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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2022Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1
The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now
by Douglas Field
This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats. This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrÖm reEvolution.
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March 2016Steinzeit
Die Welt unserer Vorfahren
by Beyerlein, Gabriele / Illustriert von Field, James
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2024Walking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father and I
by Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2002Theatre in crisis?
Performance manifestoes for a new century
by Maria M. Delgado, Maria M. Delgado, Caridad Svich, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels
A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK, US and elsewhere. Offers an examination of how to make theatre in a time of crisis and why it is a vital form of communication are at the heart of the book's mission. Asks questions such as: where is theatre now taking place?; what is the relationship between play and performance?; how does funding work?; what states does theatre flourish under?; and if there is a current 'crisis of theatre' should it not be seen as a welcome opportunity to develop a vigorous 'theatre of crisis'?. The international list of contributors includes Jim Carmody, Phyllis Nagy, Michael Billington, Max Stafford-Clark, Peter Sellars, Dragan Klaic, Goat Island, Erik Ehn and many others, making up a vast array of practising artists, thinkers, and scholars. ;
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The ArtsJuly 2025The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson
Keeping the best place by the fire
by Andrea Wright
The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson: The best place by the fire is the first book to specifically consider Henson, best known for the immensely popular The Muppet Show, as an important creator of screen fairy tales. In a chronological overview of Henson's career from the late 1950s to his death in 1990, it explores key themes, artistic practices and innovations that make his contribution to the genre unique. Drawing upon a range of fairy tale scholarship, it also situates Henson's work within the wider context of the genre, specifically its conventions, themes and inherent intertextuality.
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January 2026Die Drachenreiter von Potzblitz
Bücherbär: Erstlesebuch mit Silbentrennung. Aufregendes Drachenreiter-Abenteuer für Jungen und Mädchen (Der Bücherbär: Lesen lernen mit Silben)
by Arena Erstlesebücher, Anna Ruhe, Folko Streese
Eine actionreiches Drachenreiter-Abenteuer für Jungen und Mädchen zum Lesenlernen Es ist ganz normal, dass in den rauen Bergen von Potzblitz sowohl Drachen als auch Menschen leben. Aber heute ist ein besonderer Tag, denn es ist Drachenwahl! Jedes Kind im richtigen Alter bekommt einen eigenen, zu ihm oder ihr passenden Drachen. Lilli und das Drachenmädchen Zickzack finden schnell zueinander und fliegen ungestüm davon. Emils Drache Funki jedoch scheint gar keine Lust auf ihn zu haben. Plötzlich braucht aber Lilli Hilfe in der Luft! Ob Emil und Funki sie noch retten können? Dieses Buch richtet sich an Schulkinder in der 1. und 2. Klasse. Die übersichtlichen Leseeinheiten und kurzen Zeilen sind ideal zum Lesenlernen. Zahlreiche Bildergeschichten unterstützen das Leseverständnis. Ein Activity-Teil zum Thema Selbstbestimmung am Ende des Buches regt zum Nachdenken und zum Gespräch über die Geschichte an. Denn Kinder, die viel Gelegenheit zum Sprechen haben, lernen schneller lesen. Empfohlen von Westermann Gedruckt auf Umweltpapier und zertifiziert mit dem „Blauen Engel“ Der Titel ist auf Antolin.de gelistet
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema.
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The ArtsJuly 2025An idea for a theatre ecology
Methods, theories, histories and practices
by Carl Lavery
An Idea for a Theatre Ecology is the first book in the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies to provide a rigorous and coherent theory of the ecology that is immanent to the theatrical medium. Over six clearly written chapters, the book provides a genealogy, outlines a method, provides a lexicon and demonstrates an alternative practice of ecoperformance analysis grounded in the figure of the archipelago. Focusing on Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty, the book argues that theatre has no need to provide ecological messages nor to transform itself into a platform for the narration of ecological stories. Instead, more is to be gained, environmentally and politically, by concentrating on the power of images, gestures and voices to create corporeal affects and sensations that implicate the spectators in a terrestrial event.
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The ArtsJune 2025Death in modern theatre
Stages of mortality
by Adrian Curtin
Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a compelling and socially meaningful fashion. In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis.
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January 2022Jules und Jim
by Henri-Pierre Roché, Patricia Klobusiczky, François Truffaut
»Es war um 1907.« In Paris lernen sich der Deutsche Jules und der Franzose Jim kennen, eine enge Freundschaft entsteht. Sie teilen die Liebe zur Literatur, zur Kunst und zu den Frauen, von denen nicht wenige durch ihr Leben gehen. Doch als Kathe auftaucht, eine abenteuerlustige Berlinerin mit dem Lächeln einer griechischen Statue, von der beide gleichermaßen fasziniert sind, bittet Jules: »Die da nicht? … ja, Jim?« Jules und Kathe ziehen nach Deutschland, heiraten und bekommen zwei Kinder … erst nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg sehen die Freunde sich wieder – und es entwickelt sich eine leidenschaftliche Dreiecksbeziehung. Doch bald wird die Amour fou zwischen Kathe und Jim zu einem tragischen Spiel, bei dem es keinen Gewinner geben kann ... Eine zeitlose Geschichte über Freundschaft, Liebe und Freiheit.
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