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Promoted ContentHumanities & Social SciencesAugust 2010
The secret battle
Emotional survival in the great war
by Michael Roper, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned. ;
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesApril 1997
Tis Pity She's a Whore
John Ford
by Derek Roper
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period, and has been successfully adapted for film and radio. The Revels plays edition by Derek Roper has been the standard scholarly edition since it appeared in 1975. This new edition uses the same authoritative text, but with notes designed for modern undergraduate use. The substantial introduction has been completely rewritten to take account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years. It presents the play as an 'interrogative text', in which subversive meanings are inscribed within an apparently orthodox narrative; as a courageous treatment of forbidden love; and as an achieved work of Baroque art. ;
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsJanuary 2019
Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsMarch 2009
Michael Winterbottom
by Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an impressive body of work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of critical approaches to analyse the filmmaker's eclectic interests in cinema and the world at large. With this in mind, the realist elements of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo are examined in the light of a long history of cinema's dealings with realism, as far back as post-war Italian neo-realist filmmaking; whereas Jude and The claim are approached as both literary adaptations (a continuing strand in British cinema history) and examples of other reworked genres (the road movie, the western). This lively study of his work, written in a wholly accessible style, will engage all those who have followed his career as well as those with a wide-ranging interest in British cinema. ;
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesJune 2023
The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
by Michael Kalisch
How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.
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Michael Kohlhaas
by Heinrich Kleist
Michael Kohlhaas ist einer der »rechtschaffensten zugleich und entsetzlichsten Menschen seiner Zeit«. Mit unerschütterlicher Überzeugung glaubt der Pferdehändler an die Macht des Gesetzes. Als er eines Tages hinterhältigen Machenschaften zum Opfer fällt, wendet er sich an die Obrigkeit – die ihn jedoch, korrupt, wie sie ist, um sein Recht betrügt. Kohlhaas beginnt daraufhin einen unbeugsamen Rachefeldzug, in dem er keinen seiner Widersacher verschont … Bis heute hat Kleists berühmteste Erzählung über den Kampf eines betrogenen und wutentbrannten Mannes gegen korrupte Rechtsverdreher und Staatsklüngel nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt.
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Trusted PartnerOctober 2012
Michael Kohlhaas
by Heinrich von Kleist
Michael Kohlhaas ist einer der »rechtschaffensten zugleich und entsetzlichsten Menschen seiner Zeit«. Mit unerschütterlicher Überzeugung glaubt der Pferdehändler an die Macht des Gesetzes. Als er eines Tages hinterhältigen Machenschaften zum Opfer fällt, wendet er sich an die Obrigkeit – die ihn jedoch, korrupt, wie sie ist, um sein Recht betrügt. Kohlhaas beginnt daraufhin einen unbeugsamen Rachefeldzug, in dem er keinen seiner Widersacher verschont … Bis heute hat Kleists berühmteste Erzählung über den Kampf eines betrogenen und wutentbrannten Mannes gegen korrupte Rechtsverdreher und Staatsklüngel nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt.
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2022
Michael Jordan
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Harris Lo, Silke Kleemann
Eines Tages kam Michael weinend nach Hause. Sein Traum war zerplatzt, er war nicht ins Basketball-Team seiner Schule aufgenommen worden. Er sei zu klein, meinte der Trainer. »Go out and earn it«, sagte seine Mutter zu ihm. Und das tat er. Fast zwei Meter wurde er groß und machte die Chicago Bulls zur erfolgreichsten Mannschaft der amerikanischen Liga. Mit dem US-Team holte er zweimal Gold bei den Olympischen Spielen. Am Ende seiner Karriere wurde er zum »Ball-Sportler des Jahrhunderts« gekürt. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 1995
Ödipus und der Teufel
Die Wiederentdeckung des Menschen in der Geschichte
by Roper, Lyndal / Englisch Sillem, Peter
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Trusted PartnerJuly 2008
Michael Tolliver lebt
Die neuesten Stadtgeschichten
by Maupin, Armistead / Deutsch Kellner, Michael
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Trusted PartnerJanuary 2010
Michael Tolliver lebt
Die neuesten Stadtgeschichten
by Maupin, Armistead / Übersetzt von Kellner, Michael
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2014
Michael Walzer: Sphären der Gerechtigkeit
Ein kooperativer Kommentar
by Vorwort von Walzer, Michael; Herausgegeben von Knoll, Manuel; Herausgegeben von Spieker, Michael
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesMarch 2005
Early modern women's manuscript poetry
by Jill Millman, Gillian Wright
'Early modern women's manuscript poetry' is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthology of early modern women's writing which focuses exclusively on manuscript material. Authors include Mary Sidney, Lucy Hutchinson and Katherine Philips; central figures in the emerging canon of early modern women writers, but whose work appears in a fresh and very different light in the manuscript context emphasised by this anthology. The volume also includes substantial excerpts from a recently discovered verse paraphrase of Genesis, thought to be by the previously unknown seventeenth-century writer Mary Roper, as well as selections from the unjustly neglected poet, Hester Pulter. The mix of canonical and non-canonical writers makes this book ideal for use on undergraduate and early postgraduate courses, while specialists will be particularly interested in the sophisticated and varied material taken from less familiar sources. ;
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Trusted PartnerMarch 1993
Der Begriff Verzweiflung
Korrekturen an Kierkegaard
by Michael Theunissen
Der Band enthält zwei Studien: »Die existenzdialektische Grundvoraussetzung der Verzweiflungsanalyse Kierkegaards« und »Zur transzendierenden Kritik der Verzweiflungsanalyse Kierkegaards« sowie eine zusammenfassende Schlußbetrachtung »Dialektik in der Krankheit zum Tode«. Der Titel dieses Bandes »Der Begriff der Verzweiflung« spielt nicht nur auf Kierkegaards Angstabhandlung an; vor allem will er signalisieren, daß Michael Theunissen analytisch an Kierkegaards Die Krankheit zum Tode herangeht. Eine derartige Herangehensweise steht nicht nur im Widerspruch zum Selbstverständnis Kierkegaards, sie kollidiert auch mit der gegenwärtig vorherrschenden Art des Umgangs mit ihm. In einer Zeit, in der die Tendenz sich ausbreitet, den Unterschied von Philosophie und Literatur, von Argumentation und Rhetorik einzuebnen, muß ein Autor wie Kierkegaard, der untrennbar Denker und Dichter war, ein neues Interesse auf sich lenken. Was heute vornehmlich interessiert, sind genau die Mitteilungsformen, von denen Theunissens Studien abstrahieren. Sie folgen nicht der Mode, die Formen von den Inhalten abzulösen und diesen die Aufmerksamkeit zu entziehen, die man jenen widmet, denn die daraus resultierende Unverbindlichkeit betrügt Kierkegaard um sein Bestes, um seinen Ernst. Beeindruckt von diesem Ernst, über den Theunissen schon als 22jähriger seine Dissertation geschrieben hat, fühlt er sich dazu herausgefordert, an der Leichtfertigkeit der Literaten ein Korrektiv anzubringen. Michael Theunissen ist Professor für Philosophie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Im Suhrkamp Verlag hat er veröffentlicht: Sein und Schein. Die kritische Funktion der Hegelschen Logik, 1978,1980 (stw 341); Negative Theologie der Zeit, 1991 (stw 938); zusammen mit Hans Friedrich Fulda und Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Kritische Darstellung der Metaphysik. Eine Diskussion über Hegels »Logik«, 1980 (stw 315); Hg. zusammen mit Wilfried Greve, Materialien zur Philosophie Sören Kierkegaards, 1979 (stw 241). Herausgegeben von Emil Angehrn, Hinrich Fink-Eitel, Christian Iber und Georg Lohmann erschien 1992: Dialektischer Negativismus. Michael Theunissen zum 60. Geburtstag (stw 1034). In diesem Band findet sich auch ein Verzeichnis der Schriften von Michael Theunissen.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsJune 2021
Contemporary French cinema
An introduction (revised edition)
by Guy Austin
Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of French cinema with analyses of over 120 movies, from Les Valseuses to Caché. Reflecting the diversity of French film production since the New Wave, this clear and perceptive study includes chapters on the heritage film, the thriller and the war movie, alongside the 'cinéma du look', representations of sexuality, comedies, the work of women film makers and le jeune cinéma. Each chapter introduces the public reception and critical debates surrounding a given genre, interwoven with detailed accounts of relevant films. Confirmed as a major contribution to both Film Studies and French Studies, this book is a fascinating volume for students and fans of French film alike.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsJanuary 2019
Contemporary French cinema
An introduction (revised edition)
by Guy Austin
Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of French cinema with analyses of over 120 movies, from Les Valseuses to Caché. Reflecting the diversity of French film production since the New Wave, this clear and perceptive study includes chapters on the heritage film, the thriller and the war movie, alongside the 'cinéma du look', representations of sexuality, comedies, the work of women film makers and le jeune cinéma. Each chapter introduces the public reception and critical debates surrounding a given genre, interwoven with detailed accounts of relevant films. Confirmed as a major contribution to both Film Studies and French Studies, this book is a fascinating volume for students and fans of French film alike.