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A Vision of Europe
This volume investigates and re-evaluates Franco-German relations during the inter-war Great Depression, providing a fresh understanding of Franco-German conflict and cooperation during the past century and in the process demonstrating that present-day European integration, based around the Paris-Berlin axis, has far deeper roots than previously imagined.
Mehrsprachigkeit und Identitätsbildung im Großherzogtum Luxemburg
Based on qualitative research, this book addresses the tension between language and identity in the context of the complex multilingual situation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The connection between multilingualism and identity is explored both from the individual perspective, through language biographical interviews, and from the societal perspective, through press texts.
Grenzen und Brücken in der Romania
In gegenwärtigen Debatten rückt das Thema Grenze, aber auch Grenzüberwindung durch Brücken, in den Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses. Zwischen einer Vernetzung durch Medien, Deterritorialisierung und Abschottungspolitik findet eine Diskussion über das Globale im Gegensatz zum Lokalen statt, über Chancen und Grenzen einer (neuen) Weltoffenheit – Aspekte, die durch die Corona-Pandemie umso mehr offenbart werden. Gerade für die Romania sind Themen, die sich mit Grenzen und Brücken beschäftigen, relevant: Ihr Gebiet verteilt sich auf unterschiedliche Sprachen, Diskursgemeinschaften und Geographien, die auf vielfältige Weise vernetzt sind. Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dies...
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter provides an introduction to one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, whose output in many genres and roles continued to grow until the author's death in 2008. Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced work for the theatre, radio, television and screen, in addition to being a highly successful director and actor. This volume examines the wide range of Pinter's work (including his recent play Celebration). The first section of essays places his writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time, and its reception worldwide. The Companion moves on to explore issues of performance, with essays by practitioners and writers. The third section addresses wider themes, including Pinter as celebrity, the playwright and his critics, and the political dimensions of his work. The volume offers photographs from key productions, a chronology, checklist of works and bibliography.
Pinter’s World
Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter’s life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his “Appointment Diaries,” recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray’s memoirs, and Henry Woolf’s reminiscences in addition to personal discussions with several in Pinter’s world. This book provides a fresh illumination of Pinter’s life and art, his friendships, obsessions, and concerns.Material is arranged around themes, key concerns, Pinter’s activities. Pinter’s meetings and endeavors, for instance, with whom he met and when, when he wrote what and when, and his perspective at the tim...
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Harold Pinter
Michael Billington's engrossing biography examines Pinter's work in the context of his life. Through extended conversations with Pinter and interviews with his friends and colleagues, Billington creates a portrait of the man as well as the artist, from Pinter's Hackney childhood to his Nobel Prize, discussing his writing for stage and screen, as well as his fiction and poetry, his acting and directing, his political activity, his friendships, his two marriages and his passion for cricket. He emerges as a man of infinite complexity whose imaginative world is shaped by his private character. This new edition includes a full transcript of the Nobel lecture, as well as an additional chapter written in the aftermath of Harold Pinter's death in December 2008. 'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.' The Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005'Enthralling... An open-sesame into Pinter's work... A valuable book. And absorbing: I found it virtually unputdownable.' Financial Times'No reader of this book will doubt that its subject is a man of the highest artistic stature.' Sunday Telegraph
The Films of Harold Pinter
Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.
