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Dark Company
"Of course I had to end up here . . ." Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the landlocked German interior and remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat, and his livelihood: his apprenticeship in the cold halls of the Royal Naval College in London; the dangers of the mean streets and waterfront of New York in the 1970s, and Poland under martial law; Germany after the reunification, when for a year or so it seemed that the whole country drifted rudderless, drawn by the current of history to who knows where. In this novel from Gert Loschütz, Thomas remembers childhood, his first love, and the warnings of his grandfather: Beware the dark company! This mysterious band of men and women dressed in black cast a shadow over his story, as he wrestles with the secrets, the unplumbed depths of his soul, the hazards lurking below a seemingly placid surface, and throughout it all, the rain, falling night after night. Dark Company is a superb example of a distinctly German tradition in weird fiction which claims its roots in Kafka and Herbert Rosendorfer.
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.
The Nirex Collection
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English in Australia
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Growing Point
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Monographic Series
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Deutschland und die "Wende" in Literatur, Sprache und Medien
Mit ihren Expertenseminaren für Alumni im Ausland möchte die Georg-August-Universität Göttingen die Bindung zu ihren Ehemaligen langfristig stärken und ein weltweites Netzwerk aufbauen. Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis des Expertenseminars "Deutschland und die Wende in Literatur, Sprache und Medien", an dem Wissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und Filmemacher mit ihrem Blick auf die deutsche Gegenwartsgeschichte sowie Alumni aus China, Japan und Korea, die sich in ihren Heimatländern für die Verbreitung der deutschen Sprache und Kultur engagieren, teilnahmen. Das Seminar und sein nachfolgender Band stellen eine spezifisch deutsche Erfahrung in den Mittelpunkt und thematisieren damit g...
