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A Nazi Nightmare
A Nazi Nightmare – Introduction In this the third book in the chronicles of Adam Black, Adam is again with his mates in the Army Cadets but this time he is in the city of Dortmund in West Germany with the Royal Artillery. A trip with his mates to a local brewery turns into a nightmare when he finds himself back in the Second World War and a prisoner of the Nazis. Dragged off to a camp as a slave worker he is caught up in the “Dambusters Raid” which leaves him on the run from the troops searching for him and the downed British airmen with him. Even on returning to his own time his troubles are not over. Other Books in the series: Book 1 – A Roman Odyssey Book 2 – A Viking Voyage Book 4 – A Voyage to Victory
Journey Into Darkness
In 1994, Bosnia-Herzegovina is aflame in an ethnic and religious war. The United States is publically committted to avoiding any entanglements in the Balkan. Behind the scenes, intelligence is preparing for the inevitable and trying to ensure all options are available. Key to completing the intelligence mosaic is the recovery of a single computer disk, which could sway the decision makers. The covert operation mounted to recover the disk is intercepted by a Croatian patrol. Pinned down and unable to make the rendezvous Bill Craig is alone and facing insurmountable odds.
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic
When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational ideals of progress, Bildung, and revolution that had first come to fruition with Goethe and Beethoven would finally achieve their apotheosis. Central to this founding myth was the Germanic musical heritage. Just as the canon had defined the idea of the German nation in the nineteenth-century, so in the GDR it contributed to the act of imagining the collective socialist state. Composing ...
The Comedy of Errors
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.
Ferruccio Busoni
"Busoni's radical ideas about music was, is, and could be drew fire from his more conservative contemporaries. His thoughts on musical notation, opera, and the division of the scale were well ahead of his time, but, in many cases, are common currency today. Busoni went into voluntary exile in Switzerland during World War I, unwilling to take sides, and only recently has the veil been gradually lifted from his work and theories. Ferruccio Busoni: "A Musical Ishmael" shines a revealing light on Busoni's life, concepts, and profound influence on contemporary musical aesthetics and practice."--BOOK JACKET.
Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic
Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.
Reconsidering National Plays in Europe
This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and how does it represent its national identity? The chapters provide an in-depth look at plays in eight different countries: Germany (Die Räuber, Friedrich Schiller), Switzerland (Wilhelm Tell, Friedrich Schiller), Hungary (Bánk Bán, József Katona), Sweden (Gustav Vasa, August Strindberg), Norway (Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen), the Netherlands (The Good Hope, Herman Heijermans), France (Tartuffe, Molière), and Ireland. This collection is especially relevant at a time of socio-political flux, when national identity and the future of the nation state is being reconsidered.
Art Outside the Lines
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in the GDR. It explores the diversity of art produced in the state and contests the long-held perception that socialist realism and artistic innovation were mutually exclusive. Crucially, the collection puts art itself to the fore; GDR art is considered not simply as a political by-product, as is so often the case, but as an entity of innovation and aesthetic value in its own right.
Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
This volume presents work from an international group of writers who explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production. They reveal that the roots of an East/West cultural divide were present many years prior to the rise of socialism and the Cold War. The chapters offer insights into the complex stages of adoption and rejection of Western ideals in areas such as architecture, travel writings, film, music, health care, consumer products, political propaganda, and human rights. They describe a process of mental ma...
