Éditions de la Pastèque
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View Rights PortalPastrengo is a Milan-based literary agency founded on September 2016 by Francesco Sparacino and Michele Turazzi. Pastrengo represents Italian authors of fiction (commercial and literary, young adult) and non fiction.
View Rights PortalThe pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry, with 277 pieces spanning two centuries. Spenser, Sidney, Jonson and Drayton are amply represented alongside their many contemporaries. There is a wide range of pastoral lyrics, weightier allusive pieces, and translations from classical and vernacular pastoral poetry; also, more unusually, pastoral ballads and poems set in all kinds of prose works. Each piece has been freshly edited from the original sources, with full apparatus and commentary. This book will be complemented by a second volume, to be published in 2017, which includes a book-length introduction, textual notes and analytic indices.
Empörung im Haus des Bischofs – die wohlbehütete Tochter hat sich verlobt! Mit einem deutschen Pastor! Und dieser erscheint unvermittelt, um seine Verlobte in ihr zukünftiges Zuhause in Kökensee im fernen Ostpreußen zu bringen. Doch die Freuden des Ehelebens werden bald getrübt. Der Pastor spricht seiner jungen Frau von der heiligen Mutterpflicht, er, der es ansonsten mit seinem göttlichen Auftrag nicht sonderlich genau nimmt. Durch die sonntäglichen Predigten fühlt er sich bloß gestört in seiner eigentlichen Arbeit, der Entwicklung neuer Düngemittel. Und Ingeborg – eher wie ein Blatt im Wind wird sie durch ihr eigenes Leben geweht und stößt immer wieder an die harten Mauern der Konvention. Mit witzig-satirischer Feder beschreibt Elisabeth von Arnim die Tücken eines Frauenlebens, das von einer Abhängigkeit in die nächste wankt, den Vater durch den Ehemann ersetzt und bestenfalls vom Regen in die Traufe kommt.
Shipwrecks, gory battle scenes, cross-dressing, toxic relationships, abduction, torture (psychological and physical), comical country bumpkins, and, of course, love and poetry -Sir Philip Sidney's witty pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia is the classic that has it all in terms of entertainment factors. Modern readers mostly know Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590) that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century. While preserving the basic plot - a ruler attempts to escape an alarming oracle by moving his family to the countryside and engaging in shepherd-cosplay until the arrival of two foreign princes triggers a chain of events leading to the fulfilment of the oracle - this version adds further narrative strands and introduces ambitious revisions that showcase Sidney's stylistic brilliance as a prose writer.
Es hätte alles so schön werden können bei der großen Glaubensbefragung der Gemeinde durch den Pastor auf dem Katthulthof. Michels Mama hat extra Unmengen an gutem Essen zubereitet. Hätte Michel seinen Vater nicht aus Versehen auf dem Lokus eingesperrt und alle Schuhe auf einen Haufen gestapelt! Aber dann zeigt er den Lönnebergern doch noch, dass er ein brauchbarer Junge ist: als sein Freund Knecht Alfred fast an einer Blutvergiftung zu sterben droht, ist es Michel, der ihn im schlimmsten Schneesturm ganz alleine zum Arzt bringt. Eine mitreißende Neuinszenierung von Astrid Lindgrens Hörspielklassiker!
Aller Seelen: Allerseelen 1943: Ein Mann wird vor Jen Augen seines kleinen Sohnes von Wehrmachtssoldaten unweit der slowenischen Grenze erschossen. Sie verdächtigen ihn, Partisanen unterstützt zu haben. Allerseelen 1945 die gleiche Szene in Deutschland: Aber dieses Mal wird der Mann von ehemaligen KZ-Häftlingen ermordet, die blindwütig Rache nehmen. Dazwischen liegt die Hölle eines KZs, datiert Allerseelen 1944. Golgatha: Pastor Kurt, ein Mann der Friedensbewegung und Verteidiger der Schwachen, wird des Mordes an seiner Frau Corinna angeklagt. Alles spricht dafür, daß er sie bestialisch umgebracht hat. In seinem Stück zeigt Werner Fritsch den Kampf des gesellschaftlich am Pranger stehenden Geistlichen, ohne sich ein Urteil über dessen Schuld oder Unschuld anzumaßen.
This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.
Molière et son premier Tartuffe sheds light on one of the most enduring mysteries in world theatre: the nature, structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play, Le Tartuffe. The study provides a succinct overview of the problem and a close analysis of events leading up to the original performance at Versailles. A careful reading of Molière's own defence of this version situates its overriding inspiration in his wish to satirise specific religious groupings, whilst hoping vainly to avoid censure from the religious establishment of his day. There are three appendices: the first evaluates the hypotheses of a complete or incomplete play; the second analyses the claims that Molière took certain people as models for Tartuffe, and the final appendix seeks to reopen the question of Molière's stance towards religion. The conclusion is that Le Tartuffe should not be seen as inherently hostile to religion, but rather as constituting a plea for tolerance, charity and transparency in its practice, none of which runs counter to the spirit and tenets of historic Christianity. This will appeal to lecturers and students of French Studies and Theatre Studies. ;
This book offers a collection of essays tightly focused around the issue of religion in England between 1640 and 1660, a time of upheaval and civil war in England. Edited by well-known scholars of the subject, topics include the toleration controversy, women's theological writing, observance of the Lord's Day and prayer books. To aid understanding, the essays are divided into three sections examining theology in revolutionary England, inside and outside the revolutionary National Church and local impacts of religious revolution. Carefully and thoughtfully presented, this book will be of great use for those seeking to better understand the practices and patterns of religious life in England in this important and fascinating period. ;