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May 2007Frankreichfahrt
Von Boulogne nach Toulon
by Edith Wharton, Karl A. Klewer, Julian Barnes
In Edith Whartons erstmals 1908 erschienenem Buch Frankreichfahrt genießt die Autorin die Vorzüge eines Automobils und die damit verbundene Freiheit, eigene Strecken, im Gegensatz zur festgelegten Bahnroute, auszuwählen. Als Autoreisende erfährt sie, „was in gewisser Hinsicht die eigentliche Einführung in das Reisen ist: nämlich das Gefühl von Kontinuität, einer Beziehung zwischen verschiedenen Gebieten, einer Vertrautheit mit dem namenlosen, in der Geschichte nicht auftauchenden Gebiet, das sich zwischen aufeinanderfolgenden Zentren menschlicher Geschichte erstreckt und in tiefgehender Weise unaufhörlich Einfluß auf deren Wendungen nimmt, ohne daß man es merkt“. Edith Whartons Reisebetrachtungen sind geistreich und persönlich und zeigen wie bei ihren Romanen eine bemerkenswerte Kombination von eleganter Beschreibung und scharfer, ironischer Beobachtung.
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January 1994Die Freibeuterinnen
Roman
by Wharton, Edith / Englisch Stromberg, Kyra; Englisch Schlitzer, Monika
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April 1986Frauen, die töten
Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ebba D. Drolshagen
by Ann Jones, Ebba D. Drolshagen
Ebba D. Drolshagen ist Autorin und übersetzt aus dem Englischen und Norwegischen, bislang u. a. Gertrude Bell, Edith Wharton, Edvard Hoem, Mona Høvring.
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October 2024Besuch aus der Schattenwelt
Unheimliche Geschichten | Gänsehaut pur | Das Beste von den Meisterinnen und Meistern des Horrors
by Peter Wenzel
Ein kopfloser Reiter verbreitet Angst und Schrecken; zwei Freunde schließen einen Pakt, der sich auf makabre Weise bewahrheiten wird; eine geheimnisvolle Musik verfolgt einen Mann bis ans Ende seiner Tage, und eine tote Frau kehrt in einer Mondscheinnacht zurück … Von Wiedergängern und Besuchen aus dem Jenseits, furchterregenden Begegnungen zwischen Wahnsinn und Realität und Erlebnissen, die das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lassen, erzählen die hier versammelten Texte von den Meistern des Unheimlichen: Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Julio Cortázar, Washington Irving, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, H. P. Lovecraft, E. A. Poe, Edith Wharton u. a.
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March 1996Venedig
Die vier Jahreszeiten
by Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán, Mick Lindberg, Ebba D. Drolshagen
Lisa St Aubin de Terán wurde am 2. Oktober 1953 als Tochter einer Engländerin und eines Guyaners in London geboren. Sie wuchs in London auf und begann bereits im Alter von 12 Jahren zu schreiben. Nach ihrer Heirat mit dem Venezolaner Jaime Terán lebte Lisa St Aubin de Terán in den venezolanischen Anden. Sieben Jahre lang führte sie dort eine Hazienda. Nach ihrer Rückkehr nach Europa veröffentlicht sie 1982 ihren ersten Roman, Keepers of the House, der noch im gleichen Jahr von The Slow Train to Milan gefolgt wird. Sie wird als "Best of Young British Novelists" nominiert. 1983 erhält sie "The Somerset Maugham Award" für Keepers of the House. Dieser Roman kommt ebenfalls in die engere Wahl für den "Casa de las Américas"-Preis. Ihre Romane Joanna und Hüter des Hauses, der Erzählband Der Marmorberg und andere Geschichten sowie ihr Bericht Ein Haus in Italien liegen im suhrkamp taschenbuch vor, Venedig. Die vier Jahreszeiten im insel taschenbuch (mit Fotos). - Übrigens enthält Der Palast die Geschichte des Mannes, der genau das "Haus" erdachte und bauen ließ, dessen Renovierung und Inbesitznahme durch die Autorin in Ein Haus in Italien so anschaulich und unterhaltsam beschrieben wird. Lisa St Aubin de Terán hat seit 1982 zahlreiche Bücher veröffentlicht, die in 12 Sprachen übersetzt wurde. Für einige ihrer Bücher wurden Film-Optionen vergeben. Lisa St Aubin de Terán hat, zumeist als Reisejournalistin, für The Observer, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan geschrieben. Lisa St. Aubin de Terán hat zwei Töchter und einen Sohn und lebt zur Zeit in den Niederlanden. Ebba D. Drolshagen ist Autorin und übersetzt aus dem Englischen und Norwegischen, bislang u. a. Gertrude Bell, Edith Wharton, Edvard Hoem, Mona Høvring.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Critical theory and demagogic populism
by Paul K. Jones, Darrow Schecter
Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to everyone concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2021
Critical theory and demagogic populism
by Paul K. Jones
Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to researchers and students in critical theory, sociology, politics, German studies, philosophy and history of ideas, as well as all those concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Politics, performance and popular culture
Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain
by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards
This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2025Mrs Dalloway
Biography of a novel
by Mark Hussey
A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.
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June 2012Stanley Cavell
Philosophy, literature and criticism
by James Loxley
Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism. In this volume, the editors have assembled an impressive range of interlocutors who set out to explore the shape and substance of Stanley Cavell's persistent acknowledgement of the literary as a category in which, and through which, philosophical work can be undertaken. A number of essays address his engagements with modernism, tragedy, and romanticism, while others consider Cavell's own aesthetic modes as a writer. Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism will be of interest to all those who are concerned with the ways in which the reading of literature, and the practice of philosophy, might continue both to influence each other across disciplinary boundaries, and to challenge the internal topographies of those disciplines. ;
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November 2025Reimagining business schools for the 21st century
Alliance Manchester Business School
by Kenneth McPhail, James Pendrill
Whether it's dealing with regional economic disparities, global geopolitical upheaval, climate change, or the impact of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, we are living in pivotal times. To mark its 60th anniversary in 2025, this accessible book from Alliance Manchester Business School outlines in detail how business schools can play a significant role in confronting these huge challenges, and equip the next generation of business leaders with the skills they need to embrace them. Informing public and political debate on the role of business in both the causes and solutions to our biggest challenges the book offers a rethinking of the role of business in society. It will also discuss specific examples of how collaborations with business are leading to impact and change in society. Featuring a range of thought-provoking essays co-authored by eminent academics and business leaders, this collection will challenge the status quo and outline how business and management research is helping address grand challenges, generate economic growth, inform policy development, and define business thinking over the next generation.
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