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Mimesis - Repräsentation - Imagination
De Gruyter 2004; US$ 182.00Untersucht werden literaturtheoretische Positionen von der Antike bis 1800. Vergessene historische Dimensionen werden freigelegt und Antworten auf die Frage nach der Tragf higkeit der Kategorie 'literarischer Text' (der Literatur im engeren Sinn) gesucht. Der interdisziplin re Zugang erlaubt es, ideengeschichtliche Kontexte in ihrer f r die... more...
How to Really Stink at Golf
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00As a longtime golfer, Jeff Foxworthy has learned something important about the grand auld game: It?s not who has the highest score, it?s who has the least fun playing it. And now, in his hilarious primer How to Really Stink at Golf, Foxworthy shares his invaluable tips for a lifetime of horrible drives and putts. ? Get into the right frame of mind... more...
The Performing Century
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 31.95This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be. more...
Cinematherapy for the Soul
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Has your karma run over your dogma? Are you feeling anxious about the future, or wondering who turned down the dimmer switch on your inner light? The illumination you need is right at your fingertips. Settle into the lotus position, pick up your remote control, and let movies be your spiritual guide on your journey toward personal nirvana. From the... more...
Looking for My Country
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 25.00Renowned journalist and author of the international bestseller Wordstruck , Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American. Growing up in Halifax during World War II, it seemed to Robert MacNeil that nothing of significance ever happened in Canada. From his mother?s obsession with all... more...
Naming the World
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering dialogue to setting the scene, Naming the World... more...
Princess
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 13.95Welcome, Your Highness. If you?ve picked up this book, you know who you are. You have a taste for life?s finer things: champagne with breakfast, custom lingerie, and kitten heels?even in the snow. At the office, you?re a corporate merger of style and substance, flawlessly handling the most difficult clients or performing life-saving surgery wearing... more...
The Will to Whatevs
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99No one understands the complexities of modern life better than Eugene Mirman--claims Eugene Mirman?and anyone seeking guidance from a man who has lived through everything (except the Great Depression, the Spanish-American War, and Jerry Lee Lewis's sex scandal) won't resist this charmingly hysterical guidebook. Become ultra-popular in high school... more...
Lady in the Dark
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work. The curious directive to playwright Moss Hart to complete a play about psychoanalysis came from his own Freudian psychiatrist. For the first time since his brother George's death, Ira Gershwin returned to writing lyrics for... more...
The Theatre of the Absurd
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00In 1953, Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents?Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others?shattered... more...









