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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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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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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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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 2023Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature
by Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero, Adriano Ardovino
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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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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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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 1999Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951
by Owen Davies
The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951 Brings together matters ranging from upper class spiritualism to rural witchcraft in an exciting and intellecually stimulating way Essential reading for all social historians and all h. . . . ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2024Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The New Arcadia, Second Revised Edition
by Victor Skretkowicz, Elisabeth Chaghafi, J. B. Lethbridge
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.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2023
New Zealand's empire
by Katie Pickles, Catharine Coleborne
This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia, its Pacific empire and its outreach to Antarctica. The book critically revises our understanding of the range of ways that New Zealand has played a role as an imperial power, including the cultural histories of New Zealand inside the British Empire, engagements with imperial practices and notions of imperialism, the special significance of New Zealand in the Pacific region, and the circulation of ideas of empire both through and inside New Zealand over time. The essays in this volume span social, cultural, political and economic history, and in testing the concept of New Zealand's empire, the contributors take new directions in both historiographical and empirical research.
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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.
