Gattung – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

David Lapoujade,

Worlds Built to Fall Apart

"Despite his enduring popularity, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) has long been a marginal figure in American literature, even in the science fiction genre he helped revolutionize. Offering a major new perspec…

Hard-Ons

I Like You A Lot Getting Older

Olga Neuwirth (geb. 1968)

Orlando

Kate Lindsey, Anna Clementi, Eric Jurenas, Constance Hauman, Margaret Plummer, Agneta Eichenholz, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Matthias Pintscher

Stephen Harrison

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of t…

Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774)

Il Vologeso

Ana Durlovski, Igor Durlovsky, Catriona Smith, Sophie Marilley, Helene Schneiderman, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Gabriele Ferro

The Spine of Night

Sumpfhexe Tzod sucht nach einer blauen Zauberblüte, die unendliche Macht verleihen soll. Damit will sie sich an denen rächen, die über ihr Dorf hergefallen sind. Doch der Wächter der Blüte spricht eine Wa…

Skinshape

Craterellus Tubaeformis

Will Dorey aka Skinshape hat sich im Laufe seiner Karriere immer wieder als Kenner des Kosmopolitischen erwiesen, indem er gekonnt unaufdringliche Klänge und theatralische Texturen erkundet hat. Skinshape…

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

This books brings new critical perspectives to bear on classic texts, asks challenging new questions about the relations among science, politics, and literary writing, probes emerging genres like the diar…

Pascal Quignard

The Answer to Lord Chandos

In defense of the poetic, Pascal Quignard pens an impassioned reply to von Hofmannsthal's despondent Lord Chandos In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos Letter articulated a deep crisis of faith in…

Thomas Hardy

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)--the first for nearly thirty years. The edition pres…

David Trinidad

New Playlist

Disarmingly Personal Poems in the Spirit of Fun

Emily Allen, Dino Franco Felluga

Novel-Poetry

Explores the influence of literary form on the ways in which our worldly experiences are shaped. The volume considers the role of novelistic realism in establishing our sense of temporality, subjectivity,…

D J Hopkins

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

This Element focuses on Sleep No More, the iconic immersive theatre production of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance frames thi…

Heather Warren-Crow

Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is an idea frequently encountered in mass market science books, discourse on Intelligent Design, and debates on the merits of writing produced by chatbots. According to the The…

Jj Irani

Doctor Steel

He held positions on various Tata boards, and was part of the Confederation of Indian Industry and several other government-appointed committees. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan and an honorary knighthoo…

Carol Krause

A Bouquet of Glass

What are you left with when glass shatters? Emerging from a mind with a propensity for the otherworldly and an unsuitability for the worldly, A Bouquet of Glass gathers the fragments of different realitie…

Jorge Luis Borges

The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise

Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He…

Mallarika Sinha Roy

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned through the writing and producing of plays about the peasant revolts and armed anti-colo…

Jennifer Panek

Staging Disgust

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the…