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The Empire
A&C Black 2010; US$ 12.99Patch you up, all nice like, splint, bandage your leg. All very civilized actually. But then. Then. We hand you over." Helmand in the height of summer. Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle. Gary wants answers, Hafizullah just wants to make it through the... more...
Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness
A&C Black 2009; US$ 11.69Ladies and gentlemen, as some of you may know, my name is Edward Gant: prodigy, soldier, traveller, poet - but always and ever a showman.' In 1881, the famed and enigmatic impresario Mr Edward Gant presented his renowned travelling show for the final time. The opiate-addicted actor manager showcased his troupe creating a spectacle of grotesquery,... more...
Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities and oblique relationship to reality, was a safe way to air it. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which plays-from Marlowe's and Shakespeare's to Webster's and Ford's-reflect,... more...
The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic... more...
The Madness of George III
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 14.57George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power. Alan Bennett's play explores the court of a mad king, and the fearful treatments he was forced... more...
Aldous Huxley
Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 54.00-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers. Prophetic and unsparing, Huxley's Brave New World continues to warn us against the dangers... more...
Doris Lessing
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 54.00- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom more...
James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 38.00The essays of this volume show how Joyces work engaged with the many upheavals and revolutions within the French nineteenth-century novel and its contexts. They delve into the complexities of this engagement, tracing its twists and turns, and reemerge with fascinating and rich discoveries. The contributors explore Joyces explicit... more...
Koloniale Vergangenheiten - (post-)imperiale Gegenwart
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2011; US$ 30.86Hauptbeschreibung Während im angelsächsischen Sprachraum die Diskussion über den Postkolonialismus schon seit vielen Jahren nicht nur den politischen Diskurs, sondern Edward Saids Begriff der post-colonial studies folgend auch spezifische Fragestellungen in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften prägt, fand die Auseinandersetzung mit der kolonialen... more...
Zwischen den Stühlen: Psychisch kranke Frauen in Einrichtungen der Wohnungslosenhilfe
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 27.54Hauptbeschreibung Aktuelle Zahlen belegen, dass der Anteil der psychischen Erkrankungen in der Allgemeinbevölkerung in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich zugenommen hat. Ungleich schneller wächst die Zahl von psychisch Kranken in Einrichtungen der Wohnungslosenhilfe - eine Tatsache, auf die soziale Dienste und Einrichtungen häufig weder inhaltlich,... more...









