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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 16.17Hauptbeschreibung Goldschmidt und Richter-Rethwisch stellen aus ihrer Tätigkeit als Gemeindepfarrer ausformulierte Gottesdienste zu den unterschiedlichsten Werken der (Welt-)literatur vor. In dieser Sammlung finden sich Pfingstgottesdienste mit Texten von Friedrich Schiller, aus dem kleinen Prinzen von Saint Exupéry und von Hermann Hesse, ein Bußgottesdienst... more...
The Sound of No Hands Clapping
Da Capo Press 2008; US$ 15.95The first-ever paperback edition of Toby Young?s further misadventures in Hollywood more...
The Singer on the Shore
Carcanet 2006; US$ 27.64The novelist Gabriel Josipovici's new book of essays ranges from writings on the Bible, Shakespeare, Kafka, Borges and the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld to considerations of Rembrandt's self-portraits, death in Tristram Shandy, and what Kierkegaard has to tell us about the writing of fiction. From the title piece, which examines the relationship... more...
The View From Here
Atlantic Books Ltd 2009; US$ 10.19The sequel to Joan Bakewell's bestselling autobiography, 'The Centre of the Bed', this is an inspiring and glorious celebration of what life can be like at 70 - which is, according to Joan, the new 50. Built loosely on her much-loved Guardian column 'Just 70', this book is Joan's discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. more...
Weakness
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael OSullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length... more...
Zur theoretischen Grundlegung einer Sozialgeschichte der Literatur
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 126.00Zur theoretischen Grundlegung einer Sozialgeschichte der Literatur more...
Wissen vom Menschen und Erzählen vom Einzelfall
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 182.00Me
Aurum Press 2009; US$ 8.75Several years ago Byron Rogers started receiving letters forwarded to him by his then-employer, the Daily Telegraph Magazine. But these weren?t the usual readers? letters. These were passionate, not to say, steamy, love letters. They were also from women he?d never met. But they seemed to know all about him, the illustrious journalist? Rogers? quest... more...
TransArea
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00This volume takes the view that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but instead an enduring process, marked by four periods of accelerated change. The Early Modern Period in European historiography is linked to our present experience of globalization by way of the diverse global trends that took place during the Age of Modernity. The literatures... more...
Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 18501915
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1851 and 1915. Moruzi's analyses of competing discourses within girls' periodicals demonstrate how these publications were able to frame feminine behaviour in ways that embraced the changing role of girls... more...









