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        May 2015

        Frauen, die den Faden in der Hand halten

        Handarbeitende Damen, Bürgersmädchen und Landfrauen von Rubens bis Hopper

        by Thomas Blisniewski

        Wie sehr Künstler seit jeher vom Motiv der handarbeitenden Frau fasziniert waren, spiegelt sich in den zahlreichen Gemälden aus allen Jahrhunderten bis in die Gegenwart. Thomas Blisniewski nimmt den Faden auf – und erzählt vom tugendhaften Zeitvertreib der feinen Damen, von den lustvollen Spinnereien junger Mädchen und dem mühsamen Broterwerb der einfachen Frauen. Entstanden ist eine bunte Zeitreise durch die Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte mit Bildern von Rubens, Velázquez, Renoir, Monet, Liebermann, Mary Cassatt, Carl Larsson, Frida Kahlo, Hopper und vielen anderen.

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        May 2009

        Der deutsche Freund

        by Christian Dorph, Simon Pasternak

        Kopenhagen, Sonntag, 28. Oktober 1979: Der dänische Finanzminister Knud Heisen gibt seinen Posten auf und erklärt in den Nachrichten, daß Dänemark sich auf dem Weg in den Abgrund befindet. Einige Stunden später liegt der Großunternehmer Keld Borch tot in der Sauna des Kopenhagener Men’s Club. Eine Spur führt die Ermittler um Ole Larsen in das Netzwerk eines geheimen Männerbundes und in höchste politische Kreise. Eine dramatische Verfolgungsjagd beginnt, von Kopenhagen nach Ostberlin und von Ostberlin nach Danzig, und endet mit einer Begegnung mit einem Totgeglaubten in der dänischen Provinz. - Auftakt einer Serie, die sich dem letzten Viertel des 20. Jahrhunderts widmet - Für Leser von Stieg Larsson und Sjöwall/Wahlöö

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        May 1991

        Vom Guten

        by Willy Kyrklund, Angelika Gundlach

        In dem schmalen Buch des Schweden Willy Kyrklund (geb. 1921) geht es um eine Untersuchung des Guten, des Gut-Seins, der Güte als Idee, als Möglichkeit, sogar als biologisch bedingtes Verhalten. Zu diesem Zweck erzählt der Autor Geschichten - komische, rührende, befremdliche. Eines von Kyrklunds wirksamsten Mitteln ist die Ironie, sie trifft sogar den Inbegriff des Guten, Gott, den Allmächtigen, der den Journalisten Kyrklund zu einem Interview empfängt in Gestalt eines Krokodils, denn »so hast du dir mich doch vorgestellt«, sagt das Krokodil zum Journalisten und serviert Tee. »Selten«, schreibt Stig Larsson, »wurden das Gute und das Göttliche so weise verspottet, mit einem so scharfen menschlichen Blick.«

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2024

        False profits of ethical capital

        Finance, labour and the politics of risk

        by Claire Parfitt

        False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism. Rather than focusing on the inadequacies of corporate responsibility, sustainable investment and consumer politics, this book grapples with the technical and rhetorical functions of ethical capital for profit and accumulation. It provides a unique and eclectic analysis of the political dynamics between finance, capital and labour, offering a refreshing perspective on struggles interlocking social, ecological and economic crises, and suggesting new ways of thinking about sustainability politics.

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        January 2017

        Kinder und Katzen

        Bilder einer besonderen Freundschaft

        by Detlef Bluhm

        Die Verbindung zwischen Kindern und Katzen ist eine ganz besondere. Auch in der Malerei ist vor allem das Motiv »Mädchen mit Katze« ein sehr häufiges Sujet, von dem sich Malerinnen und Maler immer wieder inspirieren ließen. Detlef Bluhm unternimmt eine Reise durch die Geschichte der Malerei und erzählt anhand von über 50 Gemälden von Francisco de Goya, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Max Liebermann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Oskar Kokoschka u.v.a. von den vielfältigen Facetten dieser besonderen Freundschaft zwischen Kindern und Katzen. Kurze Texte kommentieren die Abbildungen mit Interpretationen, Anekdoten und biographischen Hinweisen. Durchgängig vierfarbig illustriert. Mit Gemälden von Annibale Carracci, William Hogarth, Francisco de Goya, Théodore Géricault, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Max Liebermann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Carl Larsson, Oskar Kokoschka, Balthus u. v. a.

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        The Arts
        June 2017

        Gothic television

        by Helen Wheatley

        Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to The Woman in White and Twin Peaks, and uncovers an aspect of television drama history which has, until now, remained critically unexplored. While some have seen television as too literal or homely a medium to successfully present Gothic fictions, Gothic television argues that the genre, in its many guises, is, and has always been, well-suited to television as a domestic medium, given the genre's obsessions with haunted houses and troubled families. This book will be of interest to lecturers and students across a number of disciplines including television studies, Gothic studies, and adaptation studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the Gothic, and in the history of television drama.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2022

        Nordic Gothic

        by Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Hõglund, Yvonne Leffler, Sofia Wijkmark

        Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2024

        Graveyard Gothic

        by Eric Parisot, David McAllister, Xavier Aldana Reyes

        Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry, fiction, TV, film and video games. The volume also extends its geographic scope beyond British traditions to accommodate multiple cultural perspectives, including those from the US, Mexico, Japan, Australia, India and Eastern Europe. The seventeen chapters from key international Gothic scholars engage a range of theoretical frameworks, including the historical, material, colonial, political and religious. With a critical introduction offering a platform for further scholarship and a coda mapping potential future critical and cultural developments, Graveyard Gothic is a landmark volume defining a new area of Gothic studies.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2024

        Gothic dreams and nightmares

        by Carol Davison

        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.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2023

        Suicide and the Gothic

        by William Hughes, Andrew Smith

        Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts and examine the crisis of suicide - a crisis that has personal, familial, religious, legal and medical implications - in European, American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy's Reliques and Patricia Highsmith's crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siècle decadence, Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture.

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