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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2005Graham Swift
by Daniel Lea, Susan Williams
This book offers an accessible critical introduction to the work of Graham Swift, one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors. Through detailed readings of his novels and short stories from 'The Sweet Shop Owner' (1980) to 'The Light of Day' (2003), Daniel Lea lucidly addresses the key themes of history, loss, masculinity and ethical redemption, to present a fresh approach to Swift. This study proposes that one of the side-effects of modernity has been the destruction of traditional pathways of self and collective belief, leading to a loss of understanding between individuals about their duties to each other and to society. Swift's writing returns repeatedly to the question of what we can believe in when all the established markers of identity - family, community, gender, profession, history - have become destabilised. Lea suggests that Swift increasingly moves towards a notion of redemption through a lived ethical practice as the only means of finding solace in a world lacking a central symbolic authority. ;
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March 2023Harper Green – Be Brave. Be Angry. Be the Storm.
Dystopie über eine Antiheldin mit paranormalen Fähigkeiten, mit herzzerreißender Liebesgeschichte, ab 14. Enthält eine zweiseitige Charakterkarte: limitiert für die 1. Auflage
by Carola Lowitz, Susanna Mewe
Starke Antiheldin mit paranormalen Fähigkeiten in einer Dystopie der 80er – für Fans von Riverdale und Stranger Things. Harper kann fremde Gedanken hören. Der Einzige, dem sie sich anvertraut, ist Lucas – ein Junge, der ebenfalls eine paranormale Fähigkeit hat. Gemeinsam kommen sie dem Geheimnis ihrer Vergangenheit auf die Spur und landen damit auf dem Radar der Regierung. Die Jagd auf sie beginnt. Doch jede Kraft hat auch eine dunkle Seite und so beginnt Lucas einen blutigen Rachefeldzug gegen ihre Verfolger. Harper muss sich entscheiden: Schließt sie sich Lucas an? Oder entfesselt sie die dunkle Seite ihrer Kraft, um nicht nur ihre Verfolger, sondern auch Lucas zu besiegen? *** Mit Character Card – exklusiv in der ersten Auflage *** Harpers Geschichte ganz exklusiv erzählt vom Autorinnenduo Carola Lowitz & Susanna Mewe – basierend auf der ‚Audible Original‘-Hörspielserie „Harper Green“ (https://www.audible.de/pd/B0BLTBNS97).
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Massacres in Early Modern Drama
by Georgina Lucas
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. Anchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction - Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris - as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare. Thus, Massacres in Early Modern Drama considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.
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October 2023Post-Mortem
Autopsy stories: the unusual experiences of a pathologist
by Roland Sedivy
— True crime stories from the morgue — Famous deaths and autopsy stories resolved, such as Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the case of Anne Greene, who survived her execution by hanging The post-mortem examination. A glimpse inside the interior of the human being. Many find the idea fascinating; for others it is creepy or even repugnant. There are still numerous myths and horror stories surrounding the autopsy, many of them associated with primal human fears such as that of being buried alive, which have existed since Antiquity. It is precisely for this reason that it is important to carry out the post-mortem examination with the utmost conscientiousness. Pathologist Roland Sedivy provides an exciting insight into his profession. Profound and with tremendous humour, he tells us about the early days of the autopsy, and shares with us some macabre and some mysterious cases.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The cult of the Two Grand Elders
by Fabian Graham
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
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October 2021Clanlands
Zwei Männer, Kilts und jede Menge Whisky | Mit einem Vorwort von Diana Gabaldon
by Heughan, Sam McTavish, Graham
Übersetzt von Barbara Schnell
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September 1983Monsignore Quijote
Roman
by Greene, Graham / Englisch Polak, Gertie; Englisch Polak, Hans W.
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January 1984Sag mir dein Sternzeichen, und ich sage dir, wie du liebst
Was die Sterne über unsere Partner und über uns zum Vorschein bringen
by Greene, Liz / Übersetzt von Janus, Edda
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January 1975
Eine unmögliche Frau
Die Erinnerungen der Dottoressa Moor von Capri
by Herausgegeben von Greene, Graham; Englisch Felsenreich, Maria; Englisch Polak, Hans W.; Vorwort von Greene, Graham
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2023
Rethinking Norman Italy
Studies in honour of Graham A. Loud
by Joanna Drell, Paul Oldfield
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000-1200) honours and reflects the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses and recasts the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been conventionally understood, addressing varied subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest. The chapters revise and refine our understanding of Norman Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, demonstrating that it was not just a parochial Norman or Mediterranean entity but also an integral player in the medieval mainstream.
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April 1985
Der zehnte Mann
Roman
by Greene, Graham / Englisch Auer, Alexandra; Englisch Polak, Hans W.
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