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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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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2023Rethinking 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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FictionNovember 2018Beard's Roman Women
By Anthony Burgess
by Graham Foster
Anthony Burgess draws upon an autobiographical episode to create Beard's Roman Women, the story of a man haunted by his first wife, presumed dead. But is she? A marvellously economical book, full-flavoured, funny, and heartfelt, showing its author at the height of his powers. This new edition is the first to be published with David Robinson's photographs for over 40 years. The text of the novel has been restored using the original typescripts, and Graham Foster's new introduction provides valuable insight into the fictional and biographical contexts of the novel. The text is fully annotated with a detailed set of notes and this edition includes the previously unpublished script for Burgess's television film By the Waters of Leman: Byron and Shelley at Geneva, and a rare piece of Burgess's writing about Rome.
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December 2012Sandberg
Roman
by Joanna Bator, Esther Kinsky, Esther Kinsky
Auf dem Sandberg, einer Siedlung am Rande einer polnischen Kleinstadt regieren die Frauen. Sie träumen von einem Schwiegersohn aus Castrop-Rauxel, denn wenn sie selbst schon nicht das große Los gezogen haben, sollen wenigstens ihre Töchter glücklich werden. Aber die haben eigene Vorstellungen von Glück … Joanna Bator erzählt von den Träumen, Ängsten und Hoffnungen einer von Krieg und Flucht traumatisierten Generation und von der Rebellion und Freiheitssehnsucht ihrer Kinder.
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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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Mechthild von Magdeburg, Das fließende Licht der Gottheit
by Hg.: Gisela Vollmann-Profe
Mechthild von Magdeburg lebte von etwa 1207 bis 1282. Nach eigener Aussage hatte sie mit zwölf Jahren ihre erste mystische Gotteserfahrung. Im Alter von etwa 23 Jahren verließ sie ihre Heimat und ihre wohlhabende Familie, um in Magdeburg arm und unbekannt als Begine bis in die sechziger Jahre des 13. Jahrhunderts ein klösterliches Leben zu führen, ohne jedoch einem eigentlichen Orden anzugehören. Von ihrem langjährigen Beichtvater Heinrich von Halle ermuntert, begann sie um 1250, ihre geistlichen Erfahrungen niederzuschreiben: Visionen, Betrachtungen, Liebesdialoge, Lehr- und Streitgespräche, Merkverse und Gebete, die als Sammlung unter dem Titel Das fließende Licht der Gottheit das erste große deutsch geschriebene mystische Werk darstellen, das zugleich eines der originellsten und bedeutendsten Werke der mittelalterlichen Literatur ist. Wegen scharfer Kritik am Ordens- und Weltklerus angefeindet, trat sie um 1270 schwerkrank in das Kloster Helfta bei Eisleben ein. Dort entstand das siebente und letzte Buch des Fließenden Lichts. In ungewöhnlicher Kühnheit wird hier, angeregt durch die erotische Bildersprache des Hohenliedes, die Begegnung Gottes und der liebenden Seele in der Unio mystica als Vereinigung von Braut und Bräutigam umschrieben. Neben solchen Passagen der Beseligung durch Gott und den Klagen über sein Fernsein finden sich im Werk aber auch andere Abschnitte, die nicht weniger kühn erscheinen: geschliffen formulierte Anklagen der ‚ungelehrten Frau’ gegen unwürdige Vertreter des geistlichen Standes. Innovativ ist Das fließende Licht auch als frühes und in seiner Form einmaliges Werk der autobiographischen Gattung: als Darstellung eines aus ganz persönlichen Voraussetzungen, Möglichkeiten wie Schwächen, in äußerster Anspannung bewältigten Lebens. Diese Einmaligkeit findet ihren Ausdruck in einem bewegenden ‚persönlichen Erfahrungsstil’ und einer ‚biographischen Struktur’: ein großes Erbe mittelalterlicher Frauenmystik. Reich und tief im Ausdruck, persönlich und kühn in Phantasie und Gedanken, ist Das fließende Licht der Gottheit der Mechthild von Magdeburg bis heute von immenser Wirkung auf das Verständnis der Mystik geblieben.
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September 2018Der Wind in den Weiden
Bilderbuchklassiker zum Vorlesen für Kinder ab 4 Jahren
by Kenneth Grahame, Olga Poljakowa
Den ganzen Tag war er mit Frühjahrsputz beschäftigt, jetzt will der Maulwurf den wunderbaren Frühlingstag genießen. Mit seinen Freunden, der Ratte, dem Dachs und dem tollkühnen Kröterich erlebt er viele Abenteuer am Fluss, auf der Landstraße, im Wilden Wald und auf dem Landsitz Krötinhall. Die märchenhaften Geschichten von Kenneth Grahame, sprachlich behutsam überarbeitet und mit stimmungsvollen Illustrationen von Olga Poljakowa laden zum Vorlesen ein und begeistern Eltern sowie Kinder ab 4 Jahren mit ihrem Einfallsreichtum und ihren zauberhaften Welten.
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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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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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