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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2025Folklore
A journey through the past and present
by Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook
A gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. In this ground-breaking book, two leading experts provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook explore folklore in all its remarkable variations, from village rituals and fairy tales to UFO legends and internet fanfiction. Travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and wicker men, they reveal how folklore has been researched and written about in the past and show how it continues to be lived in the present. At the same time, they provide the reader with a valuable toolkit for understanding how to interpret the diverse examples given. The book's key message is that folklore is much more than the fossilised remains of a distant, rural past. Folklore is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political. It is a living tradition that draws from many sources, including migrant communities, and is forever being renewed and updated.
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September 2006Owen Noone
Roman
by Cowie, Douglas / Englisch Wasel, Ulrike; Englisch Timmermann, Klaus
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September 2021Jesse Owens
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Anna Katharina Jansen, Silke Kleemann
Jesse war das jüngste der zehn Kinder seiner Familie. Obwohl er der schnellste Läufer an seiner Schule war, konnte er nicht mit den anderen Kindern trainieren. Er musste arbeiten, um seine Familie zu unterstützen. Doch Jesse gab nie auf und wurde einer der größten Leichtathleten. Er brach zahlreiche Rekorde und gewann sogar bei den Olympischen Spielen. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2001Les Murray
by Steven Matthews, John Thieme
Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical study of Murray's work available, Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man's epic encounter with the major events of the twentieth century, Fredy Neptune. Provides detailed readings of key poems, as well as literary and cultural contexts for the rapid shifts in style and subject matter Murray has made from collection to collection. Gives an overview of Murray's place within Australian literature and national thought. ;
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October 1984Soziale Intentionen und Reformen des Robert Owen in der Frühzeit der Industrialisierung.
Analyse seines Wirkens als Unternehmer, Sozialreformer, Genossenschafter, Frühsozialist, Erzieher und Wissenschaftler.
by Elsässer, Markus
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June 1983Innovationen
Über den Prozeßcharakter von Literatur und Kultur
by Raymond Williams, H. Gustav Klaus, H. Gustav Klaus, H. Gustav Klaus
In Großbritannien haben die Arbeiten des unorthodoxen marxistischen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftlers Raymond Williams eine lebhafte Resonanz gefunden; hierzulande ist er noch nicht zureichend beachtet worden. Die vom Herausgeber gemeinsam mit Raymond Williams im Blick auf eine kontinentale Leserschaft getroffene Auswahl aus seinen Arbeiten vereinigt theoretisch-begriffliche Untersuchungen und materiale Analysen, die sich in exemplarischer Weise mit zentralen Fragen der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte befassen.
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September 2017Reveal: Robbie Williams
Enthüllungen
by Heath, Chris / Übersetzt von Prummer-Lehmair, Christa; Übersetzt von Horn, Heide; Übersetzt von Weiß, Robert A.; Übersetzt von Schermer-Rauwolf, Gerlinde; Übersetzt von Steckhan, Barbara; Übersetzt von Schuhmacher, Sonja; Übersetzt von Förs, Katharina
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The ArtsMarch 2013Space and being in contemporary French cinema
by James S. Williams
This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. Whatever their chosen habitats or shifting terrains, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies. It will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working not only in film studies and film philosophy, but also in French/Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, gender and cultural studies. Listen to James S. Williams speaking about his book http://bit.ly/13xCGZN. (Copy and paste the link into your browser) ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2010New D.H. Lawrence
by Howard Booth
New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in 'The Ladybird'; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley. New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2009The four funerals in Beowulf
by Gale Owen-Crocker
It is well known that the old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first time, a fourth funeral (hitherto disguised as poetic imagery) is identified from archaeological evidence. A detailed analysis of the four funerals establishes their thematic and structural importance, revealing them as pillars around which the poem is built. The poet is revealed as a literate antiquarian of considerable structural skill; one who explores feminist issues, plays with numbers and enjoys a pun; who establishes an ideal then probes its darker side. The author's unique knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture provides constant surprises and enlightenment. This book will be invaluable to all students of the poem for its fresh and detailed reading, its identification of a coherent structure and its establishment of the integrity of the surviving texts. ;
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The ArtsMarch 2026Acting and performance in Hitchcock
by Adrian Garvey, Victoria Lowe
Hitchcock's professed disdain for actors is belied by the extraordinary range and depth of performances featured in his films. It might even be argued that many stars gave their richest and most complex performances in his work. Hitchcock's films are also imbued with the theme of performance, as when his fugitive men and errant women assume fragile new identities and move between roles. Actors and other performers also often feature as characters. However, the exhaustive academic literature on Hitchcock has to date produced surprisingly little work about acting and performance in his films. The collection includes contributions from a range of leading scholars on Hitchcock, performance, stardom, and British Cinema, including Charles Barr, David Greven, Mark Glancy, Lucy Bolton, Lawrence Napper and Michael Williams, and an interview with leading composers/accompanists Neil Brand and Stephen Horne on scoring performance in Silent Hitchcock.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2015Colonial naval culture and British imperialism, 1922–67
by Daniel Owen Spence
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October 2009
Kornwolf
Roman
by Tristan Egolf, Frank Heibert, Frank Heibert
Owen Brynmor, ein verkrachter Journalist, der mit seinen dreißig Jahren schon zahlreiche Zeitungen im ganzen Land hinter sich gebracht hat, wollte nie mehr zurück nach Stepford, Pennsylvania, in seine Heimatstadt. Aber dann kommt er – um Boxer zu werden. Weil er nebenbei Geld verdienen muß, heuert er als Lokalreporter an und erregt sogleich Aufsehen mit dem Bericht über einen Werwolf, den »Teufel von Blue Ball«, der Stepford in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Auf der Suche nach der Legende vom »Kornwolf« stößt Owen auf Ephraim Bontrager, einen stummen Halbwaisen, der sich an den Rändern der diskriminierten Amish-Gemeinde herumtreibt. Mit seinem merkwürdigen Verhalten bringt er das ganze Tal gegen sich auf. Am Ende rottet sich die Bevölkerung zu einer gigantischen Hetzjagd zusammen. In wem, fragt diese spannende Geschichte, nimmt »das Böse« eigentlich Gestalt an – in einem Monster oder in den Menschen, die Jagd darauf machen? Des Autors Sprachgewalt ist den Katastrophen, die der Roman heraufbeschwört, gewachsen. Ebenbürtig steht Kornwolf neben Monument für John Kaltenbrunner, Tristan Egolfs hochgerühmtem, furiosem Erstling.
