Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Brigitte Kronauer, Alexander Nitzberg und Ferdinand Schmatz sprechen über Dichtung: Im Rahmen der Ernst-Jandl-Dozentur für Poetik gewährten die deutsche Autorin Brigitte Kronauer, der russisch-deutsche Dichter und Übersetzer Alexander Nitzberg und der österreichische Dichter Ferdinand Schmatz Einblicke in Positionen poetischen Schaffens.

Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller______________Clive Bell is perhaps better known today for being a Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of artist Vanessa Bell, sister to Virginia Woolf.

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In Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop, Jonathan Ellis offers evidence for a redirection in Bishop studies toward a more thorough scrutiny of the links between Bishop's art and life.

This biography of Joseph Smith is especially interesting because to was written by a man who knew him, George Q.

For over thirty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time.

A young Iraqi shares the true story of his wartime experiences after he was recruited by the US Army as an interpreter.

Foot and mouth disease, CJD, GM, and fears about modern methods of food production have put food safety in the spotlight.

From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Agesone in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth centurymirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises.

A comprehensive planning guide to help ease the difficult responsibilities involved in honoring a life that has ended.

Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures.

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c.

For Your Safety Please Hold On is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga.

For thousands of years, The Odyssey has resonated throughout the Western world.

This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau.

This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy-Lord Dunsany, E.

Ripen Our Darkness was the play that established Sarah Daniels as a writer; The Devil's Gateway carries the flavour of life in Bethnal Green in the 1980s; Masterpieces, Daniels' most controversial play is a radical take on the porn industry and caused outrage among critics - "e;The play has bite, anger and tenacity and many of its arguments are true.

'How do you want to live here?

Where "e;Victorianism"e; once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms.

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Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "e;The Nose.

A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

Growth is one of the human body's most intricate processes: each body part or region has its own unique growth patterns.

A Preface to Mark is a literary study which, from the standpoint of the newer critical methodologies, explores two questions.

The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany.

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This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.

This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people.

Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters.

“It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied.

Shallow Slumber is a new play by award-winning writer and social worker Chris Lee, exploring therelationship between a young mother and a social worker.

The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers.

Knusprige Brotkrusten, Eier von glücklichen Hühnern, familiäres Miteinander bei spanischer Paella, Innehalten bei grünem Tee mit japanischen Reisbällchen und Kindheitserinnerungen an Melonen-Momente – wenn Doris Dörrie über das Essen schreibt, liest sich das, als umarme sie die Welt.

Chapters on the narrative frame, characters, imagery and symbols, structure and themes use practical analysis to build and refine our insight into Wuthering Heights.

This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways.

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje.

This book fulfils a keenly-felt need for a modern, comprehensive dictionary of Scottish Gaelic into English.

Selten haben zwei Menschen eine Bewegung, ein Land, eine Zeit so sehr geprägt wie die Journalistin Marianne und der Journalist Oscar Pollak.