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View book details for Montage as Perceptual Experience
<I>Berlin Alexanderplatz</I> from Doblin to Fassbinder
The first book to treat both Doblin's novel and the film adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories of literary and film montage.Alfred Doblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical …
Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.The many catastrophes of German history have often been …
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Robert Frost, <I>North of Boston,</I> and the Drama of Disappearance
Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole and in the context of the poet's career and development.North of Boston, Robert Frost's second book of verse and arguably his greatest, brought him suddenly into national prominence in …
Annual collection of essays on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, this year emphasizing topics in medieval literature.The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a …
View book details for Decolonising the Mind
The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I …
View book details for Shades of the Prison House
A History of Incarceration in the British Isles
As entertaining as it is informative, this book explores the history of incarceration in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times …
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The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of …
View book details for Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux
An Essay in Applied Narratology
A theoretically defensible inventory of the fabliaux based on a new structural definition.Joseph Bedier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of …
View book details for Beethoven's Conversation Books Volume 3
Nos. 17 to 31 (May 1822 to May 1823)
A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time. Covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call "late Beethoven", these often lively and compelling conversations are …
View book details for Gregory Haimovsky
A Pianist's Odyssey to Freedom
In the bleak cage of the Soviet Union, a brilliant pianist, inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, survived and triumphed. This is his story, told partly in his own words.Interlacing material from previously unknown Russian archives, original recordings, photographs, …
This is the first book to describe Arturo Toscanini's activities - the life he led, his concerts and recording sessions - during his visits to London and elsewhere in Britain in the years 1900-1952.During the 1930s Arturo Toscanini conducted many …
View book details for The Bjorling Sound
A Recorded Legacy
Detailed examination of the vocal and interpretive artistry of the great Jussi Bjorling.A half century after his death in 1960, Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling remains one of the most beloved singers in the world. He spent forty-five of his forty-nine …
View book details for Rethinking Hanslick
Music, Formalism, and Expression
An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical writings.Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal …
View book details for Medieval Life
Archaeology and the Life Course
An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis …
View book details for Abandoning America
Life-stories from early New England
In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historicalcontext.CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Abandoning America brings …
View book details for East Anglia's History
Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe
Seventeen studies from the region's best scholars illuminate aspects of the history of Suffolk and Norfolk from the 11th century to the 20th.East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially …
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African Literature Today
AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing imaginative creativity and its criticism on the African continent and beyond.Contemporary African creative writers have confidently …
View book details for Merlin and the Grail
<I>Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval</I>: The Trilogy of Arthurian Prose Romances attributed to Robert de Boron
This trilogy establishes a provenance for the Holy Grail and, through the figure of Merlin, links Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and with the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest.It is hard to overstate the importance of this …
View book details for Encountering <I>Disgrace</I>
Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel
First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches.Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. David …
View book details for Empire, Development and Colonialism
The Past in the Present
This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics …
View book details for <I>Carajicomedia</I>: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain
With an Edition and Translation of the Text
A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well …
View book details for Spanish Golden Age Poetry in Motion
The Dynamics of Creation and Conversation
The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento enla poesia espanola del …
View book details for Protestant Missionaries & Humanitarianism in the DRC
The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa
A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, Christianity and the politics of aid in Africa.In the wake of the civil wars in Congo from 1960 to 1973, international and internal struggles for power led to famines, the collapse of …
View book details for Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815
Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging
How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash". …
View book details for The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa
Reconfiguring Spatial Memory in Austrian and Yugoslav Literature after 1945
Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined the concept of Mitteleuropa, Central Europe, as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.The German term Mitteleuropa, or Central Europe, was never just a geographical concept: it connoted extending German influence …
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