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The Politics of Style
This book develops a Marxist theory of literary style. The first part explains why Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson came to see style as central to political criticism. It delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a ‘politics of style’, and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. The second part sets out precisely what each thinker has written on style and demonstrates how this came to figure in their overall intellectual and political projects, focusing above all on a detailed reconstruction of Williams’s best-known concept, the ‘structure of feeling’. Finally, the third part sets out an independent theory of style and makes an ambitious attempt to establish it as a foundational element of a new Marxist poetics.
Science Fiction Literature in East Germany
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discuss...
The Writings of Clement of Alexandria (Complete)
Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both minstrels, and both were renowned in story. They are celebrated in song to this day in the chorus of the Greeks; the one for having allured the fishes, and the other for having surrounded Thebes with walls by the power of music. Another, a Thracian, a cunning master of his art (he also is the subject of a Hellenic legend), tamed the wild beasts by the mere might of song; and transplanted trees—oaks—by music. I might tell you also the story of another, a brother to these—the subject of a myth, and a minstrel—Eunomos the Locrian and the Pythic grasshopper. A solemn Hellenic assembly had met at Pytho, to celebrate the death of the Pythic...
Spatial Literary Studies
Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.
The Trick
"Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this ... debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together"--
Der Brockopath
In einer der unwirtlichsten Gegenden Deutschlands geht die Angst um. Ausgerechnet auf dem sagenumwobenen Brocken wird nach der Walpurgisnacht eine weibliche Leiche aufgefunden. Der Harz gerät in Aufruhr und die Kriminalpolizei hat alle Hände voll zu tun, die Hysterie unter dem Deckel der Vernunft zu halten. Ein zweiter Körper, abgelegt am sogannten Hexenbrunnen, sorgt endgültig dafür, dass manch einem die Fantasie durchgeht. Schon nach wenigen Wochen Dienst bereut Kommissar Bernd Mader, dass er sich aus dem urbanen Dresden nach seiner Ehescheidung in die tiefste Provinz hat versetzen lassen. Der Fall wird immer undurchsichtiger - genau wie der Nebel, dessen milchige Schwaden den Gipfel des Brockens häufig umhüllen.
L’incantesimo
Un ragazzino che crede a tutto e un anziano mago che non crede più a nulla. Cosa potrebbe unirli se non il corso della storia e un’incredibile avventura? Praga, 1934: Mosche Goldenhirsch, figlio quindicenne del vecchio rabbino, perde la testa per un leggendario mago del circo, conosciuto come l’Uomo Mezzaluna, e per la sua graziosa assistente. Mosche scappa di casa e si unisce alla loro carovana, lentamente in viaggio verso la Germania. Riesce a sfuggire alla furia omicida dei campi di sterminio e diventa un illusionista di successo, negli Stati Uniti, con il nome d’arte di Grande Zabbatini. Los Angeles, 2007: Max Cohn, dieci anni, scappa dalla finestra della sua cameretta per andare a trovare il Grande Zabbatini, ormai stufo e anziano. Il ragazzino è convinto che solo la sua magia e i suoi incantesimi possano far tornare insieme i genitori prima che il divorzio venga firmato. Una storia divertente e struggente, capace di viaggiare per epoche e continenti; un romanzo sulla fragilità della vita, sulla separazione, la perdita e la forza dei desideri che, come per incantesimo, possono diventare realtà.
The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition
Examining a key issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research, this book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing. The central question underlying this interface is the relationship between grammatical encoding and decoding, namely: are the two modalities of production and comprehension subserved by different types of processors, or by the same syntactic processing module? Proposing an 'Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model' of SLA, Anke Lenzing presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study to demonstrate the extent to which the two modalities rely on shared representations and/or shared processes. Through this detailed analysis The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition sheds new light on the cognitive architecture of human language processing and offers a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in the L2 acquisition process.
Jaakoppi
"Ja kuitenkaan ei Törres Snörtevold ollut nähnyt paljon oikeata kultaa eläessään; muutamia kullatuita kehyksiä pappilan salissa, siinä kaikki." Törres Snörtevold on köyhä maalaispoika, jolla on unelma kaupunkiin pääsemisestä ja taloudellisesta menestyksestä. Kaupungissa hän kohtaa jälleen uusia toiveita ja pettymyksiä, mutta haaveistaan hän ei luovu. Hänen suurin toiveensa onkin näyttää itselleen ja muille, että parempi elämä on vaikeuksista huolimatta mahdollista. Alexander Kiellandin viimeinen romaani Jaakoppi vuodelta 1891 (suom. Juhani Aho) on realistinen kertomus yksilön haasteista, yhteiskuntaluokkien jäykkyydestä ja henkilökohtaisesta uskosta 1800-luvun Norjassa. Alexander Lange Kielland (1849–1906) on yksi tunnetuimmista 1800-luvun norjalaisen kirjallisuuden edustajista. Kiellandin realistiset romaanit, näytelmät ja novellit pureutuivat yhteiskunnan vähävaraisempien asemaan tragedian ja satiirin keinoin. Hänen tunnetuimpia teoksiaan ovat muun muassa romaanit Laivuri Worse (1882) ja Myrkkyä (1883).
Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798
In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya 'Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute. Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya's life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years in the eighteenth century Christian community of Aleppo, the domestic reality of which is little known, exploring the influences she would have experienced. He leads us through her spiritual development under the direction of the Jesuits, her determination to found a new religious order, and the tragic history of its collapse in a welter of paranoia and persecution. Heyberger also reveals the tensions and ...
