Ronsdale Press
Livres Canada Books
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View Rights PortalIm September 2006 zerstörte ein Feuer das Außenlager des Bochumer Schauspielhauses, damals entstand die Idee eines Festivals unter dem Motto »Ohne alles« - Stücke, Skizzen, Miniaturen, spielbar ohne Bühnenbild, ohne aufwendige Kostüme. Der Band versammelt die aus diesem Anlaß geschriebenen Szenen, uraufgeführt im Mai 2007 in Bochum. Autorinnen und Autoren: Lukas Bärfuss, Sibylle Berg, Justine del Corte, Gesine Danckwart, Werner Fritsch, Sabine Harbeke, Ulrich Hub, Thomas Jonigk, Helmut Krausser, Simone Kucher, Jan Neumann, Christoph Nußbaumeder, Moritz Rinke, Kathrin Röggla, Kristo Sagor, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Kerstin Specht, Lisa Stadler, Peter Stamm, Peter Turrini, Soeren Voima, Theresia Walser
The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth. For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth's wild places. We'll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men's climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain's first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai's daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women's adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be 'wildly different'.
This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing from book history and relying on close reading and textual criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written, published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe, and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets presumably by Sidney and Spenser.