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      February 2024

      The Wigmaker of Königsberg

      A difficult friendship with Immanuel Kant

      by Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff

      It is said that all the ladies in Königsberg had a crush on Kant. How one coifs one’s intellectual giants, one’s occidental luminaries. Although at the time, Kant employed a Huguenot wigmaker to style his hair. Of whom not much is known. Except that he would have liked to get rid of the wigs and replace them with a short back and sides. And that he tried to comply practically with the idea of enlightenment. But with Kant’s sentences the great philosopher only ever addressed the enlightenment-driven rulers of Europe, and never the people of Africa, whose diff erent skin colour alone proved to Kant that they could not reach a higher level of civilisation on their own. But he and Kant only really fell out seriously over Esther, the pleasing and seductive maid...

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      Health & Personal Development
      July 2021

      Everything harder than everyone else

      by Jenny Valentish

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      August 2023

      The Maid

      by Prose, Nita

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      August 1998

      Unterwegs in der Hölle

      Zwei Erzählungen

      by Prose, Francine

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      August 2024

      Ein mysteriöser Gast

      Zimmermädchen Molly Gray ermittelt

      by Prose, Nita

      Aus dem Englischen von Alice Jakubeit

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      October 1985

      A Christmas Carol in Prose

      Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa

      by Dickens, Charles; Raykowski, Harald

      Bitte überprüfen Sie bei Ihrer Anfrage, ob die gewählte Übersetzung von dem/der hier genannten Übersetzer/in erstellt worden ist.

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      Film theory & criticism
      February 2014

      The Encyclopedia of British Film

      Fourth edition

      by Edited by Brian McFarlane

      With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.

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      October 2007

      Poésies. Poèmes en prose. Gedichte. Gedichte in Prosa

      by Stéphane Mallarmé, Rüdiger Görner, Rüdiger Görner

      Die schönsten Gedichte von Mallarmé in repräsentativer Auswahl und in einer zweisprachiger Ausgabe.

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      October 2010

      Writing for Art

      The aesthetics of ekphrasis

      by Stephen Cheeke

      Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Cheeke offers close readings of poems and prose from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alongside a generous amount of illustrations, covering a broad range of writing and theory about the relation of literary texts to the visual arts, and extending the subject of ekphrasis to include literary works on photography, as well as celebrated prose descriptions of artworks. ;

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      October 2009

      Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly

      An annotated, modern-spelling edition

      by Paul Edmondson, Martin White

      John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, created a literary sensation in their own age, and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of the two works, the first for nearly a century, is designed to allow the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text and to explore the fascination that it exerted. Attuned to the needs of both students and specialists, the text is edited from the earliest complete witnesses, is richly annotated, and facilitates an understanding of Lyly's narrative technique by distinguishing typographically between narrative levels. The introduction explores the relationship between the dramatic and non-dramatic work, locating Lyly's highly influential plays in a wider context and Euphues' Latin poem in praise of Elizabeth I, translated for the first time, is discussed in an Appendix. A work of primary importance for students of Renaissance prose, this edition complements the on-going publication of Lyly's dramatic works in The Revels Plays. ;

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      July 2024

      Thomas Nashe and literary performance

      by Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie

      As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe's often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a 'King of Pages', he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe's public image and his works.

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      May 1997

      Beowulf

      Revised Edition

      by Michael Swanton

      New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources.. Prose translation. ;

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      November 2000

      Bartholomew Fair

      By Ben Jonson

      by David Bevington, Suzanne Gossett, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

      Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for order and control, speaks most directly to the modern audience. This edition is the first to use the findings of feminist scholarship in examining the play's concern with forced marriage, pregnancy, sexual commerce and widowhood. Glosses and notes are provided for students and theatre-goers clarifying the language and dialects Jonson uses to individualise the characters in his prose masterpiece and helpfully explicating layers of meaning and topical references. ;

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      Medicine

      Dementia – First Things First.

      Texts and Drawings by a Person with Dementia

      by Franz Inauen

      Franz Inauen was diagnosed with dementia in 2013. Since his diagnosis, he has worked through his fears, experiences, hopes, and anger by writing prose and poetry and by drawing. The result is a work consisting of 85 images and texts. They are accompanied by narratives explaining how the author produced them, an interview with Franz Inauen, and the views of his wife and employer. Target Group: People with dementia, their relatives, nurses, art therapists

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      January 2019

      Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance

      An anthology

      by J. B. Lethbridge, Sukanta Chaudhuri

      Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry, with 277 pieces spanning two centuries. Spenser, Sidney, Jonson and Drayton are amply represented alongside their many contemporaries. There is a wide range of pastoral lyrics, weightier allusive pieces, and translations from classical and vernacular pastoral poetry; also, more unusually, pastoral ballads and poems set in all kinds of prose works. Each piece has been freshly edited from the original sources, with full apparatus and commentary. This book will be complemented by a second volume, to be published in 2017, which includes a book-length introduction, textual notes and analytic indices.

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      The Arts
      December 2024

      Horizontal together

      Art, dance, and queer embodiment in 1960s New York

      by Paisid Aramphongphan

      Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a unique methodology that draws on queer theory, dance studies and the analysis of movement, deportment and gesture to look anew at familiar artists and artworks, but also to bring to light queer artistic figures' key cultural contributions to the 1960s New York art world. Illustrated with rarely published images and written in clear and fluid prose, Horizontal together will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in the study of modern and contemporary art, dance and queer history.

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