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      • The Parisian Agency

        Founded in 2010, the Parisian agency is a literary agency based in Paris. We represent a selected group of international writers of literary fiction such as multi-awarded Icelandic author Gudrun Eva Minervudottir and Hungarian novelist Arpad Kun, winner of the prestigious Aegon Award. We also represent the stunning illustrated books of the British and the Bodleian Library (UK) abroad. Last, we are now open to represent new lists in literary fiction, crime fiction and non fiction. Welcome to the Parisian Agency!

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        November 2016

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        Detective Max Wolfes dritter Fall. Kriminalroman

        by Parsons, Tony

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        May 1986

        Gesellschaften

        Evolutionäre und komparative Perspektiven. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Nils Thomas Lindquist

        by Talcott Parsons, Nils Thomas Lindquist

        Parsons᾿ Analyse verschiedener historischer Gesellschaften zeigt, daß die fundamentalen Gesellschaftstypen multiple und variable Ursprünge in den frühen Phasen der Evolution haben. Daher ist es nicht notwendig, einen einzigen primitiven Ursprung aller intermediären Gesellschaften zu postulieren, auch wenn man Faktoren wie etwa die unabhängige Legitimation und Stratifikation von Kultur als notwendige Bedingungen aller intermediären Gesellschaften voraussetzt. Die Bedeutung solcher Variationen auf allen Entwicklungsstufen kann, meint Parsons, nur durch eine analytische Theorie der variablen Faktoren und Komponenten adäquat erfaßt werden. Die eindrucksvolle Entwicklung dieser Theorie seit Spencers Zeiten erlaubt Parsons, ein viel anspruchsvolleres Evolutionsschema zu entwerfen als es damals möglich war.

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        November 1986

        Aktor, Situation und normative Muster

        Ein Essay zur Theorie sozialen Handelns

        by Talcott Parsons, Harald Wenzel, Harald Wenzel, Harald Wenzel

        Bei diesem Essay handelt es sich um ein bisher unveröffentlichtes Manuskript aus dem Nachlaß des 1979 verstorbenen amerikanischen Soziologen, das gegen Ende 1939 fertiggestellt wurde, kaum zwei Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung seines ersten großen Werks, The Structure of Social Action. Als ein Kompendium der dort begründeten »Theorie des Handelns« sucht es deren systematischen Gehalt zu explizieren und weiterzuentwickeln. In seiner Treue gegenüber dem in The Structure of Social Action entworfenen Programm einer Theorie des Handelns, jedoch auch in den Neuerungen und Erweiterungen in dessen materialer Ausgestaltung kann dieser Essay überraschen, stellt er doch die Überzeugung der Parsons-Folklore in Frage, daß zwischen der voluntaristischen Handlungstheorie und der strukturfunktionalistischen Systemtheorie des Autors ein klarer Trennungsstrich zu ziehen sei. Er ist nicht nur ein wichtiges Brückenglied zwischen diesen beiden Werkphasen, er zeigt darüber hinaus ein wichtiges Wegstück auf, das Parsons in der Ausformulierung jenes Programms als einer Theorie des allgemeinen Handlungssystems beschreitet.

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        January 1994

        Aktor, Situation und normative Muster

        Ein Essay zur Theorie sozialen Handelns

        by Talcott Parsons, Harald Wenzel, Harald Wenzel

        Dieser Essay wurde gegen Ende 1939 fertiggestellt, kaum zwei Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des ersten großen Werkes von Talcott Parsons: The Structure of Social Action. Als ein Kompendium der dort begründeten »Theorie des Handelns« sucht es deren systematischen Gehalt zu explizieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Es knüpft unmittelbar an das dort gestellte Problem der sozialen Ordnung und dessen Lösungsversuch an. Soziale Integration sollte demnach durch gemeinsame, interindividuell geteilte Wertorientierungen garantiert sein. In diesem Essay nun wird der dieser Konzeption von Ordnung zugrundeliegende Handlungsbegriff präzisiert: Handeln ist die durch normative Muster vermittelte »Orientierung« eines Aktors an seiner Situation.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2022

        The pastor in print

        Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England

        by Amy G. Tan

        The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.

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        The Arts
        May 2012

        Tony Garnett

        by Stephen Lacey, Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Steven Peacock

        Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the 'must see' series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Garnett has produced some of the most important and influential British television drama. This book charts Garnett's career from his early days as an actor to his position as executive producer and head of World Productions. Drawing on personal interviews, archival research, contextual analysis and selected case studies, Tony Garnett examines the ways in which Garnett has helped to define the role of the producer in British television drama. Arguing that Garnett was both a key creative and political influence on the work he produced and an enabler of the work of others, the book traces his often combative relationships with broadcasting institutions (especially the BBC). Additionally, the study discusses the films he made for the cinema and considers some of the ways in which Garnett's experiments in film technology – 16 mm in the 1960s, digital video in the 1990s – have shaped his creative output. Tony Garnett will be of interest to all levels of researchers and students of British television drama, media and film. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2016

        William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

        by R. Charles Mollan

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        British & Irish history
        November 2015

        William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

        by Edited by R. Charles Mollan

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        The Arts
        September 2012

        Tony Richardson

        by Robert Shail, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard

        Tony Richardson was a key figure in British cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Having established himself in the theatre with the first production of John Osborne's landmark play Look Back in Anger, he became a central director in the New Wave, bringing greater realism to British cinema. He went on to make some of the most significant films of the 1960s including the multi Oscar-winning Tom Jones. This detailed and authoritative account of Richardson's career provides a reassessment of his achievements. As well as looking at his best known films, it considers neglected works such as Ned Kelly and Joseph Andrews, illustrating how Richardson remained a champion of the socially marginalised. In mapping out his life and work, from the English Stage Company to his final films in America, Shail re-establishes Richardson's at the front rank of British film directors, confirming his contribution to a period of dynamic change in British culture. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2023

        Luminous presence

        by Alexandra Parsons

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