author learns from and gives voice to the work of actors, directors, designers and other theatre professionals whose labor and interpretive discoveries have made it possible for audiences to experience the play's multiple potentialities in the theatre. She does this in part by citing from her interviews with directors like Trevor Nunn and Peter Hall and with actors engaged in some of the most significant twentieth-century productions of The Winter's Tale. Dunbar connects her scholarly research, including fresh use of materials in theatrical archives, to her direct experience of those productions she has able to see in performance and, at times, to see develop in rehearsal. Her in-depth analysis of selected significant twentieth-century productions, including cross-cultural productions of The Winter's Tale by the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden (directed by Ingmar Bergman), and the Maly Drama Theatre of Europe, in St. Petersburg (directed by Declan Donnellan), explores how theatre artists have approached the play's most crucial theatrical and interpretive challenges. The book's last chapter, by distinguishedtheatre scholar and performance critic Carol Chillington Rutter, contributes a richly layered and highly engaging comparative analysis of eight of the most important recent British productions of the play. Dunbar makes a significant contribution to understanding The Winter's Tale which will be of great interest to scholars, teachers, and students of Shakespeare, to theatre lovers, and to all involved in productions of the play. ;
Advent calendar book with detachable pages. Plonkety plonk! Daisy Dormouse is rudely awakened from her winter sleep. Outside her den is a present. It says on the wrapping: “To Sunny Bunny for Christmas”. What on earth is Christmas? And who is Sunny Bunny? Daisy quickly packs a few things and sets off to deliver the present. During her journey she makes many new friends and learns all about Advent garlands, Christmas carols, biscuits, sledging, and of course Christmas itself. By the end of her journey, Daisy is sure of one thing: she must never again miss this wonderful time, with all these beautiful customs and traditions! A story in 24 chapters.
Selbstbewusst und souverän, gesellig und gläubig, klug und belesen, mit viel Humor und Esprit: So ließe sich Goethes Mutter Catharina Elisabeth (1731–1808) charakterisieren. Und sie war eine begnadete Erzählerin. Ihre Briefe sind authentische Zeugnisse ihres Wesens und ihrer »Fabulierkunst«.Sie geben lebendige und unterhaltsame Einblicke in Goethes Kindheit und Jugend, den Alltag im Großen Hirschgraben und das kulturelle Leben Frankfurts in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert u.a. die schönsten Briefe von Frau Aja an ihren Sohn, die Schwiegertochter Christiane, ihre Enkel, die Herzogin Anna Amalia und Bettine Brentano.
Addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson's early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies. ;
Ebenezer Scrooge ist ein Geizkragen. Er behandelt seine Mitarbeiter schlecht, ist hartherzig gegenüber seinen Schuldnern und hat für seine Mitmenschen außer Misstrauen nichts übrig. Auch an Weihnachten – für ihn ein wahrlich überflüssiges Fest – sitzt er am liebsten in seinem Büro und zählt Geld. Eines Heiligabends wird er von den Geistern der vergangenen, gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen Weihnachtsfeste heimgesucht. Sie zeigen ihm das Glück, das er durch seine Habgier und Selbstsucht versäumt hat, aber auch das jämmerliche Dasein, das er einsam fristen wird, falls er sein Leben nicht ändert. Schlechte Aussichten für Mr. Scrooge!
Der kleine Charles war eine Leseratte, Bücher verschlang er wie andere ein Stück Brot. Aber seine Familie war bettelarm, und so musste er mit zwölf die Schule verlassen und in der Fabrik arbeiten. Nun erfand er selbst Geschichten, sie handelten von Menschen, die das Beste aus ihrem Leben machten. So wie er, der – inzwischen Angestellter in einer Kanzlei – Fortsetzungsgeschichten für Zeitungen schrieb, die man ihm aus den Händen riss. Noch heute werden seine Geschichten landauf, landab gelesen. Allen voran die Weihnachtsgeschichte, aber auch die Geschichte von Oliver Twist, einem Waisenjungen, der auf der Straße lebte. War es ein bisschen auch seine eigene Geschichte? Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
Am 24. März 1481, aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach im Klarissenkloster zu Freiburg im Breisgau, ist die Handschrift abgeschlossen worden, die hier erstmals in seiner übersetzung vorgestellt wird. Sie zeigt in Bildern und erzählt in legendendurchwobenen Geschichten das Leben der mit 24 Jahren verstorbenen Landgräfin Elisabeth von Thüringen. Keine der heiligen Frauengestalten, Maria einmal ausgenommen, wird bis heute so verehrt wie sie. Den bemerkenswertesten Schmuck der Handschrift, die sich im Besitz des Deutschen Buch- und Schriftmuseums in Leipzig befindet, bilden die in unserer Ausgabe wiedergegebenen 14 Miniaturen von leuchtender Farbkraft und großem Liebreiz der Figuren und Szenerien.