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  1. A Good Life: Human rights and encounters with modernity
    Autor*in: Edmunds, Mary
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  ANU Press, Canberra

    This book is a story. It’s a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first mehr

     

    This book is a story. It’s a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first

     

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    Schlagworte: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: ethics; modernism; Human rights; Roebourne; Western Australia
  2. A History of Anthropology
    Erschienen: 20130510
    Verlag:  Pluto Press

    This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan... mehr

     

    This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also considered, and the growth of distinctive national styles in anthropological research is highlighted.

     

    A History of Anthropology is an unparalleled account of theoretical developments in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, including functionalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, neo-Marxism and discourse analysis. Major anthropologists are provided with brief biographies and key debates are covered such as those concerning totemism, kinship and globalisation.

     

    This essential text on anthropology is highly engaging, authoritative and suitable for students at all levels.

     

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  3. A Sanctuary of Sounds
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    A Sanctuary of Sounds is an aural rewriting of William Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary (1931). A polyphonic object. A garden — assemblage of blooms, of affects, of sounds, of meaning. An invitation to rethink appropriation ethically, aesthetically, and... mehr

     

    A Sanctuary of Sounds is an aural rewriting of William Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary (1931). A polyphonic object. A garden — assemblage of blooms, of affects, of sounds, of meaning. An invitation to rethink appropriation ethically, aesthetically, and epistemologically. The appropriation of a body of work, of a physical body, of an idea, of data. The history of knowledge and its production is enabled by the process of appropriation, by the differentiation of noise. What does it mean to sample data, not of finished artworks, but of noise itself, the environment? Being victimized by the crushing quality of noise is all too human. Art must become an acoustic ecology. Noticing the landscape of objects, the relationships, the environment itself, in order to compose the music of tomorrow. Let the song of vibrant matter sing itself. A Sanctuary of Sounds is a noise–totality. Noise — nothing but noise. Noise as the first object of metaphysics. Noise as the synchronic/diachronic mediator of production–processes and their reorganization in society. Utopia and dystopia at once. A Sanctuary of Sounds is a dialectical poem, it is noise against noise — raping a rape.

     

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    Schlagworte: Poetry by individual poets
    Weitere Schlagworte: William Faulkner; sound ecology; noise; poetry
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (98 p.)
  4. Adelaide: a literary city
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  University of Adelaide Press

    From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them;... mehr

     

    From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about—sometimes with love, sometimes with scorn. Literature has been important not only to the city’s cultural life but to its identity, to the way it has been seen and, most importantly, to the way it has seen itself. Today, literary Adelaide is thriving. The ‘printers, schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, booksellers, authors, publishers, and even reviewers’ that Wakefield imagined more than 180 years ago have been augmented by other infrastructure such as the South Australian Writers’ Centre, the University of Adelaide’s creative writing program, by ArtsSA, by an online literary culture that connects the city to the rest of the world, and by countless reading groups and public readings. Adelaide is home to a vast array of interesting writers, such as Peter Goldsworthy, Sean Williams, Dylan Coleman, Vikki Wakefield, Jan Owen, Roseanne Hawke, Stephen Orr, Fiona McIntosh, Brian Castro, and many others. This flourishing literary life continues to be an important component of one of Adelaide’s most significant identities—as a city of creativity and culture. Adelaide: a literary city hopes to broaden and deepen our understanding of that long component of the city’s life.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: literary city; adelaide; Australia; South Australia
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (284 p.)
  5. After the Break : Television Theory Today
    Beteiligt: Teurlings, Jan (Hrsg.); Valck, Marijke de (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    Television as we knew it is irrevocably changing. Some are gleefully announcing the death of television, others have been less sanguine but insist that television is radically changing underneath our eyes. Several excellent publications have dealt... mehr

     

    Television as we knew it is irrevocably changing. Some are gleefully announcing the death of television, others have been less sanguine but insist that television is radically changing underneath our eyes. Several excellent publications have dealt with television's uncertain condition, but few have taken the specific question of what television's transformations mean for the discipline of Television Studies as a starting point. The essays collected in this volume aim to fill this void. Two fundamental questions string the various contributions together. First, is television really in crisis or is the present not so extraordinary when revisiting television's development? Second, should we invent new theoretical concepts or are our old ones still perfectly relevant? To answer such questions the authors in this volume take up diverse case studies, ranging from the academic series Reading Contemporary Television to Flemish Fiction, from nostalgic programming on broadcast television to YouTube, from tell-sell television shows to public television art in the 1980s. Over de onzekere toestand waarin het medium televisie zich bevindt zijn verschillende publicaties verschenen, slechts weinigen hebben zich de vraag gesteld wat deze veranderingen betekenen voor de televisiewetenschap. De auteurs van After the Break gaan in op de gevolgen voor dit vakgebied. Zit het medium echt in een crisis, of is de huidige situatie helemaal niet zo bijzonder als men naar de ontwikkeling kijkt die televisie door de jaren heen heeft ondergaan? En moeten er nieuwe theoretische kaders bedacht worden om het huidige medium te beoordelen, of zijn onze oude kaders nog relevant?

     

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    Beteiligt: Teurlings, Jan (Hrsg.); Valck, Marijke de (Hrsg.)
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    Medientyp: Ebook
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio
    Weitere Schlagworte: motion pictures; film
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (204 p.)
  6. Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance - Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Brill, Leiden - Boston

    Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi... mehr

     

    Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time.

    From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps. A movement of secularization tended to dissociate old age from the Christian preparation for death, re-orienting the concept of aging around pragmatic matters such as health care, intergenerational relationships, and accrued insights one might wish to pass along. Such changes were accompanied by an increasing number of personal accounts of later life.

     

    This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

     

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    ISBN: 9789004255722; 9789004254664
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: literature; history; aging; Erasmus; Galen; Michel de Montaigne; Michel Foucault; Petrarch; Pierre de Ronsard
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (192 p.)
  7. Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance : Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
    Erschienen: 20131101
    Verlag:  Brill, Leiden - Boston

    Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi... mehr

     

    Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps. A movement of secularization tended to dissociate old age from the Christian preparation for death, re-orienting the concept of aging around pragmatic matters such as health care, intergenerational relationships, and accrued insights one might wish to pass along. Such changes were accompanied by an increasing number of personal accounts of later life.

     

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    ISBN: 9789004255722
    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Literature; History; Aging; Erasmus; Galen; Michel de Montaigne; Michel Foucault; Petrarch; Pierre de Ronsard
  8. Akademische Strenge und künstlerische Freiheit : Die Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen
    Beteiligt: Scholl, Christian (Hrsg.); Sors, Anne-Katrin (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Die Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen ist vor allem für ihren Bestand an Niederländischer Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts bekannt. Dass sie darüber hinaus auch eine Kollektion von Gemälden des 19. Jahrhunderts umfasst, die einige wirkliche Schätze... mehr

     

    Die Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen ist vor allem für ihren Bestand an Niederländischer Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts bekannt. Dass sie darüber hinaus auch eine Kollektion von Gemälden des 19. Jahrhunderts umfasst, die einige wirkliche Schätze enthält, gleicht einer Neuentdeckung. Diese Kollektion wird hier erstmals in einem eigenen Bestandskatalog vorgestellt. Obwohl es sich um eine eher kleine Sammlung handelt, erweist sich diese doch als erstaunlich repräsentativ, um das Kunstverständnis des 19. Jahrhunderts mit seinen wechselnden Prämissen sowie kunsttheoretischen und künstlerischen Auseinandersetzungen an konkreten Kunstwerken aufzuzeigen. Eine zentrale Rolle spielt dabei die Gattungstheorie: Die seit der Frühen Neuzeit vertretene Ausdifferenzierung der Malerei in profane und religiöse Historie, Genre, Landschaft, Stillleben, Tierstück und Porträt wurde über das gesamte 19. Jahrhundert hinweg kontrovers diskutiert, blieb aber als wertsetzendes System lange präsent. Der vorliegende, von Dozenten und Studierenden des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars der Universität Göttingen gemeinsam erarbeitete Bestandskatalog nutzt die Gattungstheorie als „roten Faden“, um eine historische Perspektive auf den Bestand der Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Göttinger Universitätskunstsammlung anzubieten.

     

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  9. Aleksandr Bestužev-Marlinskij
    Erschienen: 1966
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Aleksandr Bestužev - Marlinskij gehört zweifellos zu den interessanten Gestalten in der Geschichte der russischen Literatur. Seine künstlerische Bedeutung ist umstritten, dies zeigt der Wandel in der Beurteilung seines Werkes. Von den vorhandenen... mehr

     

    Aleksandr Bestužev - Marlinskij gehört zweifellos zu den interessanten Gestalten in der Geschichte der russischen Literatur. Seine künstlerische Bedeutung ist umstritten, dies zeigt der Wandel in der Beurteilung seines Werkes. Von den vorhandenen Ausgaben wurden sowohl die zwölfbändige Gesamtausgabe von 1838 als auch die Auswahlausgabe von 1958 herangezogen.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Aleksandr; Bestužev; Chmielewski; Literaturwissenschaft; Marlinskij; Russland; Slavische Sprachwissenschaft
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (134 p.)
  10. Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Maria Charlotte Sweceny : Briefe 1938-1945
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Böhlau

    In the centre of this study stand some 154 letters exchanged between the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) and Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (née Stein, 1904-1956), the co-proprietor of the Viennese publishing house Manz,... mehr

     

    In the centre of this study stand some 154 letters exchanged between the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) and Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (née Stein, 1904-1956), the co-proprietor of the Viennese publishing house Manz, between 1938 and 1945. The transcripts are followed by a commentary that aims to elucidate the historical, individual and geographical references. A methodological note explains the corpus' provenance and method of transcribing and commenting on the letters adopted in the thesis. The last chapter of this study is devoted to Lotte Sweceny, the letters' addressee, and her family background.

    The letters' existence is due to the fact that the couple was separated by the outbreak of WW II and continued their relationship through correspondence. In September 1939 Lernet took part in the "Wehrmacht's" raid on Poland and was lightly wounded. As a result he spent the rest of the war on a leave of absence in his house in St. Wolfgang and, after September 1941, in Berlin. There, he worked as head of development of the "Heeresfilmstelle" (an office in charge of producing NS propaganda films), writing scripts himself and evaluating those by others. In these years, two of his most important novels, Mars im Widder (Mars in Aries) and Beide Sizilien (The Two Sicilies), were written - both are today considered as running counter to NS propaganda. Lotte Sweceny and her friends found their way into the set of characters and into the plot of Mars in Aries. The collection of poems Die Trophae (The Trophy) also originated from these years. When published in 1946, Lernet dedicated this work - which he considered to be his best - to Lotte Sweceny.

    The letters contain important background and numerous insights about the genesis and subsequent publication of these works. They also provide biographical details that shed light on the conditions of Lernet-Holenia's life and work during these years. Inter alia, they illuminate the circumstances surrounding Lernet-Holenia's posting to and role in the "Heeresfilmstelle". The writer considered his duties there dull and counterproductive to his actual work and unsurprisingly tried to escape from them as soon as possible. The thesis also addresses certain controversial issues in Lernet-Holenia's biography, in particular his involvement with the Nazi regime and his views on antisemitism: The way Lernet-Holenia writes about the regime and its protagonists in the letters suggests a clear political and intellectual distance to the "Third Reich" and thus reinforces scholarly voices that have, in this regard, already spoken in favor of the author. His use of a certain cipher in his letters even indicates that Lernet-Holenia was in touch with victims (or at least opponents) of the Nazi regime on behalf of Lotte Sweceny, the latter being half-Jewish herself. His personal and private dissociation from the Nazis did not, however, keep Lernet-Holenia from participating in their apparatus as long as he considered it beneficial for his career and/or his personal safety.

    Lotte Sweceny, who was married to an "Aryan" industrialist, came from the assimilated Jewish bourgeoisie of Vienna. The stimulating atmosphere of her parental home was, in part, the product of the commitment of the two preceding generations to assimilate. The chapter also deals with Lotte's marriage with Otto C. Sweceny - a marriage that was intended as a liberal experiment - and with the circle of friends consisting of architects, writers and others portrayed by the Austrian publicist Milan Dubrovic. Zentrum der vorliegenden Arbeit bildet die Edition des Briefwechsels zwischen dem österreichischen Schriftsteller Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) und Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (geb. Stein, 1904-1956), Gesellschafterin des Wiener Verlags Manz, während der Jahre 1938 bis 1945. Ein einleitender Aufsatz bietet einen Forschungsüberblick, gibt den Inhalt der Briefe wieder und analysiert ihre Bedeutung für Biografie und Werk Alexander Lernet-Holenias. Auf die Transkripte der 154 Briefe folgt der Kommentar, der die in diesen vorhandenen Bezüge historischer, personeller, geografischer und sonstiger Art erläutert. Ein editorischer Bericht gibt Aufschluss über die Provenienz des Korpus' sowie die Methode von Transkription und Kommentierung. Das abschließende Kapitel widmet sich Lotte Sweceny, der Adressatin der Briefe, und ihrem familiären Hintergrund.

    Die Existenz der Briefe verdankt sich der Tatsache, dass das Paar durch den Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs getrennt wurde und seine Beziehung mit Hilfe von Briefen fortführte. Im September 1939 nahm der Wehrmachts-Offizier Alexander Lernet-Holenia am Überfall auf Polen teil, wurde verwundet und verbrachte den Rest des Krieges beurlaubt in seinem Haus in St. Wolfgang bzw. ab September 1941 überwiegend in Berlin, wo er als Leiter des Entwicklungsstabs der Heeresfilmstelle Drehbücher beurteilte und auch selbst verfasste. Ebenfalls aus diesen Jahren datieren zwei seiner bedeutendsten Romane, Mars im Widder und Beide Sizilien, die beide der Propaganda, die er im Brotberuf generieren half, zuwiderlaufen. Lotte Sweceny und ihr Freundeskreis fanden in Figurengestaltung und Handlung des Mars im Widder Eingang. Auch die Gedichtsammlung Die Trophae entstand in diesen Jahren - bei ihrem Erscheinen 1946 widmete Lernet dieses ihm liebste seiner Bücher seiner Gefährtin und Briefpartnerin dieser Zeit.

    Die Briefe enthalten zahlreiche Hinweise zur Entstehungs- und Publikationsgeschichte dieser Werke; sie liefern aber vor allem auch biografische Details, welche die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen Lernets in diesen Jahren zu erhellen imstande sind. Unter anderem bringen die Briefe an Lotte Sweceny auch etwas mehr Licht in das diffuse Halbdunkel der Hintergründe von Lernet-Holenias Abkommandierung in die Heeresfilmstelle nach Berlin. Auch neuralgische Punkte in der Biografie Alexander Lernet-Holenias, die seines Verhältnisses zum nationalsozialistischen Regime und zum Antisemitismus, bleiben von den Briefen nicht unberührt: Die Art und Weise, wie Lernet sich in ihnen zum Regime und seinen Protagonisten äußert, verstärken jene Stimmen, die dem Autor deutliche Distanz zum Nationalsozialismus bescheinigen. Die Verwendung einer Chiffre legt sogar den Schluss nahe, dass Lernet im Auftrag oder auf Vermittlung der "Halbjüdin" Lotte Sweceny mit Opfern bzw. Gegnern des Regimes in Kontakt stand. Diese Distanz zum System vermochte Lernet freilich nicht davon abzuhalten, es zu bedienen, wo es ihm im Interesse seines beruflichen Fortkommens und seiner persönlichen Sicherheit geboten schien.

    Lotte Sweceny, die Frau eines "arischen" Industriellen, stammte aus dem assimilierten jüdischen Wiener Großbürgertum. Die befruchtende Atmosphäre ihres Elternhauses war auch das Resultat einer seit zwei Generationen andauernden - und in Lotte Steins Generation abgeschlossenen - Assimilationsleistung der beiden Vorgängergenerationen. Dieser Aspekt bildet ebenso Bestandteil der biografischen Skizze wie die Darstellung der liberalen Ehe mit Otto C. Sweceny sowie des "oppositionell gesinnten Freundeskreis[es]" aus Architekten, Schriftstellern und anderen, den der österreichische Publizist und enge Freund Lotte Swecenys, Milan Dubrovic, porträtiert hat.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Letters; Judaism; World War II; Censorship; Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Berlin; Maria Charlotte Sweceny; Wien
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (462 p.)
  11. All Culture is Local : Good Practice in Regional Cultural Mapping and Planning from Local Government
    Beteiligt: Andersen, Lisa (Hrsg.); Malone, Margaret (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  UTS ePRESS, Broadway

    This book is an outcome from a five year Australian Research Council funded research project, CAMRA cultural asset mapping in regional Australia project (LP0882238). Over this time four universities, four local governments, and peak regional, state... mehr

     

    This book is an outcome from a five year Australian Research Council funded research project, CAMRA cultural asset mapping in regional Australia project (LP0882238). Over this time four universities, four local governments, and peak regional, state and federal agencies sought to develop knowledge that would enable better informed planning for arts and cultural development in rural and regional communities. Over the course of the project, it became evident that rural-regional local government staff and cultural decision makers need better place-specific data and are keen to learn from the experiences of other local governments to inform their own planning. This book is CAMRA’s response to that need and includes 17 case studies on good practice in (1) Cultural Mapping and Data Collection and (2) Cultural Planning. The case studies have been written with the aim of making ideas and processes transferrable for any regional local authority - with the resource implications made clear – and are ordered using Australian Standard Geographical Classification-Remoteness Areas for local government area.

     

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    ISBN: 978-1-86365-433-3
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    Schlagworte: The arts; The arts: general issues
    Weitere Schlagworte: Cultural mapping; Cultural planning; Arts and cultural development; Rural communities; Regional communities; New South Wales
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (120 p.)
  12. Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  De Gruyter

    While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a... mehr

     

    While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Weitere Schlagworte: History; Future; Past; Narrative
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (319 p.)
  13. An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting
    Beteiligt: Gaze, Tim (Hrsg.); Jacobson, Michael (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown.... mehr

     

    An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a calligrapher’s hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating with the past and the future of writing, from the earliest undeciphered writing systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars; it follows a peregrination from the preliterate, beyond the verbal, finally ending in a postliterate condition in which visual language has superseded words. An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is compiled and edited by Tim Gaze from Asemic magazine and Michael Jacobson from The New Post-Literate blog.

     

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    Schlagworte: Poetry by individual poets
    Weitere Schlagworte: visual poetry; asemic handwriting
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (214 p.)
  14. Architecture in the Anthropocene : Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy
    Autor*in: Turpin, Etienne
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Open Humanities Press

    Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth’s land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new... mehr

     

    Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth’s land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds. Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy intensifies the potential of this multidisciplinary discourse by bringing together essays, conversations, and design proposals that respond to the “geological imperative” for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Contributors include Nabil Ahmed, Meghan Archer, Adam Bobbette, Emily Cheng, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Seth Denizen, Mark Dorrian, Elizabeth Grosz, Lisa Hirmer, Jane Hutton, Eleanor Kaufman, Amy Catania Kulper, Clinton Langevin, Michael C.C. Lin, Amy Norris, John Palmesino, Chester Rennie, François Roche, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Isabelle Stengers, Paulo Tavares, Etienne Turpin, Eyal Weizman, Jane Wolff, Guy Zimmerman.

     

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    Schlagworte: Architecture; Theory of architecture; Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning; Geology & the lithosphere
    Weitere Schlagworte: philosophy; anthropocene; architecture; design; science; geology; Anthropocene; Geology
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)
  15. Architektur immaterieller Arbeit
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Turia und Kant

    The book takes up the (post-)operaist concept of immaterial labour (cf. Maurizio Lazzarato: 1998, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt: 2000) and relates it to spatial processes and architectural projects from the 1960s. The book’s title is the hypotheses of... mehr

     

    The book takes up the (post-)operaist concept of immaterial labour (cf. Maurizio Lazzarato: 1998, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt: 2000) and relates it to spatial processes and architectural projects from the 1960s. The book’s title is the hypotheses of its investigation. It allows to be exemplified with the following questions: Do we find, parallel to a dominant cultural practice of immaterial labour new forms and orders of architecture? Which forms does it take on? Or does workplace architecture disappear at all parallel to the blurring of the formerly clearly marked spaces of the factory? Das Buch nimmt das (post-)operaistische Konzept der immateriellen Arbeit (Maurizio Lazzarato: 1998, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt: 2000) auf und setzt es mit räumlichen Strukturierungsprozessen und Phänomenen der 1960er Jahre in Verbindung. So ist der Titel des vorliegenden Buches auch die Hypothese der Untersuchungen und lässt sich durch folgende Leitfragen explizieren: Finden sich mit der heute in den westlichen Industrienationen dominierenden kulturellen Praxis der immateriellen Arbeit auch neue Formen und Ordnungen der Architektur? Oder verschwindet mit den klar definierten Räumen der Fabrik auch die Arbeitsarchitektur im Allgemeinen?Dabei wird Architektur als Mittel der Subjektivierung und als Teil der Organisation und Repräsentation von Produktionsprozessen verstanden, die direkt an die disparaten Formen des Kapitalismus angeschlossen ist. In ihren herausragenden Beispielen kristallisieren sich die Vorstellungen, wie Menschen sich versammeln, wie Menschen produktiv gemacht werden können und wie man die Versammlung von Menschen kontrolliert und steuert.

     

    Im vorliegenden Buch bespreche ich signifikante Beispiele von Arbeitsarchitekturen der 1960er Jahre, die sich im gesellschaftlichen Diskursfeld rund um Automation und Freizeitgesellschaft aufspannen. Sie erlauben, die Konturen einer Architektur zu analysieren, die die Tendenz veränderter Produktionsmodi und Arbeitsbedingungen einer wertschöpfenden, immateriellen Tätigkeit im Moment ihres Entstehens modellhaft sichtbar macht. Im ersten Teil gehe ich auf die Mobilisierung der vormals geschlossenen Produktionsräume ein. Anhand der weltweit ersten realisierten Bürolandschaft Buch und Ton für den Bertelsmann-Konzern, ihrer architektonischen Antithese, des Bürobaus für die niederländische Versicherungsanstalt Centraal Beheer und des emanzipatorisch konzipierten Freizeitprojekts Fun Palace bespreche ich die Versuche, einer neuen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Theorie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – der Kybernetik – eine (architektonische) Form und Organisation zu geben und zeige die räumlichen Konsequenzen dieser Bemühungen auf. Im zweiten Teil diskutiere ich Strategien des Einrichtens: Das experimentelle Architekturprojekt Mobile Office, die Performance Bed-In und das Freizeitprojekt Gelbes Herz stehen dabei für verschiedene Strategien, mit einer neuen Lebenskonzeption und ihren räumlichen Bedingungen umzugehen. Zugleich formulieren die Projekte auf unterschiedliche Weise eine architektonische Praxis, die einem Konzept von Arbeit, die mit dem Leben konvergiert und sich in der Gesellschaft verteilt, Genüge leistet.

     

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    Weitere Schlagworte: immaterial labour; design theory; workplace architecture; 1960s; Architektur; immaterielle Arbeit; Kybernetik; Büroarchitektur; Arbeitsplatzarchitektur
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  16. Arrangierte Liebe : Leitfaden zur Sonderausstellung in der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Universität Göttingen
    Beteiligt: Racz, Julia (Hrsg.); Krüger, Gundolf (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    „Arranged Love“ deals with cross-cultural differences in understanding romantic love. All over the world we can find ideas of romantic love expressed by arts, poetry or material objects. The present publication attempts to show the varieties of... mehr

     

    „Arranged Love“ deals with cross-cultural differences in understanding romantic love. All over the world we can find ideas of romantic love expressed by arts, poetry or material objects.

    The present publication attempts to show the varieties of romantic love exemplified by artifacts of Ethnographical collection of the Göttingen University’s Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology.

     

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    Schlagworte: Society & social sciences; Folk art; Social & cultural history
    Weitere Schlagworte: Romantic Love; Marriage; Ethnology
  17. Arrangierte Liebe : Leitfaden zur Sonderausstellung in der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Universität Göttingen
    Beteiligt: Racz, Julia (Hrsg.); Krüger, Gundolf (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    „Arranged Love“ deals with cross-cultural differences in understanding romantic love. All over the world we can find ideas of romantic love expressed by arts, poetry or material objects. The present publication attempts to show the varieties of... mehr

     

    „Arranged Love“ deals with cross-cultural differences in understanding romantic love. All over the world we can find ideas of romantic love expressed by arts, poetry or material objects. The present publication attempts to show the varieties of romantic love exemplified by artifacts of Ethnographical collection of the Göttingen University’s Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology. Überall auf der Welt träumen Menschen von der großen Liebe. Wie sie ihre Gefühle ausleben, ist von Kultur zu Kultur verschieden. Vorstellungen von Liebe und romantische Ideen werden vor allem durch Kunst, Literatur und Musik überliefert. Schönheitsideale und Liebessymbole prägen unsere Wahrnehmung, und auch Gegenständliches beeinfl usst unser Verhalten im Alltag. Anhand von ausgewählten Exponaten aus Asien, Afrika und Ozeanien, die aus der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Universität Göttingen stammen, wird versucht, folgenden Fragen nachzugehen: Wie verhält es sich mit romantischer Liebe in Gesellschaften, in denen die Anbahnung von Beziehungen und schließlich Ehen arrangiert werden? Wie drückt sich diese Liebe aus? Und welchem Wandel unterliegt sie?

     

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    Schlagworte: Folk art; Social & cultural history; Society & social sciences
    Weitere Schlagworte: Romantic Love; Marriage; Ethnology
  18. Art in Progress : A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in... mehr

     

    In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context, and the concept of progress is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. History of art can be seen as a process of constant accumulation. Works of art comment on each other, enriching each other's meanings. These complex interrelationships lead to progress in both the sensibility of the observer and the significance of the works of art. Alles in de kunst is in beweging. Tegelijkertijd lijkt met het eind van de avantgarde de grote stilstand te zijn ingetreden. Het veelbesproken einde van de kunst en het postmodernisme roepen veel twijfels op. In dit helder geschreven betoog onderzoekt de auteur een begrip dat door de tot cliche geworden afschaffing van de Grote Verhalen onzichtbaar is geworden: het vooruitgangsidee. Hij laat zien hoe dat idee in de achttiende eeuw opkomt, allesbepalend is tijdens de avantgarde en met het eind van de avantgarde ten onder gaat. Maarten Doorman pleit voor een kritische herwaardering van vooruitgangsbegrippen om de als zorgeloosheid vermomde vrijblijvendheid van het postmodernisme het hoofd te bieden. Arthur Danto: The end of art does not entail that there has not been genuine progress in the philosophy of art. Maarten Doorman's challenging and valuable study contributes to that progress, whether or not progress in art itself remains, as he argues, a tenable idea.

     

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    Schlagworte: History of art / art & design styles; Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Weitere Schlagworte: philosophy; kunst en kunstgeschiedenis; filosofie; historical treatment of fine and decorative arts
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (181 p.)
  19. Battlefields of Negotiation : Control, Agency, and Ownership in World of Warcraft
    Autor*in: Glas, René
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries set by its design, the... mehr

     

    The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries set by its design, the game encourages players to appropriate and shape the game to their own wishes, resulting in highly diverse forms of play and participation. This illuminating study frames World of Warcraft as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon defined by and evolving as a result of the negotiations between groups of players as well as the game’s owners, throwing new light on complex consumer-producer relationships in the increasingly participatory but still tightly controlled media of online games. World of Warcraft is één van de meest populaire computergames van het afgelopen decennium. Het spel liet miljoenen spelers kennismaken met het gemeenschappelijk online spelen van computerspellen. Het spel is zo ontworpen dat het, binnen zekere grenzen, spelers uitnodigt en uitdaagt zich de virtuele wereld toe te eigenen. Het resultaat is dat spelers zeer divers spelgedrag vertonen en op heel verschillende manieren deelnemen. Deze studie naar World of Warcraft benadert het spel als een complex socio-cultureel fenomeen, dat wordt gedefinieerd door en zich evolueert als gevolg van onderhandelingen tussen spelersgroepen en makers. Het laat de complexe consument-producentrelatie zien bij dit type online games, die in toenemende mate participatie van de spelers toestaan, maar waarin de spelers tegelijkertijd sterk beteugeld worden.

     

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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio; Media studies; Education
    Weitere Schlagworte: educatie; motion pictures; film; education; Blizzard Entertainment; Fictional universe; Machinima; Massively multiplayer online role-playing game; Twink (gay slang); Twinking; Virtual world; Warcraft; World of Warcraft
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (220 p.)
  20. Beastly Journeys - Travel and Transformation at the fin de siècle
    Autor*in: Youngs, Tim
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK

    A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature. Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late... mehr

     

    A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature. Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have been lost in retellings and readings of them. The physical alterations described by George Gissing, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, Arthur Morrison, W.T. Stead, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, and many of their contemporaries, are responses to changes in the social body as Britain underwent a series of social and economic crises. Metaphors of travel – social, spatial, temporal, mythical and psychological – keep these stories on the move, confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical shape that they relate. Beastly Journeys will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in the fin de siècle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing.

     

    This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
    Weitere Schlagworte: literature; modern history; Dracula; Lessingham; London; Oscar Wilde
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (225 p.)
  21. Beatrijs de wereld in. Vertalingen en bewerkingen van het Middelnederlandse verhaal
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Academia Press, Gent

    The research project Beatrijs Internationaal brought together about a hundred literary translators and researchers in the field of historical and modern Dutch literature, translation studies and related disciplines, from twenty different language... mehr

     

    The research project Beatrijs Internationaal brought together about a hundred literary translators and researchers in the field of historical and modern Dutch literature, translation studies and related disciplines, from twenty different language areas. The participants immersed themselves in questions about the international circulation and reception of the famous Middle Dutch legend of Our Lady, from its origins to our own time. Almost a hundred adaptations and translations of the Beatrijs-story were found, and new discoveries are still being made. The case of Beatrijs brought about new theoretical discussions, cooperation and exchange in the field of Dutch Studies, as is demonstrated by this volume. By means of diverse approaches the authors show how a literary text from the relatively small geographical area of the Dutch language can circulate both inside and outside its linguistic borders in different periods. With their wide spectrum of research questions, methodological approaches and selections of material, the contributions are a reflection of the richness of international Dutch Studies in the 21st century. Inspired by translation, adaptation and reception studies, this volume helps us to answer the question which characteristics of a particular text make it a likely candidate for crossing linguistic, geophysical, historical, and other borders. This volume is a contribution to the historiography of the export and dissemination of Dutch literature.

     

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    Schlagworte: Europe; Dutch; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; For emergent readers (adult); Literary studies: general
    Weitere Schlagworte: translation; reception; comparative literature; middle dutch; beatrice; adaptation
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (416 p.)
  22. Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences
    Autor*in: Kaun, Anne
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    The book gives an intriguing insight into how young people in Estonia, twenty years after the establishment of democracy, perceive their own role as citizens. It does so in a theoretical framework that stresses the embeddedness of the civic... mehr

     

    The book gives an intriguing insight into how young people in Estonia, twenty years after the establishment of democracy, perceive their own role as citizens. It does so in a theoretical framework that stresses the embeddedness of the civic experiences in a media-dominated environment, thus closely linking civic and media experiences. Based on the analysis of both qualitative interview data and a relatively new method of using the internet as a complementary tool for engaging with open-ended diaries, the study explores the extent to which young citizens experience the media as being interwoven with their everyday lives and, in fact, constitutive of their social reality as citizens. With its particular focus on young Estonians, i.e. on a generation that has been brought up in a context of rapid political, economic and social change and that is well-known for its fascination with new communication technologies, the book is a valuable contribution to the growing international research on media and civic experiences.

     

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  23. Bourdieu lesen : Einführung in eine Soziologie des Unterschieds. Mit einem Nachwort von Loïc Wacquant
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) war einer der produktivsten zeitgenössischen Denker der Soziologie. Seine internationale Anerkennung beschränkt sich jedoch nicht allein auf den Bereich der Wissenschaft: Als weltweit engagierter Intellektueller hat... mehr

     

    Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) war einer der produktivsten zeitgenössischen Denker der Soziologie. Seine internationale Anerkennung beschränkt sich jedoch nicht allein auf den Bereich der Wissenschaft: Als weltweit engagierter Intellektueller hat Bourdieu - wie wohl kein anderer - soziologische Erkenntnis als politische Aufklärung der Alltagspraxis wirksam gemacht. Zentrale Begriffe der Soziologie Bourdieus wie etwa »Habitus«, »Kapital« oder »Feld« werden heute in einer Vielzahl von sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen verwendet. Was aber hält diese Begriffe zusammen? Welche immanente Logik führt zu ihren Bedeutungen? Und wie werden diese miteinander verknüpft? Kurz: Worin liegen die erkenntnistheoretischen Voraussetzungen von Bourdieus Werk? Die vorliegende »Einführung in eine Soziologie des Unterschieds« versteht sich als Versuch, Bourdieu unter dieser Fragestellung zu lesen. Sie sieht im Begriff des »Unterschieds« das Grundprinzip seiner Erkenntnistheorie, in der »Unterschied« als Machtbeziehung konzipiert wird.

     

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    Schlagworte: Cultural studies; Social mobility; Social theory
    Weitere Schlagworte: Pierre Bourdieu; Soziologische Theorie; Gesellschaft; Sozialität; Soziale Ungleichheit; Kultursoziologie; Soziologie; Einführung; Sociological Theory; Society; Social Relations; Social Inequality; Sociology of Culture; Sociology; Introduction
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  24. British cinema of the 1950s : A celebration
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain... mehr

     

    This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain decade, during which the vitality of wartime film-making flowed into new forms. Topics covered include genres such as the B-film, the war film, the woman's picture, the theatrical adaptation and comedy; also social issues such as censorship and the screen representation of childhood. The book includes fresh assessments of maverick directors such as Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic, Raymond Durgnat. There are also three personal views from people individually implicated in 1950s cinema: Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the British Film Institute on film archiving and preservation. In its evocation and coverage of a fascinating time when the national cinema enjoyed an unprecedented popularity amongst home audiences, this volume offers the most exhilarating survey yet of 1950s British film. In its provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about this decade's movies, the book will prove indispensable to students of the cinema at all levels and a stimulating companion for the critic and the historian.

     

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    Schlagworte: Films, cinema
    Weitere Schlagworte: cinema; film; british; Cinema of the United Kingdom
  25. Byron and the Forms of Thought
    Autor*in: Howe, Anthony
    Erschienen: 20130920
    Verlag:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron’s philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches... mehr

     

    Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron’s philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent.

     

    After an Introduction that explores Byron’s reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron’s scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron’s thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron’s efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of Don Juan as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form.

     

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    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Don Juan (poem); Lord Byron; Michel de Montaigne; Poetry; Pope; Prose