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Christine Heimannsberg

Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.
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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David

The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2020

This is your hour

Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–49

by John Carter Wood

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'. Led by the missionary and ecumenist Joseph H. Oldham, the group included prominent writers, thinkers and activists such as T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Karl Mannheim, John Baillie, Alec Vidler, H. A. Hodges, Christopher Dawson, Kathleen Bliss and Michael Polanyi. The 'Oldham group' saw faith as a uniquely powerful resource for social and cultural renewal, and it represents a fascinating case study of efforts to renew freedom in a dramatic confrontation with totalitarianism. The group's story will appeal to those interested in the cultural history of the Second World War and the issue of applying faith to the 'modern' social order.

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The Arts

January 2019

Carol Reed

by Peter William Evans

Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works. Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others. Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!.

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2024

The Legacy of John Polidori

The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

by Sam George, Bill Hughes

John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2021

A precarious equilibrium

Human rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet policy

by Umberto Tulli

Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter's years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.

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May 1991

Intentionalität

Eine Abhandlung zur Philosophie des Geistes

by Harvey P. Gavagai, John R. Searle

Nach seinen sprachphilosophischen Arbeiten ('Sprechakte', stw 458; 'Ausdruck und Bedeutung', stw 349) hat John R. Searle mit 'Intentionalität' eine Untersuchung zu einem Kernstück der Philosophie des Geistes vorgelegt, die in einem engen thematischen Zusammenhang mit den früheren Arbeiten steht. Intentionalität ist nach Searles Auffassung die Basis sprachlicher Bedeutung. In seiner Theorie der Intentionalität geht es um die begrifflichen Eigenschaften intentionaler Zustände (auf die Frage nach ihrem ontologischen Status geht er ausführlicher ein in 'Geist, Hirn und Wissenschaft', stw 591). Zwei Aspekte stehen dabei im Vordergrund der Untersuchung: die Logik der Repräsentation und der Kausalität intentionaler Zustände. Doch Searle entwickelt in dieser Arbeit nicht nur eine Theorie der Intentionalität und des Zusammenhangs zwischen sprachlichem und geistigem Inhalt. In einem vornehmlich kritischen Teil setzt er sich ausführlich mit konkurrierenden Auffassungen aus dem Bereich der analytischen Philosophie auseinander, insbesondere mit derzeit sehr einflußreichen 'nicht-deskriptivistischen' Theorien des Bezugs, wie sie von S. Kripke, H. Putnam, K. Donnellan, T. Burge und D. Kaplan vertreten und angeregt wurden.

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Literature & Literary Studies

December 2023

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/2

by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2021

John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne

by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney, Joshua Samuel Reid

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2001

Railways and culture in Britain

The epitome of modernity

by Ian Carter, Jeffrey Richards

The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? The book's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does not mean that all British culture ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. A final chapter contemplates cultural correlations of the steam railway's eclipse. If this was the epitome of modernity, then does the triumph of diesel and electric trains, of cars and planes, signal a decisive shift to postmodernity? ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2001

Les Murray

by Steven Matthews, John Thieme

Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical study of Murray's work available, Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man's epic encounter with the major events of the twentieth century, Fredy Neptune. Provides detailed readings of key poems, as well as literary and cultural contexts for the rapid shifts in style and subject matter Murray has made from collection to collection. Gives an overview of Murray's place within Australian literature and national thought. ;

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June 2008

Mrs. Fox will wieder heim

Wie ich die Amerikaner verstehen und die Deutschen lieben lernte

by Fox, Sabrina

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Children's & YA

January 2019

When I Was a Fox

by Tanya Postavna (Author), Mariya Foya (Illustrator)

Dive in to the magical world of childhood. A little girl with hair as red as those of a fox is growing up in an atmosphere of love under the care of her grandparents. In the book she tells about her daily witty adventures, her most cherished dreams, and the unbelievable miracles that happen to her. The book is about building bridges between children and adults and about the rapid changes in life. The fox represents the love of life, the belief that every day is a true miracle. When I Was A Fox is an important book about the perception of the world that could be read and discussed by all family members. From 6 to 9 years, 5414 words Rightsholders: n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2020

Knowledge, mediation and empire

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.

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Literature & Literary Studies

December 1999

Volpone, or The Fox

Ben Johnson

by David Bevington, Brian Parker, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of Jonson's career at the time of writing and introduces new material on its relation to the Reynard beast epic and the commedia dell' arte. Ambiguities in the play are discussed with reference to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of the Golden Age. Particular attention is paid to the rhythmic effects of the play in performance, especially interweavings of the main plot and subplot. Fresh suggestions are made about the play's opening and its controversial conclusion in the light of experiments that have been made in performance since Volpone 's stage revival in 1921. The modernized text is accompanied by full commentary, notes and illustrations. The appendices include a discussion by John Cutts of the original music, passages translated from the original sources and analogues, and a full record of the play's modern stage history, its many adaptations, and its transformations into opera, musical comedy, film and television. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2022

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1

The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now

by Douglas Field

This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture. Opening with two articles by the late Michael Horovitz, an important figure in the 'Blake Renaissance' of the 1960s, the issue goes on to investigate the ideological struggle over Blake in the early part of the twentieth century, with particular reference to W. B. Yeats. This is followed by articles on the artistic avant-garde and underground of the 1960s and on Blake's significance for science fiction authors of the 1970s. The issue closes with an article on the contemporary Belgian art collective maelstrÖm reEvolution.

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May 2019

Otto John

Patriot oder Verräter: Eine deutsche Biographie

by Benjamin Carter Hett Michael Wala

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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

2017

Shustryk (The Spry Fox)

by Knyazevich Maryana

Mother Fox always warned little Shustryk: "Never, never leave the home alone, because in the forest, and especially beyond the forest, where the two-legged live, it is full of dangers..." But can a little fox, who was called Shustryk, sit at home when there is such beauty around? Inquisitive Shustrik, trying to give his mother a pleasant surprise, gets into a big trouble.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2021

Translations, an autoethnography

by Paul Carter

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Biography & True Stories

August 2012

The most remarkable woman in England

by John Carter Wood

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 1998

Angela Carter

by Aidan Day

This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault. ;

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by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David

Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–49

by John Carter Wood

by Peter William Evans

The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

by Sam George, Bill Hughes

Human rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet policy

by Umberto Tulli

Eine Abhandlung zur Philosophie des Geistes

by Harvey P. Gavagai, John R. Searle

by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr

by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney, Joshua Samuel Reid

The epitome of modernity

by Ian Carter, Jeffrey Richards

by Steven Matthews, John Thieme

Wie ich die Amerikaner verstehen und die Deutschen lieben lernte

by Fox, Sabrina

by Tanya Postavna (Author), Mariya Foya (Illustrator)

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Ben Johnson

by David Bevington, Brian Parker, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now

by Douglas Field

Patriot oder Verräter: Eine deutsche Biographie

by Benjamin Carter Hett Michael Wala

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by Paul Carter

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