Provided with a remarkable collection, Mercure de France follows an exacting editorial policy: French and foreign literature, poetry, history, anthologies... Awarded many times, the publishing house is associated with prestigious names: Romain Gary, Colette, Ionesco , André Gide, André du Bouchet, Henri Michaux, Adonis, Yves Bonnefoy, Andréï Makine, Gilles Leroy, Anne Serre, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Julian Barnes...
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Academic publishing house (ancient history of economics, history of science/medicine, geography, musicology, philosophy of law). Berliner Wissenschaft-Verlag is an imprint.
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The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
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»Man kann es als geistesgeschichtliches Unglück bezeichnen, daß Shaws Interpretation der Nibelungen-Tetralogie bisher weder von Wagnerianern noch von Wagner-Gegnern zur Kenntnis genommen wurde. Vermutlich wäre die mehr verdunkelnde als erhellende Wagner-Diskussion vermeidbar gewesen, wenn diese Analysen Shaws das deutsche Bewußtsein rechtzeitig erreicht hätten.« Joachim Kaiser
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Samuel Joseph Agnon, geboren 1888 in Galizien, gehört zu den wichtigsten hebräischen Prosaschriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine besondere Erzähltechnik und seine eigentümliche Sprache wurden oft mit Thomas Mann und Franz Kafka verglichen. Samuel J. Agnon erhielt 1954 und 1958 den Israel-Preis für Literatur und wurde 1966, zusammen mit Nelly Sachs, mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Er starb 1970 in Jerusalem. Gerold Necker, geboren 1961, Dr. phil., Dozent für Jüdische Studien an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Jüdische Mystik und Geschichte in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Amsterdam im 17. Jahrhundert sowie das erzählerische Werk des israelischen Nobelpreisträgers Samuel Joseph Agnon. Gerold Necker, geboren 1961, Dr. phil., Dozent für Jüdische Studien an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Jüdische Mystik und Geschichte in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Amsterdam im 17. Jahrhundert sowie das erzählerische Werk des israelischen Nobelpreisträgers Samuel Joseph Agnon.
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Samuel Joseph Agnon, geboren 1888 in Galizien, gehört zu den wichtigsten hebräischen Prosaschriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine besondere Erzähltechnik und seine eigentümliche Sprache wurden oft mit Thomas Mann und Franz Kafka verglichen. Samuel J. Agnon erhielt 1954 und 1958 den Israel-Preis für Literatur und wurde 1966, zusammen mit Nelly Sachs, mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Er starb 1970 in Jerusalem. Gerold Necker, geboren 1961, Dr. phil., Dozent für Jüdische Studien an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Jüdische Mystik und Geschichte in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Amsterdam im 17. Jahrhundert sowie das erzählerische Werk des israelischen Nobelpreisträgers Samuel Joseph Agnon. Gerold Necker, geboren 1961, Dr. phil., Dozent für Jüdische Studien an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Jüdische Mystik und Geschichte in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Amsterdam im 17. Jahrhundert sowie das erzählerische Werk des israelischen Nobelpreisträgers Samuel Joseph Agnon.
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This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale. The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies.
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This is a collection of works by writer Zhang Chengzhi. The Black Steed, Rivers of the North, and Golden Pastures included in this collection have already been translated into different languages. The Black Steed, through the life experience of a man leaving and returning to the countryside and through a beautiful but sad love story, reflects the choices of the Mongolian nationality in the conflict between old and new concepts and the struggle and outcry of the new generation of the grassland.
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How is my child developing? Where can I turn for guidance? How can I stimulate my child’s development? Do I actually need to stimulate it? As a parent, what is my role in promoting development? And cares what it’s like for ME? “My Cild and I” addresses parents’ elementary questions on parenthood and the development of their child. It provides a clear summary of what can be expected from a child, what one can hope for, and what the child needs to be protected from. The parents themselves are not forgotten. Parenting young children is a stressful task: the book therefore contains basic recommendations that show how parents can contribute to their child’s development and where the boundaries of appropriate developmental encouragement lie. It also describes the challenges of parenthood and how parents can avoid becoming overwhelmed. Numerous tips help the reader identify and cope with the developmental risks and crises faced by both children and parents. Target Group: Parents of children between the ages of 0 and 6.
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Kafka? Würde mich interessieren, hab' sogar schon mal was von ihm gelesen, ist mir aber zu schwer und macht obendrein depressiv … Wir versprechen: Jeder, der bisher so dachte, wird die Lektüre dieses Lese- und Einführungsbuchs als Kafka-Fan beenden! Seine bedeutendsten Erzählungen sind hier enthalten, leichtverständlich eingeleitet und in Kafkas Biographie eingeordnet. Dazu gibt es sorgfältig ausgewählte kürzere Texte, Tagebuchnotizen, Briefe und anderes mehr, das uns auch den Menschen Kafka näherbringt, der gar nicht so verschroben war, wie das Klischee es will, sondern ein humorvoller, warmherziger Mann, der sich der Qualität seiner Literatur bei aller Bescheidenheit durchaus bewußt war.
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Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
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Franz Kafka hat den Brief an den Vater 1919 geschrieben, diesen jedoch nie seinem Vater gezeigt. Unmittelbarer Auslöser war des Vaters Mißbilligung der standeswidrigen Verlobung Franz Kafkas mit der Schustertochter Julie Wohryzek, zum anderen die verletzende Gleichgültigkeit, mit der er auf die ihm gewidmeten Erzählbände In der Strafkolonie und Ein Landarzt reagiert hatte. Aber auch während des Schreibens kann sich Kafka nicht aus seiner prekären Bindung befreien. Vielmehr erscheint die von Furcht, Liebe und Verachtung gleichermaßen geprägte Beziehung noch bedrohlicher. Er stilisiert den Vater zu jener überdimensionalen Macht, die seine schriftstellerische Betätigung als Gegenreaktion provoziert und die Entfaltung seiner bürgerlichen Existenz verhindert. Kafkas Brief an den Vater gehört zu seinen ausführlichsten und schmerzlichsten autobiographischen Dokumenten. Als literarisches Werk wurde es berühmt als die selbsterzählte Leidensgeschichte eines Franz K.
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally. This edited collection explores the implications of the creation of the Soviet Union and the Communist International for black and colonial liberation struggles across the African diaspora. It examines the critical intellectual influence of Marxism and Bolshevism on the current of revolutionary 'black internationalism' and analyses how 'Red October' was viewed within the contested articulations of different struggles against racism and colonialism. Challenging European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left, The Red and the Black offers new insights on the relations between Communism, various lefts and anti-colonialisms across the Black Atlantic - including Garveyism and various other strands of Pan-Africanism. The volume makes a major and original intellectual contribution by making the relations between the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic central to debates on questions relating to racism, resistance and social change.
